Executive Director
State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
January 21, 1997
To the Honorable the Senate:
At the direction of s.
13.685(7),
Wisconsin Statutes, I am furnishing you with the names of organizations recently registered with the Ethics Board that employ one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules, and notifying you of changes in the Ethics Board's records of licensed lobbyists and their employers. For each recently registered organization I have Inc.luded the organization's description of the general area of legislative or administrative action that it attempts to influence and the name of each licensed lobbyist that the organization has authorized to act on its behalf.
AAA Wisconsin
Subject(s): Automobile transportation and travel-related matters, with attendant environmental quality and safety standards.
Driessen, Anthony
Stetenfeld, Ernest
ACT Medical Record Services, Inc.
Subject(s): Medical record and clerical services, outsourcing of manpower.
Swandby, Janet
Administrators & Supervisors Council, Inc.
Subject(s): Dept. of Public Instruction, Employee Trust Fund Board and others that may have issues related to education.
Gobel, C. A.
Administrators of Special Services, Wisconsin Council for
Subject(s): The WCASS will primarily attempt to influence legislation and administrative rules governing PK-12 education. The WCASS will also attempt to influence legislation and administrative rules involving telecommunications, food and drugs, child welfare, social services, taxation, trust funds, and transportation issues that pertain to PK-12 education.
Lynch, James M
Advertising Publishers Assn., Wisconsin
Subject(s): All areas of state government that affect the advertising industry.
Coenen, Thomas
Swandby, Janet
Advocacy, Wisconsin Coalition for
Subject(s): Health, social services, education, civil rights, placement and transportation issues affecting people with disabilities.
Breedlove, Lynn
Froemming, Roy
Greenley, Dianne
Hlavacek, Tom
Spitzer-Resnick, Jeffrey
ADVOCAP, Inc..
Subject(s): Those pertaining to issues affecting the poor and low-Inc.ome people and programs.
Schlimm, Richard
AFL-CIO, Wisconsin State
Subject(s): All issues that relate to the rights, protections, benefits and economic security of Wisconsin workers and their families.
Neuenfeldt, Phillip
Newby, David
Ricca, Joanne
AFLAC
Subject(s): Any legislation dealing with life and health insurance.
Christianson, Peter
AFSCME Council 11
Subject(s): Anything relating to the status and working conditions of public and non-profit sector employees. AFSCME Council 11 represents employees who are involved in virtually every segment of infrastructure services and acts to protect the employees' interests within these services.
Boyer, Dennis
Grondin, Jennifer
AFSCME District Council 48
Subject(s): Any proposed legislation or administrative rules affecting the State's collective bargaining statutes, welfare reform initiatives and state, county, municipal and school district administration.
Bau, Fred
AFSCME, AFL-CIO, Wisconsin Council 40
Subject(s): All matters relating to state and local government employment relations, state budgetary matters, and the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Lyons, Robert W
Aging Groups Inc. Coalition of Wisconsin
Subject(s): State legislation, budgets and administrative rules affecting the elderly Inc.luding health care, long-term care, housing, transportation, insurance, Medical Assistance and Inc.ome security.
Abramson, Betsy J
Frazier, Thomas L.
Schwersenska, Gail
Agri-Service Assn., Wisconsin
Subject(s): WASA members are impacted by changes in the grain, seed and feed laws and rules. There are also some weights and measures issues that we are concerned about. DNR's interpretation of the Clean Air Act will affect a large majority of our members. In the DOT, all forms of transportation concern our members.
Freitag, John W
Schmitt, Raymond J
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Agribusiness Council, Wisconsin
Subject(s): All legislative and administrative actions affecting agriculture and silviculture in Wisconsin.
Weisensel, Russel
AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, Inc.
Subject(s): ARCW will lobby on any issues relating to the provision and/or availability of AIDS prevention, care, treatment and research services in Wisconsin.
Gifford, Michael
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 998
Subject(s): Mass transit funding; Wisconsin DOT budget; labor issues.
Rudelich, Nicholas
American Family Insurance Group
Subject(s): Insurance legislation and regulation: property/casualty/health/life insurance issues, taxes and employer related issues.
Schwerdtfeger, Owen
Wimmer, Jr, James
Ameritech Mobile Communications
Subject(s): Any matter affecting the company in any way by any state agency or the legislature, particularly in telecommunications.
Broydrick, Cynthia
Broydrick, William
Fitzgerald, Moira
Amusement and Music Operators, Wisconsin
Subject(s): Protection of the coin-operated recreation industry, i.e., video gaming, vending machines, taxation and related.
Driessen, Anthony
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Subject(s): Matters affecting Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.., or any subsidiaries thereof. Business regulation and taxation.
Vaughan, Michael
ANR Pipeline Company
Subject(s): ANR Pipeline Company is interested in issues relating to taxation, regulation and legislative proposals that may potentially affect the activities of the company both positively and/or negatively.
Jaskoski, Peter
McCoshen, Carol L