Sentences with phrase «lobbying money from»

The lobbying firm that drew the most tobacco lobbying money from 2011 through June 2013 was Albany - based Ostroff, Hiffa & Associates.

Crowley sits on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means, the second largest target of lobbying money from Pfizer in 2014.

Not exact matches

That, as well as its significant lobbying arm, has often been credited with blocking gun reforms and bringing to heel politicians who benefit from NRA money and are reluctant to cross the group's vocal base.

«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.

For example, special assessment condo insurance might cover cost of damages from a fire in the lobby if it exceeds the money your association has available for repairs.

It is the money from your donations that allows your clergy to continue the cover ups by lobbying to stop laws that would expose the pedos, expose the cover ups and deny victims justice.

These organizations grew from small grass - roots groups to highly professionalized, slick lobbying operations with the aid of Atlantic money, and all were prominent in the campaign to pass this referendum.

Is hobby lobby going to continue taking profits from people that have had or would have abortions or are they hypocrits, making money from people that have had abortions, but not supporting their own people from those profits.

Organic industry advocates are anticipating that once the final rule is issued, its opponents may sponsor a Congressional lobbying effort to attach riders onto next year's national budget and appropriations bills that could prohibit the USDA from spending money to enforce the rule.

As I've often noted, the Time for Lunch site is invaluable for learning more about the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act and for finding ways to get involved, from donating money for their lobbying efforts to contacting your own legislators.

Take lobbying out of politics and rhrow doctors in jail for accepting money and gifts from Pharma and you'll see how much everything will change.

You can read their policy platform there, get talking points, send emails to your legislators from their site and also donate money to their lobbying efforts.

The Hagstrom Report (subscription only) reports that Stan Garnett, former director of child nutrition at the Agriculture Department, «has resigned from the School Nutrition Association over its efforts to encourage members to lobby Congress to pass a bill requiring the USDA to waive healthier school meal requirements to any school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.»

Some money is being diverted - like the # 200m spent on the tiny island of St Helena's new airport, after apparent lobbying from Lord Ashcroft - equivalent to the DfID's entire budget for clean water and sanitation.

MONEY TALKS will focus on direct actions from March 26th - 30th that empower New Yorkers to lobby their State Senators on important issues in the about - to - be-passed state budget.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas students have repeatedly called out Rubio for taking money from the powerful gun lobby group.

One after another, lobby groups and special interests dependent on the state's borrowed money are wheeled out to explain why they should be exempt from the squeeze.

How will you assure members and the public that Labour MPs will never again become so dissociated from reality and so institutionalised by Westminster that they do anything on a par with home flipping, expenses rigging, agree to lobby for money or do anything at all that brings the party into disrepute?

MONEY TALKS will focus on direct actions from March 20 - 24th that empower New Yorkers to lobby their State Senators on important issues in the about - to - be-passed state budget.

«The question is whether money taken from people against their will can be used to lobby the government in any form,» Giardin said.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

Specifically, the investigations are said to be looking into whether de Blasio accepted money from donors who had business before the city or were lobbying the city to secure specific projects and contracts, and whether a team of de Blasio aides illegally routed money to candidates in State Senate races in 2014.

Pledge 2 Protect will now have to amend its lobbying forms to show Glenwood was the real source of the money it received from Marquart & Small.

Meanwhile, the flow of political donations from centenarian Leonard Litwin's Glenwood slowed to a trickle following the arrests in Albany, and the real estate industry as a whole is falling behind in spending as hedge funds pump money into lobbying for education reform.

McLaughlin's largest contribution was $ 1,300 from State & Broadway State PAC, a lobbying firm, however most of the money raised has come from small, individual donors.

A concerted lobbying effort last year pushed for publicly financed campaigns, with advocates ranging from Jonathan Soros to Democratic House candidate Sean Eldridge contributing money for the effort.

A myth which serves Ukip well as it conveniently distracts from the fact that this party, which claims to be anti-establishment, takes money from millionaire donors while lobbying for tax cuts for bankers.

If anything, the relatively small amount of money spent by the anti-gay marriage lobby underscores the deep - pocketed efforts from the opposite side of the issue.

Mangone testified that Libous, a Republican, then steered money from a lobbying firm that employed Fred Hiffa, his longtime associate, to the law firm where Libous's son worked to help increase his salary from $ 100,000 to $ 150,000.

The large sums of money, derived from compulsory dues government employee unions like AFGE, AFSCME and the NEA spend lobbying for ever bigger government should be banned.

Offinger was also a fundraising consultant for de Blasio's nonprofit lobbying operation, which routinely raised money from donors doing business with the city and has likewise drawn the scrutiny of Bharara.

«All the money, attacks and threats of a challenger, funded by the charter school lobby and hedge fund millionaires, did not sway him from standing up for us.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner are lobbying for more money from New York state to pay for infrastructure improvement.

The government reform group noted that Lanza since his first run for state Senate in 2006 has accepted at least $ 113,000 in LLC money coming from real estate, lobbying and other interests — including $ 34,000 from Glenwood Management, which were players in the recent legal cases against now former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Another source tells of having received a similar call from someone close to Cuomo urging him not to donate to a 501c4 set up to raise money for the pre-K lobbying effort.

That law also required public disclosure of the amount of money — within a narrow category — that officials receive from outside employment and investments, and mandated that some lobbying groups list the donors that fuel their advocacy campaigns.

Reports late in the campaign suggested that Dole suffered from Barack Obama's decision to aggressively contest North Carolina in the presidential election, [21] while Hagan received substantial support from independent 527 groups lobbying / advertising against Dole, [20] as well as the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, which spent more money in North Carolina than in any other state during the 2008 election season.

People who take money from interest groups to help them pass legislation by directly lobbying public officials have long been required to identify who is paying them, how much they're making, and which bills they're attempting to influence.

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.

A third application, from the conservative group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, wasn't voted on after JCOPE staff noted that it didn't spend enough money on lobbying to meet the threshold requiring disclosure.

The good budget news also increases the pressure from special interests who are lobbying Walker and lawmakers for the money.

Most of the criticism of sounding the alarm is coming from the best PR / lobbying money can buy, and a lot of people duped by these tactics which have been escalating over the last four decades.

They ramble through local malls and mooch money from distracted shoppers to buy ice cream, and to Bobby's exasperation they eat this ice cream in the Magic Castle's lobby area where it inevitably drips on to the floor.

Records show that the group, which gets money both from K12 and Connections Education, has spent about $ 250,000 on lobbying in the past five years.

The teachers argue that forcing them to pay money to the union to support collective bargaining violates their rights because «public - sector collective bargaining constitutes core political speech about governmental affairs that is not materially different from lobbying.»

As Executive Director and point person for this new corporate lobby group, it will Rae Ann Knopf's role to push for greater support for charter schools and changes that might help Connecticut succeed should they try for a 4th time to win federal grant money from the «Race to the Top» program.

«Given the massive amount of money funneled from the pro-school privatization lobby to Republican legislators, l am afraid that we will see yet another effort to decimate our local public schools and allow unaccountable private voucher schools to play by a substandard set of rules.»

Politicians from both parties are going to lobby fiercely to ensure that their state gets money, regardless of the merits.

The same Jonathan Sacker who set up ConnCAN's unknown sister organization called the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy Inc. which poured more than half a million dollars into legislative lobbying over the past few years helping to get Achievement First more money and a special law exempting charter schools from having to have all their teachers certified.

The money for charters rose to $ 350 million from $ 270 million while the magnet school support increased to $ 96 million from $ 91 million, according to Joel Packer, of the Raben Group, which lobbies for the district in Washington.