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Cable giant Charter Communications, which acquired Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks earlier this year for $65.5 billion, has hired public affairs outfit McBee Strategic Consulting for Capitol Hill issues involving telecommunications and broadcasting.
According to lobbying disclosure documents filed in September, the cable TV operator has retained the government relations shop for help with “issues related to cable and telecom and merger integration.”
Charter’s May mega merger with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks now makes the cable telecommunications company the third-largest in the country. Charter re-branded its residential services under the name Spectrum.
The Charter account will be led by Robert Chamberlin, who was previously chief counsel to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee under chairman John McCain (R-AZ) and assistant counsel on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Julie Bertoson, former associate director to the U.S. Department of Transportation in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs and staff assistant to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee under Chairmen Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and John Rockefeller (D-WV); and Samuel Whitehorn, former deputy staff director and general counsel to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and senior counsel and staff director to the Committee’s Aviation Subcommittee.
Missy Edwards Strategies represents Shein Technology Group, the Los Angeles arm of the embattled Singapore-based “instant fashion” retailer.
Carlsbad, a north San Diego County city of 115K people, is looking for a firm to provide government relations and Sacramento lobbying services.
Gordon Sondland, who was US ambassador to the European Union under Donald Trump, has registered as a representative of Ukraine’s cabinet and ministers.
The Daschle Group is representing Santa Monica-based Stand with Hong Kong Action, an advocacy group that fights to end Chinese repression in Hong Kong.
McKinsey & Co. has reached out to Republican shop Harbinger Strategies to educate policymakers about the activities of the embattled management consultancy.
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