By Kevin McCauley
Google has ramped up its defense in the Government’s antitrust push, adding a powerful Democratic firm, Gephardt Group, and Republican juggernaut, Crossroads Strategies, to its lobbying team.
The firm of former House Majority Leader and Presidential candidate Dick Gephardt has represented heavyweight clients such as General Electric, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Anheuser-Busch, Visa, Peabody Energy and Boeing.
Gephardt spearheads Team Google of Tom O’Donnell, former chief of Staff to the Missouri Congressman, Kyle Mulhall, senior policy advisor, and Catherine Goode, a recruit from Quinn Gillespie.
Crossroads Strategies has handled the National Rifle Assn., AT&T, Verizon, Southern Co., Mars Inc. and Altria.
Its Google lobbyists worked for three powerful southern Republican Senators including John Green, (deputy chief of staff to Mississippi’s Trent Lott), Stewart Hall (legislative director to Alabama’s Richard Shelby) and Hunter Moorhead (legislative aide to Mississippi’s Thad Cochran and Bush II White House staffer). |