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...offered to make nice by giving all its cable customers a refund on two full days of basic service, plus a free month of a premium channel they weren't already receiving (the latter is a tactic that used to be called sales promotion). In Washington chief Disney lobbyist Preston Padden was serving up unctuousness by the ladle. After the FCC officially scolded Time Warner in midweek, Padden intoned, "We are incredibly grateful to the people at the FCC, who were placed under a completely unfair burden by this whole contrived crisis...
What do corporate small fry think of this? "It can really hurt cash-strapped concerns struggling to maintain their profit margins," says John Emling, a lobbyist for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) in Washington. "But if we have to swallow this bitter pill, we want some sugar coating (such as the proposed tax cut) to help it go down easier...
...February meeting of the organization featured State Senator Cheryl Jacques, a leading proponent of gun control. And at the end of this month, YHAHV will be involved in an Institute of Politics debate. Wahl hopes either Connecticut State Representative Carolyn McCarthy or gun control lobbyist Sarah Brady will speak at the debate...
...more expensive and complicated to produce, market and sell cigarettes. That's particularly true in New York, where the measure follows revelations last year that a group of high-ranking state politicians and officials had been wined and dined lavishly by the tobacco lobby. Philip Morris's top Albany lobbyist has since been barred from working in New York State, and some officials have been fined for receiving improper favors. In the wake of the scandal, the New York legislature in February approved the highest per-pack cigarette tax in the country. And now this...
With these two men in key positions, the TVA soon became a fount of largesse for other Gore supporters and advisers. Within weeks of Crowell's and Hayes' swearing in, the TVA hired Washington lobbyist Peter Knight, who had run Gore's House and Senate offices for years and helped direct his 1988 presidential bid. It is questionable how badly Knight was needed. The TVA already had four in-house lobbyists, as well as plenty of Congressmen from its seven-state service region, fighting for its interests. It also had a Vice President who hardly needed coaxing to support...