| | | | | |  | | By Theodoric Meyer | Presented by Facebook | With Daniel Lippman BROWNSTEIN HYATT HIRES PRYOR AHEAD OF ELECTION: The law and lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has hired former Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) as a shareholder ahead of Tuesday's election. Pryor is one of fewer than a dozen former Democratic senators on K Street who served alongside Joe Biden. His father, former Sen. David Pryor (D-Ark.), also served with Biden for 18 years in the Senate, and both men endorsed him this year ahead of the New Hampshire primary. While the firm didn't hire Pryor because of his relationship with Biden, the move could pay off if Biden wins. Marc Lampkin, the managing partner of Brownstein Hyatt's Washington office, said the firm hired the Arkansas Democrat with an eye to "the potential makeup of Washington and state capitals in 2021 and beyond." — Pryor, who lost reelection in 2014, was previously a partner at Venable, where he lobbied for clients including Enterprise Holdings, the car rental giant, and the Edison Electric Institute, according to disclosure filings. He compared being hired by Brownstein Hyatt to getting drafted by a college football powerhouse. "It's kind of like being able to go play football at Clemson or Alabama," he said in an interview on Saturday. He isn't sure how many clients he'll bring with him and said he'd recommend that some of them remain at Venable. "I hope I bring some, but my expectation is the vast majority of my work I'll leave behind at Venable," he said. — Pryor's relationship with Biden's family runs deep. As Beau Biden prepared to run for attorney general in Delaware, he asked Pryor, a former Arkansas attorney general, for advice. "He said, 'You've done this before,'" Pryor said. "'You've run for attorney general with a famous father. How does this work?'" — Pryor expects much of his work will be in state capitals rather than in Washington. He'll work to bolster Brownstein Hyatt's state attorneys general practice as well as its congressional investigations and Washington lobbying teams. Whether Pryor himself registers to lobby will depend upon clients' needs, he said. "At this very moment, I don't have any reason to register," he said. Good afternoon, and welcome to PI. Days until Election Day: 1. Are you sending memos to clients to prepare them for Joe Biden's potential transition and administration — or the second term of Donald Trump's presidency? Send them my way, along with tips and intelligence on lobbying, the transition and potential Biden cabinet picks: tmeyer@politico.com. And follow me on Twitter: @theodoricmeyer. | | | | A message from Facebook: A vote counted is a voice heard
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Explore the Voting Information Center now | | | REPUBLICANS LOBBYISTS FACE A BUSINESS RISK: CHANCE OF A BIDEN VICTORY: "When Republicans seized control of Congress and the White House in 2016, lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump and powerful GOP lawmakers saw their stock skyrocket. Tuesday's election could sweep all of that away , locking Republicans out of power and sending K Street scurrying for well-connected Democrats instead. … 'There's a few firms that are going to take a big hit,' said Stewart Verdery, a veteran of President George W. Bush's administration who now runs Monument Advocacy, a bipartisan lobbying firm." — "Perhaps no lobbyist has been more associated with Trump's Washington than Brian Ballard, a longtime Florida lobbyist who became a top fundraiser for Trump's 2016 campaign. … Ballard, who has raised more than $1.6 million for Trump's reelection, the Republican National Committee and state Republican parties, according to disclosure filings, said in an interview that he was confident Trump would win. But he also insisted his firm — whose Washington office tilts Republican but also includes Democrats such as former Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) — will prosper even if Trump loses." — Ballard "plans to hire more lobbyists with congressional experience next year regardless of the outcome of the election. 'In the event that there's a Biden presidency, our firm will evolve,' he said. 'It's not about who's in the White House.'" Another Republican who's raised money for Trump's reelection, Dave Tamasi, "said he expects Trump to win. But he did an assessment a couple of months ago and concluded that his firm's business would decline by only 5 to 10 percent if Trump lost. 'My business partner's a Democrat and he's as plugged in as plugged-in can be,' Tamasi said in an interview." WHO'S BUNDLING FOR BIDEN: Joe Biden's campaign has barred registered lobbyists from serving as bundlers — but there are no rules prohibiting many others who work in Washington's influence industry from raising money for Biden. Among the names that stood out in Biden's voluntary disclosure of bundlers on Saturday night: former Rep. Jim Greenwood (R-Pa.), who was one of a number of former Republican lawmakers who endorsed Biden months ago. — Greenwood spent 15 years leading the Biotechnology Innovation Organization before stepping down earlier this year. He's now a senior policy adviser at the law and lobbying firm DLA Piper, although he's never registered to lobby himself. In an interview, Greenwood estimated he raised about $1.5 million for Biden as part of a Sept. 30 event headlined by Valerie Biden Owens, Ron Klain and Stef Feldman. Most of the money came from those who worked in the biotechnology and life sciences industry, as well as venture capital types who invest in such companies. — Greenwood doesn't expect Biden will do any favors for the biotechnology industry if he wins on Tuesday. "It may very well be that Joe Biden puts in people like Zeke Emanuel or any number of ardent critics of the industry," he said, referring to the University of Pennsylvania vice provost. Instead, he's backing Biden for personal reasons. "I just think that in a president, character is everything and there's just no comparison between these two candidates," he said. — Among the other Biden bundlers who could be considered part of the influence industry: Shailen Bhatt, the head of the trade group ITS America; Jay Carney, a senior vice president at Amazon who served as Biden's