Determine the top companies in New Jersey that specialize in lobbying in Trenton based on your Internet study. Please include the names and addresses of such companies (es). Then, detail their lobbying expenses (including their clients, expenditures and issues about which they were concerned). Include all of your sources in your response. The New Jersey State ELEC website is one resource.
Overview
1. Princeton Public Affairs Group, Inc.
This business, led by Dale Florio, is largely regarded as the top lobbyist in the state, and had a stunning $9.44 million in revenues in 2013, significantly above the second-ranked Public Strategies Impact. Florio is a former Somerset County GOP chairman who worked on Govs. Chris Christie and Christine Todd Whitman’s campaigns.
2. The Influence of Public Strategies
The lobbying company of dual political power brokers Harold Hodes, a prominent Democrat who served as Gov. Brendan Byrne’s chief of staff, and Republican Roger Bodman, who served in Gov. Thomas Kean’s cabinet, generated $6.3 million in client receipts last year. They were also third in terms of lobbying spending (after Princeton and the state’s largest teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association).
3. Gluckshaw, MBI
MBI Gluckshaw is a huge business with several partners that represents both Democrats and Republicans and has four former cabinet ministers and four former parliamentarians on its roster. MBI received $4.38 million in revenue last year and spent $2.24 million on behalf of its clients.
4. Kaufman Zita Group, Inc.
Patrizia “Trish” Zita and Adam Kaufman, who cofounded the firm, both worked for Democrats in the New Jersey assembly or as executives. Zita, the managing partner, previously worked as a lobbyist for the Chemical Industry Council of New Jersey. Clients paid them $2.2 million in 2013. CPV Shore, a renewable energy firm, and the Independent Energy Producers of NJ, a trade organisation, were its two largest clients.
