Sentences with phrase «lobby groups created»

But the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice — a registered lobbying group created last year when Cuomo first embraced the $ 15 minimum wage figure — paid for the RV and rented the space for the event, a spokesman said.

The Cuomo administration aggressively interfered when the Commission started asking questions of the Real Estate Board of New York, the powerful trade group that has donated generously to Governor Cuomo, and forbade members from investigating the Committee to Save New York, a lobbying group created to support Cuomo,» Teachout said in a statement.

In 2012 The Wall Street Journal reported that Cuomo's schedules did not show an October fundraiser where the Governor was pitched on a massive casino project by Genting, a group that had given millions to a lobbying group created at the governor's behest.

Not exact matches

FRANKFURT, May 3 (Reuters)- A lobby group representing Germany's glass fiber industry says a European merger between Vodafone and Liberty Global should be blocked because it would create a cable TV monopoly in Germany.

Last week, the New York Times reported that a group of venture capitalists has lobbied the US Securities and Exchange Commission to create a «safe harbor» for some currencies, which would presumably include ether.

The homosexual lobby has been very effective in aligning itself with minority groups, is prominently represented at the Holocaust memorial service [12] each year and has created an image of itself as a group of people under persecution.

Tuteur has several complaints about the movement (whose proponents she compares to creationists and antivaccers): namely, it subverts actual science; it relegates mothers back to the home; it is founded on a few elderly white men's sexist and religious beliefs about controlling women's bodies; and it has created lucrative industries and lobbying groups that make the movement unduly influential.

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.

Parents» groups like Class Size Matters marched and rallied for more involvement; Bloomberg's allies created Mayoral Accountability for School Success and lobbied Albany heavily.

An animal welfare group that has been lobbying Mayor Bill de Blasio to ban carriage horses from city streets confirmed Friday that it had received a subpoena from federal prosecutors seeking documents related to its fundraising efforts for a nonprofit group created to advance the mayor's policy agenda.

The Business Council of New York State, an Albany - based lobbying group, said the proposals «would place an undue burden on small businesses» by creating staffing and compliance problems.

Critics have said that the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice, like de Blasio's Campaign for One New York, created a shadow government apparatus, in this case where government employees did work for lobbying groups and consultants were paid for their efforts by the MCCEJ while also representing Cuomo's campaign.

Citizens Union, an anti-corruption group, labeled the Campaign for One New York and Mr. de Blasio's other political lobbying groups a «shadow government» that created a pay - to - play culture at City Hall.

The plan put forward by the funding agencies is to merge EuroHORCs with ESF — which they largely fund — to create a new group (with the suitably catch - all working title of Science Europe) to formulate science policy and lobby on behalf of the agencies.

In the early 1990s, the group lobbied to create a Department of Defense breast cancer research program now funded at $ 150 million a year.

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.

In cities across the country — Baltimore, Chicago, New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington — and many states, parents and parent groups are forming coalitions, lobbying lawmakers, creating new schools, and generally bringing about school change.

Jonathan Sackler created ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group that led the record breaking $ 6 million lobbying campaign to pass Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiative in 2012.

The people who were the financial backers of Achievement First then created ConnCAN and ConnAD, the two lobbying and advocacy groups designed to support the effort to shift more state funds to Achievement First and Connecticut's other charter schools.

ConnCAN is the charter school advocacy lobby group that was created by the same donors who helped Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor; develop Achievement First, Inc. the charter school management company that now runs schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

The Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the charter school advocacy group that was created by the founders of Achievement First, the state's largest charter school management company, has signed a two - year, $ 200,000 lobbying contract with Connecticut government relations firm, Gaffney, Bennett and Associates.

This is a popular — yet false mantra — trotted out by politicians and lobby groups who have created their own stories and rationalizations around why small business «deserves» the tax break.

Animal activists such as the group Alley Cat Allies are now lobbying to create «no - kill communities.»

Online play is much more welcoming this time around with the ability to create lobbies, participate in group battles (team battles), as well as spectate other fights.

In reality it was first published by an Exxon - funded lobby group and creates the false impression that most of the rise in temperature occurred before 1940, after which there was a sharp fall (7).

The CEA was created in the late 2000s by Michael Whatley, a founding partner of a Washington, D.C. - based Republican lobbying group HBW Resources that has close ties to the Alberta, Canada tar sands industry.

The HSAP was created between 2007 and 2010 by the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Forum (HSAF), an initiative of the International Hydropower Association (IHA), a lobbying group formed in 1995 to represent the interests of dam builders.

The biggest lobbying group at Copenhagen was the International Emissions Trading Association which was created to promote carbon trading more than ten years ago.

Morgan, a former board member of the Reserve Bank and President of the Business Council of Australia, is currently a member of the lobby group Australians for Northern Development and Economic Vision, which wants to create a separate economic zone in the north of Australia with low - tax and low - regulation to promote mining industries.

While political action is required to effect the terms of the resolution, we each can take steps, as urged by Madam Justice Steel, to support individual applicants from under - represented groups and also to support those groups in lobbying to create the political will necessary to see change in this arena.

8 New Square barrister creates lobby group alongside Wedlake Bell partner and lawyers from Slaughter and May and CMS in support of a British exit from the EU

Amy has lobbied, along with a group of other attorneys and citizens, for the past seven years, for the passage of a law that would create a presumption that joint legal and physical custody is in a child's best interests.

Over time, NAR created specialty divisions for appraisers, property managers, and other groups; it created and adopted the Code of Ethics, one of the most important documents setting guidelines for the profession; and it has lobbied for legislation in Washington critical to the strength of the industry.

On another front, a group of Realtors has formed a non-profit association called United Real Estate Agents of Canada (UROC) to lobby CREA and the Ontario Real Estate Association to create a REIT and a pension plan.

«Most states are facing financial crises this year,» says Rob Broome of the Ingram Group, a consulting firm that lobbied on behalf of the Tennessee Association of REALTORS ® in its battle to defeat a bill to boost state revenues by creating a comprehensive tax on services, including those rendered in real estate transactions.