lobbying
Corzine puts $s where mouth is - a personal $500k to press tolls plan
Posted Mon, 2008-02-04 12:50New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine has contributed $500k of his personal funds to set up a new group called Save our State NJ intended to campaign for his tollroads monetization plan, local press reported today. The group is being run by Jennifer Godoski, 30, who resigned from a $109k/yr job as chief of staff at NJDOT recently to take on the role of lobbyist and campaigner.
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Penn Pike's lobbying again questioned
Posted Tue, 2008-01-22 21:22
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's lobbying activities are the subject of critical reporting again. An article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (2008-01-22) by Joe Grata reports that last year the Commission spent $396k lobbying in Washington DC and $316k on state lobbying. Lobbying is officially termed government relations. The Commission's director of government relations John Martino is on $132k/yr, Grata reports.
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Private toll road sector forms Washington DC advocacy group - America Moving Forward
Posted Tue, 2008-01-08 06:58
America Moving Forward (AMF) is the name of a group announced today to push the cause of private sector investment in roads - concessions, PPPs, longterm leases, DBFO, whatever moniker is to your taste. Executive director is Peter J Loughlin, 39, an attorney and lobbyist who has worked on the House transportation committee as director of government affairs at the Associated General Contractors and in a senior position at Koch Performance Roads. read more »
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Pennsylvania and the Turnpike big lobbyists on Capitol Hill
Posted Tue, 2007-10-23 12:08
The Washington Post's In The Loop column by Jeffrey Birnbaum has a table showing the Commonwealth (state) of Pennsylvania as the champion lobbyist in Washington among state and local entities. It is #1, spending $505k in the first half of 2007 on lobbying the federal government.
Equal #2 is Puerto Rico and Miami Dade County both $320k.
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Reporters see public authorities as having no legitimate need for marketing or lobbyists
Posted Wed, 2007-09-26 21:21
Channel 13 TV in Houston has been touting an "undercover expose" of the Metro transit system and ads it is running trying to get more riders. The ads of course talk about high gasoline prices and the cor lobbyistsonvenience of Metro's buses. It's an entertaining expose of what seems an expensive bit of marketing, and pretty silly, but an underlying theme of the reporters is that marketing by a government owned business is illegitimate. 714 words read more »
How much money can tolls and private capital provide - ARTBA disinformatzia
Posted Thu, 2007-07-12 19:44
Peter Ruane of the DC road builder lobby ARTBA had a letter in the Wall Street Journal (July 9) belittling the potential contribution of tolls and private capital, and he claimed USDOT endorsement. He chided the Journal editorial writers saying private capital for roads "is not the panacea you proclaim," continuing: "An August 2006 U.S. 1674 words read more »
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EDITORIAL FOR IRF - Roaders of the World Unite, You Have Nothign to Lose but your Deficits
Posted Sat, 1997-05-31 19:00EDITORIAL FOR IRF - Roaders of the World Unite, You Have Nothign to Lose but your Deficits
Originally published in issue 16 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jun 1997.
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Subjects:lobbying trnasit propaganda
Agencies:IRF
Sources:Rooney
EDITORIAL FOR IRF
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