Sentences with phrase «grassroots lobbying campaigns»

Intended to address the roles of consultants as «architects of grassroots lobbying campaigns to the public,» the rules at issue were adopted by JCOPE in January.

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«Elimination of caucuses and conventions would mean nuclear war with the grassroots, social conservatives, the Ron Paul movement and Tea Party Republicans,» said John Tate, a senior Paul advisor who now runs the Campaign For Liberty, a libertarian grassroots lobbying group.

(This is not a criticism of people involved in ECPC - indeed arguably insider lobbying worked better over the past decade than grassroots mobilisation, but campaigns which rely on lobbying are inherently more vulnerable to changes in government).

Prior to joining the Charter Center, Erik was the Director of City Legislation for the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, Legislative Director to Council Member Diana Reyna, Campaign Manager to former Council Member Melinda Katz in her race for Comptroller, and Director of Candidate Services at the Campaign Finance Board and Director of Lobbying and Grassroots Organizing for Common Cause / NY.

Advocacy can take many forms, ranging from grassroots lobbying, to direct lobbying of legislators, to explicitly political activities such as campaigning.

Puppy Mill Awareness of SE Michigan is a grassroots organization dedicated to ending commercial breeding «puppy mills» and protecting families from puppy peddlers, pet stores and bad breeders by lobbying for stronger laws, setting up information booths, completing research studies and launching pet store campaigns.

With a conservation campaign that included a book, magazine articles, a film, a traveling slideshow, grassroots organizing, river trips and lobbying, David Brower and the Sierra Club ultimately won the fight — ushering in a period many consider the dawn of modern environmentalism.

[21][13] Energy Citizens ran a national ad campaign in 2012 that attempted to create the appearance of mass grassroots support for fracking, which Edelman helped coordinate, [22] and lobbied hard to prevent Congress from passing legislation to address climate change in 2012.

Corporate PR campaigns have become so sophisticated that it's almost impossible for most people to tell the difference between genuine science and greenwash, or real grassroots campaigns and the astroturf lobbies concocted by consultants (1).