Sentences with phrase «better lobby group»

Hmmm maybe the legal profession has a better lobby group than ours?

Not exact matches

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

A bunch of other Silicon Valley types are planning to launch a well - funded political - advocacy group to lobby for more visas for skilled immigrants.

That, as well as its significant lobbying arm, has often been credited with blocking gun reforms and bringing to heel politicians who benefit from NRA money and are reluctant to cross the group's vocal base.

In a week when business lobby groups are appearing before the House of Commons Committee on Finance and calling for more tax breaks, the federal R&D Panel appointed a year ago released a very good report saying Canada's very generous system of R&D tax incentives haven't been effective and what we need instead are more direct grants -LSB-...]

Well Bill, I guess I do not see your group / religion as any more than a powerful lobby group, no different than oil and gas, defence industries, tobacco, NRA gun industry, etc..

The issue has only become more urgent since then, with groups such as the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) lobbying this year for the First Amendment Defense Act, which «prevents the federal government from punishing an individual or faith - based business because they can not in good conscience accommodate same - sex marriage in certain situations.»

But the certification body and lobby group said organic milk did perform a lot better than other organic products in the UK, with sales up 1 per cent compared to 2008.

If you prefer to eat real food instead of chemically - altered versions of real food, it's probably a good idea NOT to listen to government agencies influenced by «Big Food» lobbying groups.

Residents who belong to the group Citizens for Better Communities, which was formed to muster local support and to lobby government to prevent the land from becoming a gravel pit, were also on hand to thank Hoffman and members of the park board for their actions.

Their customers, adopters, are a vocal lobby group as well.

In 1999 Robin Tilbrook and James Alden registered the «English National Party» with the aim of trying to create a cutting edge to supplement the good work of the Campaign for an English Parliament, a pressure group that lobbies for a devolved English Parliament.

However, a few weeks ago I got lucky and spent 25 minutes chatting to a devilishly good - looking guy from a lobby group.

Indeed, not much information is available concerning the good - government groups» backers on the website of the state's lobbying regulator, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).

Emily's List, a long - standing Washington lobbying group dedicated to electing liberal, pro-choice women to high office, says it best.

Still, lobbying in Albany remains a profitable business as influencers are still a well paid group.

These «501 - c4» groups are diverse in the political spectrum, and have been used for budget lobbying as well as the push to legalize same - sex marriage.

Add to that the fact that the commission has already been dogged for meeting in private, for answering to a longtime Cuomo aide, and for failing to investigate complaints by good government groups regarding Cuomo's use of third - party groups for lobbying.

Sue Lerner, with Common Cause, says currently most contributions for campaigns for statewide offices, as well as the Senate and Assembly, come from a limited number of zip codes, many from the area right around the Capitol, where major lobbying and other interest groups have their offices, as well as the Upper East and West Sides of Manhattan, and Wall Street, and «not from the actual voters».

Cuomo was equally reticent when asked to respond — and if he is concerned by — a call from good government groups and others for the Public Integrity Commission to investigate whether his good friend and health care advisor Jeffrey Sachs has violated the lobbying law.

January 10, 2013: Groups Lobbying for Better Ballot Access in Alabama and Tennessee Each Establish Facebook Pages

But now Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union, and other good - government groups, are back in Albany to again lobby on the issue.

«This liberal nonprofit group's time would be better spent investigating John Faso's lobbying scandals,» she said in an email, «unless of course he's behind these attacks?

Mike Durant, New York State director of the National Federation of Independent Business, a group that lobbied against the minimum wage hike said he found it quite challenging to go up against the combination of Cuomo and well - funded labor groups.

Melchionni said the lobbying group, which represents such insurance giants as Allstate, Farmers, Nationwide, State Farm and Swiss Re, as well as dozens of local companies, is «in the process of reviewing the decision and will be considering our options.»

Ministers and most gay lobbying groups were furious at what they saw as wrecking tactics supported by Lords Tebbit and Parkinson, as well as some homophobic clerics.

Reports late in the campaign suggested that Dole suffered from Barack Obama's decision to aggressively contest North Carolina in the presidential election, [21] while Hagan received substantial support from independent 527 groups lobbying / advertising against Dole, [20] as well as the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, which spent more money in North Carolina than in any other state during the 2008 election season.

