Sentences with phrase «serve as their lobbyist»

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.

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Major issues during the 2014 legislative session included creating a new budget, a pay raise for teachers, Common Core and banning legislators from serving as lobbyists immediately following their departure.

Before leaving City Hall to run for the seat following Mr. Weprin's sudden decision to take a position with the Cuomo administration, Ms. Lynch worked in Mr. de Blasio's Community Affairs Unit and once served as a lobbyist for the Teamsters union.

Owens most recently served as lobbyist for the League during the 2018 legislative session and the 2017 - 2018 Constitution Revision Commission proceedings.

Mulrow served as a lobbyist for Fields in 2007 and 2008, and served as chairman of another Fields - owned racetrack firm in Massachusetts.

The men told the mayor that for cash payments they would serve as a lobbyist for Salvadoran politicians to improve «their image and process them an American visa,» according prosecutors.

This means that the unions can rally their rank - and - file members to serve as lobbyists at the state and local levels.

Not exact matches

«I managed to build a lasting network of friends, which has served me well in my career as a consultant and lobbyist.

Before joining the White House this year, Delrahim served as an antitrust lobbyist for Comcast *, which purchased NBCUniversal in 2011, and he also worked the halls of Congress and the federal government on behalf of Qualcomm, federal records show.

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

Rice joined Facebook from Verizon more than four years ago to serve as the company's top Democratic lobbyist.

The financial conquest is capped by turning tax policy over to financial lobbyists who claim to serve as objective technocrats.

A controversial trip to Morocco by Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt last December was partly arranged by a longtime friend and lobbyist, who accompanied Pruitt and his entourage at multiple stops and served as an informal liaison at both official and social events during the visit.

Students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet as we gear up for the fight over healthier school meal standards in Congress this fall, the voices of these critical stakeholders can easily be drowned out by politicians, lobbyists and the School Nutrition Association.

The court, for example, declared that the meeting with real estate lobbyists can not still qualify as an official act, and Silver's use of a government letterhead can't serve by itself as proof of an official act.

Individuals who have registered with the state as lobbyists within the past year are also prohibited from serving on the commission.

«People believed in the change that Laura was advocating,» said Patrick Halpin, a Democrat who served as Suffolk County executive from 1988 to 1992, and now a lobbyist at Mercury Public Affairs in Manhattan.

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.

We oppose the con - con because pro-reform groups have refused to rule out lobbyists from serving as the some 204 delegates who will oversee the process — an instant dealbreaker.

Jennifer Cunningham, a lobbyist for the state's gargantuan health - workers» union, which can be expected to provide the most powerful opposition to reforming New York's bloated Medicaid system, helped run Cuomo's 2006 race for attorney general and continues to serve as an informal adviser to him.

Masiello has been serving as an Albany lobbyist in recent years.

Howe, who as a lobbyist had access to the highest levels of the Cuomo administration, and Percoco, whom Cuomo has described as being like «my father's third son,» were cut off from access to the administration after Bharara served a sweeping subpoena related to the activities of both men on the governor's office in late April.

The Labour lobbyist and keen Liverpool fan will serve as deputy to Corbyn's communication's chief Seumas Milne, helping to oversee the leader's media strategy and to implement the communications grid.

A Long Island GOP source says there's a «shadow campaign» pushing Denenberg, who continues to serve in his capacity as county legislator, despite calls — most notably, from former US Senator - turned - lobbyist Al D'Amato — for him to step down.

The Labour lobbyist and keen Liverpool fan will serve as deputy to Corbyn's communication's chief Seumas Milne, helping to oversee the leader's media strategy and to implement a communications grid.

The aide, Micah C. Lasher, worked for the Bloomberg administration from 2009 until last year, serving most of that time as the mayor's chief lobbyist in Albany.

One point of connection between LPCiminelli and Kaloyeros was lobbyist Todd Howe, who served as Kaloyeros» de facto chief of staff while Howe's clients — architects, engineering firms, developers — formed a roster of favored companies repeatedly chosen to work on SUNY Poly projects.

