Post by dgriffin on Dec 15, 2011 10:58:59 GMT -5
from the NYS Property Tax Reform Coalition plan for 2012.
The top 100 lobbying groups of 2011
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:50 am by Jimmy Vielkind, Capitol bureau in Andrew Cuomo, Committee to Save NY, Ethics, NYPIRG, NYSUT
The Committee to Save New York blew away every other special interest group in the state, according to an analysis of lobbying spending in the first 10 months of the year.
At just shy of $10 million, the Cuomo-allied coalition of business and real estate groups as well as a private sector labor group spent almost half as much more than the next-biggest spender, the alliance between the Greater New York Hospital Association and SEIU 1199. The later has long been a quiet friend of the governor, and the Healthcare Education Project (as its alliance with GNYHA is called) backed the recommendations of the Medicaid Redesign Team. Most of the $6.8 million it spent came in a crushing one-month ad blitz (television spots, full-page ads in the New York Times) urging lawmakers and the public to support its inclusion in the budget, and to support Cuomo.
What’s interesting here is something I actually noted in March — the pro-Cuomo forces VASTLY outspent the “special interest” groups the governor complained would take him down. (Remember that? The battleship animation that we all thought was funny? Turned out to be the opposite of true.)
Heading into the 2012 budget battles, the forces on the left — NYSUT, a Strong Economy for All — have been getting their ducks in a row. But now it may be for naught, with the Cuomo-brokered renewal of half the so-called millionaires tax in a blitzkrieg session last week.
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The top 100 lobbying groups of 2011
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:50 am by Jimmy Vielkind, Capitol bureau in Andrew Cuomo, Committee to Save NY, Ethics, NYPIRG, NYSUT
The Committee to Save New York blew away every other special interest group in the state, according to an analysis of lobbying spending in the first 10 months of the year.
At just shy of $10 million, the Cuomo-allied coalition of business and real estate groups as well as a private sector labor group spent almost half as much more than the next-biggest spender, the alliance between the Greater New York Hospital Association and SEIU 1199. The later has long been a quiet friend of the governor, and the Healthcare Education Project (as its alliance with GNYHA is called) backed the recommendations of the Medicaid Redesign Team. Most of the $6.8 million it spent came in a crushing one-month ad blitz (television spots, full-page ads in the New York Times) urging lawmakers and the public to support its inclusion in the budget, and to support Cuomo.
What’s interesting here is something I actually noted in March — the pro-Cuomo forces VASTLY outspent the “special interest” groups the governor complained would take him down. (Remember that? The battleship animation that we all thought was funny? Turned out to be the opposite of true.)
Heading into the 2012 budget battles, the forces on the left — NYSUT, a Strong Economy for All — have been getting their ducks in a row. But now it may be for naught, with the Cuomo-brokered renewal of half the so-called millionaires tax in a blitzkrieg session last week.
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