What is "lobbyists"

Usage examples of "lobbyists".

It describes how some state legislators have accepted free vacations provided by lobbyists from major utilities, auto dealers, the hotel industry, Big Agriculture and insurance firms.

As Metro mayor, he rarely cast a vote without consulting the zoning lawyers, lobbyists and developers who put him in office.

For lawmakers who preferred fish over fowl, lobbyists lined up angling excursions to the wilds of Colorado, Alaska and Nice, France.

For lobbyists seeking an audience with lawmakers, the theory is time-proven: If you give it away free, they will come.

Nobody is suggesting that legislators stop eating with lobbyists, only that they pay for their own meals and cocktails.

The lobbyists who were paid big bucks to push for the tax said they were too darn busy to examine it closely.

The juiciest details came from the lobbyists themselves, summoned before the grand jury.

Nonetheless, a trial would be useful to document the snug relationships between powerful lobbyists and elected officials.

In an age of so-called open government, lobbyists thrive in one of the last dark crevices of privacy.

In an ethics package proposed this month, the governor has asked the Legislature to make lobbyists disclose their incomes, their expenditures and all political donations.

Some lobbyists get paid only if they succeed in their mission to get a bill passed, or to get one killed.

Almost everybody with a stake in the law has lobbyists at work in Tallahasseenot just wealthy phosphate barons and liquor distributors and utility companies, but teachers and conservation groups and the handicapped.

Bob Martinez included an advertising tariff in his special-services tax, media lobbyists hollered and hectored.

And gorging at the trough of high-paid lobbyists gives the appearance of gross impropriety, if not gross stupidity.

Pereira controversy that private lobbyists had to write his comments for him.