Sentences with phrase «spending lobby client»

Like 1199, a relative quieting of the public debate over the healthcare sections of budgets under Cuomo has led to a decrease in GNYHA's spending, but it still finished as the state's highest - spending lobby client in a recent bi-monthly reporting period.

That group spent over $ 16 million between 2011 and 2012, finishing as the state's highest - spending lobby client in each of those years, but ceased operations when statutory changes would have required it to begin identifying who funded it.

The Mason Tenders also made a rare appearance as one of the state's top - spending lobby clients last year; as a group it supported spent nearly $ 1.3 million in the first six months in support of a prevailing wage requirement in an attempt to renew 421 - a tax credits.

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Those classes spent the 2012 election only listening to their donors and lobbying clients until the only world they could imagine was the world their donors described.

Last year, 1,559 lobby clients spent $ 50,000 or more, about a hundred of whom disclosed; 1,393 spent between $ 15,000 and $ 50,000.

ALBANY — The list of New York's ten largest lobby clients in 2015, released by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics last month, showed that spending was dominated by some relatively new players on the political scene.

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.

This was the highest total of any lobby client during the years for which records are available, but it was only 48.34 percent of what Families for Excellent Schools spent this year.