public-advocacy

WSJ: About how much of your time are you devoting to this public-advocacy role?

'Obama's Aussie' Touts Vision for Dow Chemical, U.S. James R. Hagerty 2011

It's all made worse, for the moment, by the largest and most influential of the public-advocacy groups, PFAW, who continues to dominate the debate on many levels.

Brad Friedman: Democrats and Their Public Advocacy Group Supporters Continue to Fiddle on Election Reform as Democracy Burns 2008

"It's become a senior-fellow program for favored legislators," said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, a public-advocacy group based in Santa Monica.

Targeting the Wasteful, Activists Seek End to California's Waste Board 2008

Howard is, to say the least, a controversial figure to trial lawyers and some public-advocacy groups.

Civil Wars 2007

The Washington-based public-advocacy group Free Press said in comments to the FCC that the merger would "destroy tens of thousands of jobs."

The Seattle Times 2011

"It's become a senior-fellow program for favored legislators," said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, a public-advocacy group based in Santa Monica.

Consumer Watchdog Updates 2009

While Democrats in Congress, and their public-advocacy group supporters such as People for the American Way (PFAW), MoveOn, Common Cause, and VoteTrustUSA, continue to dally around the edges of reform vis-a-vis Rep. Rush Holt's Election Reform Bill (HR811) in the House and a forthcoming companion bill from Dianne Feinstein in the Senate, shamefully, it's the Republican Florida Governor -- of all people -- who is proving to be the true Progressive in the fight for real reform.

Brad Friedman: Democrats and Their Public Advocacy Group Supporters Continue to Fiddle on Election Reform as Democracy Burns 2008

a move that ranks as one of the most ambitious and costly public-advocacy campaigns in U.S. history.

How to Watch Over 2008

“I’m really disturbed by the ineptness, corruption and negligence on the part of government and contractors,” Paige Knight, president of the public-advocacy group Hanford Watch, told The NewStandard.

Firedoglake » Friends in High Places 2006