Sentences with phrase «as a lobbyist even»

A West Side neighborhood group has filed an ethics complaint against Kristen John Foy, a top lieutenant of Al Sharpton's National Action Network, for failing to register as a lobbyist even though he's promoting Airbnb.

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Solar company Sunrun (RUN) even went so far as to file an open records request for communication between NV Energy employees, lobbyists, Gov. Sandoval and his staff, and current Public Utilities Commission Chairman Paul Thomsen.

And the Europeans are very angry that a few weeks ago Tim Geithner, the bank lobbyist, came over and insisted that Europe not forgive Greece's bank loans, not let Greece write down the loans, and indeed that it not even claim that Greece should do what Argentina is and write down the loans as a premise.

«Even though the EU is wavering in front of unprecedented emergencies such as immigration, it is ready to support the lobbyists who want to force us to lower the quality of our food produce.»

Advocates, lobbyists and even some state lawmakers privately fear this could become one of the least productive legislative sessions in years as «scandal fatigue» pervades the Capitol and criminal allegations dominate the headlines and deflate the desire to get things done.

Just as term limits have the perverse effect of giving power to the lobby (if members are term - limited, lobbyists and a handful of long - term staff become the only institutional memory), cutting Congressional budgets will in practice create even more distance between Congressmembers and the people they represent.

After they were elected, Ms. Cunningham deregistered as a lobbyist to «avoid even the appearance of a conflict» of interest and resigned her job at a top lobbying firm.

Trump had been publicly discussing ending the agreement, so one could argue that Kerry may have broken the spirit of the law, (or you could argue that he was simply acting as a lobbyist and 100 % legally because the meeting was regarding existing policy), but even if you take the argument that he deliberately went against what Trump was proposing as a likely outcome, Kerry didn't violate the Logan act because it was still policy at the time.

Recall that they (and lobbyist Carl Andrews, who was the recipient of an internal memo leaked by Sampson) went so far as to mount a failed legal challenge to subpoenas demanding that they hand over documents even as they pledged to voluntarily make those selfsame documents public.

As the 2016 session of the Legislature wrapped up last week and came to a typically ugly end in the wee hours Saturday morning — with bleary - eyed lawmakers forced to vote on measures they didn't even have time to read — The Post asked several lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists to assess the first full year's performance of Democrat Heastie, a key ally of Mayor de Blasio, and Flanagan, the most powerful Republican in the state.

Even if IE reform is a heavy lift, other lawmakers were pointing to the remarks from Cuomo on Wednesday at Fordham — including a push to have consultants register as lobbyists — as being a way to subtly critique Mayor Bill de Blasio, whom the governor has feuded with over the last year.

«Hinton's hiring has people's jaws dropping because this is seen as an obvious attempt by Mercury to gain even more influence with the Cuomo administration, just what the governor said he'd stop,» a business lobbyist told The Post.

A close personal adviser to Cuomo in his bid to become state attorney general in 2006 and his run for governor in 2010, she deregistered as a lobbyist in 2010 when Cuomo and her ex-husband, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, were elected, in order «to avoid even the appearance of a conflict» of interest.

Silver's long - suffering wife, Rosa, remained stoic, even as Caproni lit into her husband for his politically - charged extramarital affairs which Bharara's prosecutors detailed in filings — one with a lobbyist who had extensive business before the state and another with a former beauty - queen turned assemblywoman who landed two cushy public - service jobs.

Even as ethics and electoral reforms move up toward the top of Albany's to - do list, big - money interests armed with expensive lobbyists and lots of campaign cash have other ideas.

But others — including advocates, lobbyists and even some lawmakers — privately fear this could become one of the least productive sessions in years as criminal allegations dominate the headlines and deflate the desire to get things done.

Even Sachs, whose contact with the administration might in some way make him a lobbyist, could still register as one and avoid any penalties.

Cuomo pulled in $ 320,540 from lobbyists the past two years, even as he campaigns to thwart their political influence.

Directed by handsome drama maestro John Madden («Shakespeare in Love,» «The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel») and positioned as a cross between «Michael Clayton» and «All the President's Men,» the movie features morally bankrupt D.C. power players and blackmail scenes set in shady parking garages, making inspired use of genre clichés even as it offers a relatively fresh look at one of the most manipulative forces on Capitol Hill today: the special - interest lobbyist.

As if all of that wasn't clear enough, Bronin's donor list even contains most of the lobbyists who represent the pro-privatization, anti-teacher and anti-public education groups in Connecticut including the lobbyists for ConnCAN, the Northeast Charter School Network and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform.

Even more than being a park ranger, I want to be remembered as a climate change public speaker, writer, organizer and lobbyist.

An odd collection of groups and individuals, including former Sierra Club «CAFE» (car fuel - economy) lobbyist Dan Becker («Even as gas prices have doubled and trebled over the past several years, we see little change in driving behavior,» Becker told the New York Times in October, 2006.)

The brouhaha at the Post broke out last week, when Politico.com reported plans by Weymouth to host an exclusive «salon» at her home where Washington lobbyists and association executives would pay as much as $ 250,000 to attend and obtain off - the - record access to «those powerful few» — Obama administration officials, members of Congress and even the Post's own reporters and editors.

«In that way we can show her immediate value as a lobbyist, talking about her experience in those areas and her contacts there, even though they weren't part of a formal job,» Brown said.