Sentences with phrase «funded lobbying campaigns»

Firms including Fairholme Funds Inc., Paulson & Co. and Perry Capital have sued the government or funded lobbying campaigns in an attempt to change the policy.

As The New York Times reported in July, the booming U.S. market for new residential solar has come to «a shuddering stop» after «a concerted and well - funded lobbying campaign by traditional utilities, which have been working in state capitals across the country to reverse incentives for homeowners to install solar panels.»

Not exact matches

Jobs also became one of Silicon Valley's most prominent opponents of the Trump administration's restrictive immigration policies, including speaking out at public events, lobbying politicians on both sides of the aisles and funding multi-platform media campaigns, this year aimed at the at - risk Dreamers.

JCOPE asked a court to compel the Campaign for One New York, a political nonprofit connected to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, to hand over documents related to its lobbying and fund - raising activities after the group's lawyer declared last week that he would not comply with the panel's subpoena.

A political organization funded by a top hotel - trades union has helped develop the Share Better campaign — a multifaceted lobbying effort to persuade New York City politicians to curtail Airbnb, according to emails and records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

But he has also had the Committee to Save New York on his side, a lobbying campaign funded by business interests that aided his agenda during his first two years in office, but for now is laying low.

Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort was hit with new charges, including an allegation he secretly recruited and funded a group of former European politicians to lobby in the United States on behalf of Ukraine.

But she is a longtime political activist who has lobbied for better education funding, marriage equality and women's rights, and she has campaigned for such politicians as President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

A prominent Bronx politician lobbied to run a new City Council committee that oversees taxis and car services after collecting thousands in campaign funds from the industry.

At the moment, neither Public Campaign Action Fund or a related organization, Friends of Democracy, has filed an intent to lobby letter with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics — a documented required when the cost of seeking to influence state government is expected to be more than $ 5,000 for any given entity.

The Public Campaign Action Fund, a deep - pocketed organization that backs the public financing of political campaigns, has yet to jump in the lobbying fray this legislative session.

A Group lobbying to «Rebuild NY Now» with state windfall funds brought its campaign to Albany Monday.

Atlantic Bridge was itself a partner of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a US lobbying group funded by the Charles G Koch Foundation (predominant funders of the US Tea Party), the National Rifle Association and the Tobacco Institute, to name but a few, and which campaigns against climate change legislation and regulation of tobacco.

Lerner said Common Cause's larger financial supporters included the Proteus Fund, the New York Community Trust, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Park Foundation, which sponsored a 2014 Common Cause report on campaign and lobbying spending by the hydrofracking industry.

Michael Lewis, a fund manager and the former a former vice-president of the pro-Israel lobbying group Bicom, has given # 100,000 to the Conservative campaign.

But the UFC has over the years funded a campaign and lobbying effort to bring the sport to the New York City and upstate markets, with the company planning an event later this year at Madison Square Garden.

Mulgrew welcomed the Council's support in two statewide initiatives: lobbying Albany to increase state aid in light of the $ 2 billion the state owes New York City public schools as a result of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court settlement, and supporting full funding for Teacher Centers.

The New York push comes amid a well - funded advertising and lobbying campaign by the hotel industry.

Other top spenders included the Greater New York Hospital Association ($ 2.3 million), the No More Casinos Coalition ($ 1.7 million) and the Public Campaign Action Fund, which lobbied on reducing the role of money in politics ($ 1.4 million).

A 27.5 percent increase in funding for Teacher's Choice, the UFT's top budget priority, was secured for the 2016 — 17 fiscal year after an intense lobbying campaign by members on social media and by union leaders at Council meetings and hearings.

A 27.5 percent increase in funding for Teacher's Choice, the UFT's top budget priority, was secured for the 2016 - 2017 fiscal year after an intense lobbying campaign by members on social media and by union leaders at Council meetings and hearings.

MANHATTAN — Political consultants who helped run city Comptroller John Liu's campaign are now lobbying for money managers who want a piece of the city's $ 103 billion pension fund, which Liu's office controls, the New York Post reported Sunday.

The public will now be better served with information about who is funding the state's large lobbying campaigns.

While technically a lobbying entity, the CSNY shared many attributes with independent expenditure committees: it raised large sums of money from a small number of donors to bolster the agenda of a specific politician with whom it purportedly did not coordinate, running advertisements thematically identical to those funded by the Democratic Party's campaign finance committee later in Cuomo's term.

The final city budget for the coming fiscal year will contain a 62 percent increase in funding for Teacher's Choice following a big social media and member - lobbying campaign by the UFT to show City Council members the direct impact that Teacher's Choice has on classroom learning.

