Sentences with phrase «lobbying organizations spent»

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Yet in spite of this power, most S&P 500 companies lack a formal system of lobbying oversight and don't fully disclose how monies are being spent, particularly through third - party organizations like trade associations.

Spending boatloads of money on professional lobbying and a massive postcard campaign to legislators, the organization and their deep - pocketed friends like PepsiCo, Coca - Cola, Con Agra and Schwan's killed the state school nutrition bill, ensuring many more years of junk food for New York's schoolchildren.

Campaign for One New York, a lobbying organization set up by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign strategists, spent close to $ 1.7 million to advance his agenda during his first six months in office and got donations from unions, developers and people like Google's Eric Schmidt.

According to NYPIRG, the ABA spent the third highest amount ever on lobbying by a single organization in a year.

In addition, although the investigation of independent expenditure groups was part of the commission's mandate, the governor's staff allegedly told commissioners not to mention a pro-Cuomo organization, the Committee to Save New York — which spent more than $ 16 million on lobbying and elections without fully disclosing the source of its contributions — in their final report.

Business organizations that lobby Albany have spent the last several months putting together a counter campaign to block the wage increase.

The trial lawyers, who had a close relationship with former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, employ their own small army of top lobbying firms and spent a combined $ 687,700 on campaign contributions in 2015, making their organization, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the second largest donor in the state.

The commission said it will consider recommending a rise to $ 10,000 on its final report — but only for organizations that spend that money lobbying only on their own behalf.

The top five student - loan corporations devoted a combined total of $ 60 million to political spending over the past three election cycles, including $ 49 million on lobbying, according to a recent report by a watchdog organization.

But a growing number are joined by entities whose main focus is lobbying and politics: 501c4 organizations and political action committees, free to spend limitlessly on lobbying for legislation, getting friendly candidates elected, advancing ballot initiatives, and more.

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.

Those interested in the ugly details can track the hundreds of millions that Gates has spent to develop and sell the Common Core by lobby and bribing the federal government, individual states, school districts, universities and organizations.

According to the latest lobbying reports filed by the various corporate education reform lobbying groups with the Office of State Ethics, the corporate - funded advocacy organizations that support charter schools, the Common Core and the absurd Common Core testing scheme spent more than $ 1.9 million lobbying Malloy and the legislature in 2015.

However, this figure does not include the amount K12 spends on lobbying and the company's support of the American Legislative Exchange Council and other organizations.

readers now know that despite the plethora of Connecticut laws requiring honest and public disclosure when it comes to lobbying state officials, Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst organization failed to file any of the appropriate Connecticut forms or reports despite spending over $ 352,000 lobbying in Connecticut during February and March of this year.

Perhaps it's a tribute to the $ 635,000 ConnCAN and its sister organization has spent on lobbying charter school issues in Connecticut.

Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), the charter school lobby group formed by the board members of Achievement First, Inc. has spent more than any other organization lobbying for Malloy's Education Reform bills.

Last year, ConnCAN and its sister organization, the Connecticut Coalition for Advocacy Now, Inc. (ConnAD) spent more than $ 693,000 lobbying for Malloy's education bill.

Although the three organizations are funded primarily from local taxpayer funds and are supposed to be advocating for local public schools, all three have spent the last three years lobbying for Governor Malloy's restrictive, centralized and top - down Corporate Education Reform Industry agenda... An agenda that undermines local control of education, seeks to limit the rights of parents, denigrates teachers and turns Connecticut's public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories.

Since Malloy introduced his corporate education reform initiative in 2012, charter school and education reform organizations have spent well over $ 7 million on lobbying and advertising — a record - breaking amount for Connecticut.

Readers will recall that A Better Connecticut, ConnCAN and other corporate education industry organizations have spent a record $ 6 million and counting lobbying in support of Malloy's education reform initiative to date, including more than $ 2 million in television advertisements thanking Malloy for his «leadership.»

In addition, Excel Bridgeport actively lobbied on behalf of Governor Malloy's «education reform» bill and the organization has also spent significant resources in support for Mayor Bill Finch's efforts to change Bridgeport's Charter, by eliminating the elected board of education and replacing it was an appointed board that would allow stronger mayoral control over the education budget and school issues.

With an assist from LEE, the organization has nearly doubled its investment recently with respect to its lobbying efforts, spending almost $ 2 million since 2010 on attacking unions, weakening teacher tenure, supporting more and earlier standardized testing, reducing certification requirements, and encouraging the use of VAM in teacher evaluation systems.

The wording in this and the linked articles capitalizes «The Humane Society» and does not specify whether they are referring to a LOCAL Humane Society, or the horrible lobbyist organization The Humane Society of the United States, which spends most of their donations in court lobbying to have Animal Rights bills tacked on to legislation and keep people from owning pets, while at the same time putting down any animals they get their hands on instead of finding them proper homes.

Animal Rights organizations spend millions of dollars a year lobbying politicians.

For instance, Andrew Revkin of the New York Times reported that the scientists advising the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), a now defunct organization that spent millions of dollars in lobbying against climate change policies and whose members were primarily corporations whose operations or products were large producers of greenhouse gases, reported to the GCC that:

The Center for Public Integrity found that ACCCE spent $ 4.7 million dollars lobbying in the first 6 months of 2008 - more than any other organization devoted solely to influencing climate change legislation, and more than 5x the amount spent by either of the leading wind or solar industry groups.

As the premier lobbying organization for the oil and gas industry, the American Petroleum Institute has spent over $ 33 million on lobbying in the last five years (2008 - 2012, quarter 3).

Through their work building coalitions and alliances, the environmental groups were able to forge a network of organizations that spent a combined $ 229 million on lobbying across all issues.

The limits that the environmental movement — as mostly 501C3 organizations — has on what they can spend on direct grassroots mobilization and lobbying.

Corporations and organizations are required to register if they lobbied on a bill, but only to report what they spent lobbying across all bills.

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The EPA, the California Air Resources Board, the major environmental organizations, and the renewable energy lobbies have spent decades building the regulatory programs they administer or influence.

I say all of this without casting blame on the public but on the importance of all our collective organizations (LSUC, OBA, CBA, NFLSC, etc.) to constantly lobby governments and advertise to the public on why their money is well spent on justice — an end result that is best delivered through lawyers.