Thursday, May 31, 2012

Lew McMurran technology lobbyist


                Lew McMurran is the vice president of government internal affairs.  He is a registered lobbyist and advocates for businesses that is a fortune 500 company.  He manages loans including giving and collecting them.  He has worked for King County Council as a lobbyist for the county as a go between to the state legislator.  He has also worked as a public utilities district company at the county level until Sept 2000.  At this time he stated working for working for the Washington software alliance which is now called Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA).  The WTIA has approximately 600 companies as members today.
                Lew works as 501c6 nonprofits with members paying annual dues.  He works for a trade association with unions for companies.  He provides services and products people want to buy.  The WTIA provides business services providing cash flow and other resource outlets, events and programs such as professional development, IT certification and networking programs, and advocacy and lobbying.  As an advocacy and lobbying he acts as a go between for businesses and politicians.  There is no real carrier path to what he does; he simply was in the right place at the right time with the right skill set to fall into the job.
                He works with legislation between two sides as bipartisan.  He represents the technology industry in Olympia helping to shape how this industry should be handled since software development is such a different industry being so unregulated.  He helps to define how taxes should apply since Washington does not have an Income tax like California does.  He has helped connect producers with the IRS to help decide how taxable digital goods such as downloadable software games should be taxed.

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