Business groups vie for influence
November 11, 2009 by Staff Reporter
Filed under Business
The painter and the local pizza parlor have a new voice in the Legislature. But do they need one?
Former Republican state senator Bob Clegg, a lobbyist for Legislative Solutions, recently founded the Small Business and Small Industry Association.
“It’s designed to have a voice in Concord for all the small businesses that now don’t seem to have anyone to speak for them,” Clegg said.
But business advocates say Clegg’s organization is trying to fill a nonexistent need.
