In Tomlinson’s case, Parx’s lobbyists also participated in strategic planning sessions with him, and drafted talking points and other key documents for his office, emails show. They also provide a behind-the-scenes look at the bare-knuckle fight over expanding gambling in Pennsylvania, which has pitted the state’s casinos, among others, against companies that produce skill games.Īt the center of it all: hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and profit. The emails - exposed as part of an ongoing lawsuit - offer a rare glimpse of the reach that lobbyists enjoy in the state Legislature and the close relationships that sometimes develop between lawmakers and special interests.
“Attached is the proposed draft bill,” lawyer and lobbyist Mark Stewart replied within hours, adding that Parx executives were “still in the process of refining it and considering a couple additional concepts.”
