Cuomo, speaking at an appearance in Batavia, says he supports the ethics board's decision to only require that
lobbying entities report donors going forward, not retroactively, as some reformers had called for.
Not exact matches
Cunningham reiterated that CSNY has in fact registered as a
lobbying entity and will be filing a
report as required with the CPI.
The
report released on Monday by
lobbying and ethics regulators found the top
lobbying entities this year so far have been the New York State Nurses Association, which spent $ 2.3 million — nearly double than what the group spent in the first six months of last year.
Late Tuesday evening, with de Blasio overnighting in Washington between an appearance with Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and a call for more infrastructure spending, the Times
reported that the state's
lobbying oversight
entity, JCOPE, was questioning why Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit set up to boost de Blasio's agenda and pay for his trip, hadn't registered its activities.
«The lack of disclosure of local
lobbying activities in these communities makes it impossible to know how much is being spent to influence these governments and highlights that no single
entity is charged with monitoring these activities,» the NYPIRG
report found.
«If so, it shows that this
entity views
lobbying registration and
reporting requirements as applicable to political parties.»
«We can find no exception to the requirement that those
entities register as lobbyists and
report their
lobbying as required under state law.»
The commission mandates
reports from
lobbying organizations, but can withhold the records of contributors to the
lobbying groups if the donors might suffer «harm, threats, harassment or reprisals» from public knowledge of their support to the specific
entities.
For example, a lobbyist for a corporate
entity could spend Monday and Tuesday meeting with senators on a bill supported by the company and would need to
report to JCOPE his or her salary for those days as part of the total spent on the company's
lobbying campaign.
Lobbying Disclosure Reports Available on JCOPE Website The New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics has recently implemented the nation's first system of disclosure of funding sourcesfor specified entities spending in excess of $ 50,000 per year on lobbying expen
Lobbying Disclosure
Reports Available on JCOPE Website The New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics has recently implemented the nation's first system of disclosure of funding sourcesfor specified
entities spending in excess of $ 50,000 per year on
lobbying expen
lobbying expenditures.
The list of corporate - funded education reform
entities that
reported lobbying Malloy and the legislature in 2015 included Achievement First, Inc., the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now Inc..