Category: California

Should lawmakers who receive text messages or emails during meetings be required to disclose them?  Here’s a report mentioning a San Jose law and potential action in San Francisco on this topic. The notion that certain high-powered lobbyists have access and influence with certain politicians is no secret in Sacramento; their whispered conversations in the […]

Here’s a story about lawmakers receiving text messages from lobbyists and potential legislation banning the practice. “Anybody can send us a letter. Anybody can send us an e-mail, but a text message is something you can only receive if you have somebody’s phone number, and that is a differential access,” [Assembly Speaker John] Pérez said.

Here’s a story on new proposed lobbyist rules in Long Beach, California, and their potential application to a union official. “Key within the definition of lobbyist is the word `influence,”‘ said Carl Kemp, a shipping industry lobbyist who says that if the council is going to require lobbyists to register and report their activities at […]