Sentences with phrase «time as a lobbyist»

Sanders did not attack Teachout's Republican opponent, John Faso, by name, but he did call out Faso's time as a lobbyist, as well as the PAC that supports him — New York Wins PAC.

During the Clinton years, Holmstead spent his time as a lobbyist for Latham & Watkins.

In his time as a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani, Holmstead was implicated in a 2010 scandal revealing that he and another former Bush EPA official - turned - lobbyist ghostwrote a legislative amendment for Senator Lisa Murkowski (I - AK) that would have undermined the Clean Air Act's provision to control climate - altering greenhouse gases from major emitters.

Not exact matches

But while Obama refuses money from registered lobbyists, he's happy, as a Los Angeles Times report makes clear, to take contributions from their partners, not to mention the clients who hire them — a loophole large enough to drive a truck full of money through.

Elected officials like former Premier Alison Redford and her cabinet ministers were essentially publicly - funded lobbyists as they travelled to the U.S. dozens of times to advocate for Keystone XL and other oil industry projects.

The Katz Group has hired long - time PC - insider Peter Elzinga as a lobbyist and launched a political campaign to «Revitalize Downtown» in advance of the election.

Read a sample of e-mails sent to MEPs by lobbyists High time for CIAA to come clean on its lobbying CIAA's $ 1 - billion campaign to promote the GDA labelling system was clearly a key element in its political strategy to combat other, stricter labelling options which it feared would damage sales of unhealthy food, such as the «traffic light» system.

Moreover, as a feature article in yesterday's New York Times Sunday magazine made clear, SNA and its lobbyists on Capitol Hill are already deeply entrenched in their strategy to roll back healthier school food requirements.

(In the meantime, I'll link to my New York Times piece from October, «As Lobbyists and Politicians Shout It Out Over School Lunch, Can Parents Be Heard?»)

As I discussed in my piece for the New York Times Motherlode last October («As Lobbyists and Politicians Shout it Out Over School Lunch, Can Parents Be Heard?

His book is a tinderbox that will infuriate both the pro-C-section lobbyists (babies born this way are five times more likely to suffer allergies he points out) and the natural birthers (infant death globally between birth and 28 days appears twice as high after planned homebirth than hospital birth).

Pigeon, a one - time chairman of the Erie County Democratic Committee, has spent decades as an operative, lobbyist, adviser and self - described political addict who has crossed paths with every political insider in Buffalo and beyond.

Trump had been publicly discussing ending the agreement, so one could argue that Kerry may have broken the spirit of the law, (or you could argue that he was simply acting as a lobbyist and 100 % legally because the meeting was regarding existing policy), but even if you take the argument that he deliberately went against what Trump was proposing as a likely outcome, Kerry didn't violate the Logan act because it was still policy at the time.

Certainly he is at least as accomplished as Corey Johnson, the part - time hotel lobbyist and former «political editor for Towleroad,» whose signature professional accomplishment was advocating for a higher percentage of affordable housing at a parking lot.

Not surprisingly, the Paladino campaign took the Times swipe as a badge of honor instead of a slight, immediately slamming (via Twitter) «liberal lobbyist» Lazio for receiving the support of the «ultra-liberal» newspaper.

Skelos» counterpart in the Assembly echoed that view: «While it is true, as in any profession, that some legislators and lobbyists have taken advantage of the system, the vast majority of my colleagues are hard - working, caring and public spirited,» said Sheldon Silver, who was Assembly speaker at the time.

Ms. Maier also jabbed at Mr. Jackson for his time as president of the Restaurant Action Alliance, which opposed the city's styrofoam ban, and his work as a registered lobbyist for the Dart Container Corporation.

As the 2016 session of the Legislature wrapped up last week and came to a typically ugly end in the wee hours Saturday morning — with bleary - eyed lawmakers forced to vote on measures they didn't even have time to read — The Post asked several lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists to assess the first full year's performance of Democrat Heastie, a key ally of Mayor de Blasio, and Flanagan, the most powerful Republican in the state.

The usual trajectory of a political career is first to be a public servant and eat bread from the sweat of one's brow, and then after a time to leave office and cash in as a lobbyist.

At the same time, lobbyist Todd Howe, who worked as a go - between with SUNY Polytechnic, is under scrutiny as well.

Let's say the company's registered lobbyist pushed for the legislation which is ok since we let business «lobby» all the time, as long as it's in the open.

