Sentences with phrase «role as a lobbyist»

For example, I performed a couple of searches around topics that I deal with frequently in my role as a lobbyist for the newspaper industry — public records and open meeting laws.

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The hearings focused on the Fed's role as Wall Street's major lobbyist and deregulator.

Trump has alleged the Amazon CEO has operated the Post as a lobbyist and that he takes an active role in the paper's editorial direction, which includes attacking the Trump administration.

A: The central bank's role should be to regulate commercial banks and their lending policies, not serve as their lobbyist as presently is the case.

Vanecko, who also works as a lobbyist, did not play any role in the new deal, although he was involved in arranging the current five - year contract with the district, the spokeswomen said.

Yesterday the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) AgMag Blog offered a much closer look at those corporate ties, as well as the role of SNA's lobbyists which, in addition to representing SNA, boast a roster of Big Food clients that includes General Mills, Kraft Foods, the North American Meat Association, the National Confectioners Association and the National Frozen Pizza Institute (whose members include Con Agra and Schwan.)

It would aim to find out who the Government is consulting, what the government is finding out as a result, whether the Government is listening to the right people, and whether it is keeping the role of lobbyists in check.

This was done around the Members» First grouping which was originally billed as the brainchild of lobbyist Ben Lucas — whose role was downplayed after he was named in the cash - for - access corruption scandal.

Melissa DeRosa, the first woman to serve as secretary to the governor — the equivalent of the chief of staff post for a president in the executive chamber — recounted that despite her resume as a top official in Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office and role in the state campaign for President Barack Obama, she has been defined in the media by her relationship to her lobbyist father and husband, a former Cuomo spokesman who now works for Uber.

Blurring the role between lobbyist and political adviser is a recipe for disaster - as Cuomo should well know better than most.

Yeo, who was caught in a Sunday Times sting operation by reporters posing as lobbyists, will temporarily relinquish the role while he tries to clear his name.

Howe had represented a number of companies with business before the Buffalo Billion and was listed as a lobbyist for SUNY Poly, which plays a key role in distributing economic development spending.

An examination of 75 think tanks found an array of researchers who had simultaneously worked as registered lobbyists, members of corporate boards or outside consultants in litigation and regulatory disputes, with only intermittent disclosure of their dual roles.

It turns out that Jeffrey Sachs, an influential health care lobbyist with ties to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, (he was an usher at Cuomo's wedding), played a key role in obtaining state approvals that paved the way for the controversial sale of the Lower East Side nursing home knwon as Rivington House.

Gov. Cuomo's renewed effort to distance himself from lobbyist and longtime associate Todd Howe flies in the face of Howe's continuous role as a member of Cuomo's «inner circle,» a source close to US Attorney Preet Bharara's corruption probe told The Post.

I had thought there was a legitimate scientific debate about the role of global warming and hurricanes, but it appears that the deniers, although they are legitimate scientists, seem to have fallen in with the think tank ideologues and PR lobbyists who masquerade as scientists.

But while lobbyists and editorialists bicker over the role vouchers and scholarships should play, I'll be thinking of the kids in Sandtown, who need DeVos to use every bit of leverage she has, and to use it as quickly as possible.

«Peabody plays a major role in industry efforts to block action on climate change, with its own lobbyists and PR campaigns, as well as through front groups it supports like ALEC,» says Annie Leonard, the executive director of Greenpeace USA.

What hasn't been reported is the complementary role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

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