{"id":652530,"date":"2010-02-02T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T02:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70972"},"modified":"2010-02-02T21:26:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T02:26:36","slug":"cbia-gaffney-bennett-top-big-money-lobbying-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/652530","title":{"rendered":"CBIA, Gaffney Bennett Top Big-Money Lobbying List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2010 General Assembly session is ready to open Wednesday, the&nbsp;The Office of State Ethics has issued a new &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ct.gov\/ethics\/lib\/ethics\/publications\/ct_state_of_lobbying_report.pdf\">State of Lobbying&#8221; report <\/a>showing&nbsp;that lobbyists spent nearly $38.6 million in Connecticut during 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Of that sum,&nbsp;with $32.2 million, or 83 percent of it, was invested in&nbsp;trying to influence the legislature, and the other $6.4 million went for&nbsp;lobbying of administrative agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Among businesses and organizations, the Connecticut Business and Industry Association spent the most &#8212; $1.46 million &#8212; on lobbying, followed by Northeast Utilities at $954,645.<\/p>\n<p>On the&nbsp;receiving end of&nbsp;payments for influencing legislation and government decisions,&nbsp;the&nbsp;lobbying firm Gaffney, Bennett &amp; Associates, headed by Jay Malcynsky,&nbsp;was the clear leader at $4.5 million &#8212;&nbsp;followed by Sullivan &amp; LeShane at $2.16 million and Robinson &amp; Cole at $1.96 million.<\/p>\n<p>The report, which includes charts and explanations of lobbying laws, also says that $24,285 was spent by lobbyists for the benefit of public officials.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2010 General Assembly session is ready to open Wednesday, the&nbsp;The Office of State Ethics has issued a new &#8220;State of Lobbying&#8221; report showing&nbsp;that lobbyists spent nearly $38.6 million in Connecticut during 2009. Of that sum,&nbsp;with $32.2 million, or 83 percent of it, was invested in&nbsp;trying to influence the legislature, and the other $6.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2523,"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-652530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JKG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652530","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\/2523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}