Lawyers who have worked for a campaign or PAC or party know the story line well. Someone offended by one of your client’s ads gets their lawyer to ask a station airing the ad to take it down, for some reason or another. The station manager gets involved, and before you know it the dispute is […]
Month: March 2009
Sole-Proprietor Lobbying Firms
According to Lobbyists.info’s Government Relations Alert, sole proprietorship lobbying firms apparently received non-compliance letters related to their failure to file the LD-203. Several sole-proprietor firms and organizations employing one lobbyist received letters of non-compliance for failure to complete both an organization filing and an individual lobbyist filing, based on comments submitted on the LD-203. […]
“Lobbyist Leprechaun”
A lobbyist dressed as a leprechaun; the perfect ending to St. Patrick’s Day. The Seattle Times has this story from Wisconsin. Ann Rawlinson, a film scout from Pewaukee, donned a green suit, tights and a top hat as she lobbied lawmakers at the Capitol to save the industry’s generous tax credits. She even used a […]