"The bottom line is, what's there to commemorate?" said Angelo Falcón, a senior policy executive with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.
The dark lord of commercial pop, Simon Cowell, is number three, while BBC Radio 1 music policy executive Nigel Harding is at four.
David Plouffe, the Uber policy executive and former Obama campaign manager, said at an event in Seattle this year that the proposed law was "generally believed to be flatly illegal".
Angelo Falcón, a senior policy executive with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, said the onus was on the Latino leadership to push its agenda.
There are 24 Hispanic elected officials representing New York on the local, state and federal level, according to Angelo Falcón, the senior policy executive for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.
"I could fill this room full of reports," he said, gesturing around his small backroom office at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund Institute for Puerto Rican Policy, where he is senior policy executive.
Change.org, the Web site where Molly Katchpole, 22, started a petition this week opposing the fee, said in a statement that Ms. Katchpole got a call from Andrew Plepler, Bank of America's social responsibility and consumer policy executive.
"It will be the same story with all these countries — Ireland is just ahead of the game," said Desmond Lachman, a former policy executive from the International Monetary Fund who is now with the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.
On his right sits Nigel Harding, Radio 1's music policy executive (three years ago, he was ranked the fourth most influential player in the industry by the Guardian, below Adele's music team, Universal label executives and Simon Cowell).
