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Daily Digest for Monday, June 1

Welcome to Foreign Lobby Report’s end-of-the-day roundup, where you’ll find all our latest stories plus links to related Washington news. TOP STORIES Quebec power company hires advertising muscle to help sway Maine voters on transmission line A Canadian public utility has hired an advertising firm to help convince Maine residents[Read More…]

Anti-Islam group restarts lobbying activities

The controversial nonprofit organization headed by anti-Islam firebrand Brigitte Gabriel renewed its lobbying operations today following a months-long hiatus. Gregory Allen, who is listed as ACT! for America‘s chief operating officer on the organization’s 2018 tax filing, is notably expected to lobby on anti-terrorism legislation, support for Israel, immigration restrictions[Read More…]

Quebec power company hires advertising muscle to help sway Maine voters on transmission line

A Canadian public utility has hired an advertising firm to help convince Maine residents to approve a cross-border transmission line largely opposed by the rural state’s powerful environmental lobby. H.Q. Energy Services (U.S.), a subsidiary of Montreal-based Hydro-Quebec, retained Yarmouth-based Blaze Partners in December to “provide strategic advice, digital media[Read More…]

Zionist group invokes Trump EO to challenge pro-Palestinian group’s tax exempt status

A New York-based pro-Israel group has latched onto President Donald Trump’s December anti-Semitism order in the first known legal maneuver invoking the recent executive edict to challenge a pro-Palestinian organization’s tax-exempt status. Lawyer David Abrams, the executive director of the Zionist Advocacy Center, laid out his case in a May[Read More…]

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