Sentences with phrase «seen as lobbyists»

So - called community leaders and race - relations experts should be seen as lobbyists not representatives.

CREA has been too far removed from its members for years and is seen as some lobbyist group in central Canada pretending to act in the best interests of its Realtors.

CREA has been to far removed from its members for years and is seen as some lobbyist group in central Canada pretending to act in the best interests of its Realtors.

Not exact matches

Not necessarily — Wheeler is a former cable lobbyist who was widely seen as a terrible choice for open - internet interests at first, but turned out to be one of the more progressive chairs in recent memory.

Many business leaders see government as an enemy, and send out legions of lobbyists to influence laws in their favor.

Unions Matter generally sees advocacy of less union - friendly labour laws as a product of neo-liberalism and business lobbyists.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

They have seen themselves pilloried as «racists» by civil rights lobbyists for taking the opposite side of legitimately arguable policy debates.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

This new alliance saw them recognised within the Banaban community as their international lobbyists under the banner of Abara Banaba («Banaba our homeland»), taking and promoting the Banaban cause on a world stage.

He now sees himself as one of the few lobbyists who really knows what is happening in the new - look Labour party.

It will be a lobbyists» bonanza - which many in that industry would see as no bad thing, coming hot on the heels of a severe recession.

A former Labour party head of briefings, O'Donovan was a special adviser in the New Labour years and is now seen as one of the key Blairite lobbyists in the private sector.

We've seen battalions of financial industry lobbyists descending on Capitol Hill, as firms spend millions to influence the outcome of this debate.

I know I have some, as much as I've spent and raised to see it go down the tubes,» said Bruce Thompson, a North Carolina Democratic lobbyist and fundraiser.

``... Most observers see this as a fictional crisis manufactured by gambling lobbyists who want you to re-convene so they can try to make one more run at a major expansion of gambling before the November elections, when Florida voters will likely approve Amendment 3,» he added.

Trading on his connections as a Cuomo family loyalist, lobbyist Todd Howe was seen by many as a reliable conduit to the governor's office.

Several lobbyists, who traditionally trade speak on condition of anonymity, said Albany is increasingly a nervous community, especially as they now see Bharara expanding his probe of the Buffalo Billion include looking at an array of players, including longtime advisers to Cuomo.

«Hinton's hiring has people's jaws dropping because this is seen as an obvious attempt by Mercury to gain even more influence with the Cuomo administration, just what the governor said he'd stop,» a business lobbyist told The Post.

Rival Democratic candidate Jo Anne Simon — a longtime Brooklyn Heights district leader and party reform advocate seen as the heir apparent to Ms. Millman — attacked Mr. Sikora's position as a registered lobbyist and ripped Mr. Lander for endorsing him.

Oil will get more expensive as we use up the easy to get stuff, green energy will get cheaper as we get more clever and build more production facilities; the money argument will eventually switch sides, and then we'll see how good the lobbyists really are.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics proposal would see businesses being forced to register as lobbyists.

They see it as an attempt to undermine a program that biomedical lobbyists have complained is supporting low - quality research at a time when excellent proposals from top scientists are being rejected for lack of funds.

But in a year when many civilian agencies are facing big cuts, science lobbyists saw the STEM numbers as a sign that the Administration was very supportive of science education.

This new alliance saw them recognised within the Banaban community as their international lobbyists under the banner of Abara Banaba («Banaba our homeland»), taking and promoting the Banaban cause on a world stage.

Shades of Monica Lewinski... and it makes you wonder - how taking bribes can be condoned (see Lobbyist in the dictionary), and yet the populace takes the moral high ground when it comes to hanky panky... somehow, as usual, we miss the bigger picture.

But his greed is overwhelming, as is his quest to be the best at his profession, which sees him lying, cheating, and stealing his way to become the most successful (financially, anyway) lobbyist the country had ever seen.

We've seen him play charming political types before, most notably Thank You For Smoking «s smooth - as - butter lobbyist and The Dark Knight «s Harvey Dent.

In an interview, he said, «no other political entity in Michigan has as much power as the DeVoses» and recalled seeing an elected state representative that had run crosswise of the family sitting on the floor and crying after meeting with their lobbyists.

When education issues reach the Senate floor, however, lobbyists generally see the Texas senator as a possible ally, who is more likely than not to vote with their interests.

«A lot of my members are concerned that she's never been seen as an advocate for public education,» said Dan Rossmiller, lobbyist for the Wisconsin Association of School Boards.

Dan Rossmiller, a lobbyist for the Wisconsin Association of School Boards, said his members generally oppose such programs because they send public money to private organizations and companies, and see the proposal as expanding the voucher system.

The climate science also sure is subject to severe political pressures from varying lobbyist groups, first and foremost the oil an coal interests which are huge financial powerhouses especially in the US Senate — a body which in reality dictates the whole global «climate policy» or rather the absence of any such — serious climate politicans round the globe in reality have — as we now have seen — no chance at all against the denying forces and their huge media apparatus, as long as the public don't see some very serious consequences of climate change, fx.

But in 2002, industry lobbyists were pushing the Bush administration to seek Dr. Pachauri as a replacement for Robert Watson, the previous chairman of the I.P.C.C., who was seen by them as too much of an advocate for emissions cuts.

The U.S. and the Saudis, to be sure, hold prominent positions, and just behind them are the rest of the usual suspects: ExxonMobil lobbyists, the American Enterprise Institute, The International Chamber of Commerce (whom journalists complain is so predictable as to be boring, and therefore useless), the skeptics - cum - denialists, the anonymous scum who distributed counterfeit editions of NGO newsletters (they weren't, actually, very funny) and fake - byline flyers ridiculing the third - world victims of climate change (you have to see them to believe them).

This conservative Republican office was not seeing me as another environmental lobbyist to be polite but ignore their requests once the meeting was over.

The same lobbyists are keen on talking about the future, but I see the medium term (> 50 years) as being predominantly only fossil fuel (shale gas / coal) and / or nuclear, whether we like it or not.

But these problems help explain why a cap - and - trade system is so popular in Washington: companies and lobbyists see it as a chance to make money, and legislators see a chance to appear virtuous without imposing any obvious costs on voters, as a carbon tax would.

An odd collection of groups and individuals, including former Sierra Club «CAFE» (car fuel - economy) lobbyist Dan Becker («Even as gas prices have doubled and trebled over the past several years, we see little change in driving behavior,» Becker told the New York Times in October, 2006.)

«Although the Trump administration is packed with billionaires and industry lobbyists, we can't say we're surprised to see Rex Tillerson's stilted and awkward tenure as Secretary of State end,» said Wenonah Hauter, the executive director of Food & Water Watch.