EAO 467

The lobby law does not prohibit a corporation from making the expenditures for a lobbyist’s own transportation, lobbyist lodging, and food and beverages to attend a political fundraiser. If the expenditures were not made with the intent that they be used in connection with a campaign for an elective office or made with the intent to assist an elective officeholder, they are not regulated by title 15 of the Election Code. A corporation may not pay a lobbyist’s entry fee to the golf tournament. The fact that the corporate employee while on corporate time makes the expenditures instead of the corporation making the expenditures does not change the result to the questions discussed above.