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News Story
5/13/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
The 9th Council District, among the poorest in the city, has become a hot spot for campaign contributions, with special interests spending big in the race to replace termed-out Councilwoman Jan Perry.
L.A.'s 9th City Council District is among the poorest in the city, taking in a stretch of South Los Angeles where the median household income is...
News Story
4/24/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
Attorney General Kamala Harris has a Google issue.
It's not that her reputation is being besmirched online. If anything, she is trending up. If you Google her, you'll see that Time magazine last week named her on its list of the world's most influential people, directly behind NRA chief Wayne LaPierre.
You'll also see that her pal...
News Release
4/24/2013
Posted by John M. Simpson
SANTA MONICA, CA -- Consumer Watchdog today demanded that Google give straight answers about how it handles apps buyers’ personal information when they buy apps from Google Play, a practice that is the target of a formal complaint from the public interest group to the Federal Trade Commission.
Tuesday, WebProNews and DroidLife,...
News Story
4/24/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
The social network increased its lobbying budget to $2.45 million in the first quarter.
Facebook is spending fast and furious to advance a social-network-friendly agenda with U.S. lawmakers.
In its first quarter of this year, Facebook, according to its lobby disclosure form, shelled out $2.45 million on lobbying costs. The figure amounts to a 75...
News Release
4/23/2013
Posted by John M. Simpson
SANTA MONICA, CA – Facebook continued its major effort to win friends in Washington, spending $2.45 million on lobbying efforts during the first quarter, a 277 percent increase from $650,000 a year earlier just filed disclosures show.
For all of 2012 Facebook’s spent $3.99 million on lobbying, according to records filed with...
Blog Post
2/24/2013
Posted by Judy Dugan
The power of the petroleum industry in California may be unparalleled in the states. Its lobbying machine is stupendously successful. For instance, California remains the only significant oil producer that does not tax oil extracted in the state. It has very weak--perhaps the weakest--regulation of oil and gas extraction, particularly...
News Story
2/23/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
State lawmaker Rubio had led a push for business-friendly environmental rules.
SACRAMENTO, CA -- State Sen. Michael J. Rubio, who was leading the Legislature's effort to make California's environmental laws more business-friendly, abruptly resigned from office Friday to accept a government-affairs job with Chevron Corp.
Rubio, a Democrat...
News Story
1/24/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
The social network is spending millions to advance a pro-Facebook agenda in the nation's capital. Cue the cynicism
acebook wined and dined U.S. lawmakers and racked up a tab close to $4 million during 2012, an increase of 196 percent over its courting costs in the previous year.
According to disclosure forms, Facebook spent $1.4 million in the...
News Story
1/23/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
Google's spending on lobbying was up 70 percent in 2012, Facebook's up nearly 200 percent
Google, AT&T and Verizon Communications were among the top corporate spenders on lobbying the U.S. government in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to information released this week by the U.S. House of Representatives.
In some other quarters,...
News Release
1/23/2013
Posted by John M. Simpson
WASHINGTON, DC – Google and Facebook continued to pump record amounts of money into their lobbying efforts during 2012 with Facebook’s spending soaring 318 percent in the fourth quarter, while Google’s was up 70 percent for the year.
“Google and Facebook would have you believe that they are different from other...
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