Sentences with phrase «party lobbying firms»

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Kim has the support of the Queens Democratic Party and is currently an associate at the Parkside Group (a consulting / lobbying firm that also has close ties to the paParty and is currently an associate at the Parkside Group (a consulting / lobbying firm that also has close ties to the partyparty).

The business lobby is serious about crushing «the little party that could» (a Newsday headline of a few years ago), spending millions of dollars on television and mail against WFP candidates, and even trying to hire well - known progressive public relations firms to wage a PR battle against them.

The DA's office issued subpoenas this past winter to state Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay, Haggerty and an Albany - based lobbying firm, Capitol Public Strategies, whose address Haggerty used to register the limited liability corporation through which Bloomberg's contribution was funneled.

Almost thirty prospective Conservative parliamentary candidates are working for lobbying and PR firms that seek to influence their party.

And now top lobbying firm Edelman has joined in the fun once again - by signing up former Sun journalist and Conservative party adviser Craig Woodhouse.

Mr. Grodenchik served as a deputy borough president and worked for Parkside, the Queens Democratic Party's consulting and lobbying firm of choice.

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 firms.

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.

The party boss, who now works for the lobbying firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, did not respond to requests for comment.

John lobbying firm and a vice chair of the State Democratic Party, Peter Ajemian, who is State Senator Brad Hoylman's chief of staff, Brian Ellner, who was a Bloomberg appointee at the Department of Education and later played a leading role in the marriage equality fight in Albany, Matthew McMorrow, who is an aide to Mayor Bill de Blasio on gay issues, and Dirk McCall, who works for Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr..

Ramon Jimenez, a Bronx lawyer and Green Party candidate for Attorney General, called on the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics to investigate the actions of a lobbying firm representing FreshDirect in its bid to move to the Bronx.

After nearly a year of crying foul, running to the Tea Party for political backing, seeking audience with every possible media outlet and hiring a DC lobbying firm to change the law under which it was being investigated...

«Russia's LUKoil has serious pull in the Czech Republic, and has cultivated ties with many leading politicians... Unlike Western firms, which lobby largely in their own interests, Russian state - controlled and private enterprises play an integral role in Kremlin foreign policy, and they're «undoubtedly influencing the behavior of various Czech political parties and politicians,» [former President Vaclav] Havel said in an interview.