Sentences with phrase «as a lobbyist when»

Smithfield Foods paid at least $ 280,000 in lobbying fees in 2017 to Hart's firm, and Hart was listed by name as representing Smithfield as its lobbyist when he wrote the email, according to federal lobbying records.

The November Team, a PR firm that is led by Bill O'Reilly, Jessica Proud and Jerry McKinstry, has blasted JCOPE for an advisory opinion that required political consultants to register as lobbyists when they engage in a form of «grassroots» lobbying.

Our Philadelphia founding member, Helen Gym, shared news reports that her group, Parents United for Public Education, and others have filed an ethics complaint against the William Penn Foundation and the Boston Consulting Group, alleging that BCG was acting as a lobbyist when it developed a plan for the School District of Philadelphia including major school closures and charter expansion, funded through and at the direction of the foundation.

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When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boWhen people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black bowhen they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

This Journal editorial is part of a raging battle in Washington between brokerage lobbyists and, well, most everyone else, over whether securities and insurance sales brokers should be regulated as professionals — like doctors — when they give advice.

Serve as lobbyist for a day when you visit personally with Federal lawmakers and share your passion, expertise and stories during LAC's annual «Charge to the Hill!»

All the while that King was Sharpton's official sidekick, he also was a registered lobbyist as the principal of a couple of companies of his, one actually named The Movement Group, which is what you call yourself when advocacy goes corporate.

Another investment they make is that when a legislator is a «friend,» both in the general voting, but, especially, as a member of committees, they get rewarded afterwards with 7 - and 8 - figure «consulting» contracts after they leave office for jobs as lobbyists for companies they were supposed to oversee, lobbying their former colleagues.

Hussain started out in public affairs working for Refugee Council and cemented his credentials as a top voluntary sector lobbyist when stepped up to his present post at the end of last year.

Ravitch recalled during his brief tenure as lieutenant governor taking note of the numerous lobbyists who came to town when the legislature was in session.

Lynch has been a go - to lobbyist when it comes to the Assembly majority since departing her post as Silver's communications director to found her Albany - based firm in 2001.

The Staten Island firm's annual harvest almost doubled between 2013 and 2016, when the speaker showered its clients with public funds, as revealed by the New York Post and Daily News, and when one of its lobbyists joined her staff, as Crain's reported.

``... Most observers see this as a fictional crisis manufactured by gambling lobbyists who want you to re-convene so they can try to make one more run at a major expansion of gambling before the November elections, when Florida voters will likely approve Amendment 3,» he added.

So Paul Vallone has represented these folks as a lobbyist, and hopes to continue to represent his former clients when he takes office.

A second round of laughter came from prospective jurors when Bricetti read a long list of individuals whose names might come up during the trial, including prominent Westchester political figures like Nick Spano, the Republican former senator - turned - lobbyist who was jailed for tax evasion, as well as former Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro and her ex-husband Al Pirro.

Contained in the advisory opinion was a provision that would require consultants who register as lobbyists to reveal when they speak with a newspaper editorial board.

Bundling occurs when lobbyists encourage their clients to also make contributions that are then delivered as a package to the politician's campaign fund.

A ninth defendant, Todd Howe (a lobbyist who had worked for Cuomo as an assistant when Cuomo headed the federal Housing and Urban Development Department and also worked for the governor's father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo), has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit extortion, wire fraud and other charges and is cooperating with investigators.

Ms Abbott warned that Mr Smith's history as a lobbyist for US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer would count against him when it came to the ballot of party members which will decide the leadership contest.

The New York Times reported in 2011 that Cuomo, as New York's attorney general in 2009, used his office to threaten legal action against Chevron when Hinton was being paid $ 10,000 a month as a lobbyist for a group suing the oil giant in a multibillion - dollar court action alleging massive environmental damage in the Amazon.

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.

I asked Higgins if he regrets having spent at least $ 55,000 (as of late February — more than any other member of the delegation) on a lobbyist (Pat Lynch) to represent his interests in Albany during redistricting when, as it turns out, lobbying the Legislature was a moot point.

When a national government fines an internet company and the internet company evades that fine by removing any physical presence from that country, the government has several options, ranging from least to most collateral damage: Use it as a bargain chip when negotiating with their lobbyiWhen a national government fines an internet company and the internet company evades that fine by removing any physical presence from that country, the government has several options, ranging from least to most collateral damage: Use it as a bargain chip when negotiating with their lobbyiwhen negotiating with their lobbyists.

According to state records, both men worked for companies with extensive development business before the state: Howe in his capacity as a lobbyist - consultant — though the scope of his work remains unclear — and Percoco as a consultant to two development firms during a seven - month period in 2014 when he was also managing Cuomo's re-election campaign.

