Sentences with phrase «new lobbying push»

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In lobbying individual members of the state Legislature, the coalition supporting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's push for universal pre-Kindergarten is coming prepared with district - by - district statistics breaking down who benefits.

The fine stemmed from the company's use of a third - party service incorrectly reporting lobbying figures to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics as the company pushed back against New York City's efforts to curtail its operations.

However, this resulted in a rash of high - profile court cases that continue today, and it spawned new media - savvy lobby groups intent on pushing back against further change.

Their lobbying had a huge positive impact; giving the push for marriage equality new momentum, as did lobbying and reporting by Benjamin Cohen of Pink News.

On the heels of US Senator Charles Schumer's announcement that he will push for construction of a new cross-Hudson rail tunnel from Secaucus to Penn Station, he said Wednesday that he would lobby for a «Secaucus Loop.»

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.

This isn't the first time the anti-gambling lobby has employed this argument against the current governor's push to expans non-Indian run casinos in New York.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo just sent out an appeal — from his government email — enlisting New Yorkers in a last - minute push to lobby members of the Senate on same - sex marriage.

Members of the New York Building Trades on Tuesday lobbied in Albany to push for a bill that revises the definition of public work in order to give workers expanded wages and benefits.

The New York push comes amid a well - funded advertising and lobbying campaign by the hotel industry.

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.

For more than a year, JCOPE has been probing whether The Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit fundraising group Mr. de Blasio has used to push his agenda and which can accept larger contributions than his campaign, was improperly lobbying.

The National Rifle Association, the country's most powerful lobby group for gun rights, said Thursday that it would support an effort to restrict bump stocks — an unusual move for a group that has long pushed back on efforts to impose new firearms regulations.

ALBANY — The spiritual leader of millions of Catholics in New York was at the Capitol Tuesday lobbying against a push to give a one - year window for alleged child abuse victims to sue for damages dating back decades.

The new push promises to inject a mighty lobbying effort into next year's legislative session.

Exelon has spent $ 430,000 on lobbying in New York in the last two years, including the push for subsidies, public lobbying records show.

«A decade ago, New York's highest court ruled that our state must hand over billions of dollars to improve public education — but that money has not materialized,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which organized the Jan. 10 press conference on the City Hall steps to kick off the lobbying push.

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.

The Courant reported that this year, unprecedented amounts of money were spent to push the charter agenda by ConnCAN, the charter lobby; Northeast Charter Network, another charter lobby founded by disgraced Jumoke leader Michael Sharpe and others; and a newer group operating in Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts: Families for Excellent Schools (FES).

ALBANY >> New York City Cardinal Timothy Dolan and bishops from around the state made a lobbying push at the Capitol on Tuesday for a long - sought tax credit that could save Catholic schools from shuttering.

Spokesmen for the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the natural gas lobbying groups Energy in Depth, American Clean Skies Foundation and America's Natural Gas Alliance, which have all been pushing to expand the use of gas, declined to comment on the EPA's new figures and what they mean for the comparison between gas and coal.