Sentences with phrase «public interest groups applied»
No environmental or public interest groups applied to be involved in the NEB application.
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The growing role of independent expenditure groups, which live outside the rules that apply to candidates and their campaigns, is especially sensitive in Connecticut, a state that created a voluntary public financing program to restrict the influence of state contractors and other interests on elections after scandal forced the resignation of Gov. John G. Rowland.
For the iron triangle metaphor to apply, however, the interests and desires of the producer groups that form the triangle must differ from those of the general public.