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Where voting is optional, there's a tendency for special interest groups to become overly influential as those who are less engaged decide not to cast a ballot.

Does enraging Lee’s backers — who span influential interest groups — worry Taylor?

These contracting decisions are usually made by local administrators managing budgets under fiscal stress and interest group pressure, including from businesses and public sector unions.

“So does he want to take on that interest group and alienate them? I don’t know.”

Most of the public energy data Catalyst works with — data used by both private companies and public interest groups, by fossil fuel and renewable energy developers — has mostly remained available, Selvans said.