Sentences with phrase «lobbying entity in»

In New York State Families for Excellent Schools Inc. has become the single largest lobbying entity in the State of New York spending nearly $ 10 million in 2014 alone to support the funding and expansion of charter schools.

With Cuomo's blessing, the committee quickly became the highest - spending lobbying entity in the state, raising at least $ 17 million, while allowing its donors to remain anonymous.

Not exact matches

The pair did lobbying work on behalf of these entities in the US, and were later charged by Mueller for failing to disclose the nature of their foreign sponsors to federal authorities.

I would extend it to any nonprofit --- even to the two great political parties --- and eliminate the «Johnson amendment» barring 501 (c)(3) entities from engaging in lobbying and electoral politics.

Supplying selective information that is reframed to position a corporation or other entity in unfavourable light so as to encourage it to press for changes is a tactic adopted by some social change and environmental organisations, yet it is the sort of things those lobbies accuse their opponents of doing.

Cunningham reiterated that CSNY has in fact registered as a lobbying entity and will be filing a report as required with the CPI.

The group is different from the Committee to Save New York, a lobbying entity formed in 2011 that backed Cuomo's agenda at the time.

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.

It's not a surprise that education entities spent the most money on lobbying than any other group in 2014, just as controversy over the new Common core standards and the related standardized tests reached a peak.

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.

He worked closely with a newly formed lobbying entity, the business - backed Committee to Save New York, encouraging them to become involved in the annual state budget fight.

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.

Cuomo also announced measures designed to better regulate 501 (c)(4) entities that engaged in an unlimited form of lobbying and disclose financial contributions as well those received in - kind.

Lobbying in New York remains an expensive business, with entities spending more than $ 240 million in 2017 to influence state and local governments.

«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.

OFA is the spin - off lobbying entity from President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign and is involved in the Fair Elections coalition.

A settlement reached between lobbying regulators and a non-profit entity Pledged 2 Protect won't result in a fine, but it is likely to show real - estate firm Glenwood Management funded it to the tune of $ 690,000.

New York will be the first state in the nation to require donor disclosure from the not for profit lobbying entities like the Committee to Save New York, in the future.

De Blasio and the Campaign for One New York have been fighting a bitter public battle against the scope of JCOPE's inquiry, which the ethics commission began in 2015 to investigate whether or not the nonprofit had improperly failed to register as a lobbying entity that year.

A law approved in 2011 aimed at requiring more disclosure for state officials who earn outside income from lobbying entities to appears to be rarely enforced by state ethics regulators.

«Regardless of whether or not Duffy violated state law by interviewing for a job with a private lobbying entity — he'll recuse himself from any future matters involving economic development in his home region — he has committed a mortal political sin: He created an ethics dilemma for a governor currently hammering the state Legislature over its own ethical record, including its lack of transparency on sources of outside income,» Casey Seiler writes in his column, which includes speculative odds on Duffy's successors.

Hinman Straub's Michael Fallon supported an earlier draft, noting that his employer's partner firm Corning Place Communications has already «abided by these standards, and we believe that other entities that are engaged in grassroots lobbying should do so as well.»

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.

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 expenLobbying 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 expenlobbying expenditures.

State records show that the company has spent over $ 140,000 on lobbying in New York since the beginning of 2013 and that the executive branch was among the entities lobbied.

In 2011 and 2012, the entity spent some $ 16 million — more than any other lobbying group.

Financial disclosure statements from a former senior aide and campaign manager to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, currently at the center of an investigation involving improper lobbying and conflicts of interest, show that he earned at least $ 70,000 in consulting fees in 2014 from two entities that do business with the state.

The raid appeared partly targeted at the office of Howe, a Cuomo ally and lobbyist, who has lobbied the administration while also representing semi-governmental entities and remaining close with key players in the Cuomo administration.

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..

The new lobbying entity includes most of the same groups that spent in excess of $ 6 million lobbying for Malloy's initial education reform initiative, including ConnCAN, the Achievement First, Inc. charter school management company, the Northeast Charter School Network and Families for Excellent Schools, another pro-charter group entity.

Alonso's speech marked the first public acknowledgment that the city hopes to model its construction funding plan on a groundbreaking schools project in Greenville, S.C. Transform Baltimore, a coalition of education advocates led by the American Civil Liberties Union, has been lobbying city leaders to carry out Greenville's plan, which would require a nonprofit or other entity to float the bonds on behalf of the school system.

While their primary purpose has been to support Eva Moskowitz and the other New York Charter School operators, Families for Excellent Schools arrived in Connecticut from New York last year and registered both Families for Excellent Schools AND Families for Excellent Schools Advocacy as lobbying entities with Connecticut's Office of State Ethics.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public fundIn addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public fundin favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public fundin New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public fundin charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public fundin support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

In addition, these groups often set up more than one corporate entity to hide donations, reduce the potential to track funds or use the tax code to get around restrictions on lobbying.

ConnCAN is the charter school advocacy group that is not only associated with Achievement First Inc. but it is the entity that led the record - breaking $ 6 million dollar lobbying campaign in support of Malloy's 2012 Corporate Education Reform Initiative.

Over the last three years, ConnCAN and its related entities have spent in excess of $ 3.5 million lobbying in favor of Malloy's anti-public school and pro-charter school agenda.

Over time, other entities and individuals joined the lobbying cause — including returning residents, tourist industry stakeholders, diplomats, dog breeders, researchers and more — pushing for change to bring the country's companion animal policies in line with 21st century medical science and technology.

This particular tactic of political theater, of performance art, of spiritual statement, the delivery of coal waste directly to the lobbies of corporate entities associated with this environmental destruction, is an intervention that Reverend Billy and members of his Church of Life After Shopping (his thoughts on the rally here) have also carried out in New York City.

With a job description that entails commenting on news items day in and day out, it's waaaay easier to isolate certain groups and refer to them in perpetuity as «bad guys» than to deploy sincere empathy on a daily basis: 50 % of my blogging oeuvre bemoans entities like Big Oil, the 2010 congressional GOP, climate change deniers, or the coal lobby.

This means that the entity that regulates lawyers is not providing education or lobbying or engaging in other non-regulatory activities; a separate voluntary organization handles those functions.

Our preeminent Public Policy Practice is consistently recognized as the leading US offering in the areas of public policy, lobbying and the representation of sovereign governments and entities across the region and around the globe.

The purpose of the LCAC is to provide mutual support amongst the entities holding such agreements that need to lobby or to litigate in order to persuade the Government of Canada and the governments of various provinces to fulfil their obligations.