Dothan extends $9,000-a-month D.C. lobbying contract
Posted By: minuteman, 9/4/2022 7:39:10 AM
City commissioners in Dothan approved a two-year continuation of a contract with a lobbying firm at their most recent meeting on August 15. According to the resolution passed by a 5-2 vote by the Dothan City Commission, Dothan taxpayers will pay Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP $9,000 per month plus expenses through June 30, 2024. The firm was previously under a one-year contract. Kevin Cowper, Dothan City manager, said at the August 15 commission meeting that “we utilize the firm to help us gain access to Senators, Representatives, and to help us gain access to funding sources to make those connections.”
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City commissioners in Dothan approved a two-year continuation of a contract with a lobbying firm at their most recent meeting on August 15.
According to the resolution passed by a 5-2 vote by the Dothan City Commission, Dothan taxpayers will pay Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP $9,000 per month plus expenses through June 30, 2024. The firm was previously under a one-year contract.
Kevin Cowper, Dothan City manager, said at the August 15 commission meeting that “we utilize the firm to help us gain access to Senators, Representatives, and to help us gain access to funding sources to make those connections.”
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Durant, sensing he would not make the runoff, said on the eve of the primary that he would support Brooks in the expected runoff.
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At a national level there is a unique policy priority that almost every politician, on both sides, will avoid discussing. At a national level a single policy priority determines all other national policy issues. That policy is the national economic policy.
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How do we restore our country when every state and community is beholden to the almighty federal government?