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Former Legislators Top List Of Influential Lobbyists

WUNC News | By Frank Stasio
Published August 29, 2014 at 12:30 PM EDT
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Former Legislators Top List Of Influential Lobbyists

  When organizations and companies look to garner support for legislative issues, former lawmakers top the list of lobbyists they choose. A new report by the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research shows former legislators are the most influential voices in the halls of the General Assembly. Host Frank Stasio talks with the study’s author, Paige Worsham, policy analyst for the Center.

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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