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Earnings and Expenses of Lobbyists Registered with the City - Second Quarter
Summary - April 1, 2009 through June 30, 2009
Jamienne S. Studly, Chairperson
John St. Croix, Executive Director
Individual lobbyist activity reports containing detailed information are available at the Ethics Commission office, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 220, weekdays from 8:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m.
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Second Quarter Summary of Earnings and Activity of Registered Lobbyists............................... 3
Introduction
The Regulation of Lobbyists Ordinance (“Ordinance”), San Francisco Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code Article II, Chapter 1, Sections 2.100 - 2.155, requires
individuals and entities that qualify as lobbyists to register with the City and County of San Francisco and file quarterly activity reports. Forty-three lobbyists filed reports
with the Ethics Commission on July 15, 2009, detailing their lobbyist activity during the second quarter of 2009 (April 1-June 30). The Ethics Commission has compiled
this information in its Second Quarter 2009 Summary of Earnings and Activity of Lobbyists Registered with the City.
Individual lobbyist activity reports are available at the Ethics Commission office at 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 220, on weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Contract lobbyists are individuals or entities that are hired to influence local legislative or administrative action on another’s behalf. Contract lobbyists must register
with the Ethics Commission when they earn $3,200 or more in any consecutive three months in exchange for lobbying services or when they have at least 25 separate
contacts with City officers in any two consecutive months for the purpose of influencing local legislative or administrative action. Clients and employees of contract
lobbyists are not themselves contract lobbyists and are not subject to the registration and reporting requirements of the Lobbyist Ordinance.
Business and organization lobbyists are entities that lobby on their own behalf. Business and organization lobbyists may include for-profit and non-profit
corporations and organizations, associations, and unions. An entity qualifies as a business and organization lobbyist if the entity pays employees or members any amount
to lobby on its behalf AND the employees or members have at least 25 separate contacts with City officers, within a two-month period, for the purpose of influencing
legislative or administrative action. Individual employees and members of business and organization lobbyists do not themselves qualify as lobbyists and are not subject
to the registration and reporting requirements of the Lobbyist Ordinance.
Expenditure lobbyists are entities which spend, directly or indirectly, more than $3,200 within any three consecutive months to influence local legislative or
administrative action. Payments made to contract lobbyists and other paid advocates do not count toward the $3,200 threshold, nor do dues payments, donations, and
other payments to any business and organization lobbyist or expenditure lobbyist.
Each lobbyist must file with the Ethics Commission quarterly reports containing information about payments made or received in order to influence local legislative or
administrative action, actions each lobbyist sought to influence, activity expenses incurred, political contributions of $100 or more made or delivered by the filer or made by
a client at the behest of a filer to a City officer, candidate or committee, City contracts awarded, payments made in exchange for campaign consulting services, and the
names of each City officer employed or retained by the filer or by a client of the filer.
City Officers include: any officer identified in San Francisco Administrative Code 1.50, elected officials, the Controller, the City Administrator, department heads,
members of City boards and commissions, members of the Board of Education, members of the Governing Board of the Community College District, members of the
Housing Authority, members of the Redevelopment Agency, members of the Transportation Authority, and the Superintendent of Schools.
Local legislative or administrative action includes, but is not limited to, the drafting, introduction, consideration, modification, enactment, defeat, approval, veto,
granting or denial by any officer of the City and County of any resolution, motion, appeal, application, petition, nomination, ordinance, amendment, approval, referral,
permit, license or entitlement to use.
Table 4 lists activity expenses reported by filers, the total of which includes salaries paid to employees who also serve as City officers. The table lists the filer, salaries
paid, the date of the activity expense, the name and official title or position of each beneficiary of the expense and a description of the benefit conferred. The table also
includes the total cost of the activity, the portion of the total cost of the activity which represents the value of the benefit conferred on each beneficiary and the name of the
payee of the expense if it is different from that of the beneficiary. The total reported amount of activity expenses during the second quarter was more than $10,000.
