For Wednesday:
- First writing assignment
- Hailey Fuchs, "Drain the Swamp? This Guy's Trying to Fill It," Politico, October 15, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/15/lobbyist-hunter-ivan-adler-516069
Police and Interest Groups
Backing the Badge
- In 1968, 63 percent told Gallup that “courts in this area” did not deal harshly enough with criminals. One year later, that figure was up to 75 percent. In a 1968 CBS poll, 70 percent of whites thought that police should be “tougher than they have been” in handling riots, compared with just 17 percent of African Americans. (azel Erskine, “The Polls: Causes of Crime,” Public Opinion Quarterly 38 (Winter 1974-75): 288-298.
- After Chicago police attacked anti-war protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention, survey respondents sympathized with the police. In a Gallup poll, 56 percent approved of the police and 31 percent did not. In a Harris survey, 66 percent agreed that Mayor Richard J. Daley was right in the way he used police against the demonstrators, while just 20 percent disagreed
POLICE MONEY and the influence of CA police chiefs. (Caveat: never try to reduce political influence to campaign contributions!)
TRUMP FOR POLICE AND POLICE FOR TRUMP
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Lobbyists and Government Affairs Staff of Organizations
- Managing members and employees
- Information and information asymmetry (Holyoke 121)
- The "Iron Law of Oligarchy" in membership groups.
- Data on lobbyists
- An example of a DC/CA firm with Claremont ties
- Bipartisan DC firm (and Claremont connections)
Political operatives and lobbyists continue to take spins through the revolving door between government and the private sector ... And without action from Congress to change lobbying rules, undisclosed lobbying activities are still running rampant, an OpenSecrets analysis indicates.
When an individual engages in advocacy to influence public policy but does not register as a lobbyist, it's typically referred to as "shadow lobbying."
It's common, for example, that a top government affairs employee oversees lobbying activity but never actually registers under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) by exploiting its various loopholes.
This phenomenon extends to former members of Congress who advise lobbying firms but don't register, or heads of trade associations who run multi-million dollar lobbying operations but don't register. This can leave a portion or, in some cases, all of a lobbying operation's details hidden from the public. Also not disclosed in public lobbying filings are the millions of dollars corporations and trade associations spend on public relations and ad campaigns to influence policymakers.
In this report, OpenSecrets looks into several aspects of unreported lobbying and advocacy. Click the links below to navigate the report:
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