Stubhub, the eBay-owned online marketplace where consumers buy and sell tickets for sports, concerts, theater and festivals, has hired Washington, D.C.-based government relations and strategic communications firm Franklin Square Group, LLC for Capitol Hill representation on consumer and computer industry issues.
Franklin Square Group will represent San Francisco-based Stubhub on issues related to ongoing innovations in the online consumer-to-consumer ticket sales marketplace.
A five-member Mercury team will handle the Stubhub account, including co-founder Matthew Tanielian, who previously served as counsel to Senator Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) and subcommittee chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee; co-founder Joshua Ackil, former aide to House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt and Office of Legislative Affairs staff director to President Clinton; Kara Calvert Campbell, former legislative assistant to Senate Mike Enzi (R-WY); Brian Peters, former press secretary to Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA); and Ryan Triplette, former counsel and chief intellectual property counsel under Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Arlen Specter (PA).
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.
Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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