Sentences with phrase «as lobbying entities»

While their primary purpose has been to support Eva Moskowitz and the other New York Charter School operators, Families for Excellent Schools arrived in Connecticut from New York last year and registered both Families for Excellent Schools AND Families for Excellent Schools Advocacy as lobbying entities with Connecticut's Office of State Ethics.

The New York Gaming Association, which advocates for the interests of the state's nine racinos, filed a complaint alleging that several entities pushing a bill that would legalize daily fantasy sports betting have improperly failed to register as lobbying entities.

The law enacted last year covers the good - government organizations, which are also registered as lobbying entities.

Cunningham reiterated that CSNY has in fact registered as a lobbying entity and will be filing a report as required with the CPI.

NYCLASS was also forced to admit that it failed to register with JCOPE as a lobbying entity and must file the required documents as part of the settlement.

The campaign — which featured nearly $ 6 million worth of advertising raised mostly through the party's soft - money account — was seen as one that supplanted the defunct Committee to Save New York, a coalition of business and labor that registered as a lobbying entity.

De Blasio and the Campaign for One New York have been fighting a bitter public battle against the scope of JCOPE's inquiry, which the ethics commission began in 2015 to investigate whether or not the nonprofit had improperly failed to register as a lobbying entity that year.

Not exact matches

The policy was adopted a month ago as the province lobbied Governor Andrew Cuomo to drop his proposed New York Buy American Act, which would have required state entities to buy from U.S. companies on all purchases more than $ 100,000 (U.S.).

Supplying selective information that is reframed to position a corporation or other entity in unfavourable light so as to encourage it to press for changes is a tactic adopted by some social change and environmental organisations, yet it is the sort of things those lobbies accuse their opponents of doing.

It's not a surprise that education entities spent the most money on lobbying than any other group in 2014, just as controversy over the new Common core standards and the related standardized tests reached a peak.

Cuomo, speaking at an appearance in Batavia, says he supports the ethics board's decision to only require that lobbying entities report donors going forward, not retroactively, as some reformers had called for.

All but one of the 19 entities that have registered so far listed Mangano's office as one of its expected lobbying targets.

According to the contract, LJM Rad will lobby the state Legislature, and the filing lists the administrative, executive and legislative branches as entities to be lobbied.

Cuomo also announced measures designed to better regulate 501 (c)(4) entities that engaged in an unlimited form of lobbying and disclose financial contributions as well those received in - kind.

«If so, it shows that this entity views lobbying registration and reporting requirements as applicable to political parties.»

That the Governor who raised 33 million dollars from real - estate donors and corporate entities before the gubernatorial campaign even started may have allowed undue influence for these entities to lobby and pass legislation they desired as a result of their donations to the Cuomo campaign war chest.

Since its formation last year, CSNY has emerged as biggest spending lobbying entity for state government.

«We can find no exception to the requirement that those entities register as lobbyists and report their lobbying as required under state law.»

On the last day of session, lawmakers rapidly passed a bill that increased disclosure requirements on a number of non-governmental entities such as independent expenditure committees, lobby clients and political consultants.

State lobbying records show Lhota is registered as a lobbyist for an entity called New York University Hospitals Center through 2018.

As the letter notes, the Working Families Party also has a lobbying entity that files.

Several local sources said they received emails Sunday night from Hoyt announcing his departure as regional president of ESD, and he told The Buffalo News on Monday that he is still negotiating with a lobbying firm and another private entity about possible future employment.

Hinman Straub's Michael Fallon supported an earlier draft, noting that his employer's partner firm Corning Place Communications has already «abided by these standards, and we believe that other entities that are engaged in grassroots lobbying should do so as well.»

For example, a lobbyist for a corporate entity could spend Monday and Tuesday meeting with senators on a bill supported by the company and would need to report to JCOPE his or her salary for those days as part of the total spent on the company's lobbying campaign.

At the time Katie Roy was actually serving as the Chief Operating Officer for the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, one of the leading entities lobbying on behalf of Malloy's anti-public education policies.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

With a job description that entails commenting on news items day in and day out, it's waaaay easier to isolate certain groups and refer to them in perpetuity as «bad guys» than to deploy sincere empathy on a daily basis: 50 % of my blogging oeuvre bemoans entities like Big Oil, the 2010 congressional GOP, climate change deniers, or the coal lobby.

According to a White House press release, the database includes millions of White House Visitor records, records for entities registered with the Federal Election Commission such as PACs, records for each candidate who has either registered with the FEC or appeared on a ballot list prepared by a state elections office, lobbying registrations and much more.

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