PR Firms Partner to Sue New York Ethics Panel Over Lobbying Disclosure
Lobbying is NOT PR, people. Not at all.
The line between government lobbying and public relations has been getting regretfully blurry this year.
It all began with a study that came out in mid-January that basically said PR is the new lobbying. Despite that argument driving most of us crazy, it got some attention and started the conversation. Then, word came from New York State in Albany that PR professionals should register as actual lobbyists because of that already fuzzy line.
Now, a gaggle of those executives in PR got together and sued the state of New York over this misguided disclosure ruling:
The suit, filed in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, claims that the panel — the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, known as Jcope — overstepped its mandate in
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