One, Jon Porter, a former congressman, got a lobbying job with a prominent law firm.
McDonald's lawyers said they would pursue every legal means to get a fair hearing, lobbying local businessmen and government officials to try to persuade Chief Justice Agustin Calderon to name three impartial judges to the civil chamber to hear the case.
"Everyone told me I had to get a D.J. for the lobby.
Outside the central London hotel where two episodes of Playhouse Presents are about to be shown to the press, there lurks not merely a solid phalanx of paparazzi, but a sizeable group of girls in their early teens, all craning to see if they can get a look into the lobby, where the object of their interest lies: Cara Delevingne.
Mr. Goldstein says his organization has been lobbying to get a measure passed.
Murphy said it was hard, flying down on Air Force One with the trepidatious Sandy Hook families, to explain that they would be lobbying to get a vote on a vote.
I was at Oxford just before Bill Clinton, but while he was lobbying to get a deferment I was undergoing Marine Corps training, utterly convinced I was preparing to be killed.
Hence all the lobbying to get a pipeline built to take surplus ethanol from the Midwest to ports on the East Coast so the subsidised fuel can then be exported to Europe at American taxpayers' expense.
They could, if they wanted, reform political funding and get a regulatory grip on the lobbying that leads to warped laws.
"They don't like change very much" in Indiana, explains John Hurt, a resident of Martinsville, a small town south-west of Indianapolis lobbying to get a proposed interstate highway diverted away from its shuttered main street.In presidential elections, Indiana has also been among the safest of Republican states.
