$1,000 Per Hour Lobbying Roams Wisconsin Capitol

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$1,000 Per Hour Lobbying Roams Wisconsin Capitol

August 27, 2015

Expensive lobbyists are roaming the halls of the Wisconsin Capitol. Some 47 organizations spent at least $1,000 an hour lobbying legislators in Madison in the first six months of this year, based on data supplied by the Government Accountability Board in its six-month lobbying expenditure report and analyzed by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.

While the average rate for lobbying by the 718 organizations that registered with the state came to $150 an hour, the following organizations spent $1,000 an hour and up on lobbying (see table below).

The number one group, Wisconsin Infrastructure and Investment Now, says on its website that its mission is “to educate the public, elected officials and regulators on the societal and economic benefits of the responsible investment in, and expansion of, transportation facilities, renewable and traditional energy projects, mining and other infrastructure projects and to promote governmental policies that support such infrastructure investment and expansion.” It supported maintaining the prevailing wage law, which was one of the most heavily lobbied bills in the last session.

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