Despite the May terminations, it's not clear when exactly Howe's name was ever listed online as a lobbyist for SUNY Polytechnic, which has been represented by Whiteman Osterman as a lobbyist since May 2015, according to JCOPE records.

The lobbyist in question, Todd Howe, was an adviser to Mr. Cuomo when the governor served as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Clinton administration.

Howe said he was a lobbyist in Washington in 2010 when Andrew Cuomo emerged as a leading candidate for governor, and he reoriented his work to New York to take advantage of old ties to Percoco, the campaign manager, and other old pals in the Cuomo circle poised to take high posts.

The public relations firms» suit claims the rules violate the First Amendment as well as constitutional due - process protections «by unlawfully subjecting public relations firms like the plaintiffs to a disclosure and punishment regime designed for true lobbyists, when all they are doing is speaking to the press about public issues.

But when it comes to competence and standing up for Scotland, voters could quite logically conclude that the SNP would act as Scotland's «lobbyist» in Westminster in pushing for a favourable budget deal, for example.

Percoco's income from the companies didn't become public until late last month, when US Attorney Preet Bharara served a subpoena on Cuomo's office seeking records relating to Percoco's work, as well as the work performed for those and other companies by influential lobbyist Todd Howe, a Percoco friend and longtime associate of both Andrew and former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

During the legislative session, when the good - government groups criticized Cuomo for a lack of ethics reform action, a Cuomo spokesman took a clear shot at them, saying «more disclosure by not - for - profits as to who actually funds them» and «whether they are shadow lobbyists» were topics under discussion.

They see it as an attempt to undermine a program that biomedical lobbyists have complained is supporting low - quality research at a time when excellent proposals from top scientists are being rejected for lack of funds.

But biomedical lobbyists hope that he will use his clout as chair of both the Senate spending panel that controls NIH's budget and the authorizing committee that sets policy for the agency to make things happen when the lame - duck Congress returns after the fall election.

But in a year when many civilian agencies are facing big cuts, science lobbyists saw the STEM numbers as a sign that the Administration was very supportive of science education.

Shades of Monica Lewinski... and it makes you wonder - how taking bribes can be condoned (see Lobbyist in the dictionary), and yet the populace takes the moral high ground when it comes to hanky panky... somehow, as usual, we miss the bigger picture.

His Lincoln is stubborn and stoic, but also witty when the mood permits, and though he was the only cast member to win an Oscar for his performance, the acting is top - notch all around, including fellow nominees Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field, and James Spader as a slimy lobbyist.

When education issues reach the Senate floor, however, lobbyists generally see the Texas senator as a possible ally, who is more likely than not to vote with their interests.

> > And so, as you can imagine, my best experiences with > lobbyists were the ones who gave me useful information > when I needed it

When I was working on the Hill in ’06 and ’07 as we were considering updating and increasing the RFS, we had the ethanol lobbyists and businesses come in and sell us on the corn ethanol RFS as a stepping stone towards cellulosic ethanol.

Business interests (or BINGOs as they're called in U.N. speak) «can have very little effect at these meetings,» according to Nick Campbell, a European industry lobbyist who has represented the International Chamber of Commerce at U.N. climate talks since the early 1990s when the global effort to fight climate change began with the Rio Earth Summit.

It felt like I was a nuisance and wasting his time, when I am so hungry and eager to be more effective as a climate organizer and lobbyist.

When pressed, Oliver was not able to identify which scientists he was using as a source, La Pressereported, but his staff pointed to an article by Lawrence Solomon, a Canadian writer and infamous climate - change skeptic and denier, and the founder and executive director of Energy Probe, an environmental policy organization and fossil fuel lobbyist group.

The challenge faced by the Obama administration as it seeks to secure support for the Waxman - Markey Climate Change bill was again underlined when it emerged oil and gas industry lobbyists are planning a nationwide campaign designed to create the impression of widespread grassroots opposition to the legislation.

When will it be allowed to say that Cuccinelli's father spent his career as a gas lobbyist and that his advertising company gave almost 100,000 dollars to AG Cuccinelli?

Or Option B: bluff it out as long as you can, pay lobbyists and think tanks to confuse the public debate and hope like hell you don't get your ass sued off when everyone gets wise to you?

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.

When attorney Preston Halliburton of Buckhead, Georgia is not operating his growing law practice, he might be working as a lobbyist at the state capitol for Preston Group Inc., the government relations firm his mother, Julianna McConnell, founded.

As a PR lobbyist it is vital to be versatile so that you can provide support in many situations when the client needs you the most.