Overall, lobbying totaled $16.5 million during the first six months of the year, up from the $15.5 million during the same period two years earlier as the COVID-19 pandemic ground activity in the Capitol to a halt by mid-March.īut it’s less than the $17.5 million spent for the same period of the 2017-18 session. Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Inc., a group that advocates for investing in transportation, energy, mining and other infrastructure projects, did not log any hours spent lobbying but put all the money spent into communications. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. He said he could not provide more specific details because WMC’s chief lobbyist was on vacation last week and he would know those details. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide. WMC spokesman Nick Novak told the group generally focuses on issues related to the economy and lately has been focusing on issues related to the state’s workforce shortage and others affecting businesses.
That’s roughly in line with the $742,499 WMC spent during the first 12 months of the session. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce was the top spender over the six-month period, with $348,511 in expenses to lobby the Capitol. 1,045,236 Total Lobbying Expenditures, 2021 802,236 Subtotal for Planned Parenthood 243,000 Subtotal for all subsidiaries Annual Lobbying by Planned Parenthood abcdefhiklmnopqrstuvwxyz Loading chart. The expenditure reports lobbyists file can include a variety of expenses such as communications, overhead, staff time, research time, office space, utilities, supplies, parking and more. Particularly active clients often retain multiple lobbying firms, each with a team of lobbyists, to press their case for them. The rest of the top 10 included: Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin, $242,817 Wisconsin Property Taxpayers Inc., $213,180 Americans for Prosperity, $201,165 the Wisconsin Counties Association, $186,460 and Wisconsin Automobile and Truck Dealers Association Inc., $142,184.
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A new report from Open Secrets, which tracks lobbying and election spending, reports the Planned Parenthood Action Fund already has spent an unprecedented amount of money on political lobbying this year. These efforts will be led by super volunteers called Planned Parenthood Defenders, who organized more than 2,500 events in 2017 and will be spending 2018 organizing on and offline to fight back against federal and state efforts to roll back reproductive rights. The top five for spending were: Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, $348,511 Wisconsin Realtors Association, $324,436 Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Inc., $312,264 the Wisconsin Hospital Association, $304,405 and the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, $304,403. And pro-abortion groups are spending huge amounts of money to make that happen. Business groups representing manufacturing, real estate, construction, health care and farming spent the most money lobbying Wisconsin lawmakers in the first six months of the year.
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