If you or your organization has ever advocated for legislation to correct or solve a problem, attempted to procure a state permit or grant, or obtain assistance with a regulatory or municipal matter, then you are well-versed in how time-and labor-intensive the process can be -- not to mention costly and frustrating. That's where lobbying firm Gaffney, Bennett and Associates of CT can help with your regulatory or legislative advocacy problems. This CT based government relations lobbying firm helps clients navigate the often confusing corridors of government with political strategies offering a comprehensive range of services. Specifically, Gaffney, Bennett and Associates specializes in:

Legislative Advocacy

• Meeting with high level officials and legislators to advocate for legislation affecting our clients.
• Developing strategies for enacting, implementing, or defeating legislation.
• Lobbying individual legislators.
• Arranging strategy sessions and meetings between clients and key decision-makers, including legislative leadership, committee chairpersons, and the Governor's office.
• Monitoring and reporting on legislation of interest to our clients.
• Providing regular client communications in the form of newsletters, information bulletins, and final reports to keep clients informed of key legislative votes, news and milestones.
• Assisting with grassroots/advocacy efforts and building coalitions to achieve legislative results on behalf of our lobbying clients.
• Assisting with testimony and other arrangements associated with public hearings and legislative committee meetings.
• Monitoring and reporting on various legislative task force and commission meetings, and attending hearings and conferences.
• Creating political strategy sessions to garner bi-partisan support for legislation in CT and D.C.'s representative bodies.

Administrative Lobbying

• Serving as liaison between clients and members of various state agencies, and the executive and judicial branches of state government.
• Developing strategies for enacting, revising, implementing, or defeating regulations.
• Crafting strategies to effectuate local economic development projects by leveraging state and federal financial assistance.
• Representing clients on licensing, permitting, procurement, enforcement, and tax policy issues before state agencies.
• Providing advice and input on declaratory rulings of interest to our clients.
• Representing clients' interests before the Regulations Review Committee.
• Coordinating crisis management and intervention.
• Political strategy sessions to create ways of bring attention to burdens on our clients brought on by local, state, or federal tax laws.

Municipal Advocacy

• Helping craft local and state tax and financial assistance packages that are beneficial to our clients and the target communities.
• Assisting clients with economic development projects by fostering relationships and linkages with municipal leaders and town planning agencies.
• Helping clients with municipal permitting, procurement and enforcement issues.