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CORNERSTONE ADDS TOP WARNOCK AIDE:Lawrence Bell is leaving the Hill, the place he was one in every of Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D-Ga.) prime aides, to hitch Cornerstone Authorities Affairs. Bell has labored for Warnock for the reason that senator’s first runoff marketing campaign in 2020, serving as Warnock’s chief of employees on the marketing campaign earlier than becoming a member of his Senate workplace as deputy chief of employees, senior adviser and state director.
— Previous to working for Warnock, Bell was a director of state and group affairs within the Atlanta workplace of the lobbying agency Troutman Pepper Methods and earlier than that, Bell labored for former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.
— Cornerstone goals to leverage Bell’s ties in each Washington and Georgia, the place GOP Gov. Brian Kemp has moved aggressively to court investments in the electric vehicle and renewable energy supply chain made doable partly by Democrats’ party-line local weather and spending invoice handed final summer season. The agency has a number of current shoppers primarily based within the Peach State as effectively, together with municipal governments, an effort to designate a brand new nationwide park within the state and a commerce group representing egg producers.
— Bell is just the second former staffer for Warnock — who helped push Democrats over the edge for a real majority within the Senate — to land on Okay Road. Pierre Whatley, who was the employees director for Warnock on the Senate Banking subcommittee he chaired, now works at FS Vector, the place he lobbies for shoppers just like the crypto change Binance.US.
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HARRIS LAWYER JOINS JENNER & BLOCK: One other aide to Vice President Kamala Harris is becoming a member of the rising ranks of her former staffers downtown. Josh Hsu, a former counsel to Harris, will be a part of the legislation and lobbying agency Jenner & Block in March. He’ll be a companion within the agency’s authorities controversies and public coverage litigation observe, so he received’t be registering to foyer.
— Hsu has labored for Harris since her early days within the Senate, and moved over to her presidential marketing campaign earlier than being tapped to spearhead judicial nominations for the Biden transition workforce. At Jenner & Block, Hsu will advise shoppers dealing with scrutiny from the federal government in addition to the press, as each chambers of Congress put together to ramp up new oversight agendas.
— In latest months Jenner & Block has additionally lured Emily Loeb again to the agency to co-chair the federal government controversies observe after serving as affiliate deputy legal professional common within the Biden administration, and introduced on two attorneys who labored for the since-disbanded Home Jan. 6 Committee.
NEXT UP FOR THE ANTI-ABORTION MOVEMENT: “Susan B. Anthony Professional-Life America, one of many nation’s main anti-abortion teams, is crafting the strategy it plans to deploy this year as state and federal lawmakers proceed to grapple with the autumn of Roe v. Wade,” POLITICO’s Alice Miranda Ollstein experiences.
— “On a name with reporters on Wednesday, the group’s leaders mentioned they’ll goal 4 states this yr the place they see ‘alternatives’ to move abortion restrictions — Florida, Nebraska, North Carolina and Virginia — proceed to press Congress to take votes on anti-abortion insurance policies even when they received’t change into legislation, and prod potential 2024 candidates to explicitly endorse federal anti-abortion legal guidelines.”
— “‘That is week one of many very starting of a brand new life for our motion,’ president Marjorie Dannenfelser mentioned. … The overturning of Roe gave states a inexperienced mild to enact restrictions on abortion early in being pregnant for the primary time in half a century, and SBA mentioned it’s making a ‘vastly expanded state operation’ to foyer for these insurance policies.”
— “Whereas the majority of their energies can be directed at state capitals, SBA leaders additionally mentioned the group will hold pushing the brand new GOP Home majority to take votes on anti-abortion payments — although they’re conscious the payments don’t have any likelihood of changing into legislation.” SBA and teams prefer it are additionally waiting for the 2024 presidential election “and dealing to make sure that a vocally anti-abortion candidate wins the GOP nomination.”
DESANTIS BACKERS TEE UP $3M AD BUY: The group aiming to draft Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis into the 2024 Republican presidential major plans to spend more than $3 million over the next six months to spice up DeSantis’ profile and nudge him into the race, James Politi, Lauren Fedor and Caitlin Gilbert report for Monetary Occasions.
— Prepared for Ron, a hybrid PAC that has feuded with the FEC over a plan to share its e mail lists with an eventual DeSantis presidential marketing campaign, shared plans with the company this morning to drop $2.3 million on TV advertisements by the top of June — a price of $100,000 per week. One other $1 million will go towards “cellphone, mail and digital promotion of a DeSantis candidacy,” per FT.
