Sentences with phrase «public lobbies with»

The reality is that most people that play shooters, with friends or in public lobbies with randoms, use chat more for having fun and trash - talking than anything even close to team coordination.

Not exact matches

«It is disturbing that the same companies and investors who have pledged to work with the City to respect California public safety and public realm laws are spending lobbying dollars in Sacramento to repeal them,» San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who has been leading the charge to regulate the scooters, told TechCrunch.

According to filings made by Mercury Public Affairs, a political strategy group contracted by Manafort, the former chancellor had met with several members of Congress in 2013 to lobby for Ukraine.

Amazon representatives have been lobbying FCC commissioners and staffers in person, with a visit on Nov. 29 and Dec. 6, the latter of which included a meeting between Ajit Pai, the FCC chairman, and Darren Achord, an Amazon senior public policy manager.

Dr. Robert Wah, president of the American Medical Association, which lobbies on behalf of doctors and promotes public health, discussed the medical industry's adoption of technology with Fortune.

So the activist's lobbying activities have to be limited: He can make public pronouncements about what changes he wants at Hertz, but an actual dialogue with other shareholders is dangerous.

The lobby and other public spaces have also been renovated with new places to hand out such as the Tiki Hut and Pool Bar.

Dick's relationship with CSA was terminated effective January 31, 2018, but was not made public until early April, lobbying records show.

«Liberal government - appointed university board members hired Liberal insiders with public money and student funds to lobby the Liberal government.

It's like he is saying «you killed my brother so I slaughtered your family» — gee, America is a democracy with a transparent court system, lobbying and public demonstrations, and there is such a thing as international courts if one has grievances with US policy.

With the exception of a few lobbying groups, they are not trying to initiate public policy.

It's stupifying to see them make billions of dollars in tax - free earnings every year, and fighting - words to hear them lobby our public servants with those very funds.

It shouldn't have taken us 20 years to reach this point (and it wouldn't have, if the energy lobby hadn't poisoned the waters of public debate with bogus research), but it's cause for celebration that we've come this far.

Robynne explained that since it was a public building, with three restaurants and numerous galleries, she was not allowed to charge admission to the show in the lobby.

Set in the center of the hotel lobby, a 9 - foot tall tree sets the stage for a dramatic arrival with dozens of hand - blown glass ornaments shimmering in deep shades of green, blue, gold and touches of burgundy, and two elaborate gingerbread houses adorn the reception area and public spaces.

He tried a bit of a lunge on the brakes into turn one but unfortunately for him, his teammate was doing the same, and with nowhere to go DeFrancesco bounced across the grass and slammed into the innocent Petru Florescu, who will now have a good idea of how it is to compete in a public lobby of any racing game.

That's the sort of behaviour you'd expect from 12 - year - olds in public lobbies on F1 2017, not the professional world of iRacing, the ultra-realistic sim racing «game» populated with some of the world's best virtual and real - life drivers.

We work hard to keep fatherhood on the agenda — lobbying for change at government level; working with public services, employers and others to help them «see» and respect fathers; and working directly with disadvantaged dads.

The Kiwanis Club will host Breakfast with Santa at 9 a.m. at the American Legion Hall, 123 W. Main St.. The Public Library, 118 W. Washington St., will have a puppet show at 1:30 p.m., and the West Chicago Cultural Arts Commission will open a winter - themed art show at 2 p.m. in the lobby of the Park District Office, 157 W. Washington.

«Introducing expensive «new and improved» formulas with unsubstantiated claims is the best way for formula makers to increase their profits in the WIC program,» says Meredith McGehee, a public policy strategist in Washington, D.C. who lobbies for the California WIC Association on Capitol Hill.

The Park District, which has lobbied the city for control of the club ever since it was purchased from a private owner in 1993, has said it would run the club with more open access to the public and less like a private facility.

Silver told AQE members that he «respectfully» disagreed with Cuomo's claim in the State of the State last week that New York's public school students lack a lobbyist, adding: «The most powerful lobbying group for our students is their parents.»

The manual begins with an uncontentious definition: «Lobbying is the process of seeking to influence government and its institutions by informing the public policy agenda» or, rather more succinctly, «the art of political persuasion».

Meanwhile, in the UK, the Public Administration Select Committee's report on lobbying recommends mandatory regulation with strict reporting requirements.

Cuomo said during a news conference this afternoon after meeting with his cabinet that the goal is to cajole legislators and convince the public to lobby their state representatives as well.

