{Frankfort, Kentucky}...According to reports filed with the state Legislative Ethics Commission, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association spent $457,053 on lobbying activities in the first three months of this year's legislative session lobbying Kentucky legislators in its fight to defeat a proposal aimed at reducing the number of methamphetamine labs by requiring a prescription for some cold medicines. The group's lobbying effort was so dominant that it spent more than the next five groups combined from January through March, the most money that any group has ever spent on lobbying in a legislative session. The group, which represents over-the-counter drug makers, advertised in the state's largest newspapers through the first three months of the session, and in other media, but it doesn't have to disclose that spending to the ethics commission.
