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Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures is representing Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf for “education and issues related to professional golf in the US and aboard,” according to its federal filing.
Former Arizona Republican Congressman Ben Quayle, the son of former VP Dan Quayle, works the account with Rashid Hallaway, who was a legislative aide to ex-Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN).
LIV Golf is also using Nashville-based HHQV to protect the rights of professional golfers to play when and where they want to.
The PGA Tour has suspended golfers who defected to LIV Golf.
Eleven of those defectors, including Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau, filed an antitrust suit against the PGA on Aug. 3.
PGA’s legal team, on Aug. 23, responded by asking the federal judge handling the antitrust suit to unseal details of the contracts signed by the golfers who joined the LIV.
LIV Golf describes its mission as “modernizing and supercharging the game of professional golf through expanded opportunities.”
It also is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s effort to modernize Saudi Arabia.
Trump-connected Ballard Partners has agreed to represent Chinese video app TikTok, which must be divested from Bytedance by next April, or face US ban.
BlackRock, which is front and center in anti-woke backlash, hires Cornerstone Government Affairs to beef up its Republican outreach.
Scott Weaver, who co-founded advocacy and consulting firm HSA Strategies in 2022, comes to Nexstar Media Group as SVP of government relations, effective Sept. 5.
Klein/Johnson Group reps the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, the Hyannis-based non-profit that spearheaded the opposition to the Cape Wind offshore energy project.
The Korea Aerospace Administration, which launched May 30 to oversee space policy and to nurture space-related businesses, has tapped former NASA executive John Lee as its US representative.
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Aug. 26, 2022, by Joe Honick
Fascinating to see the Quayle name attached to another bunch of Saudis who pay anyone for anything because there are plenty of takers. Now that we know this, it would be useful to find out what firms are on the take from the "exlosion" of right wing media seemingly located in the tiniest towns of America and whose ownership is hard to trace.