Group questions Sound Transit contributions - Seattle Post Intelligencer

July 8th, 2008
Group questions Sound Transit contributions Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jul 8, 2008 By LARRY LANGE A Seattle think-tank frequently critical of Sound Transit has raised questions about contributions made by the agency to groups that ...

Plan calls for tracking lobbyists - Seattle Times

March 17th, 2008
Plan calls for tracking lobbyists Seattle Times, United States - Mar 17, 2008 "Most of the consulting is done by people not hired to be lobbyists, like the school superintendent, executive director of Sound Transit, staff of Office of ...

Don't keep government lobbying under wraps - Seattle Post Intelligencer

March 16th, 2008
Don't keep government lobbying under wraps Seattle Post Intelligencer - Mar 16, 2008 The ordinance studiously ignores paid lobbying by employees and consultants of the city and of state and local entities such as Metro, Sound Transit, ...

Port of Seattle: The battle for public records continues

March 13th, 2008
[Front paged: NM. Slight title change to indicate this is a Port of Seattle issue] Openness and accountability coming to the Port of Seattle... Yeah right! So, here we go again, On January 28th, 2008 I requested, formally, from the Port of Seattle, expense account records of Ceo, Tay Yoshitani. I received the information the next day via email. Most of the 11 PDF documents they sent me were all the same but had different title numbers. So, I had to ask again and explain to them what they had done wrong and wait for them to send the new ...

Who’s Buying Your City Council Members?

February 26th, 2008
Incredibly, there's currently no way for citizens to know who's being paid to lobby their elected officials. Although county, state, and federal lobbyists are required to register with those jurisdictions, lobbyists that seek to influence city legislation have for decades operated in complete darkness. Tomorrow afternoon at 2:00, the City Council's Culture, Civil Rights, Health and Personnel Committee will take up long-pending legislation that would remedy that oversight, requiring lobbyists to register with the city's ethics and elections commission. The legislation, sponsored by council member Nick Licata, would require paid lobbyists to file quarterly reports saying who they ...