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California Senate Plans to Suspend the Constitution to Hear Bills Before 30-Day Rule

February 19, 2021 2:15 amFebruary 21, 2021 1:04 pm

The California Legislature appears to dislike transparency… as well as the public being able to lobby the body directly. Senate Pro Tem President Toni Atkins and Senate leadership is preparing to suspend the Constitution (specifically Article IV, Section 8 (a))...

California State Capitol – the People’s House – Also Under Lockdown

January 15, 2021 5:15 pmJanuary 15, 2021 5:35 pm

The gallery in the California State Senate was closed to the public Friday disallowing the usual public review. The gallery is the seating area above the Senate chambers where visitors can sit and observe the Senate debate and vote on...

How to Realign California Politics

September 25, 2020 2:07 amSeptember 25, 2020 5:20 pm

The working class, which still constitutes a supermajority of California’s voters, is being destroyed by the policies enacted by the Democratic party. This is why political realignment in California can happen fast. In three fundamental areas, public education, land use, and...

A Practitioner's Guide to Lobbying and Advocacy in California by and Ray LeBov

First-of-Its-Kind ‘Practitioners Guide to Lobbying and Advocacy in California’

January 30, 2020 12:17 pm

The first-of-Its-kind ‘Practitioners Guide to Lobbying and Advocacy in California,’ written and edited by well-known California lobbyists, political practitioners and contributors to California Globe Chris Micheli and Ray LeBov, will be published this week. More than four dozen California lobbyists,...

Teaching People to Lobby

December 22, 2019 9:45 amDecember 22, 2019 9:49 am

By Ray LeBov and Chris Micheli There are individuals intrigued by a career in legislative and regulatory advocacy, often called lobbying. In an effort to address people’s interest in learning about a lobbying career, they can take two half-day courses...

The Business of Lobbying

August 2, 2019 9:25 amAugust 2, 2019 11:51 am

Like other professions, particularly in the service sector, the field of lobbying is a business. Lobbying is a professional services business and state law requires transparency in the activities of those in the lobbying business (i.e., public disclosure of information)....

Everything You Thought You Knew About the Lobbying Profession is Probably Wrong

March 25, 2019 8:27 amApril 11, 2019 12:32 pm

Lobbying is basically advocating on behalf of a client or a cause for payment or on a volunteer basis in order to influence official action by either legislative or executive branch officials. Individuals or groups of individuals lobby elected and...