Subject: POLITICO Influence: Treanor, Rush to Herald Group — Partoyan is Direct Impact's new CEO — Bockorny inks GM
From: POLITICO Influence <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 12:02:57 -0600

By Isaac Arnsdorf | 05/04/2016 02:00 PM EDT

With help from Cogan Schneier and Brianna Gurciullo

ROLODEX:

- The Herald Group hired Julia Treanor as senior director, providing strategic communications and advocacy advice, and Caitlin Rush as digital account manager. Treanor was the senior director of communications for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity and worked at Adfero. Rush oversaw digital marketing for trade associations and political and private sector clients at Endeavor Strategies. The Herald Group also promoted Kasia Mulligan to senior director and Amanda Bobbitt to senior associate.

- Direct Impact, Burson-Marsteller's grassroots shop, promoted Connie Partoyan to CEO and Michael Fleischer to EVP. Partoyan served four years as chief of staff for Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.). http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=04d84008d51d6ae75d22e9e0bb9449cfba09dbc594779bea244a63a10dabcc12 

- The Climate Reality Project hired Stacie Paxton Cobos as senior vice president for communications and marketing, from public relations firm Hill+Knowlton Strategies. She was the DNC's national press secretary from 2006 to 2009.

- Brittany Uter is Vox Media's new Senior Consumer Communications Manager; she came from Vocativ.

- Women in Government Relations elected new officers: President Katie Schubert of CDR; Vice President Kate Shenk of Biotechnology Innovation Organization; Treasurer Suzanne Swink of BP; and Secretary Jacki Ball of National PTA.

- Startup incubator 1776 is opening in Dubai.

-FAA Administrator Michael Huerta named Intel CEO Brian Krzanich to lead the Drone Advisory Council.

MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU. Welcome to the general. Tips and pitches to [email-masked].

VROOM: Bockorny Group is lobbying for General Motors on connected cars, autonomous vehicles and cybersecurity privacy. The team includes Hayden Rogers [former chief of staff for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)] and Jed Bhuta [former legislative director for former Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.)]. In January, the Department of Transportation set a timeline of six months for guidelines on driverless cars. GM also pays Eddie Fritts, Roberti Global, S-3, the Duberstein Group and Washington Tax & Public Policy Group, and recently dropped the Nickles Group, CGCN, Holland & Knight, the Normandy Group, and Bob Moss Associates.

DAILY BISTRO BIS: Sam DePoy of ARDA-ROC PAC and Kirk Freeman of REITPAC are hosting a lunch fundraiser this month for Rep. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.), with special guest Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.).

LANDRIEU OUT: The FutureGen Industrial Alliance, a coalition that had been working on a now failed carbon capture project in Illinois, has ended its lobbying deals, including its contract with Van Ness Feldman, Pro Energy's Alex Guill&eacute;n reports. Mary Landrieu, who lost her Louisiana senate seat in 2014, had signed the project as her first client with Van Ness Feldman last August. The group has also ended its deal with former House majority leader Dick Gephardt, hired in 2007. Check out the latest Energy Influence for more: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=04d84008d51d6ae72d65c42fca342f7b6d81879c30c2f6261621d810265bf195

TALKER: The National Review's Myra Adams writes that former House speaker Newt Gingrich, already acting as Trump's emissary to K Street, Congress and the press, may be his best choice for a running mate. Both Roger Stone, a top Trump adviser, and Mark McKinnon, former chief media adviser to the presidential campaigns of President George Bush and Sen. John McCain, hinted that Gingrich would be an strong choice. Gingrich could be a viable foil to Trump's bombastic, outsider persona - he's an establishment figure, though Adams points out he maintains a level of "outsideriness," and adds legitimacy to Trump's campaign with his extensive legislative experience. Other pros? He's a fundraising
 asset, a good campaigner and has solid conservative support. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=04d84008d51d6ae7a247970231cb3274fae332b42b4baddce2f6e5018c225268

