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2 unusual facts about lobbying


Gwinnett County Airport

Atlanta's dominant airline, Delta, lobbied against the proposal due to its reluctance to split operations between Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Briscoe Field, even though three low-cost carriers, Allegiant, JetBlue, and Virgin America, do not yet offer service to Atlanta.

Sodium cyclamate

Abbott Labs, together with the Calorie Control Council (a political lobby representing the diet foods industry), filed a second petition in 1982.


American Frozen Food Institute

American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) is a trade association and lobbying group based in McLean, Virginia for manufacturers and distributors of frozen food.

Assyrian Democratic Movement

Due to successful lobbying from influential Assyrian-Americans and from Congressman Henry Hyde, American President George W. Bush designated the ADM an officially recognized Iraqi opposition movement.

Australian Network of Environmental Defenders Offices

Several major Australian NGOs, including ANEDO and the Australian Conservation Foundation, have been lobbying has for some years for the inclusion of global warming as a matter of national environmental significance in Australia's main environmental protection legislation, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Palihapitiya was listed as one of the "Founders" of the lobbying group FWD.us.

Colleen Kopp

In 2007, she partnered with Mike Veon, who had been defeated for re-election in 2006, to found the Veon, Kopp & Associates lobbying firm, with U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company as its first client.

Community Financial Services Association of America

The payday lending industry has been the source of ongoing controversy due to its lobbying tactics and industry practices that New York Times chief financial correspondent Floyd Norris bluntly calls predatory lending.

Copyright Act of 1831

The bill is largely the result of lobbying efforts by American lexicographer Noah Webster.

David Adelman

In 2011 he was recognized in the Wall Street Journal for his "heroic lobbying" in support of the APEC Business Travel Card, which would give American business travelers expedited visa processing rights at foreign embassies and access to immigration processing at international airports.

Desert bighorn sheep

In 1939, after intense lobbying by Frederick Russell Burnham and the Arizona Boy Scouts, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a proclamation to establish two desert areas in southwestern Arizona to help preserve the desert bighorn sheep: Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge and the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge.

Earl Thomas Coleman

After leaving office he has worked for The Livingston Group, a lobbying organization founded by former Congressman Bob Livingston.

Edward McCullagh

McCullagh held his seat at the 1949 general election, then worked with the Nationalist MPs Cahir Healy and Joe Connellan and the independent Republican Charles McGleenan in lobbying for admission to the Dáil, as elected representatives of territory it claimed.

Farm Credit Council

The Farm Credit Council represents the Farm Credit System in legislative and regulatory lobbying before the United States Congress government and state legislatures.

Ford's Theatre

The restoration of Ford's Theatre was brought about by the two decade-long lobbying efforts of Democratic National Committeeman Melvin D. Hildreth and Republican North Dakota Representative Milton Young.

Friends Of Science In Medicine

In September 2012, FSM was involved in lobbying the Australian Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek, to expand the chief medical officer's study into complimentary medicine to include chiropractic and acupuncture.

Greater London Council leadership of Ken Livingstone

Attempting to fight the proposals, the GLC devoted £11 million to a three-pronged campaign led by Reg Race focusing on press campaigning, advertising and parliamentary lobbying.

Gun politics in Brazil

The gun ban proposal received mixed support in the press, while celebrities were generally in favor, and drew the attention of international NGOs such as the NRA and the IANSA who financed Brazilian anti-ban lobbying groups and right-wing press, most importantly Veja the Brazilian news magazine (indeed weekly publication of any kind) with the largest paid circulation in the country.

Hedy d'Ancona

Outside of government, she is known for starting the feminist monthly Opzij as well as the special interest lobbying group, Man-Vrouw-Maatschappij (Man-Woman-Society), which she co-founded with Joke Kool-Smit.

Hindu Writers' Forum

Hindu Writers' Forum (HWF) is a New Delhi publisher and lobbying group, tax-exempt in India by section 80 G of the Income Tax Act.

Indian Key, Florida

As a result of lobbying by Housman, Indian Key acquired an Inspector of Customs in 1832 and a post office in 1834.

J. Steven Griles

James Steven "Steve" Griles (born December 13, 1947) was a coal industry lobbyist and the United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior during the George W. Bush administration from July 12, 2001, until his resignation on December 7, 2004.

James A. Thurber

He was the principal investigator of a seven-year grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to the Campaign Management Institute to study campaign conduct and a four-year study of lobbying and ethics from the Committee for Economic Development.

James Hirni

A former aide to U.S. Senator Tim Hutchinson (R-AR), he joined the lobbying firm Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, and then became a member of "Team Abramoff" at Greenberg Traurig.

