What’s the state of the lobbying business in Florida? According to this report, business is good. The Capitol lobbying corps earned up to $45 million from January through March to influence the Legislature. That’s essentially the same amount that all 2,000 state lobbyists made in the same period in 2008, when Florida wasn’t in a […]
Category: Florida
Critical Looks at the Fair Elections Now Act
Hans A. von Spakovsky, a visiting legal scholar at the Heritage Foundation and a former member of the Federal Election Commission, wrote this Politico editorial on the Fair Elections Now Act. Jeff Patch of the Center for Competitive Politics discussed the editorial here.
Florida Lobbyist Gift Ban
Florida’s lobbyist gift ban was retained, according to this Miami Herald report. A Senate committee Thursday soundly rejected a proposal to let lobbyists and their clients spend up to $20 at an event, as long as the legislator consumed food and drink at the event. An amendment would have prohibited multiple lobbyists from sharing the […]