Mastodawn

@mspro #Lobbyist für den #CDU-nahen #Wirtschaftsrat

#Merz hat eine lange Karriere als Lobbyist und Politiker mit Interessenkonflikten hinter sich: Bis März 2020 war er Lobbyist für den Finanzkonzern BlackRock und bereits als Bundestagsabgeordneter fiel er durch seine vielen Nebeneinkünfte auf
https://www.lobbycontrol.de/lobbyismus-und-klima/friedrich-merz-ein-top-lobbyist-als-parteivorstand-84541/

Friedrich Merz: Ein Top-Lobbyist als Parteivorstand?

Mit Friedrich Merz will erstmals ein Top-Lobbyist CDU-Parteivorsitzender werden. Das ist problematisch, weil Merz' Lobbytätigkeit seine Unabhängigkeit gefährdet. Politiker:innen, die Spitzenämter in der Politik übernehmen wollen, müssen frei von Lobbyverpflichtungen sein und klar auf das Gemeinwohl ausgerichtet sein.

LobbyControl

getmisch May 31

#AOC will co-chair new "End Corruption #Caucus" founded last week.
House Reps Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Mike Levin (D-Calif.), & Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) plan an anti-corruption resolution, more.
1) New rules on becoming a #lobbyist 2) Can't own individual stocks (only funds; I have to do this bc I work at a law firm!) 3) Overhaul #CampaignFinance rules...
None of it will pass anytime soon, but good for them.
#absent #Congress #three #equal #branches of #government
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5899142-house-end-corruption-caucus/

Hans Kastell May 24

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/chelsea-flower-show-hebt-gartenzwergverbot-auf-100.html

#tabakLobby #Lobbyist #gartenzwerg #albig #verzwergung #spd #gartenzwerge #blumenschau #dlf

Chelsea Flower Show hebt Gartenzwergverbot auf

Deutschlandfunk

RaymondPierreL3 May 21

We’ve watched the #LNP shoot itself in the foot, twice in both feet and redoubling its effort to dig its own grave. Now we’re being presented with a #Labor party apparently intent on following suite. #Unions and #LaborHeartland must be seething in frustration approaching outright anger by now.

I’ve been there and I’m not looking back. For me #Labor has lost its way, completely, maybe beyond salvage. The following is just furhter proof of it.

“There’s a tell when a politician has been captured by an industry lobby. The language shifts. The carefully prepared lines about “existing contracts,” “investment certainty,” and “there’s already a tax, actually” start flowing out with the smoothness of a media brief, because that’s exactly what they are. The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on all evidence appears to have been captured. So has Resources Minister Madeleine King.”

#AusPol #Lobbyist #ExtractiveIndustries #FossilFuel #GasGrifters #TaxReform #TaxTheRich #Antifa #AntiOligarchy #JoinYourUnion

Blink twice if you need help, Prime Minister

There's a tell when a politician has been captured by an industry lobby. The language shifts. Well, the Albanese Government is repeating Big Gas talking points word for word. Except Australians aren't buying it.

The Point

Dave Volek May 20

The Self-Lobbyist

So how did citizens lobby their government before the lobby industry?

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=178

The good old days weren't that good.

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#lobby #lobbyist #lobbying

Thomas Köhler May 12

Ist Gerhard #Schröder überhaupt noch ein #Politiker, oder ist der #Putin-Freund ein #Lobbyist? Der Vorstoß von #Putin, ihn zum Vermittler im #Ukraine-Krieg zu machen ist wohl nur ein weiteres Spielchen.

https://www.l-iz.de/politik/europa/2026/05/kommentar-putins-spielchen-jetzt-will-er-gerhard-schroder-verhandlungsfuhrer-europaer-656827

Kommentar: Putins Spielchen – jetzt will er Gerhard Schröder als Verhandlungsführer der Europäer · Leipziger Zeitung

Ist Gerhard Schröder, von den Medien gern als Altkanzler bezeichnet, überhaupt noch ein Politiker? Diese Frage sollte man sich vor der Diskussion um eine

Leipziger Zeitung

Ms. Que Banh Apr 17

For $161.42 CAD - you can dine with former corrupt BC politicians, who are mostly corrupt lobbyists now & get the chance to hear from Bill Pristanski - in Victoria, in late May.
Remember Pristanski? From the big SNC-Lavalin scandal? Let me refresh your memories:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-429-snc-lavalin-s-lobbying-professional-axe-throwing-virtual-real-estate-lorena-bobbitt-and-more-1.5019261/what-the-snc-lavalin-scandal-reveals-about-corporate-influence-on-canadian-democracy-1.5019266

Pristanski is the special guest speaker at this event -> 44th Annual Dinner of the Association of Former MLAs of British Columbia 🤮
Warning: Reading the event description may induce eyerolls and/or nauseous feels.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/44th-annual-dinner-of-the-association-of-former-mlas-of-british-columbia-tickets-1980303499074

#LobbyistsSuck #BCpoli #CDNpoli #Capitalist #Corrupt #Lobbyist #JusticeDodger #SleazyCanadian #SNCLavalin #CrashThisParty #YYJEvents #Grifters

What the SNC-Lavalin scandal reveals about corporate influence on Canadian democracy | CBC Radio

SNC-Lavalin didn't get the deferred prosecution agreement it wanted, but it did manage to change Canada's Criminal Code. Paul Wells says it's time to start watching this kind of lobbying more closely.

CBC