Sentences with phrase «year lobby campaign»

The cable company still holds the record for the largest single - year lobbying campaign in state history, spending $ 13.3 million in 2004 to oppose the proposed West Side Stadium.

Not exact matches

So they rely on lobbying ($ 110 million a year,) lawsuits, campaign contributions (wonder why the President won't be vetoing SOPA?)

«Anybody in this world now is sitting there thinking, «When I go back to the board next year, I'm going to ask for 15 % more in my [lobbying and campaign finance] budget.

But last year's increase in campaign donations and lobbying seem like more than business as usual for Novo Nordisk, said Billet, a former AT&T lobbyist who directs GWU's Legislative Affairs program.

Jobs also became one of Silicon Valley's most prominent opponents of the Trump administration's restrictive immigration policies, including speaking out at public events, lobbying politicians on both sides of the aisles and funding multi-platform media campaigns, this year aimed at the at - risk Dreamers.

Spending boatloads of money on professional lobbying and a massive postcard campaign to legislators, the organization and their deep - pocketed friends like PepsiCo, Coca - Cola, Con Agra and Schwan's killed the state school nutrition bill, ensuring many more years of junk food for New York's schoolchildren.

This came in response to years of lobbying by environmental health watchdogs like the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition; Healthy Child, Healthy World, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and The Environmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms Carnival friends.

But he has also had the Committee to Save New York on his side, a lobbying campaign funded by business interests that aided his agenda during his first two years in office, but for now is laying low.

Here is the complete release from NYPIRG, including the list of the top 25 lobbying expenditures and campaign contributors last year:

But the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice — a registered lobbying group created last year when Cuomo first embraced the $ 15 minimum wage figure — paid for the RV and rented the space for the event, a spokesman said.

GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio turned his attention from Democratic LG contender Bob Duffy to his No. 1 target, AG Andrew Cuomo, slamming the gubernatorial designee for being the top recipient of lobbying campaign contributions in recent years.

The lobbying in favor of getting big money out of politics — be it in the form of personal meetings with decision makers or through well - financed TV ad and mail campaigns — has, ironically, been a costly one in recent years.

Much has changed over the years, and, while there is still something of the Sartrean hell about the conference season, they do provide an unrivalled opportunity to inject some impetus into your lobbying campaign.

It also comes as the consulting and lobbying firm, which had guided NYCLASS» political activities and press, has endured a barrage of bad reports related to campaign activities last year.

GOP legislators had for years kept the bill from reaching the Senate floor, but relented in 2011 after a well - heeled lobbying campaign by gay rights advocates and their supporters.

Uber and Lyft both stepped up their lobbying efforts last year, with Uber aggressively campaigning local and state politicians from across New York.

In a 12 - page missive sent last week, Laufer told JCOPE officials the Campaign for One New York would no longer comply with a subpoena the ethics commission sent, arguing it was outside the scope of the agency's mission and had nothing to do with an inquiry begun a year ago into whether or not the non-profit should have registered as a lobbying group in 2015.

The ruling allowed to City Hall advisers Rebecca Katz and Hayley Prim to work for Hilltop as it was running the Campaign for One New York in spite of a one - year ban on public employees going into a company that directly lobbies the government.

All together, the package was billed as a five - point plan designed to enhance disclosure and regulation of campaign finance and lobbying at a Capitol rocked by scandal and corruption arrests in recent years.

But veterans groups and state lawmakers in recent years had launched a sustained lobbying campaign for the bill's approval.

But the UFC has over the years funded a campaign and lobbying effort to bring the sport to the New York City and upstate markets, with the company planning an event later this year at Madison Square Garden.

A concerted lobbying effort last year pushed for publicly financed campaigns, with advocates ranging from Jonathan Soros to Democratic House candidate Sean Eldridge contributing money for the effort.

Trump's campaign paid his companies $ 12.8 million from the time he launched his improbable presidential bid in the lobby of his company's flagship Trump Tower property through the end of last year, according to a POLITICO analysis of FEC data.

Both Uber and Lyft have conducted an extensive public lobbying campaign over the last year to expand services, especially in upstate cities like Buffalo, which is being countered by an effort to block the measure by upstate taxi and livery companies.

«Throughout the campaign I was also very vocal about my support for restrictions on lobbying activity, or bidding on state contracts, reform to restrictions on outside income, and term limits for our bodies» leaders, which is what we had voted on in our rules, that was the first thing that we did - eight years that we wanted for committee chairs and for leadership,» Serino says.