PUERTO RICO WATCH: Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, also a leading candidate for governor in the territory's November election, is under investigation from both the FEC and Puerto Rico's Office of Electoral Comptroller, reports POLITICO's John Bresnahan, Anna Palmer and Manuela Tobias. The FEC wants Pierluisi to return more than $91,000 in donations to his federal campaign, and the Comptroller office in San Juan, which oversees campaign fundraising, is investigating whether he failed to report extra funds raised from Wall Street groups, including Morgan Stanley, which had helped the territory issue bonds. The FEC argues that Pierluisi does not need the money for his
 federal campaign, since he is retiring from that post to run for governor. Puerto Rico's electoral comptroller Torres Nieves is also investigating whether Pierluisi was allowed to raise money for his gubernatorial campaign while also accepting donations for his federal committee for resident commissioner. Pierluisi has been a major figure in the congressional talks on Puerto Rico's debt crisis, and faces a June 5 gubernatorial primary. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=04d84008d51d6ae7bcbe84fce69d4f4b3290149efe5324057dad7a9085e837f2

IMMIGRATION CONFRONTATION: POLITICO's Seung Min Kim reports a fight is looming in Congress on the H-2B visa program, which allows low-skilled foreign workers to come to the U.S. to work for up to 10 months as landscapers, housekeepers or seafood processors. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle whose home states rely on immigrant labor to support local industries, like Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, both from states with robust seafood production, want to include language in this year's spending bills that renews a provision in last year's omnibus quadrupling the number of H-2B visas available. Additionally, hundreds of groups
 representing varied professions, like florists, concrete pavement producers and ski resort operators, have been lobbying Congress to increase the visa limit, with more than 1,000 groups sending a letter to congressional committees in March. The visas face pushback from labor groups, like the AFL-CIO, which argue the program takes jobs away from Americans and puts workers in unfavorable conditions. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=04d84008d51d6ae71e0595c60fb2337554c851432efa49411296e29d77153e0c

POP: The American Beverage Association spent $1.5 million in its fight against Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney's proposed tax on sugary drinks in the month since the measure's introduction in March, The Philadelphia Inquirer's Tricia L. Nadolny and Julia Terruso report. The organization has largely helped fund the No Philly Grocery Tax Coalition, which has spent $2.6 million on advertising against the proposal. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=04d84008d51d6ae7af0f84c551cc18c6d2d80f23c9c7278eb02fc53bbae29407

NEW PAC REGISTRATIONS:
Americans For Sensible Solutions (Independent Expenditure-Only Committee, Unauthorized)
Lafayette Surgical Hospital, LLC Political Action Committee (Non-Qualified Non-Party, Unauthorized)
Leading Builders of America Political Action Committee (LBA PAC) (Non-Qualified Non-Party, Lobbyist/Registrant PAC)
Not Trump Or Hillary (Independent Expenditure-Only Committee, Unauthorized)
United Republicans of Texas (Non-Qualified Non-Party, Unauthorized)

NEW LOBBYING REGISTRATIONS:
Alpine Group, Inc.: Rubber Manufacturers Association
Capitol Tax Partners, LLP: General Electric Energy Financial Services
Capitol Tax Partners, LLP: NextEra Energy, Inc.
DeBrunner & Associates, Inc.: Post Acute Medical
Foley & Lardner LLP: 1101 Dexter Avenue Investors, LLC
Foley & Lardner LLP: Treasure Island Community Development, LLC
Gray & Oscar, LLC (formerly Bob Gray, LLC): Vetri Community Partnership
Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC: GlaxoSmithKline
Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC: The Pew Charitable Trusts
Poblete Tamargo, LLP: Paganini
Poblete Tamargo, LLP: Piedra Family
Poblete Tamargo, LLP: Pingree
Poblete Tamargo, LLP: The Buttenheim Family
Poblete Tamargo, LLP: The Coleman Family
Poblete Tamargo, LLP: The Condon (Veeder) Family
Poblete Tamargo, LLP: The Raciti Family
Poblete Tamargo, LLP: The Ritter Family
Poblete Tamargo, LLP: The Wassall Family
The Raben Group: Protect Our Defenders
Williams and Jensen, PLLC: Bonistas del Patio, Inc.

NEW LOBBYING TERMINATIONS:
Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P.: Howling For Wolves

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