Tag: lobbyist compensation

Jim RosicaJanuary 15, 2016
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In November a group of legislators reviewing the first-ever audits of lobbying firm income started to wonder why they were doing it. “I don’t understand how the public’s interest is advanced by this exercise,” said state Sen. Rob Bradley, a Fleming Island Republican who sits on the Joint Legislative Auditing Committee. “I just don’t see how this information is relevant” […]

Jim RosicaNovember 2, 2015
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A panel of state lawmakers going over the first-ever audits of lobbying firm income on Monday started bringing up a common question: Why are we doing this? “I may be an outlier … (but) I don’t understand how the public’s interest is advanced by this exercise,” said state Sen. Rob Bradley, a Fleming Island Republican who sits on the Joint […]

Jim RosicaNovember 2, 2015
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A joint panel of the Florida Legislature will go over the first round of lobbying firm audit reports at its meeting Monday morning. The Joint Legislative Auditing Committee plans to meet, starting at 9:30 a.m. The results of the first-ever audits of lobbyists’ compensation forms were released last month. Auditors found a number of firms either under-reporting […]

Peter SchorschAugust 14, 2015
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As Southern Strategy Group grows its empire around the country, it continued to post gaudy lobbying figures in Tallahassee: the firm collected an estimated $3.1 million in consulting fees last quarter, according to a compensation report submitted Friday. SSG took in some $2.3 million from 241 legislative lobbying clients and reported $800,000 in fees from […]

Ryan RayAugust 13, 2015
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Bryant Miller Olive‘s lobbying practice took in an estimated $145,000 between April 1 and June 30, according to recently submitted compensation reports. The firm’s Q2 ledger books are skewed toward executive agency lobbying, a rarity among Tallahassee governmental relations firms. Executive lobbying accounted for $95,000 last quarter, the remaining $50,000 coming from work among Florida […]


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