By Kevin McCauley
South Korea has retained The Nickels Group for a $200K, one-year legislative strategy and political outreach contract.
The firm joins Finn Partners, which recently inked a $480K business advocacy pact, on the payroll of Korea’s D.C. embassy.
TNG is headed by Don Nickles, the former 24-year Republican Senator from Oklahoma.
He works the account with Cindi Tripodi, former VP-congressional affairs at the Motion Picture Assn. of America under Jack Valenti; Doug Bader, deputy assistant for legislative affairs in the George W. Bush White House; Jeff Choudhry, ex-aide to Arizona Rep. Trent Franks, and Hazen Marshall, who was top aide for Nickles on the Senate budget and finance committees.
The U.S. and South Korea have signed a free trade act, but that pact has become a divisive issue in Korea’s current political season. |