Posts Tagged: John Latimer
Third House
Special interest groups, or “lobbyist employers” as they’re known in the parlance of the California Secretary of State’s office, paid lobbying firms more than $84 million to lobby members of California’s state government in the third quarter of 2024, the most of any quarter thus far during the 2023-24 legislative cycle, according to a Capitol Weekly analysis of lobbying firm reports.
Analysis
Capitol Weekly’s analysis found that nearly a third of the money spent on lobbying in the first quarter went to just 14 lobbying firms – the only firms to report receiving more than $1 million each in lobbying payments over the first three months of 2023.
Podcast
Capitol Advocacy, a prominent Sacramento lobbying firm, celebrates 20 years in the business this month. Founder John Latimer sat down to chat with Capitol Weekly’s John Howard and Tim Foster about the nuts and bolts of the of lobbying, the impact — or not — of term limits and what’s changed since he launched the firm two decades ago.
News
26. John Latimer
There’s a strong argument to be made that John Latimer is the top lobbyist in California. For one, he leads the most lucrative lobbying firm in all of Sacramento, Capitol Advocacy, which boasts more than 80 clients – including such household names as Amazon, DoorDash, MetLife, PG&E, Pepsi and T-Mobile – that
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