noun as in special interest representative
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The Maryland Fraternal Order of Police has mounted a telephone and email campaign to oppose repealing the bill of rights and, with its local lodges, has hired top lobbyists Frank Boston, Gerard Evans and John Stierhoff to assist.
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Bill Castelli, a lobbyist for Maryland Realtors, said he’s not against information to help property owners understand flood risks, but he is skeptical about where it comes from.
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He also represented Paula Parkinson, an insurance lobbyist who claimed to have had affairs with members of Congress, amid a Justice Department inquiry in the early 1980s examining whether her alleged paramours had exchanged votes for sexual favors.
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So across the country, lobbyists for hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and medical practices were working the virtual corridors of power in the first weeks of the pandemic.
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A lot of lawyers and lobbyists will earn their retirements from this one.
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Lobbyist Lloyd Hand, a former aide to Lyndon Johnson, flitted from conversation to conversation.
Eric told me about a case with which a fellow lobbyist had to cope.
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But first I went to Washington to talk to a lobbyist friend.
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The term “lobbyist” supposedly was coined during the well-corrupted (and well-soaked) presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.
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I moved to Washington in 1988 with the folk etymology of lobbyist firmly in mind.
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I have been in the Legislature as a labor lobbyist for some years and I have had a little experience in such matters.
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The fact was that he was a neophyte and, it was true, did not possess the qualities which make a successful lobbyist.
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The successful lobbyist demands and receives for his services larger pay than the salary of congressmen.
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George W. Ball was, for several years, a registered lobbyist in Washington, representing foreign commercial interests.
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If that is your idea, I give you fair warning that I will oppose your claims with all the arts of the lobbyist.
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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lobbyist, such as: activist, powerbroker, influence peddler, mover and shaker, person of influence, and pressure group.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
