Each session, WMC is at or near the top for dollars spent lobbying state legislators. Since 1999, WMC has spent $7,120,671 lobbying over 58,079 hours.
Below is a session by session chart of WMC's $7 million in lobbying expenditures to further its pro-corporate agenda.
| Total Expenditures |
Total Hours Communicating |
Total Hours (Other) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 Jan. - June |
$322,927 | 567 | 2,203 |
| 2008 July - Dec. |
$203,802 | 221 | 1,974 |
| 2008 Jan. - June |
$319,614 | 526 | 2,386 |
| 2007 July - Dec. |
$757,493 | 557 | 2,129 |
| 2007 Jan. - June |
$366,674 | 605 | 2,847 |
| 2006 July - Dec. |
$175,751 | 280 | 1,858 |
| 2006 Jan. - June |
$412,184 | 757 | 2,590 |
| 2005 July - Dec. |
$450,796 | 493 | 2,641 |
| 2005 Jan. - June |
$545,408 | 801 | 3,060 |
| 2004 July - Dec. |
$219,455 | 270 | 2,062 |
| 2004 Jan. - June |
$388,429 | 619 | 2,613 |
| 2003 July - Dec. |
$337,391 | 702 | 2,361 |
| 2003 Jan. - June |
$302,535 | 476 | 2,425 |
| 2002 July - Dec. |
$183,898 | 1,785 | |
| 2002 Jan. - June |
$212,104 | 2,405 | |
| 2001 July - Dec. |
$283,540 | 2,704 | |
| 2001 Jan. - June |
$423,675 | 3,402 | |
| 2000 July - Dec. |
$146,928 | 1,991 | |
| 2000 Jan. - June |
$293,722 | 2,758 | |
| 1999 July - Dec. |
$216,169 | 2,101 | |
| 1999 Jan. - June |
$558,176 | 2,910 | |
| TOTALS: | $7,120,671 | 6,874 | 51,205 |
