The word "lobbyist" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a person who tries to influence policy or legislation on behalf of a special interest group. For example, "The powerful lobbyist was able to sway the opinion of the lawmakers and get the bill passed."
"The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) is under the strong impression that it cannot do the things it wants to do without the big six – it just simply doesn't believe it is possible," one lobbyist said.
One recent example of this would be Martin Ferguson, who after spending six years as the Labor government's resources minister took a job as chairman of APPEA, the peak body for the oil and gas industry (as I've mentioned here before, Abbott advisor and Liberal Party polling guru Mark Textor owns a company that is registered as a lobbyist for APPEA).
One nuclear lobbyist admitted it spread messages "via third-party opinion because the public would be suspicious if we started ramming pro-nuclear messages down their throats".
Another means of restricting access to information is the doctoring of Wikipedia, "a ridiculous organisation," in veteran lobbyist Tim Bell's words.
Rather than being a means to hold the powerful to account and fairly report issues, the media is the ultimate political lobbyist for our elite.
Consider, for example, the emails sent by Jeremy Hunt's aide to the News International lobbyist Frédéric Michel and Cameron's texts to Brooks signed "LOL" (meaning, as he mistakenly supposed, "lots of love").
The energy company trade body, Energy UK, hired high-powered lobbyist and former Conservative minister Angela Knight in 2012 to represent the industry and Knight has done dozens of interviews since the Miliband announcement.
Another lobbyist said that in the longer term the big six energy companies would wage a cold war against the Labour price freeze, rather than continue open hostility.
Merhi claimed that Ficarra told him he might need the services of a lobbyist, Watson said.
It comes just weeks after Exxon dispatched a lobbyist and a planning executive to Rome in an attempt to brief the Vatican on global warming.
He's captured a handshake between two of Kevin Rudd's great supporters, lobbyist and strategist Bruce Hawker and Senator Doug Cameron.