The State Joint Commission on Public Ethics is also examining whether the Campaign for One New York violated lobbying rules by not registering as a lobbyist last year, according to multiple people familiar with the inquiry.

Genting spent nearly $ 900,000 on lobbying and campaign donations in New York last year, according to an analysis by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

The P Street Project is an effort by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee to build upon the progressive movement's online organizing of the past few years and move into the business of registered lobbying.

De Blasio and the Campaign for One New York have been fighting a bitter public battle against the scope of JCOPE's inquiry, which the ethics commission began in 2015 to investigate whether or not the nonprofit had improperly failed to register as a lobbying entity that year.

Ride sharing services have stepped up their lobbying and ad campaigns, in hopes of winning approval to expand into upstate and on Long Island by the end of the year, including a $ 1 million campaign by Uber.

General Motors stepped up campaign contributions to Cuomo and members of the state Legislature this year, as Albany was considering allowing self - driving cars to begin operating in New York — something the company has lobbied on since January 2016.

For more than a year, JCOPE has been probing whether The Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit fundraising group Mr. de Blasio has used to push his agenda and which can accept larger contributions than his campaign, was improperly lCampaign for One New York, a nonprofit fundraising group Mr. de Blasio has used to push his agenda and which can accept larger contributions than his campaign, was improperly lcampaign, was improperly lobbying.

Charter school groups and their supporters spent $ 16 million on lobbying, campaign contributions to state - level candidates and parties and independent expenditure campaigns last year.

«They can't campaign for a new leader so they're working on Brexit, they're using Brexit as a way to get at Jeremy and I think Jeremy and John McDonnell who were in every single lobby with me for years voting against the EU are clever enough to understand this.»

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.

Casino interests have spent $ 11 million in the last two years on lobbying and campaign contributions, including $ 55,000 in contributions to Governor Cuomo's campaign and $ 43,499 to Rob Astorino, according to a new report by NPIRG.

Voting, government ethics, and campaign finance reforms are among many of Cuomo's 2017 policy proposals that did not materialize last year, either due to resistance from the Legislature, a lack of more aggressive lobbying by the governor, or other challenges.

A 27.5 percent increase in funding for Teacher's Choice, the UFT's top budget priority, was secured for the 2016 — 17 fiscal year after an intense lobbying campaign by members on social media and by union leaders at Council meetings and hearings.

A 27.5 percent increase in funding for Teacher's Choice, the UFT's top budget priority, was secured for the 2016 - 2017 fiscal year after an intense lobbying campaign by members on social media and by union leaders at Council meetings and hearings.

Over the years, CPV has spent more than $ 220,000 on lobbying and donations to Cuomo's campaign or to those of state lawmakers.

While the health care union's spending on lobbying has decreased since the years in which it regularly spent millions buying advertisements opposing previous governors» budgets, it remains one of the state's largest campaign contributors.

De Blasio's version, aggressively lobbied for by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, is simply the latest example of a rebranding campaign for a police department that has overplayed its hand in communities of color for years.

The final city budget for the coming fiscal year will contain a 62 percent increase in funding for Teacher's Choice following a big social media and member - lobbying campaign by the UFT to show City Council members the direct impact that Teacher's Choice has on classroom learning.

The CFS continues to lobby the Ontario government for re-regulation of tuition fees and is launching a campaign this year to «freeze the fees in Ontario.»

And earlier this year, the lobbying group PhRMA launched a multimillion dollar ad campaign designed to repair its image by reminding the public that the industry aims to discover new drugs, not just raise prices on old ones.

But a fierce lobbying campaign persuaded Congress saved the MIT project for 1 year.

Separately, administration officials said they had approved a $ 1.06 billion loan guarantee for an Oregon wind farm, the world's largest, after project developers waged a vigorous lobbying campaign to bring the year - long application process to a conclusion.

The charter school industry and their corporate education reform allies spend tens of millions of dollars — every year — on public relations, lobbying, campaign donations and faux media outlets.

That would be smart: three years ago the New Jersey Charter School Association filed a formal complaint (later dismissed) that alleged «as founder and current Chair of Save our Schools New Jersey (SOSNJ), Dr. Sass Rubin has knowingly and consistently used her position, title and university resources to wage a personally driven lobbying and public relations campaign against New Jersey's public charter schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.»

Over the last three years Rhee and StudentsFirst (called GNEPSA here in Connecticut) have been one of Governor Malloy's strongest supporters, helping to fund the most expensive lobbying campaign in Connecticut history.