communications director in the Obama administration; former Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), who's now a partner at the law and lobbying firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Vince Frillici, a former lobbyist who's now a managing director at the public affairs firm Kivvit; Kathleen Grillo, a senior vice president of public policy and government affairs in Verizon's Washington office; Robert Hoopes, the president of the public affairs firm VOX Global , who worked for Biden while he was a senator; Scott Mulhauser, a former Biden deputy chief of staff who leads Bully Pulpit Interactive's public affairs work; Alex Slater, the founder of the Clyde Group, a public affairs firm; and Kenny Thompson Jr., a former Biden aide who's now PepsiCo's head of external affairs. | | | | EXCLUSIVE: "THE CIRCUS" & POLITICO TEAM UP TO PULL BACK THE CURTAIN ON THE MOST UNPRECEDENTED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN HISTORY: It's been the most unconventional and contentious election season of our lifetime. The approach taken by each candidate couldn't be more different, yet the stakes couldn't be higher as we cross the finish line. Join POLITICO's John Harris, Laura Barrón-López, Gabby Orr and Eugene Daniels in a conversation with John Heilemann, Alex Wagner, Mark McKinnon and Jennifer Palmieri of Showtime's "The Circus" on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 8 p.m. EST for an insiders' look at the Trump and Biden campaigns, behind-the-scenes details and nuggets from the trail, and the latest on where things stand and where they are heading. DON'T MISS THIS! REGISTER HERE. | | | | | WHAT TO EXPECT IF BIDEN WINS AND DEMOCRATS RETAKE THE SENATE: The law and lobbying firm BakerHostetler is out with a memo advising clients on what's likely to happen in three scenarios: Biden wins and Democrats reclaim the Senate; Biden wins and Republicans maintain control of the Senate; and Trump wins and Republicans hold the Senate. House Democrats have spent much time investigating the Trump administration since winning back the majority in 2018, the firm notes in the section outline the first scenario. "But if Biden is in the White House, Democrats on Capitol Hill will not be aggressive in investigating their own party's administration." — "Instead, Democrats will turn their sights on the private sector and initiate sweeping oversight investigations. Letters demanding company emails, notes of board meetings and internal analyses of key decisions will be sent to chief executive officers across sectors: energy, defense, financial services, healthcare, technology and more. If the letters are ignored or companies are perceived to be slow-walking compliance, subpoenas will follow." MEET ONE OF BIDEN'S EMISSARIES TO CORPORATE AMERICA: "In recent months Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s campaign developed a virtual road show to reassure executives, investment fund managers and financiers who were nervous that the Democratic candidate's plans to increase taxes could hurt the American economic recovery," The New York Times' Jim Tankersley reports. "Penny Pritzker, the billionaire former Commerce secretary under President Barack Obama, would lead off with an overview of Mr. Biden's plans. But the worried capitalists always wanted details, and for that, Ms. Pritzker would turn over the video calls to the little-known fulcrum of the Biden campaign's economic policymaking: a 43-year-old tax and budget specialist named Ben Harris." — "Mr. Biden has a sprawling and secretive orbit of economists offering him policy advice as he seeks to pacify an insurgent liberal wing of economic thinkers within the Democratic Party and the business leaders who still feel mistreated by the Obama-Biden administration. Mr. Harris, an economist who is relatively anonymous even to other economists, has taken a starring role in both efforts. A former chief economist for Mr. Biden in the White House, Mr. Harris helped fashion a campaign agenda from the work of a small inner circle and hundreds of outside economists and sell it to the donors, executives, labor unions and activists that Mr. Biden needs behind him to win the election." | | | | SPEND ELECTION NIGHT WITH POLITICO FOUR SQUARE: People have been voting for weeks, but Election Day is finally upon us! Join us for a special election night episode of POLITICO "Four Square," where host Eugene Daniels will break down the latest developments from across the country with Chief Political Correspondent Tim Alberta, Chief Washington Correspondent Ryan Lizza, and one of our top political reporters and CNN contributor Laura Barrón-López. Joined by colleagues from across the newsroom throughout the show, expect the group to share the latest exit poll readouts, analyze the closing Trump and Biden campaign strategies, and to share their favorite moments of this long and winding election. Tune in at 9:00 p.m. EST here. | | | | | IF YOU MISSED IT ON FRIDAY: The Wall Street Journal's Brody Mullins took a look at the fallout from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's decision to back 32 House Democrats — along with 232 Republican House candidates— for reelection. "Neil Bradley, executive vice president at the Chamber, said the nonprofit organization needs to do what is best for the U.S. companies it represents—and that means endorsing 'centrist, business-minded Democrats' as well as Republicans. 'We are not an extension of either party,' Mr. Bradley said in an interview." — But the Democratic lobbyist Steve Elmendorf said the Chamber is stuck in no man's land. "They ticked off the Republicans by endorsing Democrats, but they haven't done anything to help themselves with Democrats because they haven't spent any money to help elect them," he said. | | | |   | | | | | | — Albright Stonebridge Group has hire Gary Gottlieb and Yahya Majali as senior advisers. Gottlieb was previously chief executive of Partners in Health. Majali previously worked for the consulting firm Louis Berger. | | | Maine Voter Protection Fund (Sara Gideon for Maine, Maine Democratic Party) | | | Amway (PAC) | | New Lobbying Registrations | | CGCN Group, LLC (formerly known as Clark Geduldig Cranford & Nielsen, LLC): LG Chem, Ltd.
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