Sentences with phrase «new lobbying firm»

And Cameron's former strategy chief Ameet Gill has set up a new lobbying firm, Hanbury Strategy.

One of the panelists at the SNA's policy session was Craig Burkhardt, a lawyer with the group's new lobbying firm, Barnes and Thornburg (whose clients include the National Rifle Association).

The organization's stunning about - face was examined in depth in a New York Times story last fall; the factors leading to the reversal include a recent change in SNA's leadership and its choice of a new lobbying firm.

Times political reporter Nicholas Confessore does an excellent job of exploring the factors leading to this stunning reversal, which include a recent change in SNA's leadership, its choice of a new lobbying firm and its decision to use more aggressive legislative tactics to advance its agenda on Capitol Hill.

Not exact matches

The New York Times reported Trudeau has enlisted former Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to help with Trump, and Ontario's government has hired a New York - based lobbying firm to lean on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to go easy on imposing trade restrictions on the Empire State's northern neighbor.

Whiteman Osterman & Hanna is one of New York's largest and most prominent legal and lobbying firms.

In our eyes, JCOPE will have little credibility until new laws are passed which prohibit the Committee from appointing an executive director, or senior managers, who have worked for a sitting governor, attorney general, comptroller, the legislature, or a firm which lobbies the state of New Yonew laws are passed which prohibit the Committee from appointing an executive director, or senior managers, who have worked for a sitting governor, attorney general, comptroller, the legislature, or a firm which lobbies the state of New YoNew York.

GEORGE PATAKI WILL LOBBY ON TARIFFS: Former New York Gov. George Pataki has registered to lobby on President Donald Trump's aluminum and steel tariffs for Borusan Mannesmann, a Turkish firm that describes itself as «Europe's leading steel pipe manufacturer.&rLOBBY ON TARIFFS: Former New York Gov. George Pataki has registered to lobby on President Donald Trump's aluminum and steel tariffs for Borusan Mannesmann, a Turkish firm that describes itself as «Europe's leading steel pipe manufacturer.&rlobby on President Donald Trump's aluminum and steel tariffs for Borusan Mannesmann, a Turkish firm that describes itself as «Europe's leading steel pipe manufacturer.»

Former Conservative health minister Nicola Blackwood is to become a senior adviser at Global Counsel, the PR and lobbying firm set up by new Labour architect Peter Mandelson.

In fact with D'Amato expansion of his Dem lobby firm today, Our GOP US Senator candidate running against Gillibrand is employing one of Al D'Amato's new hires...

Park Strategies, the lobbying and consulting firm founded by former Republican Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, formally welcomed the newest member of its government affairs practice: Juanita Scarlett.

«With at least 1.5 million gallons of oil still spewing into the Gulf every day, Senate Republicans plotted with BP's chief lobbying firm in Albany and voted to squash a bill that will help over 12 million New Yorkers living in polluted air.»

Mr. Ickes, meanwhile, has opened a New York branch of his lobbying firm that has quickly grown and scored key victories for his clients — once again raising questions about what seems to be Mr. de Blasio's transactional relationship with many of his donors and outside advisers.

The 10 biggest lobbying firms in New York City have built their businesses on access and savvy.

Mr. Ickes, who did not return requests for comment, has a lobbying firm based in Washington, and opened a New York branch after Mr. de Blasio was elected in 2013.

ALBANY - Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos» law firm set up a lobbying operation that was among the most successful new firms in Albany last year, a report shows.

Empire Government Strategies took in $ 284,500, a minuscule amount when compared with the largest New York lobbying firms but enough to land it third on a list of fastest - growing firms, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group report.

For years, Syracuse University has contracted Whiteman Osterman & Hanna - an Albany law firm - to lobby on its behalf with New York state officials.

Bamberger says he isn't doing any lobbying for the group (he's prohibited by state ethics laws from doing so) but said the new advocacy group has retained its own lobbying firm, Bogdan, Lasky & Frazier LLC.

Wynn Resorts is the latest major casino company to contract with a New York lobbyist, inking a six - month, $ 60,000 deal this month with Albany lobbying firm LJM Rad.

Records show the consulting firm that formed the advocacy organization subsequently signed a $ 20,000 - a-month lobbying contract with a New York City taxi company.

Heidi Allen and Lucy Frazer have «future star written all over them», according to a new report for a Tory - led lobbying firm, seen by TP.

It comes as new research from lobbying firm Westminster Public Affairs puts Tom Watson and Stella Creasy as clear joint favourites for the deputy leadership among Labour candidates.

