Tag: lobbyists

Jim RosicaSeptember 8, 2015
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The Florida Association of Professional Lobbyists‘ 11th annual conference kicks off this week in Tampa. This year’s conference runs Wednesday-Friday at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay on Bayport Drive. The rest of the three-day conference includes nearly a dozen topical breakout panels: Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know to Stay Out of Trouble Medical Marijuana: The Impact of the […]

Florence SnyderMarch 8, 2015

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In Casablanca, “Everybody goes to Rick’s” Cafe Americain. In Tallahassee, everybody goes to Andrew’s Capital Grill. Or Andrew goes to everybody, as he did last Monday night, personally attending to the feeding and watering of 1,200 of Associated Industries’ closest friends at its annual eve-of-session cocktail party. Andrew Reiss has been doing this since the […]

James CallMarch 6, 2015
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At the end of the first week of the 2015 Legislative Session, the Capitol City’s newspaper printed an editorial cartoon that compared lobbyists to great white sharks. The cartoon asks which species pose a greater threat to Floridians; paid advocates or Jaws. Psychologists tell us we see what we know and what we know influences […]

Guest AuthorMarch 3, 2015

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There was a report recently that the Democratic Party, which is coming off a huge midterm defeat in the recent congressional elections, is doing some soul-searching. The Democratic National Committee released a preliminary report from its “Democratic Victory Task Force” outlining a number of steps to improve the party’s branding, messaging and outreach. It seems […]


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