Tag: lobbying
Sarasota’s Mike Moran spent $30k on entertainment, $900k on lobbying
Sarasota County Commissioner Mike Moran has spent more than $30,000 at high-end restaurants and expensive hotels in Las Vegas, New York and California while leading a government agency created to help finance energy efficient home improvement projects for people with lower incomes, according to receipts first obtained by the Florida Trident. The Herald-Tribune has independently …
UK government to prevent MPs taking on lobbying jobs | House of Commons
House of Commons Exclusive: MPs to face restrictions on second jobs that fail to ‘put constituents first’, Lucy Powell says Tue 23 Jul 2024 18.03 BST MPs will be prevented from taking on second jobs that fail to meet a new test of putting constituents first, under government plans to “turn the page” on an …
The UK has a new government — let the lobbying commence – POLITICO
In the first few days of the new government, public affairs agency Shearwater Global announced they’d hired former Labour Home Secretary Charles Clarke. Ex-Labour MP Holly Lynch was snapped up by Arden Strategies, the agency run by former Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy. Swathes of former political advisers and party comms staff have also found …
Locals spent $13.3 million lobbying the MN Legislature last year • Minnesota Reformer
Local governments spent $13.3 million lobbying the Minnesota Legislature in 2023 — a 20% increase from the previous year, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Office of the State Auditor Julie Blaha. That’s the largest increase since 2005, according to the auditor. The report says the increase in 2023 lobbying dollars is attributable …