The environment secretary has just appointed a new special adviser, James Starkie, from the successful PR and lobbying firm Portland.

New York's lobbying firms can somehow retroactively wipe the names of their employees from state records — an erasure that happened recently in the case of Howe and his former employer, the Albany law firm Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna.

Lobbying receipts rose to an all - time high of $ 86 million in New York City last year, boosted in part by a single - firm record of nearly $ 13 million for an outfit headed by one of de Blasio's friends and fundraisers.

Sam Hoyt, a former western New York economic development aide for Gov. Cuomo who recently quit while being investigated for sexual harassment, is starting his own lobbying firm in Buffalo.

He quickly established the lobbying firm Empire Stragetic Planning and after the two year grace period ended, he picked up clients that include the Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers Public Schools, Genting New York, Cable Telecommunications Systems of New York, which includes providers Cablevision and YNN parent company Time Warner Cable.

She knitted together a patchwork of allies: the labor - backed Working Families Party, the new incarnation of Acorn known as New York Communities for Change and a couple of prominent consulting and lobbying firnew incarnation of Acorn known as New York Communities for Change and a couple of prominent consulting and lobbying firNew York Communities for Change and a couple of prominent consulting and lobbying firms.

Ratner employs some of New York's most prominent lobbying firms and has Dan Klores Communications, one of the city's best - connected PR firms, on retainer.

The wife of a top aide to Gov. Cuomo has been quietly hired by one of New York's most aggressive lobbying and public - relations firms, which is now advertising her connections to Cuomo on its Web site, The Post has found.

Sam Hoyt, a former western New York economic development aide for Gov. Cuomo who recently quit while being investigated for sexual harassment, is starting his own lobbying firm in Buffalo, sources say.

Members of the New York County Democratic Committee, upset about a backroom deal their chair, Keith Wright, cut to choose a candidate for a vacant state Senate seat, will push a resolution at a meeting tomorrow night that would prohibit county party officials from also working for firms that lobby.

-- Ostroff, Hiffa & Associates, an Albany - based lobbying firm, has two new staffers: Vanessa E. Bongiorno and David P. Wehner.

-- Mercury Public Affairs, the consulting and lobbying firm founded by a group of former Pataki administration aides / advisors that has since expanded to several states, has hired Dan Cho to its New York government relations team.

«Physicians Reciprocal, like other large companies in New York, contracts with a number of heavy - hitting lobby firms, including two that are tied to the environmental firm in the Skelos probe.

Jobs for New York, which retained the lobbying and consulting firm Mercury Public Affairs to assist in its independent expenditure efforts, is heavily focused on GOTV, according to a source familiar with its plans.

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.

When Carl Heastie became New York Assembly speaker in February, two lobbying firms linked to him saw a boom in business.

None of this makes much difference to Giambra, who has ended a 10 - year stint in D'Amato's lobbying firm to concentrate on his new effort.

Last month, Lynch shifted Danna DeBlasio (no relation to the mayor), who had previously managed the firm's Latino Affairs division, to serve as head of its effort to lobby the New York City Council.

A coalition of the state's leading political public relations firms filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, claiming its new rules requiring disclosure of outreach to editorial boards represents an unconstitutional expansion of the definition of «lobbying.»

The Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York plans to release a report today detailing more than $ 6.3 million in lobbying and $ 14.6 million in campaign contributions by New York's major trial lawyer groups and individual attorneys and firms.

Before joining state government, DeRosa was the New York State director of Organizing for America, President Barack Obama's national political action organization, and worked for a prominent Albany lobbying firm.

Lewiston Greenhouse had previously hired the lobbying firm of a Cuomo ally, controversial western New York political operative Steve Pigeon, for a hefty $ 25,000 - per - month fee.

Statewide Public Affairs, an Albany - based lobbying firm expanding into New York City by partnering with veteran lobbyist and political operative Jim Quent.

Biben told the newspaper she would explore job opportunities after she leaves, but she will remain in the position for four weeks as JCOPE deals with some of New York's biggest law firms, companies and lobbying firms.

He entered 2018 with more than $ 30 million in the bank and he has continued an aggressive fund - raising calendar, including a recent $ 25,000 per couple dinner at the St. Regis in Midtown Manhattan and a $ 5,000 private box event at a New York Mets game, hosted by a lobbying firm.

Scott Segal of the legal and lobbying firm Bracewell & Giuliani notes that, if granted, a stay would give Congress more time to act — possibly under a new president.

The company has cut ties with top lobbying firms in Washington, including Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Squire Patton Boggs, and has brought on new advisors, Bloomberg reports.