lobbyists

She's campaigning on behalf of lobbyists whose broken business models are being threatened by Uber and their ilk.

Mostly, it's a scam to skim money off the political process and into the pockets of lobbyists and their firms.

Because of this, lobbyists can now see and verify that congressmen are pushing their agenda otherwise the money doesn't flow.

It's no exaggeration to say that lobbyists are in the gallery, within eyesight, giving cues to how congressmen should vote.

There's a sleight of hand in politicians/lobbyists presenting it as benefiting the US as a whole.

Right now, Uber is paying lobbyists and lawyers squirming around the issues with braking taxi laws, labor laws, tax laws etc.

A codification of what the public imagines exists, would never get past those executives' lobbyists.

A mere glance at what lobbyists do serves to dispel that assumption in my mind.

That's the best type of reaction a government could ask for when pushing the agenda of lobbyists and the corporations they represent.

Call me cynical, but I think most of the legislation introduced is driven by lobbyists from the start anyway.

Something a little noisier like a microsite or infographic linking each politician to payments from lobbyists might annoy them and get more attention?

This is why unions have massive legal teams, lobbyists and so forth.

While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a “statistically non-significant impact,” Economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.

I don't think "github" does it; it's lobbyists either within or outside of Github - the SJW's, what used to be called the PC Police - that push agendas like this forward.

Since very few rifles available in the US have select fire (unless you've purchased one with tax stamp or whatever), this means that politicians and lobbyists have fallen back on the "assault weapon" definition, which is really just anything that looks scary and vaguely military.

Stop blaming Google and start blaming your democratically elected government" Just like Google is putting their lobbyists where their interests are in cases where government intervention (or lack of it) is hurting their business (net neutrality, open mobile applications, visas, wireless spectrum, etc), they should also fight against the Patriot Act.

Lobbyists can show up in person, and can get special access to events and meetings that ordinary constituents can't.

Lobbyists usually lobby for something or other--some government regulation to serve as a barrier to entry, some government subsidy of this or tax on that, but usually with some understandable commercial interest involved.