Kansas taxpayer-funded lobbying

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Taxpayer-funded lobbying is the practice of engaging in lobbying activities as a public entity. This is done by counties, cities, school districts, public facilities, and many other entities that receive taxpayer money through public funds.

This is controversial because the agenda being lobbied for are not decided by taxpayers, whose money is used for the practice. This means the outcomes of lobbying are sometimes opposed to the constituents' benefit.


[edit] School taxpayer-funded lobbying

[edit] Lobbying in school budgets

Member school districts of the Kansas Association of School Boards were budgeted $275 per pupil (over $5,000 more per 20 member classroom) for 2008. [1]

[edit] Property taxes

Kansas Association of School Boards hired 13 lobbyists throughout the 2007 legislative session, apparently with the purpose of influencing the increase sales taxes during the session. The success of this would meant that the member school districts of KASB would receive more funding if property taxes were increased.[1]

[edit] Public universities

Kansas State University spent $80,000 of taxpayer dollars to hire the lobbying firm Van Scoyoc Associates to promote its legislative agenda in 2003.[1]

The University of Kansas spent $40,000 to pay the same firm in 2005.[1]

[edit] Public transit taxpayer-funded lobbying

The Kansas City Area Transit Authority spent $40,000 for lobbying representation from Patton Boggs, LLP, in 2008. [1]

[edit] Taxpayer-funded lobbying associations

The following is a list of Kansas taxpayer-funded lobbying associations by type:

[edit] City and municipal

[edit] School

[edit] County

[edit] Public officials

[edit] Other

[edit] References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying in Kansas, AFP Blog
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