Sentences with phrase «lobbying groups where»

We can not continue the endless recycling of people between elected positions and lobbying groups where there is the clear appearance of conflict of interest.

Not exact matches

An industry lobbying group in North Dakota, where fracking is common, said the industry is doing what it can, but some mistakes are inevitable.

«A broad coalition of investors wants companies to tell stockholders and the public more about so - called «dark money» spent both in campaigns and on lobbying by groups that use corporate money and don't say where it comes from,» Welsh of Si2 said.

Plump now lives in Indianapolis, where he sells insurance and runs Plump's Last Shot restaurant and fights class basketball through his lobbying group, Friends of Hoosier Hysteria.

In Albany, where a number of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's policy priorities have succumbed to resistance from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Senate Republicans, documents suggest that de Blasio has turned to the real estate industry's chief lobbying group in New York as an intermediary to press politicians on a matter beyond its traditional scope: the city's public school system.

Fifteen of the 16 communities where developers are eyeing casino development have populations under 50,000, a report on casino lobbying released by the New York Public Research Interest Group on Monday found.

Sue Lerner, with Common Cause, says currently most contributions for campaigns for statewide offices, as well as the Senate and Assembly, come from a limited number of zip codes, many from the area right around the Capitol, where major lobbying and other interest groups have their offices, as well as the Upper East and West Sides of Manhattan, and Wall Street, and «not from the actual voters».

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.

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.

Margaret Raustiala, who also came to lobby against the cuts, has an autistic son who lives in a group home, and is actively involved in a day program, where he volunteers at a soup kitchen and delivers meals on wheels.

And no lobby groups backed bills that passed in the recent session to limit absentee voting, change the rules for advance voter registration and let election observers stand within 3 feet of the tables where voters register or check in.

Scott Levenson of the Advance Group said he was paid $ 100,000 by WeWork to lobby officials over 110 Wall St., where permits were issued in July to begin turning it into a mixed - use space.

Steve: So, is this a trend we are seeing where industry - backed people are setting up what appear to be pro-environment groups, but are actually lobbying for the kind of legislation that industry rather than your typical environmental groups would like to see enacted?

It is a confederation of non-governmental organisations and pressure groups lobbying for a ban on producing and deploying fully autonomous weapon systems — where the ability of a human to both choose the precise target and intervene in the final decision to attack is removed.

One benefit of pursuing education reform through the judiciary is that the power of special interest groups — namely, the teachers» unions — is drastically diminished in courtrooms, where political lobbying and campaign contributions are far less influential.

Where: The group meets in a conference room at the Lollypop Farm main campus, but participants should first check in at the front desk in the lobby.

The nationwide battle over so - called «puppy mills» made its way to Carlsbad Tuesday night, where the City Council voted 3 - 1 to ban pet stores from selling dogs or cats after intense lobbying by a variety of animal rights groups.

To bring attention to their campaign, the groups often stage protests at pet stores, write letters to the editor in local newspapers, investigate where pet stores buy their animals and lobby local officials to consider bans.

Food products and by - products from the offspring of clones and from clones themselves will be indistinguishable from that from normally conceived animals and, in the US at least (where the powerful food producers» lobby groups render food safety groups largely impotent), will not need special labelling as to its origin.

Airline lobby group, Airlines 4 Europe said passengers can expect the longest delays in popular tourist destinations where travellers enter or leave from outside the Schengen Area.

This scan features the introduction of Group lobbies, where 8 people can join a lobby and fight eachother, and spectate the people currently fighting.

We were shown the Lounge feature, which gives every player a dedicated area to host their car collection and results, and the online lobbies where you and a group of friends can race, perform test laps, chat and watch other people driving.

Some renewable energy groups are lobbying for expanding the FERC's authority to decide where interstate transmission lines should be located, while states are fighting hard to retain their power in making that decision (see Solar and Wind Groups Lobby FERC to Lead Grid Expansion and Draft Legislation a Boon for Solar, Smart groups are lobbying for expanding the FERC's authority to decide where interstate transmission lines should be located, while states are fighting hard to retain their power in making that decision (see Solar and Wind Groups Lobby FERC to Lead Grid Expansion and Draft Legislation a Boon for Solar, Smart Groups Lobby FERC to Lead Grid Expansion and Draft Legislation a Boon for Solar, Smart Grid).

In 2004, the International Broadcasting Trust - a lobby group funded by a number of charities, including many involved in campaigning on climate change - devised the first in a series of seminars on development issues, where the lobbyists could address broadcasters.

Donations to support this effort can be made online at the Web site of Vote Hemp, the industry's lobbying group, where you can also find sample letters and easy ways to contact elected officials; see our What Can I Do?

It's the mention of «Operation Angry Badger», where apparently Heartland is actively lobbying for a specific piece of legislation — a no - no for their type of non-profit group.

Where as they have spent countless millions on buying politicians, funding lobbying & front groups & carpet bombing the blogosphere with disinformation to make sure a price on carbon never happens in the first place & they can continue on business as usual.

The Group is also involved in lobbying, but it definitely seems to be non-partisan (i.e. open to pretty much all paying customers — I wonder how much Hansen paid for their services and where the funds came from).

In his first year of law school Peter was selected to be an accredited delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland where he, along with a small group of lawyers, strategically lobbied country delegates on human rights and social justice issues.

While it may seem odd that a lobbying firm that routinely represents business interests would take up a fight for a group that routinely works against business interests, it's not the only challenge to getting the bill out of the Senate Judiciary and onto the full Senate, where it would likely pass.