— “Dan Backer, a lawyer and counsel to Prepared for Ron, mentioned the aim of the advert spending was to create ‘the spine of an actual floor sport’ for DeSantis and ‘persuade DeSantis that he has the grassroots assist to run and win in a common election.’ He added that Prepared for Ron needed to ‘usher in a complete host of people that aren’t half of the present universe,’ together with those that usually are not a part of Trump’s base of conservative voters, which has dominated Republican campaigns in recent times.”
BROIDY ASSOCIATE GETS 2 YEARS: A Hawaii businessperson and advisor was sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday for her function in an unlawful lobbying effort geared toward persuading the Trump administration to drop a probe into the alleged looting of an enormous Malaysian funding fund, 1MDB, by a Malaysian businessman and to coordinate the return of a Chinese language dissident dwelling within the U.S.
— The sentencing capped off a yearslong authorized saga for Nickie Lum Davis, who pleaded responsible in 2020 to aiding and abetting FARA violations by failing to publicly disclose the scheme, which also involved former RNC fundraiser Elliott Broidy and Fugees rapper Pras Michel.
— As a part of her responsible plea, Davis agreed to cooperate with the federal government and function a witness of their instances towards Broidy and Michel. Broidy later obtained a full pardon from former President Donald Trump, one thing Davis lobbied for unsuccessfully, and Michel has but to go on trial.
— Extra just lately, Davis sought to have the case tossed after which to withdraw her responsible plea whereas accusing her former lawyer of acting unethically while negotiating her plea deal to be able to curry favor with a prosecutor on the case who she additionally sought to have eliminated. U.S. District Choose Leslie Kobayashi denied these motions, which the previous legal professional, Abbe Lowell, and DOJ lawyer John Keller contended weren’t primarily based in actual fact.
— “In change for tens of millions of {dollars}, Davis and others tried to make use of again channels to affect officers on the highest ranges of the U.S. authorities and promote connections to the ‘highest international bidder,’” DOJ’s Keller mentioned on the sentencing in Hawaii, The Related Press’ Jennifer Sinco Kelleher reported. The federal government had requested for a 2.5-year sentence for Davis, and Kobayashi famous that Davis hadn’t proven regret for her involvement within the scheme.
EXECS HUDDLE WITH GOVERNORS: Members of the Enterprise Roundtable and the Nationwide Governors Affiliation gathered a dozen CEOs and a bipartisan group of governors to debate workforce strains at present. United Airways CEO Scott Kirby, who chairs the Roundtable’s schooling and workforce committee, led the dialogue together with NGA Chair and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy.
— Different individuals included Democratic Govs. Roy Cooper of North Carolina and Jared Polis of Colorado and GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma along with chief executives representing the retail, hospitality, tech, insurance coverage, building, manufacturing and transportation industries.
— “The private and non-private sectors every have a task to play in creating workforce growth options, however to make the most important influence at scale, we’ve additionally started working collectively,” Kirby mentioned in a press release. “Doing so, we are able to proceed advancing insurance policies and initiatives to make sure America is house to probably the most expert workforce on this planet.”
HOUSING INDUSTRY MOBILIZES AGAINST NEW TENANT RULES: “The White Home is getting ready to roll out new measures as quickly as this month to guard tenants within the wake of post-pandemic worth spikes,” POLITICO’s Katy O’Donnell experiences, and “the housing trade, already dealing with a declining market, has mounted a preemptive counter-push.”
— “The trade is bracing for ‘some fairly intense regulation,’ mentioned Jerry Howard, CEO of the Nationwide Affiliation of Dwelling Builders, whose members embrace landlords. ‘They have to be very cautious about what they’re doing,’ mentioned Howard, who was one in every of a handful of trade representatives at a November White Home assembly on tenant protections. ‘There’s an actual likelihood of making an issue that doesn’t exist.’”
— “With a doable recession looming, the Biden administration can be on the lookout for methods to supply reduction to cash-strapped People affected by the next value of dwelling. Because the U.S. Home is now beneath Republican management, the sort of sweeping financial laws enacted over the past two years is off the desk.”
— “Whereas hire continues to be driving up total inflation — thanks partly to an information lag within the official inflation gauge — the nationwide median hire has fallen for 4 straight months, according to the latest data from Apartment List.”
