Sentences with phrase «lobbying dollars in»

«It is disturbing that the same companies and investors who have pledged to work with the City to respect California public safety and public realm laws are spending lobbying dollars in Sacramento to repeal them,» San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who has been leading the charge to regulate the scooters, told TechCrunch.

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So the most evident problem with this new venture is that it is illegal and in the current political climate, no matter the lobbying dollars involved, is unlikely to change the laws sufficient to allow this business to ever launch.

SHANGHAI, March 21 - Global asset managers are lobbying Beijing to offer tax benefits and other incentives to entice China's aging population to invest in mutual funds for their retirement, as funds eye a multi-trillion dollar opportunity in commercial pensions.

CEOs may snub a president who apologizes for white supremacy, but they'll continue to ring up Vice President Mike Pence, the repository of millions of dollars in corporate lobbying.

The biggest winners in the military buildup are the country's largest defense contractors, such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, which spend millions of dollars each year lobbying Congress.

Top technology companies have devoted lobbying dollars and dispatched their executives to the nation's capital in order to save the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which benefits some of their employees.

For example, one study finds that for each dollar spent lobbying for a tax break, firms received returns in excess of $ 220.

A cruel asymmetry exists in that the people we serve do not pay for the services they receive; they are not even organized into a lobby to push for their share of the Jewish community dollar.

After loosing his senate position Rick Santorum earned millions of dollars including payments from a lobbying firm, an energy company engaged in controversial practice which pollutes ground water and endangers the public and a hospital conglomerate that was sued for allegedly defrauding the federal government.

It's stupifying to see them make billions of dollars in tax - free earnings every year, and fighting - words to hear them lobby our public servants with those very funds.

Said «non-profit» spent $ 11 million dollars for media advertising, $ 7 million on mailings an $ 1 million on lobbying in 2009.

There are reports that oil, coal and gas industries in America have invested more than half a billion dollars on lobbying against acting on climate change.

Gambling Industry Donates Millions to New York Politicians As Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature discuss the process of amending the State Constitution to allow up to seven new full - scale, privately owned casinos in New York, the gambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign war chests.

The I - Team reviewed lobbying records and found the insurance industry spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to influence Albany lawmakers in 2017.

The witness was «pressured» to arrange for Adam Skelos to be paid «hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to influence official actions by Dean Skelos,» according to the complaint, with the cash coming in response to a «series of demands made to Developer - 1 by Dean Skelos,» including while the developer was lobbying Mr. Skelos on legislation critical to its business success.

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A lobbying group closely allied with the policies of Governor Andrew Cuomo has been in the news a lot in the past couple of days, in articles raising questions about multi-million dollar donations to the group known as the Committee to Save New York, and policies later advocated by the governor.

But UFC promoters have spent nearly a decade and millions of dollars on lobbying to get it legalized in New York, which until this year remained the last state where pro matches had been illegal.

Advocates spent a million dollars on television ads and countless hours lobbying and holding demonstrations in favor of adopting a publicly funded, matching small donor system for statewide races, including the governor and the legislature.

He worked with Cuomo in 2012 and 2013 to lobby Washington lawmakers to pass a multibillion dollar aid package after Hurricane Sandy, and he has been a vocal supporter of Cuomo in the months since.

News Corporation, which was one of the two companies that lobbied for the bill, was at the time investing tens of millions of dollars in such a publication.

In recent years, PRI has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying state officials on legislation related to medical malpractice.

Maple Street Charter School, the for - profit charter school hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in Albany.

Seneca Nations of Indians President Robert Odawi Porter, in Albany today to lobby on gaming issues, admitted that he can't match the thousands of dollars being poured into campaign coffers by Genting New York.

A lobbying group closely allied with the policies of Governor Andrew Cuomo has been in the news a lot in the past couple of days, in articles raising questions about multi million dollar donations to the group known as the Committee to Save New York, and policies later advocated by the governor.

In second place, is the health care workers union SEIU 1199, which spent nearly $ 7 million dollars on lobbying.

The New York Times reports that the Committee to Save New York, a lobbying group of primarily business interests that has run ad campaigns to support the governor's positions, received $ 2 million dollars from Genting in December.

Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center bought ads on Hikind's radio show through Hikind's for - profit ad agency while the hospital was applying for hundreds of thousands of dollars in state grant money and lobbying the assemblyman for help.

ALBANY — Companies involved in bidding for casino licenses in New York State spent nearly $ 11 million on lobbying and campaign donations in 2012 and 2013, and are donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaign committees through holding companies, according to a new report from the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«Tenants are always on the defensive in Albany because of the millions of dollars the real estate lobby throws at our politicians every year,» said Michael McKee, Treasurer, Tenants Political Action Committee.

As former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani rails against Black Lives Matter, his law firm reaps tens of thousands of dollars lobbying Congress for the biggest operator of private prisons in America.

For every dollar that we spend, the Nation (he's referring to the Oneida Nation) spends $ 10 or more to lobby the same officials who were sworn in to protect you.»

Capalino has steered tens of thousands of dollars in donations to the mayor — $ 50,000 after lobbying for Rivington, $ 40,000 for de Blasio's reelection campaign, and $ 10,000 to the Campaign for One New York — the mayor's controversial nonprofit.

Khan Shoieb, spokesperson for F.E.S., pointed to the fact that U.F.T.'s filings with the Department of Labor show they sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to Strong Economy for All, a labor coalition that lobbies in New York.

Multiple sources involved with the company say the firm saw the price of donations and lobbying as pennies on the dollar compared to the savings — or expense — a change in law could bring.

More than a third of the state's money is spent on Medicaid, making it a necessary and obvious target for cuts, and yet each year the same ritual plays out: The governor proposes cuts to health care; the state's hospital lobby and the union representing health - care workers spend millions of dollars in maudlin TV ads decrying the cuts — on top of the millions they contribute to elected officials; the governor's poll numbers decline, and he agrees to an expensive truce that barely makes a dent in rising Medicaid costs.

REBNY has traditionally focused its lobbying efforts — and dollars — on candidates for state office rather than in New York City, for two main reasons, Lerner said: First, the city's relatively stringent campaign finance laws have historically made it harder for special interest groups to gain as much influence here; and second, although many key issues — such as 421a tax abatements — affect only New York City, they are decided at the state level.

It's why the largest wireless operators are spending millions of dollars each year in lobbying to make sure rules for new spectrum auctions are written in a way that favors their interests, and it's why there has been so much wheeling and dealing around Verizon's move to buy wireless spectrum from a consortium of cable operators.

During that same period, these companies spent $ 45 million on ads for clean coal and $ 125 million in lobbying dollars to defeat a national renewable energy standard and federal legislation to place mandatory limits on CO2 emissions.

What got me really pissed while watching the movie was learning that when the World Health Organization came out with revised guidelines on sugar consumption in 2003, the sugar lobby in the US demanded that Congress withhold the 408 million dollars in funding the WHO receives from the US each year.

Google, for instance, spent 5 million dollars lobbying in Washington in the first three months of 2012.

REVIEW This site explores Washingtons powerful world of lobbying, the perks of life in Congress and the pressure of raising campaign dollars.

According to the latest reports filed with the Office of State Ethics, this organization has spent over a quarter of a million dollars lobbying in just the past eight days.

Meanwhile, ConnCAN and the rest of the charter school industry are using their hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote Malloy's disgraceful budget and lobbying to stop the Connecticut legislature from pausing the development of further charter schools in the state.

For over forty years, unions have collected hundreds of millions of dollars in membership dues each year and used that money to elect friendly politicians and lobby for policies that favor the growth of unionism.

It funnels millions of dollars to Teach for America, Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education (which pushed for the Florida tax credit program that NC lawmakers studied), and numerous organizations around the country that lobby for charter school expansion.

In 2011, Pearson Education spent over a million dollars on lobbying.

A long list of advocacy groups are lobbying for expanded or new programs in light of the additional educational dollars that California school districts will soon receive.

But lawmakers and school facilities advocates have continued to lobby for a new bond, saying there's no way schools can afford on their own to pay for all of their maintenance and construction needs, which number in the tens of billions of dollars.

«We've seen some pretty remarkable success in a first year of Denver Public Schools» effort here at Far Northeast Denver,» A + executive director Van Schoales said Wednesday as he stood in the lobby of High Tech Early College, one of the smaller schools opened with grant dollars awarded to remake long - struggling Montbello High School.