Sentences with phrase «lobbying campaign for»

Oreskes and Supran considered these advertorials to have particular weight because they functioned as a de facto lobbying campaign for the company and represented «an unequivocally public form of communication «designed to affect public opinion or official opinion.»»

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.

But veterans groups and state lawmakers in recent years had launched a sustained lobbying campaign for the bill's approval.

Not exact matches

«I was extremely lucky,» says Curin, whose wake - up call prompted him to start a campaign, The Heart to Sole: Creating a Stress - Free America, to lobby for stress - testing at all companies and to support the American Heart Association's My Heart.

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's free - trade campaign produced deals with Colombia and Peru, and he successfully lobbied for a place among Trans - Pacific Partnership negotiating countries, which many believe will one day include China.

«Anybody in this world now is sitting there thinking, «When I go back to the board next year, I'm going to ask for 15 % more in my [lobbying and campaign finance] budget.

Tony Podesta, the longtime Democratic lobbyist whose brother John is Clinton's campaign chairman, runs the Podesta Group, which has lobbied for Amgen, Merck, BIO, and the American Foundation for AIDS Research.

But last year's increase in campaign donations and lobbying seem like more than business as usual for Novo Nordisk, said Billet, a former AT&T lobbyist who directs GWU's Legislative Affairs program.

One study found that corporate lobbying and political campaign spending has been responsible for a significant portion of the rise in corporate profits since 2000.

And for that, Google can thank Google, and an unorthodox lobbying campaign to shape the road rules of the future in car - obsessed California — and maybe even the rest of the nation — that began with a game - changing conversation in Las Vegas.

It's a restrained approach compared with Google's aggressive lobbying campaign in 2006 when Sergey Brin, one of the company's co-founders, went to Capitol Hill to argue for the importance of net neutrality.

«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.

In L.A., he worked on a successful lobbying campaign that helped earn the Canadian film Les Invasions Barbares an Oscar for best foreign - language film.

Expert analysts break down the oil lobby's most persistent misinformation campaigns For a special episode of the Dogwood Podcast, Sophie Harrison tackles ten myths about Kinder Morgan's expansion proposal, with the help of expert guests.

We are all aware of the lobbying system in the U.S. and the persuasive power of campaign contributions, for example, and we can surmise that similar incentives exist in Europe.

Americans for Financial Reform reported that the financial sector spent $ 2 billion on political activity in the 2016 election cycle, including $ 1.1 billion in campaign donations and the rest for lobbying.

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.

[13] In light of the recent success, should we discount the possibility of success for the homosexual lobby if these do become the campaign issues of the near future?

Bhatti, who was Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs, was well known for campaigning against the nation's strict blasphemy law and lobbying for the rights of religious minorities.

American Evangelicals might have gone to Uganda to campaign for anti-gay legislation, but so did other powerful figures on the gay lobby side, including President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, threatening African governments with the withdrawal of aid if they didn't conform to the new Western normal.

It is for this reason that SPUC has launched The Mayisha Campaign (Mayisha meaning Life in Swahili) to raise awareness about maternal mortality, dispel the myths put about by abortion groups and lobby the Department for International Development to adopt an ethical foreign policy which respects the lives of both mothers and their babies.

The Campaign's work includes the Together We Rise therapeutic and social baking initiative, lobbying for an Honest Crust Act to protect shoppers from incomplete and misleading labelling and marketing, No Loaf Lost surplus slicing guide for small bakeries, the annual Sourdough September awareness drive, The Real Bread Finder map and Real Bread Loaf Mark.

Read a sample of e-mails sent to MEPs by lobbyists High time for CIAA to come clean on its lobbying CIAA's $ 1 - billion campaign to promote the GDA labelling system was clearly a key element in its political strategy to combat other, stricter labelling options which it feared would damage sales of unhealthy food, such as the «traffic light» system.

To help achieve the vision «to deliver the future of British beer and become the voice of British brewing», SIBA highlighted four strategic aims: * Promote and campaign for our members * Provide and enhance commercial opportunities * Grow and develop our membershipDevelop our capability Growing our membership is important to SIBA and will help the association have more influence when lobbying politicians.

While Mr Pelle acknowledged the Thirst for Good scheme was put forward by the Australian Food and Grocery Council to represent all industry players, he said the Greenpeace campaign targeted Coca - Cola Amatil because it is «the main company in Australia and around the world that has led lobbying efforts to ensure cash for container deposit schemes never get up.»

Horschel, though, hinted during a tweet - a-thon with Twitter followers on Tuesday that some last - minute lobbying by Day, likely in the form of a sixth W for the 2015 campaign, could sway the swing votes.

The first lady has lobbied aggressively for the legislation as part of her «Let's Move» campaign to combat childhood obesity.

