Sentences with phrase «public lobbying campaign»
Both Uber and Lyft have conducted an extensive public lobbying campaign over the last year to expand services, especially in upstate cities like Buffalo, which is being countered by an effort to block the measure by upstate taxi and livery companies.
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«A broad coalition of investors wants companies to tell stockholders and the public more about so - called «dark money» spent both in campaigns and on lobbying by groups that use corporate money and don't say where it comes from,» Welsh of Si2 said.
Jobs also became one of Silicon Valley's most prominent opponents of the Trump administration's restrictive immigration policies, including speaking out at public events, lobbying politicians on both sides of the aisles and funding multi-platform media campaigns, this year aimed at the at - risk Dreamers.
I don't think I've ever been the target of a concerted lobbying campaign before, but efforts to restore the public image of pink slime — a.k.a. Lean Finely Textured Beef — have even gotten to me.
Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.
«But the involvement of campaign groups and other organisations, whether through lobbying government or public campaigning, must be done in a transparent and open way.»
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.»
The progressive validators were for a purpose: Cuomo is lobbying for the W.F.P.'s endorsement later this month, and pointedly promised during his speech to push for a public campaign finance system — the party's biggest priority at the moment — before the Legislature adjourns in June.
Nyopengovernment.com provides the public with downloadable information on campaign contributions, lobbying, and state contracts.
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.
«Organisations need to activate a red strand to their lobbying,» says John Lehal, the CEO of Four Public Affairs who worked on the Andy Burnham and Owen Smith leadership campaigns.
The Public Campaign Action Fund, a deep - pocketed organization that backs the public financing of political campaigns, has yet to jump in the lobbying fray this legislative sePublic Campaign Action Fund, a deep - pocketed organization that backs the public financing of political campaigns, has yet to jump in the lobbying fray this legislative sepublic financing of political campaigns, has yet to jump in the lobbying fray this legislative session.
This should be of grave concern to the public as it reaches out to groups that do not engage in lobbying or campaigns but work on issues that impact us all.
A state judge has ordered Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit de Blasio established to promote his policies, to release documents and communications between the mayor and the nonprofit — sought by the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics as part of a probe into potential improper lobbying.
«This is a hate campaign, not a public health campaign,» said Audrey Silk, the founder of Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, who warned of conflicts if the law is enforced.
The state's lobbying regulator on Tuesday required public relations consultants to register their efforts to influence government through public campaigns — including newspaper editorials — in a move one public relations firm said would allow government to spy on journalists.
The ruling allowed to City Hall advisers Rebecca Katz and Hayley Prim to work for Hilltop as it was running the Campaign for One New York in spite of a one - year ban on public employees going into a company that directly lobbies the government.
«In the current political campaign environment, the presidential campaign finance system doesn't work at all and can not work,» said Craig Holman, who lobbies Capitol Hill on ethics and campaign finance issues for the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.
The State Joint Commission on Public Ethics is also examining whether the Campaign for One New York violated lobbying rules by not registering as a lobbyist last year, according to multiple people familiar with the inquiry.
Genting spent nearly $ 900,000 on lobbying and campaign donations in New York last year, according to an analysis by the New York Public Interest Research Group.
Mulgrew welcomed the Council's support in two statewide initiatives: lobbying Albany to increase state aid in light of the $ 2 billion the state owes New York City public schools as a result of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court settlement, and supporting full funding for Teacher Centers.
U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel's campaign has retained the services of former GOP state Sen. Nick Spano's lobbying firm Empire Strategic Planning, according to a filing on the Commission on Public Integrity's website.
Bill Mahoney, a campaign finance analyst with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says the article illustrates the close ties between Governor Cuomo and the Committee to Save New York lobby group.
Public employee unions, in a lobbying campaign spearheaded by the largest statewide teachers» union, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), asserted that the Triborough Doctrine's status quo guarantee wasn't strong enough.
De Blasio and the Campaign for One New York have been fighting a bitter public battle against the scope of JCOPE's inquiry, which the ethics commission began in 2015 to investigate whether or not the nonprofit had improperly failed to register as a lobbying entity that year.
«Receiving a $ 60,000 gift from a business which lobbies is perfectly legal under the current campaign - finance law; that's why we support Gov. Cuomo's attempts to change this law,» said Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group.
ALBANY — Companies involved in bidding for casino licenses in New York State spent nearly $ 11 million on lobbying and campaign donations in 2012 and 2013, and are donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaign committees through holding companies, according to a new report from the New York Public Interest Research Group.
NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio was at SEIU 1199's HQ in Manhattan last night to phone bank with New Yorkers United for Marriage, the coordinated campaign that is lobbying to get a bill passed in the Senate prior to the session's end next month.
In their campaign to sway state lawmakers, DraftKings and FanDuel and their related trade associations spent just under $ 800,000 on lobbying expenses since last autumn, according to records filed with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
The lobbying firms the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs are the unnamed companies in the grand jury indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, according to three sources with knowledge of the investigation.
A second point is that, if sections of the public still want to lobby for representation and political action on environmental matters dear to their hearts, there are many campaigning charities, NGOs and activist groups willing to pick up the mantle.
The amount appears to be more than double the previous record for spending by any lobbying client during these months, a time of year when most political activity is directed toward elections and lobbying campaigns rarely top a few hundred thousand dollars, according to information maintained by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
Other top spenders included the Greater New York Hospital Association ($ 2.3 million), the No More Casinos Coalition ($ 1.7 million) and the Public Campaign Action Fund, which lobbied on reducing the role of money in politics ($ 1.4 million).
The Campaign for New York Marriage, headed by Brian Ellner, has just launched the first in a series of ads intended to lobby public support for the issue.
«Conduct and activities of The Advance Group during the last election cycle may have involved the coordinating of independent expenditure Super PACs with official campaigns, and The Advance Group provided unpaid lobbying services to a public official and, as a consequence, The Advance Group will benefit from selling access to the public official to influence official acts,» the complaint alleges.
She says all it would take to get the act passed into law is to change the votes of a handful of Senators and she says she hopes the new campaign will energize the public to lobby their Senators to vote yes.
That law also required public disclosure of the amount of money — within a narrow category — that officials receive from outside employment and investments, and mandated that some lobbying groups list the donors that fuel their advocacy campaigns.
Intended to address the roles of consultants as «architects of grassroots lobbying campaigns to the public,» the rules at issue were adopted by JCOPE in January.
The public will now be better served with information about who is funding the state's large lobbying campaigns.
While the reform alliance provided data showing trial lawyers» campaign contributions were tops among influence blocs, the New York Public Interest Research Group put teacher unions far in the lead in combined lobbying and campaign donations.
The unions have been joined by several groups supportive of issues they've opposed, such as expansion of charter schools and a tax credit that would redirect money to private schools, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of lobbying reports submitted to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and campaign finance disclosure reports submitted by state - level candidates and parties to the Board of Elections.
However, the most recent lobbying records filed with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics show that Litwin's Glenwood, a major beneficiary of real - estate tax incentives, which has directly or indirectly contributed more than $ 1 million to Cuomo's campaigns, was lobbying the governor's office at least as recently as February.
In ordinary times, the controversy flares into public consciousness in the spring, during well - orchestrated industry lobbying and PR campaigns seeking more visas.
And earlier this year, the lobbying group PhRMA launched a multimillion dollar ad campaign designed to repair its image by reminding the public that the industry aims to discover new drugs, not just raise prices on old ones.
These powerful companies spend billions to ensure you will be buying their products by using dishonest business practices, rigged clinical studies showing their products in a favorable light, public relations campaigns (like the fraudulent Breast Cancer Awareness Month — started by the manufacturer of mammogram machines), articles from paid «experts» on the internet and news clips to make you believe their products are healthy and safe, and lobbying Washington to enact laws ensuring you don't have healthy alternatives to their products.
The frenzy to privatize America's K - 12 education system, under the banner of high - tech progress and cost - saving efficiency, speaks to the stunning success of a public relations and lobbying campaign by industry, particularly tech companies.
This directly mirrors the anecdote that headlines my original piece, in which the Fairfax County Public Schools» lobbying campaign for additional funds omitted the fact that school leaders had just voted themselves a 60 percent pay increase.
The report authors argue charters have come to represent a force that «preempts traditional local control of public schools» and spends «hundreds of millions of dollars to promote itself... finance electoral campaigns up and down the political ladder and hire publicists who spread misinformation, aggressively lobby, and paint charter opponents as part of the problem they are solving.»
The charter school industry and their corporate education reform allies spend tens of millions of dollars — every year — on public relations, lobbying, campaign donations and faux media outlets.
last spring when the education reform industry lobby group, A Better Connecticut, spent money on a poll to test various messages to promote Malloy and then over $ 2 million on campaign advertisements «thanking» Malloy for his leadership in promoting charter schools and the privatization of public education.