State and local governments across the country are looking for fat to trim from their budgets. One place many are considering cutting is lobbying the federal government. That particular expense has gone up sharply over the last decade:
The trend is clear: Spending on federal lobbying by municipalities and other nonfederal governments soared from $37.2 million in 1999 to $93.3 million in 2009, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. But that figure dipped slightly in 2010, and this year, it’s seems it will barely crack the $80 million mark.
One lobbying firm that gets a lot of its business from state and local governments would like to get that spending back up. That’s why it is running an ad claiming that “Lobbying is no 4-letter word.”
Correct. “Lobbying” is an 8-letter word.
Inertia Wins! 