With an aggressive lobbying effort, apparently strong public support and even the endorsement of the governor, you'd think a bill to legalize ride - hailing services in upstate would pass pretty quickly whenever legislators end up returning to Albany.

Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY, noted that «Hydraulic fracturing has been one of the most polarizing issues in recent history, with no shortage of political money invested by pro-fracking interests to achieve a favorable outcome... New York State needs comprehensive campaign finance and lobbying reform to assure New Yorkers that public policy is based on their interest, not the special interests.»

With the state facing its grimmest budget outlook in years, the legislative session shows signs of becoming a tug - of - war between public schools and health care — the two biggest recipients of state spending and, not coincidentally, the two heaviest - hitting lobbying forces Albany.

Anne Mirkovic joins the lobbying firm after four years with Hodge, interspersed with a year in public affairs for the Association of British Insurers.

Sometime after midnight on the last day of the legislative session — with zero public hearings, public review or consultation — Governor Cuomo rammed through a bill that includes very vague and very broad new reporting requirements for charitable groups which engage in lobbying or coordination with related charitable groups.

How will you assure members and the public that Labour MPs will never again become so dissociated from reality and so institutionalised by Westminster that they do anything on a par with home flipping, expenses rigging, agree to lobby for money or do anything at all that brings the party into disrepute?

Third, there exists across - the - board consensus among mainstream and regional political parties for intensifying dialogue with India, a course supported by public opinion and increasingly vocal peace lobbies in both countries.

Parliament also needs to act with urgency to adopt legislation for a mandatory register of all lobbying activity so that the UK public knows who is lobbying whom for what, and how much they are paying for it.

Long released the tax documents at the Albany offices of Capital Public Strategies, the lobbying shop that recently merged with Park Strategies in August.

While he has lobbied the federal government for years, Howe only registered as a lobbyist with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics in December.

Nyopengovernment.com provides the public with downloadable information on campaign contributions, lobbying, and state contracts.

He has long expressed frustration with the efforts by public education and teachers union organizations lobbying and pressuring him to increase school aid.

At the moment, neither Public Campaign Action Fund or a related organization, Friends of Democracy, has filed an intent to lobby letter with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics — a documented required when the cost of seeking to influence state government is expected to be more than $ 5,000 for any given entity.

«As opposed to advocating for a more level playing field for those off all religions and none by stating thatChristian Churches have a unique position in British society and a particularly strong claim to be heard, he is supporting the increasingly strident lobbying of a minority of Christians for more influence in our public life and greater privilege for those with Christian beliefs.

New York's lobbying law requires anyone who spends more than $ 5,000 in an attempt to influence any local law or ordinance, or any pending procurement action, to register its activities with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schools.

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.

Among Citizens Union's proposals are: independent budgeting for JCOPE; investing in database resources and information technology; an open process of personnel selection; making internal workings public and transparent; improving the process of financial disclosure reporting by coordinating with different agencies; reducing response time to complaints; and improved guidance of grassroots lobbying to ensure ethics compliance.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics, known as JCOPE, is charged with increasing financial transparency when it comes to politicians and the groups who lobby them.

Although the settlement with New York's Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) presents the first public admission of the funding source, Glenwood's backdoor funneling of anonymous lobbying money to Pledge 2 Protect was well documPublic Ethics (JCOPE) presents the first public admission of the funding source, Glenwood's backdoor funneling of anonymous lobbying money to Pledge 2 Protect was well documpublic admission of the funding source, Glenwood's backdoor funneling of anonymous lobbying money to Pledge 2 Protect was well documented.

After the case became public, Mangano, a Republican, issued executive orders, later passed into law by the county legislature, that established the lobbyist registry and required lobbying disclosure with each contract given to lawmakers.

Earlier this year, the Ethics Commission drew up enforcement rules that would have required public relations firms to disclose their communications with editorial boards, under an expanded definition of lobbying.

Public records indicate that between January and June of this year, Genting spent $ 340,000 on lobbying, with $ 100,000 going to the Albany - based government - relations firm Meara Avella Dickinson; $ 25,000 going to Patricia Lynch and Associates, headed by the Assembly speaker's former top aide; $ 195,000 going to Cordo and Company; and $ 20,000 going to Empire Strategic Planning.

The Committee to Save New York, a monied collection of groups formed to back Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fiscal agenda, spent $ 2.3 million lobbying state government in May and June, its filing with the Commission on Public Integrity shows.

The company does work with the New York government, but Bruno doesn't see that as a problem, as all of their contracts are achieved through public bidding and state legislators are legally barred only from lobbying after retirement from office, not from taking other types of jobs.