{"id":625546,"date":"2010-01-08T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100107\/0407247652.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-08T02:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T07:33:00","slug":"new-lobbying-organization-tries-to-skirt-the-rules-so-its-not-called-a-lobbying-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/625546","title":{"rendered":"New Lobbying Organization Tries To Skirt The Rules So It’s Not Called A Lobbying Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"

The term “lobbyist” has certainly become a dirty word in many circles — for a very valid reason in many cases. I’ve noticed that many more people have been trying to make sure they’re not referred to as lobbyists, even if the activity they do is very much lobbying (accepting money from a specific set of companies for the express purpose of pushing a policy agenda that supports what those companies want). Now Copycense<\/a> alerts us to a new operation that has sprung up that apparently is trying to contort itself around the rules so as not to be called lobbyists<\/a>, even though they’re engaged in typical lobbyist behavior. It makes you wonder… who lobbied for the rules on how you define what a lobbyist is?<\/p>\n

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The term “lobbyist” has certainly become a dirty word in many circles — for a very valid reason in many cases. I’ve noticed that many more people have been trying to make sure they’re not referred to as lobbyists, even if the activity they do is very much lobbying (accepting money from a specific set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2CJs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}