Today's day of lobbying is the culmination of the new film Food Inc.'s social - action campaign, organized by Participant Media for the Child Nutrition Reauthorization.

Spending boatloads of money on professional lobbying and a massive postcard campaign to legislators, the organization and their deep - pocketed friends like PepsiCo, Coca - Cola, Con Agra and Schwan's killed the state school nutrition bill, ensuring many more years of junk food for New York's schoolchildren.

This came in response to years of lobbying by environmental health watchdogs like the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition; Healthy Child, Healthy World, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and The Environmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms Carnival friends.

As chocolate milk opponents lobby state and federal officials, the dairy industry has responded with an estimated $ 1 million campaign dubbed «Raise Your Hand for Chocolate Milk.»

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.

Here's the latest Web video from New Yorkers for Marriage Equality, the Human Rights Campaign's organization lobbying in favor of legalizing same - sex marriage in the Empire State.

«The architect of Britain's most successful lobbying campaign of 2009» Peter Carroll first got involved in the Gurkha Justice Campaign after being approached by four Gurkhas at his home in Folkestone, where the Royal Gurkha Rifl es are based and where he is a councillor, to ask for his help in saving one of their comrades from depocampaign of 2009» Peter Carroll first got involved in the Gurkha Justice Campaign after being approached by four Gurkhas at his home in Folkestone, where the Royal Gurkha Rifl es are based and where he is a councillor, to ask for his help in saving one of their comrades from depoCampaign after being approached by four Gurkhas at his home in Folkestone, where the Royal Gurkha Rifl es are based and where he is a councillor, to ask for his help in saving one of their comrades from deportation.

Campaign for One New York, a lobbying organization set up by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign strategists, spent close to $ 1.7 million to advance his agenda during his first six months in office and got donations from unions, developers and people like Google's Eric Campaign for One New York, a lobbying organization set up by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign strategists, spent close to $ 1.7 million to advance his agenda during his first six months in office and got donations from unions, developers and people like Google's Eric campaign strategists, spent close to $ 1.7 million to advance his agenda during his first six months in office and got donations from unions, developers and people like Google's Eric Schmidt.

Humanists UK, which leads the national campaign against religious discrimination and segregation in schools, has stated that such a decision would ignore the evidence that the cap has boosted integration in faith schools and instead show that the Government has bowed to the demands of the religious lobby instead of sticking up for the interests of children.

«This morning's New York Times story regarding allegations that Walmart orchestrated a $ 24 million bribery campaign to gain favorable treatment by the Mexican government should be a wake up call for New Yorkers who have witnessed Walmart's aggressive lobbying effort and recent streak of opportunistic «philanthropy» in our city.»

(It's clear Cuomo, who has never recognized Lazio that I can recall, was referring there to the former Long Island congressman, who served four terms — from 1993 to 2001 — and then went to lobby for JPMorgan Chase after he lost his 2000 US Senate campaign against Democrat Hillary Clinton).

Lobbying filings show Lyft has retained Berlin Rosen, a consulting firm with ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration and has done campaign work for a host of elected officials, including Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

The government's new lobbying bill has very little to do with lobbyists, and everything to do with restricting the ability of trade unions to campaign for Labour.

Mr Cameron's continued calls for a referendum came as the campaign group I Want A Referendum launched their own mass lobby of MPs.

Clinton's statement was released by the Human Rights Campaign, which is leading New Yorkers for Marriage Equality — the coordinated campaign spearheaded by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that is lobbying the Senate to pass the gay marriage bill before the legislative session ends Campaign, which is leading New Yorkers for Marriage Equality — the coordinated campaign spearheaded by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that is lobbying the Senate to pass the gay marriage bill before the legislative session ends campaign spearheaded by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that is lobbying the Senate to pass the gay marriage bill before the legislative session ends in June.

Rep. Charlie Rangel slammed his main primary opponent, Sen. Adriano Espaillat, for accepting $ 21,300 in campaign donations from the controversial charter school lobby since 2006.

I've rarely known a conference when hours outside the hall are not as much filled with real policy debate and lobbying to win the votes on the floor, and fringe meetings for or against certain proposed policies, as exchanging campaign experiences, or party gossip.

In a session before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer, a newly unsealed FBI complaint alleges Pigeon conspired to solicit a $ 25,000 contribution to the Cuomo campaign from a Montreal - based internet gambling company for whom his Papi Holdings LLC earned $ 388,000 in lobbying fees from 2010 to 2015.

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.

-- I am the sponsor of legislation that would help end «pay to play» and «influence peddling» by establishing disclosure requirements for campaign consultants who also engage in lobbying practices (S. 3245).

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 measure would make changes to the state's lobbying laws, campaign finance limits for state legislative candidates, and legislative redistricting process.