«The combination of foundation - funded front - groups, big lobbying budgets, [political action committee] donations, and direct campaign contributions makes Koch Industries and the Koch brothers among the most formidable obstacles to advancing clean energy and climate policy in the U.S.,» Greenpeace says.

They were helped by a lobbying blitzkrieg led by Joe Williams and former Bloomberg campaign manager Bradley Tusk, who put together, with ample funds from Wall Street, Education Reform Now (ERN), a group with a single purpose: to bring the state legislature into the RttT reform fold.

Melissa Benn, chair of the campaign group, said on its crowdfunding page: «The funds we raise with this campaign will support our work lobbying politicians, raising awareness of the problems with selection, and working with schools, local authorities and communities who want to avoid selective education.

At the state level, they lobby legislators for funding, seek to influence legislation, and campaign for higher standards.

Parents for Educational Freedom NC (PEFNC)-- a pro-voucher lobby in North Carolina that receives the bulk of its funding from the Walton Family — has made campaign contributions to Stam and has even flown him and other lawmakers to Florida in 2013 to learn more about that state's own voucher scheme.

This directly mirrors the anecdote that headlines my original piece, in which the Fairfax County Public Schools» lobbying campaign for additional funds omitted the fact that school leaders had just voted themselves a 60 percent pay increase.

The other two primary funders of the A Better Connecticut's Bridgeport campaign are Families for Excellent Schools — Advocacy Inc., the lobbying and political arm of Families for Excellent Schools.

Pryor and other charter school advocates claim that the Amistad Academy and other charter schools provide a measurably better education than do public schools and are engaged in an all out lobbying and public relations campaign to change the way Connecticut funds its schools, shifting scarce resources from our public schools to the charter schools.

Over the last three years Rhee and StudentsFirst (called GNEPSA here in Connecticut) have been one of Governor Malloy's strongest supporters, helping to fund the most expensive lobbying campaign in Connecticut history.

Parents also lobbied state legislators in their Springfield offices as part of a campaign orchestrated by network leaders to persuade the lawmakers to provide the organization with facilities funding.

«A Better Connecticut PAC,» which was set up by ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group that helped fund the record - breaking lobbying campaign behind Malloy's education reform legislation.

While not all leaders of other private religious institutions have embarked on lobbying campaigns to get school vouchers enacted into state law, it's worth highlighting another one of those schools that stands to gain from the Opportunity Scholarship Program as an example of the lengths to which taxpayer funds will fund religious education.

As a registered charity we raise funds through donations from individuals, organisations and companies and we lobby and campaign to keep children safe.

For six years, RLKM, Schops and his friends lobbied the government and funded the national park campaign.

In truth 10 of its protagonists have either been funded directly by fossil fuel companies, or have received paid employment from lobby groups funded by these companies, which campaign against taking action on climate change (11).

Foundations and wealthy individuals can fund a non-political status 501 (c)(3) like the Energy Foundation, which then transfers large sums to an affiliated lobbying and campaigning status 501 (c)(4), which can engage in political activity.

In 2004, the International Broadcasting Trust - a lobby group funded by a number of charities, including many involved in campaigning on climate change - devised the first in a series of seminars on development issues, where the lobbyists could address broadcasters.

The Climate and Health Council supports Nasa scientist James Hansen as he joins the campaign to uncover secret funders bankrolling climate sceptic Nigel Lawson and his lobbying think - tank (Climate experts back unveiling of Lawson thinktank donor, 23 January).

It is also driving a global campaign to lobby municipalities, public universities, and pension funds to divest from fossil fuels.

Despite its advanced knowledge of the climate disruption fueled in large part by oil, gas and coal pollution, ExxonMobil turned its back on crafting responsible solutions and instead funded a sophisticated campaign to sow doubt and delay action to curb carbon emissions — honing the tobacco industry's playbook with even more advanced public relations, advertising and lobbying muscle.

Public Campaign Action Fund withheld lobbying expenses, to the best of our ability, from known non-coal or gas - powered electric utility entities.

But in spite of this perception, which the green movement likes to milk heavily, the efforts to lobby or campaign against climate policies or fund climate scepticism are remarkably hard to find any evidence of, to compare to the $ billions spend on the opposite case.

The environmental movement is far better funded, having at its disposal hundreds of millions for expensive PR and lobbying campaigns.

Over the years, fossil fuel companies have poured their resources into lobbying politicians, attacking scientists, funding biased studies, and producing deceptive ad campaigns.

Action Funds are 501 (c)(4) lobbying and political campaigning arms that offer no personal tax deduction to contributors.