Subject: POLITICO Influence: HRC's Ma to Nexxus — Mackinnon, Vasapoli and Mortier add Gale — Let the party spotting begin
From: POLITICO Influence <[email-masked]>
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 12:15:02 -0600

By Isaac Arnsdorf | 04/29/2016 02:05 PM EDT

With help from Cogan Schneier, Brianna Gurciullo and maybe Daniel Lippman

JOBS REPORT:

- Bob Holmes' Nexxus Consulting hired Ana M. Ma as its newest partner. Ma was chief operating officer and chief of staff to Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin and chief of staff at the Department of Labor, the U.S. Small Business Administration and Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.).

- Jody Gale, the Republican operative who most recently worked at United Technologies Corporation, joined Jeff Mackinnon, Joe Vasapoli and Jeff Mortier's new firm, Farragut Partners. 

- Phone2Action, a grassroots and digital advocacy platform, hired Mafara Hobson, former associate administrator for communications at the General Services Administration, and former communications director for D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty. Hobson launched a PR consulting firm in January called BRAVEBIRD.

- The National Milk Producers Federation promoted Emily Meredith to chief of staff and hired Emily Yeiser Stepp and Beverly Hampton to the Farmers Assuring Responsible Management animal care program.

- Adam Fetcher is leaving Patagonia, where he was director of global PR & communications, to move back to Minneapolis.

IT'S FRIDAY, FRIDAY ... Partying, partying YEAH! Send WHCD weekend highlights (and other tips) to [email-masked].

FINANCIERS: Rep. Scott Garrett's (R-N.J.) anti-gay positions have cost him corporate donors and now his fundraising consultant. William Oorbeek dropped Garrett as a client late last year, sources told POLITICO's Zachary Warmbrodt and Anna Palmer. Garrett is fighting the race of his career against a well-funded Democrat. Garrett has since hired Hammond & Associates, which also works with Freedom Caucus members Jim Jordan and Scott DesJarlais. Read more in the latest Financial Services Influence.

THEY'RE FEELING LUCKY: Google confirmed to POLITICO yesterday it will be taking an official role in this summer's Republican convention, reports Pro Technology's Tony Romm. The tech giant - facing harsh criticism from advocates denouncing GOP front-runner Donald Trump's controversial comments on minorities, immigrants and women - will run the official livestream at the Cleveland event, providing attendees and viewers with election trends, videos, virtual reality tools and other data. Google offered similar services at both parties' conventions in 2012, as well as at presidential debates earlier this year. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2ef0ca45ffc2c893fad104907d61a619e83236142efdfe80f755df4f7c9e294a

SOCIAL ISSUES:

- Spotted at the Internet Association Gala: President and CEO Michael Beckerman; Chairman of the Board and Amazon Vice President of Public Policy Brian Huseman; eBay CEO Devin Wenig; Amazon SVP and former White House press secretary Jay Carney; Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Google Kent Walker; Vice President of Public Policy and Government Relations at Google & former Rep. Susan Molinari; Erin Egan, Facebook VP & chief privacy officer, policy; Pandora General Counsel Steve Ben&eacute;; TripAdvisor General Counsel Seth Kalvert; Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi; House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.); Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.); Sen. Mark Warner
 (D-Va.); Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) , Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Blake Farenthold (R-Texas), Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) and Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.); former Sen. Chris Dodd (MPAA); John Harwood (CNBC); Tony Fratto and Matt McDonald (Hamilton Place Strategies) S.E. Cupp (CNN) Rick Klein (ABC); representatives of Amazon, AOL/Verizon, Covington & Burling, CTA, CTIA, Dropbox, eBay, Etsy, Expedia, Facebook, Fenwick & West, Franklin Square Group, Google, Hamilton Place Strategies, INCOMPAS, LinkedIn, Lyft, Netflix, NMPA, Pandora, Salesforce, Snapchat, TripAdvisor, Twitter, Venable, Yahoo, Yelp and Zenefits.

- Spotted at the Florida State Society's Stone Crab Stomp at Hill Center: Rep. John Mica eating stone crabs flown in from Joe's in Miami; Megan Perez, House Republican Conference; Caroline Campbell, GYMR Public Relations; Justin Roth and Pace McMullan, Rep. Martha McSally; Brynn Barnett, Hill Point Strategies; Kelly Porter, Department of Defense; Amie Woeber, PayPal; Sean Taylor and Tracy Nagelbush, Van Ness Feldman; and Tiffany Angulo, Rep. Jim Jordan. 

