{"id":265,"date":"2004-05-24T08:24:44","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T08:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2004-05-24T08:24:44","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T08:24:44","slug":"2003_wisconsin_political_lobbying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"2003 Wisconsin Political Lobbying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/gen\/may04\/231520.asp\">Katherine Skiba summarizes<\/a> state political lobbying spending (<a href=\"http:\/\/ethics.state.wi.us\/LobbyingRegistrationReports\/LobbyingOverview.htm\">data is from the Wisconsin Ethics Board<\/a>).   I was surprised at Wisconsin&#8217;s top spender(s):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weac.org\">WEAC<\/a> &#8211; the Teacher&#8217;s Lobby: <a href=\"http:\/\/ethics.state.wi.us\/scripts\/2003Session\/oel.asp?PrinID=2668&#038;start=WI&#038;start2=E\">$1,083,487<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmc.org\/\">Wisconsin Manufacturers &#038; Commerce<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ethics.state.wi.us\/scripts\/2003Session\/oel.asp?PrinID=2750&#038;start=WI&#038;start2=M\">$639,925<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wibiz.org\/\">Wisconsin Independent Businesses Inc.<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ethics.state.wi.us\/scripts\/2003Session\/oel.asp?PrinID=2616&#038;start=WI&#038;start2=I\">$512,692<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:wmf@supranet.net\" TITLE=\"Email Address: wmf@supranet.net\">Wisconsin Merchants Federation<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ethics.state.wi.us\/scripts\/2003Session\/oel.asp?PrinID=2762&#038;start=WI&#038;start2=M\">$465,314<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wicounties.org\/\">Wisconsin Counties Association<\/a>: $462,814;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wha.org\/\">Wisconsin Hospital Association Inc.<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ethics.state.wi.us\/scripts\/2003Session\/oel.asp?PrinID=2651&#038;start=WI&#038;start2=C\">$424,664<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinenergy.com\/\">Wisconsin Energy Corporation<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ethics.state.wi.us\/scripts\/2003Session\/oel.asp?PrinID=2671&#038;start=WI&#038;start2=E\">$393,438<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcpotawatomi.com\/\">Forest County Potawatomi Community<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ethics.state.wi.us\/scripts\/2003Session\/oel.asp?PrinID=3350&#038;start=F&#038;start2=\">$374,276<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfbf.com\/\">Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ethics.state.wi.us\/scripts\/2003Session\/oel.asp?PrinID=2682&#038;start=WI&#038;start2=F\">$337,025<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aurorahealthcare.org\/\">Aurora Health Care Inc.<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ethics.state.wi.us\/scripts\/2003Session\/oel.asp?PrinID=2595&#038;start=A&#038;start2=\">$315,957<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mge.com\">Madison Gas &#038; Electric<\/a>: (<b>highest utility rates<\/b> in the state!) <a href=\"http:\/\/ethics.state.wi.us\/scripts\/2003Session\/oel.asp?PrinID=2747&#038;start=M&#038;start2=\">$132,553<\/a><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Skiba summarizes state political lobbying spending (data is from the Wisconsin Ethics Board). I was surprised at Wisconsin&#8217;s top spender(s): WEAC &#8211; the Teacher&#8217;s Lobby: $1,083,487 Wisconsin Manufacturers &#038; Commerce: $639,925 Wisconsin Independent Businesses Inc.: $512,692 Wisconsin Merchants Federation: $465,314 Wisconsin Counties Association: $462,814; Wisconsin Hospital Association Inc.: $424,664 Wisconsin Energy Corporation: $393,438 Forest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}