Sentences with phrase «new lobbying entity»

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.

Not exact matches

The policy was adopted a month ago as the province lobbied Governor Andrew Cuomo to drop his proposed New York Buy American Act, which would have required state entities to buy from U.S. companies on all purchases more than $ 100,000 (U.S.).

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.

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.

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

The New York Gaming Association, which advocates for the interests of the state's nine racinos, filed a complaint alleging that several entities pushing a bill that would legalize daily fantasy sports betting have improperly failed to register as lobbying entities.

The campaign — which featured nearly $ 6 million worth of advertising raised mostly through the party's soft - money account — was seen as one that supplanted the defunct Committee to Save New York, a coalition of business and labor that registered as a lobbying entity.

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.

State lobbying records show Lhota is registered as a lobbyist for an entity called New York University Hospitals Center through 2018.

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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.

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 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.

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 funds.

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.