- Ed Pagano, "pride of the UVM Catamounts and starting power forward" for Akin Gump, celebrated his birthday on Thursday night with 70 friends at his Northwest home and a fundraiser for his former boss, Sen. Patrick Leahy. The senator and Marcelle Leahy helped Ed, Jenny and Jack cut his carrot cake birthday cake and pass out the homemade Leahy for VT cookies, baked by a local Deal Middle School student. Other co-hosts include longtime Leahy supporters and alumni: Luke Albee, Katreice Banks, Ed Barron, Aaron Cooper, Jon Haber, Bob Jones, Brady King, Curtis LeGeyt, Buddy Menn, Tristan North, Rich Phillips, Brian Pomper, Ca Va Tran and Tracey Schmaler. 

- Scarlette Whyte, April Ryan and Melinda Cooke hosted a Champagne Soir&eacute;e and the inaugural Sheroes in Media awards at the National Press Club honoring women who have had great careers in TV/journalism. Award recipients are Yvette Miley of MSNBC, Suzanne Malveaux of CNN, Jay Newton-Small of Time magazine and Amanda Terkel of Huffington Post. Spotted: Rep. Marcia Fudge, Shawna Thomas, Carol Lee, Christine Parsons, Omarosa Manigault, Ashley Etienne, Monique Waters, Desiree Barnes and Sabrina Siddiqui. Celebrity chef Daniel Thomas prepared special hors d'oeuvres.

- Bully Pulpit Interactive and BuzzFeed hosted a panel at the BuzzFeed D.C. office on Thursday about how to drive influence and measure it using cat videos and much more. BuzzFeed Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown and BPI Partner Ben Coffey Clark spoke alongside panelists Eric Asche, the CMO at Truth Initiative, and Mitzi Emrich, chief social media strategist from MWWPR. The panel was moderated by Mindy Finn of Mischief Media. 

- Global Beat 2016/Celebrating International Journalism had a WHCD kickoff party last night hosted by the U.N. Foundation, Devex and Foreign Affairs at the UNF's top floor offices on Pennsylvania Avenue. SPOTTED: Michael Kelly, Kathy Calvin, Raj Kumar, Lynda Hammes, Jose Andres, Jonathan Capehart and Nick Schmit, Steve Clemons, David Nakamura, Ashley Chang, Garance Franke-Ruta, Olivier Knox, Tim and Kiki Burger, Christina Sevilla, Mikayla Bouchard, Kevin Baron, Nahal Toosi, Luis Miranda and refugee turned model turned DJ Mari Malek spinning funk & afrobeat alongside Ben Chang's tribute to Prince.

- At the Boy Scouts Gala last night at the Chamber of Commerce: Chamber CEO Tom Donohue; Steve Caldeira, former president & CEO of the International Franchise Association; Jack Gerard, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute; Bennett Johnston, former senator from Louisiana; Roger Dow, CEO U.S. Travel; Mike Gallagher, CEO, Entertainment Software Association; Bill Miller, senior vice president, Business Roundtable; Robert Cresanti, CEO, International Franchise Association; Matt Haller, senior vice president, International Franchise Association; Manus Cooney, partner, American Continental Group; Matthew Shea, CEO, National Retail Federation. (h/t CRAFT)

- Government analytics platform FiscalNote celebrated its Series C round of funding with a garden party Thursday night at the Decatur House. Hors d'oeuvres included chicken and waffles, mini grilled cheese sandwiches and shrimp and grits. SPOTTED: Deputy Secretary of Labor Chris Lu, Ogilvy Principal Bud Albright, Chris McCannell from the Eris Group, Jeff Turner from Squire Patton Boggs, Raj Shah from the RNC, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), Will Bohlen from Podesta, Tom Trotter from AFL-CIO, Jennifer Blemur from NBCSL, and Andy Hackman from Serlin Haley.

- World Cup Champion U.S. Women's National Soccer Team member Lauren Holiday and three-time National Champion figure skater Ashley Wagner, 94.7 Fresh FM DJs Tommy McFly, Jen Richer and Kelly Collis, and Abe, Bill and George from the Washington Nationals Racing Presidents joined the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility for Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. SPOTTED among the 340 people, including 236 Capitol Hill staffers from 45 Senate offices, 24 House offices and eight committees: Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.); Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.); former Rep. Alan Wheat, Polsinelli; Kristin Bodenstedt, Bacardi; Donald McClellan, Brown-Forman; Mike Bertman and Erica Johnson,
 DIAGEO; Viraj Mirani, Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.); Heather Campbell, Katie Neal and Alicia Kielmovitch, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah); Cora Bollinger, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.); Johnathan Pacheco, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.); Nicole Morse, Sen. Cory Booker; Christine Tucker, House Ways and Means Committee; Patrick Burke, Metropolitan Police Department; Steve Ross, Artists & Athletes Alliance.

