Groups spent $9M lobbying Kentucky executive branch officials in past fiscal year

Government contractors, health-related groups and the medical marijuana industry were among hundreds of organizations that spent $9.1 million lobbying Kentucky’s executive branch agencies on policy in the fiscal year ending this summer.

More than 600 businesses and organizations combined to spend $9.1 million on lobbyists attempting to persuade executive branch officials in Kentucky in the previous fiscal year, according to reports filed with the Executive Branch Ethics Commission.

This spending total on lobbyists in the period from July 1 last year to June 30 this past summer is just shy of the record set in the previous fiscal year.

Read the article from Kentucky Public Radio | By Joe Sonka