Janus-Merritt Strategies

Perhaps the most controversial client of the lobbying firm was the American Muslim Council and Abdurahman Alamoudi, a fierce supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah.

John Bercow

After a spell in merchant banking, Bercow joined the lobbying firm Rowland Sallingbury Casey (part of Saatchi & Saatchi) in 1988, becoming a board director within five years.

Lindsay Tisch

The electorate was named after a little-known river past Morrinsville, and Tisch was successful in lobbying to have the electorate renamed after the Waikato River.

Long Stratton

Local MP Richard Bacon also joined in the campaign, lobbying Transport Secretary Alistair Darling and Roads Minister Stephen Ladyman for a change in the decision.

Luiz Fux

In a controversial interview to Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo in December 2, 2012, justice Fux revealed details of the lobbying effort that preceded his nomination to the Supreme Court by President Dilma Rousseff.

Metabolife

Metabolife took an active role in lobbying against regulation of ephedra, forming an advocacy group called the Dietary Supplement Safety and Science Coalition and contributing heavily to Congressmen Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) and Dan Burton (R-Ind.), among other politicians.

Michael Colvin

Later, he became a director, with the black Conservative activist Derek Laud, of the Laud Ludgate lobbying organisation.

Norquist

Grover Norquist (born 1956), president of anti-tax lobbying group Americans for Tax Reform

Pacific Standard

The first debate, on lobbying, took place in September in Washington, D.C. The second debate was held in New York City in November with panelists Sree Sreenivasan and Rachel Sklar, who dug into the effects of social media on "real life" and ways to humanize the Internet.

Patrick Finucane

Pat Finucane Centre, Northern Irish nationalist advocacy and lobbying entity

Philip H. Hilder

In the lobbying scandal surrounding Jack Abramoff, Hilder represented Tom Rodgers, a Washington lobbyist for Indian tribes who leaked documents to the media about Abramoff’s activities.

Prostitution in Germany

Alice Schwarzer and her branch of sex-negative feminism rejects all prostitution as inherently oppressive and abusive; they favor a law like that in Sweden, where in 1999 after heavy feminist lobbying a coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and leftists outlawed the buying but not the selling of sexual services.

Robert Travaglini

He resigned from the Massachusetts Senate position on March 19, 2007 in order to start his own lobbying firm, Travaglini Eisenberg Kiley LLC.

Rocco Buttiglione

At this point the UDC was lobbying against the powerful Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti, supported by Umberto Bossi's Northern League; Subsequently, Tremonti was ousted from office and replaced with the politically more neutral Domenico Siniscalco.

Ron Dermer

On the other hand, Barak Ravid said, Dermer's is suspected by key White House aides Denis McDonough and Ben Rhodes of lobbying members of Congress against President Obama's positions.

Roy Wells

Roy J. Wells is a prominent lobbyist in Pennsylvania, working as President and Managing Director of Triad Strategies, a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based lobbying firm.

Sjoerd Koppert

After a period with Texas Instruments, where his marketing strategy and lobbying led to the acceptance of hand-held programmable calculators throughout the EEC’s education system and a 78% market share for T.I., he accepted an offer from UK based Lex Service PLC.

South Carolina Highway 31

Two lobbying groups, Taxpayers for Common Sense and Friends of the Earth, both argued against the need for the road from economic and environmental perspectives.

Theresa Saldana

Following her long recovery, Saldana founded the Victims for Victims organization and participated in lobbying for the 1990 anti-stalking law and the 1994 Driver's Privacy Protection Act, both of which came into being partly as a consequence of the attack.

United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights

The subcommittee was best known in the 1970s as the committee of Sam Ervin, whose investigations and lobbying — together with Frank Church and the Church Commission — led to the founding of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Wild Bird Society of Japan

After 15 years of lobbying by WBSJ and many other conservation organisations, the Hokkaido Government decided not to build drainage channels along the Chitose River in Chitose, Hokkaidō.

Working Men's Club and Institute Union

Together with other club organisations such as the Royal British Legion the Association of Conservative Clubs, The National Union of Liberal Clubs and The National Union of Labour and Socialist Clubs the CIU is part of CORCA (Confederation of Registered Club Associations) which lobbies Parliament on behalf of clubs.

Zach Wahls

In May 2012, he led a group of advocates for LGBT causes in lobbying Congress in support of several pieces of legislation, including the Healthy Families Act, which would allow same-sex partners the same hospital visitation rights as married different-sex couples, and met with Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.


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