Government relations firm Heather Podesta + Partners, LLC in February registered its representation of satellite TV and Internet provider DISH Network.
The lobbying pact focuses on telecommunications issues relating to satellite broadband, wireless competition and spectrum management, as well as spectrum auctions, retransmission consent reform, and “video marketplace competition and merger and acquisition activity in the pay-TV industry.”
As of last year, Denver, CO-headquartered Dish Network provided service to nearly 14 million TV and 600,000 broadband subscribers. Founder Charlie Ergen, who in 2011 handed over the title of President and CEO to Joseph Clayton, last year resumed that top role upon Clayton’s retirement.
The account will be managed by founder and prominent Democratic lobbyist Heather Podesta, who previously worked for representatives Earl Pomeroy (D, ND), Robert Matsui (D, CA) and Bill Bradley (D, MO), along with Jonathan Becker, former chief of staff to Senator Amy Klobuchar (D, MN); Robert Hoffman, former speechwriter for California Governor Pete Wilson and legislative director for senator Mike DeWine (R, OH); and Amy Swonger, former legislative assistant to Senator Trent Lott (R, MS) and deputy assistant to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Maggie Moran, who is well-connected in New Jersey and New York Democratic politics, has established Moxie Strategies in Asbury Park, NJ.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
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