Joseph Percoco served as Cuomo's executive deputy secretary and is charged with soliciting $ 315,000 in bribes which Todd Howe, a former aide to the governor who became a lobbyist, helped facilitate.

Teachout, meanwhile, struck a note of economic populism, calling for stricter banking regulations, higher corporate taxes and renegotiation of foreign trade deals, while painting Faso, who served 15 years in the state Assembly and has worked as a lobbyist, as a standard - bearer for the status quo.

The housing agency that delivered the bond work to Cuomo's donors was until recently headed by Cuomo appointee Bill Mulrow — a Blackstone Group LP lobbyist who was subsequently appointed to serve as the governor's top aide.

Ryan served as an aide to former Suffolk County Executive John V.N. Klein and Assembly Speaker Perry Duryea, and was a Washington, D.C., lobbyist for Grumman, which built the F - 14 Tomcat jet fighter.

Micah Lasher, who once served as then - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's chief Albany lobbyist, has put a poll into the field as he considers running for the Manhattan Senate seat currently held by Adriano Espaillat, one source said.

He has $ 24.2 million in his campaign account, and counts as supporters prominent Republicans like Alphonse D'Amato, a lobbyist who 18 years ago served in the U.S. Senate (and lost, in the end, to Schumer).

It is utterly remarkable for Jim Malatras, who served as chief policy adviser and state operations director for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to claim that he repeatedly told lobbyist Todd Howe (who pleaded guilty to felony charges concerning bid - rigging) to send his emails to Malatras» official business account and not, as he did a dozen times in violation of state policy, to his private email («Public matters, private emails,» Dec. 31).

Bohrer laid into Todd Howe, the lobbyist and longtime associate of both Percoco and Cuomo who is expected to serve as a key witness for the prosecution.

The lobbyist in question, Todd Howe, was an adviser to Mr. Cuomo when the governor served as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Clinton administration.

She did just that, becoming more flexible on gun control and introducing legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and serving as an instrumental lobbyist during the push for marriage equality in New York State.

Heaney describes Faso as an insider - lobbyist with all that connotes to an electorate weary of a self - serving status quo.

Community activist and former lobbyist Keith Powers, who was endorsed by term - limited Manhattan Councilman Dan Garodnick to replace him and served as an aide to elected officials, won Garodnick's seat.

Percoco's income from the companies didn't become public until late last month, when US Attorney Preet Bharara served a subpoena on Cuomo's office seeking records relating to Percoco's work, as well as the work performed for those and other companies by influential lobbyist Todd Howe, a Percoco friend and longtime associate of both Andrew and former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

He is a lobbyist and political consultant who served as deputy campaign manager of Governor Andrew Cuomo's 2010 bid.

Walsh, now a lobbyist at the Washington, D.C., firm K & L Gates, has served on the Romney campaign as a volunteer recruiter of former members of Congress.

Lasher worked as a top state government lobbyist for Bloomberg and also served as executive director of pro-charter school group StudentsFirstNY, a group that has worked to defeat Democrats.

Rules prohibit those with conflicts of interest from serving on the Commission including no person who has served in the last three years as a New York legislator, statewide elected official, member of congress, and spouses of the preceding groups, legislators» staff, lobbyists, state officers, state employees, or party chairs.

CCER's Executive Director, Jeff Villar, who once served as the superintendent of schools in Windsor, left his position there three months ago to become the six - figure executive director and lobbyist for the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER).

The corporate CEOs and Presidents have set up a website, retained lobbyists and hired a staff including their new Executive Direct, Rae Ann Knopf, who served as Vermont's Deputy Secretary of Education from 2006 until she left to take the position the Connecticut Council for Education Reform.

Pacelle took office June 1, 2004, after serving for nearly 10 years as the organization's chief lobbyist and spokesperson.

[17] Before joining the Bush White House, Philip Cooney who had spent years on the payroll of the American Petroleum Institute where he worked as a leading lobbyist against regulation of the oil and gas industry and served as the former «climate team leader» of API.