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.

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.

As I predicted earlier today, AG / Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo has announced yet another settlement in connection with his pay - to - play pension fund probe, this time with a lobbyist with long - standing ties to his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

The New York Times reported in 2011 that Cuomo, as New York's attorney general in 2009, used his office to threaten legal action against Chevron when Hinton was being paid $ 10,000 a month as a lobbyist for a group suing the oil giant in a multibillion - dollar court action alleging massive environmental damage in the Amazon.

It's high time for Rick to stop lying and come clean about the killing he made as a Wall Street lobbyist while Wall Street was killing the economy.»

As laid out in the letter, the story of how the lobbyist, Peter Galbraith Kelly, sought an internship for the daughter of the president of a «influential» labor union led to Percoco's wife being hired for a part - time job working on an education program.

As a former MEP and a one - time Brussels - based lobbyist who can speak Spanish, German and Dutch, Clegg has long been a committed Europhile.

The revelations came as Mayor de Blasio said he cut ties with James Capalino, a super lobbyist who raised big bucks for the mayor, met personally with him several times, and had a hand in the controversial Rivington House deal that allowed a nursing home to be turned into luxury condos.

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).

It also emerged that the DCAS cribbed language written by VillageCare lobbyist and big - time de Blasio donor James Capalino in the «justification memo» it prepared as part of the process for lifting the restriction.

In response to the good government groups» call on Tuesday, Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi told the Albany Times - Union this: «We will be discussing many ethics issues this session, including campaign finance reform, outside income for legislators and more disclosure by not - for - profits as to who actually funds them and whether they are shadow lobbyists.»

Posing as two overseas financiers offering to buy up distressed government assets, reporters from the Sunday Times this month gained access to Mr Cruddas through a lobbyist.

The shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett also called for the register to be extended to include full - time lobbyists working for companies and trade associations such as the CBI.

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.

As part of an extremely small group of PR scientists for hire, both Michaels and Balling worked for the Western Fuels coal coalition and its fraudulent Greening Earth Society project, led at the time by Peabody coal lobbyist Fred Palmer.

While Jeff Holmstead has been a polluter ally as a lobbyist, he also worked internally to undermine the Clean Air Act during his time as EPA Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.

He's also spent time as a Teach for America teacher (3rd grade in Washington, D.C.); a nonprofit fundraiser, marketer, and lobbyist with College Summit; a summer consultant in FSG's youth and education practice; and in social marketing with PR firm Porter Novelli.

A few bad actors and many powerful opponents force businesspeople to double as citizen lobbyists, spending time, money and other resources engaging with lawmakers, the media and activists instead of running their companies.

Opposition at the time came from a group headed in part by Roger R. Martella Jr., a top environmental official in the George W. Bush administration, and Peter Glaser, a prominent Washington lobbyist, as reported by the New York Times.

It felt like I was a nuisance and wasting his time, when I am so hungry and eager to be more effective as a climate organizer and lobbyist.

As much as I have loved working as a park ranger, especially with the freedom I had to give nearly weekly ranger talks on climate change, I had the dream for years to be a full time, year round climate change organizer, writer, and lobbyisAs much as I have loved working as a park ranger, especially with the freedom I had to give nearly weekly ranger talks on climate change, I had the dream for years to be a full time, year round climate change organizer, writer, and lobbyisas I have loved working as a park ranger, especially with the freedom I had to give nearly weekly ranger talks on climate change, I had the dream for years to be a full time, year round climate change organizer, writer, and lobbyisas a park ranger, especially with the freedom I had to give nearly weekly ranger talks on climate change, I had the dream for years to be a full time, year round climate change organizer, writer, and lobbyist.

The poor students, having paid for that rubbish, in time and cash and then be found with «knowledge» that is applicable nowhere except as a climate denier lobbyist.

They share Fred Palmer as leadership, several WFA board members serve as the board for GES, and they have the same «manager of communications and governmental affairs,» Both Ned Leonard and Fred Palmer served as registered lobbyists for Western Fuels Association at the time.

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.)

While Congress did pass a reform law in 2011 known as the America Invents Act, it had virtually no effect since lobbyists for patent owners had gutted almost every key provision by the time President Obama signed it into law.

As a long time political analyst, lobbyist, and spokesperson she has made hundreds of national television appearances, radio appearances, and has written columns and frequently quoted in major newspapers and magazines.