Add It Up: State lawmakers showered with summer lobbyist love
August 23, 2009 at 12:50 pm by Thomas Wheatley in Add it upTotal amount lobbyists spent wining, dining and wooing state lawmakers in May, June and July: $193,000
Number of days General Assembly was in session during those months: 0
Amount lobbyists for Georgia Power, and the natural gas and beverage industries spent on House Republicans’ annual retreat: $26,000
Number of lawmakers who went on a lobbyist-paid trip in July to visit Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena, Calif.: 4
Amount lobbyists spent to charter boats for lawmakers during a coastal conference in June: $528
Amount the Georgia Food Industry Association spent packing a state senator’s “hospitality suite”: $545
Amount lobbyists spent on one night of “entertainment” for the House Republican Women’s Caucus: $935
Amount Sierra Club lobbyists spent on lawmakers during the entire year: $0
Number of water-conservation bills that lawmakers approved this session: 0
Sources: Atlanta Unfiltered, State Ethics Commission, AJC
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