- At the Trust for the National Mall's annual benefit luncheon yesterday: Catherine Townsend, President & CEO of the Trust for the National Mall; Chip Akridge, chairman of the Trust for the National Mall; Bellamy Young, Scandal actress; David Rubenstein, co-Founder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group; Hinrich J. Woebcken, interim president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America; Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.); Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine); Secretary Elaine Chao; NPS Director Jonathan B. Jarvis; NPS Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks Gay Vietzke; NPS Director of the National Capital Region Bob Vogel; Will Shafroth, president, National Park Foundation.

- At Kivvit's annual spring party for clients, media and friends at The W Hotel's POV lounge: former Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Joe McMonigle, The Abraham Group; Cicely Simpson, Katie Niebaum and Christin Fernandez, National Restaurant Association; Christin Baker, Ford Motor Company; Ami Copland, Business Forward; Cheryle Jackson, Kathleen Cantillon and Don Wetekam, AAR; Derryl Benton and Atousa Ghoreichi, HMSHost; Robert Jones and Dan Cox, PRRI; Garland Knott, American University Kogod School of Business; Sanna Kangasharju, Embassy of Finland; Evan Perez, CNN; Mike Levine, ABC News; Devlin Barrett, WSJ; Jon Berroya, Entertainment Software Association; Emily Loeb, Jenner and Block; Mac
 Bernstein, DLA Piper; Paul Glastris, Washington Monthly; and Ben Iannotta, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

- On Wednesday, the Center for Transportation and the Environment hosted a panel and reception in Rayburn, sponsored by the House Public Transportation Caucus. CTE's Executive Director Dan Raudebaugh led the panel, joined by Chicago Transit Authority's Dorval Carter, EU's Carlos Navas and Foothill Transit's Doran Barnes. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) spoke at both events. Spotted: Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.), Don Young (R-Alaska), Rick Nolan (D-Minn.) and Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), former Rep. Larry LaRocco, Regina Sullivan, Hal Hiemstra, Gael Sullivan, Paul Doerrer, Steve Palmer, Debbie Gebhardt, Jim Kolb, Jen Deci, Suzanne
 Sullivan and Brendan McCann.

GAME ON: Billionaire environmentalist and NextGen Climate founder Tom Steyer has kicked off his $25 million dollar outreach campaign - an effort to get out the vote among young people in swing states - ahead of California's state Republican party convention this weekend, reports POLITICO California's Carla Marinucci. As part of the campaign, TV ads featuring GOP candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz will run for all three days of the convention, starting today. Trump and Cruz, as well as Cruz's newly announced running mate Carly Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich will attend this weekend's events in Burlingame, Calif. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2ef0ca45ffc2c8932333e3dbc337b98e5de7a8fc896b2da03e6b51418368657a

BUILDERS: Construction Dive's Kim Slowey reports construction lobbying is on the rise, citing Center for Responsive Politics data that shows the industry spent more than $53 million lobbying in 2015. Jim Tobin, National Association of Home Builders executive vice president and chief lobbyist, said his group has been "extraordinarily busy" because of the Obama administration's "anti-business" policies. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2ef0ca45ffc2c893597dc4fafe9b5d181faba6bde8338e2fc92c7256dffea5b5

ROI: A new analysis from Maplight shows that for every one dollar U.S. government contractors have invested in political influence in the past decade, the industry has received $1,171 in taxpayer money. Maplight's Frank Bass writes that the 25 largest federal contractors have received almost $1.6 trillion during fiscal 2014 for their work since October 2005. Additionally, the Pentagon spends more on contracting than all other federal agencies combined. Lockeed Martin Corp., the country's largest contractor and maker of the F-35 Lightning II jet, received $331 billion in federal money since October 2005, and spent $140 million on lobbying and political contributions between then and
 September 2015. This puts the firm's return at $2,366 for every $1 dollar used for lobbying or political spending. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2ef0ca45ffc2c8931fc4069fca6511468c2f6b6bb6dd76f43df228f8814dee4c

NEW PAC REGISTRATIONS:
American Hatchet PAC (Independent Expenditure-Only Committee, Unauthorized)
Blue Vision 2020 (Non-Qualified Non-Party, Unauthorized)
Citizens for a Better Tomorrow (Non-Qualified Non-Party, Unauthorized)
Grassroots Select (Independent Expenditure-Only Committee, Unauthorized)

NEW LOBBYING REGISTRATIONS:
Freemyer & Associates P.C.: Coeur Mining, Inc.
Freemyer & Associates P.C.: Solidus Resources, LLC
Mr. Robert Talley: MEAG Power
Mr. Robert Talley: Santee Cooper
Nutter & Harris, Inc: Weyerhaeuser
The Rose Company, LLC: David L. Horne, LLC (on behalf of Sorenson Engineering, Inc.)

NEW LOBBYING TERMINATIONS:
None

TERMINATIONS - NO ACTIVITY:
PharmAthene, Inc.: PharmAthene, Inc.
Segundo Mercado-Llorens: Tides/Electronics TakeBack Coalition

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