Sentences with phrase «large lobbying campaigns»

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

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The lobby of the Winspear is a memorable place for many local New Democrats, who remember when Jack Layton used the venue to host a large and energy - filled election campaign rally in 2008.

The Business Council of Australia, the lobby group representing the nation's largest companies, is now spending big on political campaigning and is targeting marginal seats.

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.

Retailer WHSmith appears to be removing age restrictions on the sale of shooting magazines in its stores after a lobbying campaign by people who shoot, magazine publishers and organisations including the UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).

Public employee unions, in a lobbying campaign spearheaded by the largest statewide teachers» union, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), asserted that the Triborough Doctrine's status quo guarantee wasn't strong enough.

That requires an organized campaign, part of a large lobbying effort.

For more than a year, JCOPE has been probing whether The Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit fundraising group Mr. de Blasio has used to push his agenda and which can accept larger contributions than his campaign, was improperly lCampaign for One New York, a nonprofit fundraising group Mr. de Blasio has used to push his agenda and which can accept larger contributions than his campaign, was improperly lcampaign, was improperly lobbying.

Their calculation puts them at odds with four larger groups more directly involved with lobbying efforts to end the ban: the Human Rights Campaign, the Center for American Progress, Servicemembers United and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

The trial lawyers, who had a close relationship with former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, employ their own small army of top lobbying firms and spent a combined $ 687,700 on campaign contributions in 2015, making their organization, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the second largest donor in the state.

Similar to Gov. Jerry Brown's ballot - measure committee, Gray has used the second campaign account to accept larger campaign checks from special - interest groups and big corporations that lobby the Legislature, including $ 35,000 from the California Independent Petroleum Association, $ 25,000 from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and $ 15,000 from tobacco giant Philip Morris.

A coalition of labor unions and contractors has opened a multimillion - dollar media and lobbying campaign to overhaul a housing program that they say swaps large tax breaks for a paltry number of apartments for poor and working - class New Yorkers.

The cable company still holds the record for the largest single - year lobbying campaign in state history, spending $ 13.3 million in 2004 to oppose the proposed West Side Stadium.

While the health care union's spending on lobbying has decreased since the years in which it regularly spent millions buying advertisements opposing previous governors» budgets, it remains one of the state's largest campaign contributors.

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 Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay lobby, had volunteers distributing HRC flags and posters that the crowd waved when they cheered, creating a sea of equal signs.

And that campaign, involving all sorts of organizations that have lobbied against climate change legislation, has led some people to conclude that this is connected to a larger campaign by special interests to attack the science of climate change, to prevent policy action from being taken to deal with the problem.

Separately, administration officials said they had approved a $ 1.06 billion loan guarantee for an Oregon wind farm, the world's largest, after project developers waged a vigorous lobbying campaign to bring the year - long application process to a conclusion.

The California Teachers Association (CTA), for example, was the state's largest political spender in the last decade, devoting $ 212 million to ballot measures, campaigns, and lobbying.

In addition to being one of Malloy's largest sources of campaign cash during his 2014 re-election campaign, the owners and operators of Connecticut's charter schools, along with the corporate elite who support Malloy's «education reform» initiatives have dumped more than $ 9 million into the lobbying effort to support Malloy's agenda to undermine public education in Connecticut.

Friedrichs is challenging California's largest teachers union on First Amendment grounds, arguing, in part, that mandatory union dues deny individual members the right of free speech through lobbying efforts and campaign contributions that don't necessarily comport with the views of all union members.

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.

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.

The lobbying campaign was initiated by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), whose membership includes electric utilities such as Southern Company and American Electric Power, two of largest air - borne mercury polluters in the country.

Lobbying is the world of the politically possible, you put pressure on parties that you can influence and don't waste your time with governments that won't listen to you (I'm looking at you, North America); meanwhile, campaigns need to be about the necessary and the larger ethical issue, by having the same targets for lobbying and campaigning we let those countries who don't listen to us — those same countries who are most responsible for this issue and are doing the most to block or slow progress — off tLobbying is the world of the politically possible, you put pressure on parties that you can influence and don't waste your time with governments that won't listen to you (I'm looking at you, North America); meanwhile, campaigns need to be about the necessary and the larger ethical issue, by having the same targets for lobbying and campaigning we let those countries who don't listen to us — those same countries who are most responsible for this issue and are doing the most to block or slow progress — off tlobbying and campaigning we let those countries who don't listen to us — those same countries who are most responsible for this issue and are doing the most to block or slow progress — off the hook.