— “‘Complicating this course of isn’t good at any time available in the market cycle,’ mentioned Greg Brown, senior vice chairman of presidency affairs on the Nationwide House Affiliation,” which together with 10 different commerce teams urged the White Home final month to withstand strain for brand spanking new laws. “‘However we’re within the fourth straight month of hire declines. I feel issues are adjusting once more, so it does increase the query, are they responding to a state of affairs of three to 4 months in the past, not what’s presently occurring or can be occurring within the close to future?’”
CORRECTION: Wednesday’s version of Affect of this text misstated Michael Kennedy‘s incoming place at Intuit. He can be chief company affairs officer.
SPOTTED at a reception final evening celebrating the hires of senior Latino staffers on the Hill, per a PI tipster: Noel Perez of GM, Jorge Aguilar of theGROUP DC, Jessica Vallejo of Microsoft, Jose Borjon of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Dean Aguillen of Ogilvy, Marcela Zamora of Verizon and Carlos Sanchez of Sen. Ben Ray Luján’s (D-N.M.) workplace, and new hires Jessica Martínez of the Joint Financial Committee, Jacky Usyk of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Jason Rodriguez of Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s (D-Texas) workplace, Claudia Urrabazo of Rep. Rob Menendez’s (D-N.J.) workplace, Stephanie Palencia of Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries’ workplace, and Wendy Hamilton of Home Minority Whip Katherine Clark’s (D-Mass.) workplace.
— Fabiola Rodriguez has joined Mercury Public Affairs as a vice chairman within the D.C. workplace. She was most just lately spokesperson and press secretary to Training Secretary Miguel Cardona.
— Patrick Mahan has joined Rising Tide Associates as director of public affairs. He most just lately served as army legislative assistant to Rep. Nicole Malliotakis(R-N.Y.).
— Amanda Gravely and Jake Sticka are actually companions at Rising Tide Interactive. Gravely was beforehand vice chairman and inventive director and Stick was beforehand vice chairman for consumer technique.
— Maddie Barbee has joined the Nationwide Multifamily Housing Council as PAC director and Dinia Abduljelil has joined as authorities affairs affiliate. Barbee was most just lately a senior finance affiliate at Angerholzer Broz Consulting and is an SKDK alum and Abduljelil was most just lately a analysis assistant on the Eurasia Middle.
— The consulting agency HillStaffer will take over because the legislative and coverage workforce for the NAFA Fleet Administration Affiliation following the retirement of longtime NAFA legislative counsel Pat O’Connor.
— Chuck LeVinus has been promoted to senior vice chairman at Ervin Graves Technique Group. He was beforehand vice chairman on the agency.
— BSA | The Software program Alliance has promoted Beverly Chang to assistant common counsel, Kate Goodloe to managing director, Anne Riser to division coordinator for coverage and public affairs and Tomoko Naoe to director of coverage on the worldwide coverage workforce.
— Pamela Arluk has joined NCTA – The Web & Tv Affiliation as vice chairman and affiliate common counsel. She was most just lately chief of the Competitors Coverage Division at FCC.
— Glen Kedzie has launched Power & Environmental Methods LLC, a consulting agency, the place he can be a principal. He was beforehand vice chairman and power and environmental counsel with the American Trucking Associations for greater than twenty years.
— Theresa Fariello has been named to the board of administrators at Power Vault. She’s senior vice chairman of presidency affairs and world public coverage at United Airways.
— Scott Cullinane is now a senior authorities relations adviser at American-Ukrainian nonprofit Razom. He most just lately was deputy workforce chief for B&S Europe, the place he labored on a contract for the EU Delegation in Washington.
— Audrey Jackson has been promoted to be senior supervisor for presidency affairs at Carvana. She most just lately was supervisor for presidency affairs on the firm.
— SKDK is naming government vice chairman Elizabeth Kenigsberg the brand new head of its cybersecurity and know-how observe.
— Naomi Seligman is becoming a member of Whistleblower Support as their first vice chairman of exterior affairs. She helped launch Media Issues for America and Residents for Accountability and Ethics in Washington, and extra just lately accused a former Eric Garcetti aide of sexual misconduct.
— Abbie McDonough is now a senior managing director on the Levinson Group. She most just lately was communications director for former D.C. Lawyer Common Karl Racine, and is a Heidi Heitkamp, Jay Rockefeller and Paul Kanjorski alum.
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