«Given the damaging and destructive tax and budget policies coming out of Washington that seem to target poor and working class families, it's good to know that our state has some countermeasures in place that actually help struggling New Yorkers,» said Ron Deutsch of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor - backed group that lobbies for the working poor.

Albany, NY — Alan Chartock talks to Rachel Leon, director of Common Cause New York, one of the more influential good government groups lobbying in Albany.

Good government groups routinely lobby the governor to not declare vacancies as they hate the special election nomination process

New York State's LGBT right lobby group, the Empire State Pride Agenda, which has also endorsed Quinn's candidacy, struck back hard against Weiner, as well.

The usual gaggle of self - styled good - government groups is calling on Gov. Paterson to appoint David Grandeau, former head of the state Lobbying Commission, as chairman of the Public Integrity Commission...

The ethics agreement will also expand disclosure requirements by political consultants who do work for elected officials as well as for clients with business before the state or local governments, and increase the number of donors to groups that perform lobbying who will be required to disclose their identities.

From the range of indicators available, governments naturally choose those which show them in a good light, while lobby groups like FASTS choose those which suggest that more should be done.

Environmental groups are still fighting the battle against the sonar, lobbying the government to curtail testing, at least during peacetime, or to at least ramp up testing gradually to give marine wildlife a better chance to flee affected areas.

«This really boils down to politics at its very worst and public officials who are more concerned about erecting some gleaming new research building than thinking about what's best for the general public,» Michael Guiffre, of a Texas A&M group that had lobbied for the facility, told the Post.

The influence of lobby groups on the current public and political discussion does not bode well that we can prevent or substantially decrease their influence in the near future, when they may call to focus on geoengineering instead of emission reduction strategies (rather than focus on both, but in reverse order).

The online shines above that of most sandboxers however - taking a group of friends to raid a hideout is great fun, not so much as a lone wolf, although the posse system works well in public lobbies.

During the group's annual meeting here, plans to create local speakers» bureaus nationwide to assist high schools in teaching about the war were unveiled, as well as a lobbying drive to convince more schools to adopt a highly regarded curriculum on the war.

For well over a quarter century, the NEA and the AFT have been the most powerful groups in the politics of education — with more than four million members, formidable sums of money for campaign contributions and lobbying, well - educated activists manning the electoral trenches, and organizations that blanket the nation, allowing them to coordinate all these resources toward political ends.

«It's unproven at best,» Mark Jewell, president - elect of the N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE), one of the most powerful teacher lobbying groups in Raleigh, told House lawmakers last week.

Michelle Rhee, leader of the well - funded Students First lobbying group and her husband Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson are Democrats who support the privatization of public schools.

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

A number of other ed reform groups are lobbying against the bill, including Educators 4 Excellence, Students First and Alliance for a Better Community.

A Better Connecticut, the charter school advocacy group formed by the present and previous CEOs of ConnCAN, the charter school lobby group, has spent $ 50,708 so far in support of the endorsed slate of candidates for the Bridgeport Board of Education.

last spring when the education reform industry lobby group, A Better Connecticut, spent money on a poll to test various messages to promote Malloy and then over $ 2 million on campaign advertisements «thanking» Malloy for his leadership in promoting charter schools and the privatization of public education.

Their «non-profit» lobbying groups are headed by people with titles of CEO and make in excess of $ 150,000, along with plenty of COO and CFOs added for good measure.

However, what has remained relatively secret is that Bronin's PR person is a well - paid adviser for Families for Excellent Schools, the New York based charter school industry group that spent more than $ 1 million lobbying Connecticut legislators on behalf of Governor Malloy's proposal to divert millions of dollars in scarce state funds so that Bridgeport and Stamford could get new, privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools --- one of which will make former Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry very rich.

In Minnesota, the push to elect a pro-charter school, TFA alumnus came from Teach for America and 50CAN, a national charter school lobbying group, as well as, other corporate executives.

In addition to their lobbying work with ConnCAN, Alexander and Johnson were the individuals who formed A Better Connecticut, Inc. yet another education reform industry front group that spent more than $ 2 million on television ads during the year before the last gubernatorial election to «thank» Governor Malloy for his «leadership» on behalf of the corporate education reform agenda.