$ $ -
Altria Client Services Inc. and its Affiliates $ - $ - - $ 14,579.00
$ $ -
Barbary Coast Consulting $ 151,682.50 $ 151,682.50 - $ -
$ $
Barnes, Mosher, Whitehurst & Partners, Inc. $ 50,000.00 $ 134,000.00 - 7,000.00 $ -
$ $ -
BergDavis Public Affairs $ 70,647.63 $ 70,647.03 - $ -
$ $
Bill Barnes $ - $ 32,000.00 - 500.00 $ -
$ $ -
Bowlby Group - The $ - $ - - $ -
$ $
Burke Rix Hines & Associates, LLC $ 24,000.00 $ 28,000.00 - 500.00 $ -
$ $ -
California Independent Grocers Assoc. $ - $ - - $ -
$ $ -
California Urban Issues Project $ - $ - - $ -
$ $ -
Clear Channel Outdoor $ - $ - - $ -
$ $ -
Coalition for Better Housing $ - $ - - $ -
$ $ -
Comcast $ - $ - - $ 23,588.54
$ $ -
Committee on Jobs $ - $ - - $ 13,200.00
$ $ -
CrisCom Company - The $ - $ - - $ -
$ $ -
Farella Braun and Martel LLP $ 108,520.42 $ 90,175.89 - $ -
$ $ -
Garland Public Relations and Affairs $ 9,000.00 $ 3,000.00 - $ -
$ $ -
GCA Strategies $ - $ 63,768.00 - $ -
$ $
Gladstone & Associates $ - $ 276,587.21 - 1,750.00 $ -
$ $ -
Gregg, Andrew T. $ 350.00 $ 350.00 - $ -
$ $ -
Ground Floor Public Affairs $ 70,500.00 $ 70,500.00 - $ -
$ $
HMS Associates $ 283,500.00 $ 286,500.00 - 1,000.00 $ -
$ $ -
Hotel Council of San Francisco* $ - $ - 10,000.00 $ 1,000.00
$ $ -
Jane Winslow Consulting $ - $ 6,650.00 - $ -
$ $ -
John D. Newman $ 12,500.00 $ 3,923.88 - $ -
$ $ -
Keil & Connolly $ - $ - - $ -
$ $ -
LaPointe & Associates $ 64,500.00 $ 58,500.00 - $ -
$ $ -
Looman, David $ - $ 3,000.00 - $ -
$ $
Loeven and Associates, LLC $ 14,071.00 $ 3,977.40 - 50.00 $ -
$ $ -
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, LLP $ 3,100.00 $ 1,250.00 - $ -
$ $ -
Moscone Public Affairs $ - $ - - $ -
$ $ -
Philip F. Lesser $ 2,850.00 $ 2,400.00 - $ -
$ $
Platinum Advisors $ 331,877.95 $ 274,391.48 - 250.00 $ -
$ $
Reuben & Junius LLP $ 1,290.50 $ 1,290.50 - 750.00 $ -
$ $
SF Apartment Association $ - $ - - 2,000.00 $ 7,500.00
$ $ -
SF Association of Realtors $ - $ - - $ 33,063.40
$ $ -
SF Baseball Associates $ - $ - - $ 6,251.40
$ $ -
SF Chamber of Commerce $ - $ - - $ 6,225.50
$ $
SF Firefightes Local 798 $ - $ - - 1,250.00 $ 291,490.85
$ $ -
Singer Associates, Inc. $ - $ - - $ -
$ $
Solem & Associates $ 17,459.69 $ 26,111.31 - 100.00 $ -
$ $
TOTALS $ 1,215,849.69 $ 1,588,705.20 10,000.00 15,650.00 $ 452,916.69
Reuben & Junius LLP Kamala Harris for Attorney General James A. Reuben $ 250.00
$
Total 15,600.00
Total $ 15,650.00
*Filer incurred more than $10,000 in activity expenses for employee salaries