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Presented by the Household & Commercial Products Association: Delivered daily, Influence gives you a comprehensive rundown and analysis of all lobby hires and news on K Street. | | | | | |  | | By Caitlin Oprysko | Presented by the Household & Commercial Products Association | With Theodoric Meyer and Daniel Lippman FIRST IN PI — SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS ADDS 3: Squire Patton Boggs has made a pair of bipartisan hires out of the public sector in addition to adding Mercury Public Affairs’ Rodney Emery as a principal. Caren Street, who currently serves as chief of staff to Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), will join Squire in May as a principal. Tommy Andrews, who served as a special assistant to President Donald Trump for legislative affairs and previously advised House Speakers Paul Ryan and John Boehner, will also be a principal. Street and Andrews will both register to lobby. — Emery is an alum of the Obama Commerce Department, while Street also served as executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus during the last Congress and is a former Harry Reid aide. In a joint statement provided by the firm, Boehner, who is now a strategic adviser there, and former House Democratic Caucus Chair Joe Crowley, who is now a senior adviser at Squire, touted Street, Emery and Andrews’ “ability to bring people together, build trust and get things done in a Washington where bipartisanship is increasingly rare.” DASCHLE GROUP HIRES ITS FIRST REPUBLICAN: The Daschle Group, the lobbying firm founded by former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, has hired its first GOP lobbyist in its six-year history as it looks to better navigate the evenly divided Senate. Joe Hack, who most recently served as chief of staff to Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), is joining the firm as a vice president. Before joining Fischer’s office at the start of her first term, Hack worked for senator-turned-lobbyist-turned-senator-turned-consultant Jon Kyl. Hack will register to lobby on behalf of health care, defense and international clients. — Daschle, who served as majority leader the last time the chamber was split 50-50, early in the George W. Bush presidency, called the firm’s decision to go bipartisan a “strategic decision” in a statement, noting that “in the Senate, every vote matters, and that’s never more true than when the body is split 50-50.” — He also name-dropped his former Senate colleague President Joe Biden, adding that “we never thought compromise was a dirty word — we always thought it was a healthy part of the process. We knew that if we wanted to get anything done, we had to work with the other side. I still believe that's true.” — Nathan Daschle, the firm’s president and COO, said in an interview that the decision to hire a Republican lobbyist was less intentional than it was an organic one stemming from an uptick in business, though he also acknowledged that “Republicans, and in particular Senate Republicans, are still very relevant to what’s going to happen in D.C.” Good afternoon and welcome to PI. Send lobbying tips: coprysko@politico.com. And follow me on Twitter: @caitlinoprysko. | | | | A message from the Household & Commercial Products Association: The pandemic has caused us to clean and disinfect surfaces more often. That will not change when COVID-19 fades. Americans deserve to know what’s in their cleaners. HCPA is leading the fight – along with consumer groups and others – for a national standard of ingredient disclosure. Consumers deserve to know the ingredients in their everyday cleaning products. Read more here. | | | FIRST IN PI — NEW ADVOCACY GROUP FORMS TO TAKE ON COLLEGE ATHLETE PAY: As March Madness and the college basketball season draw to a close tonight, a new advocacy group is forming to push for NCAA reforms that would allow college athletes pay and other economic opportunities. Fans for Fair Play , which will launch a multi-million dollar PR and lobbying effort, will be led by former Alabama Rep. Artur Davis and James Davis, the founder of Touchdown Strategies. — The group’s advisory board will also include Adam Weiss, managing partner of Democratic public affairs firm FIO360, and Ja’Ron Smith, who was a top Trump adviser. The group argues that “growing support for fairness is changing the political environment and making the status quo untenable,” citing a poll from January 2020 showing two-thirds of Americans supported compensation for college players, bipartisan legislation that has been filed on the issue, and the Supreme Court’s taking up a case that could shape the organization’s future. — The push will come up against the organization’s formidable presence on K Street — the NCAA dropped $720,000 on lobbying last year, according to disclosures, between its in-house team and also nearly a dozen lobbyists from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck . That’s on top of $1,730,000 in lobbying expenditures by the so-called Power Five conferences — the Big Ten, SEC, ACC, Pac-12 and Big 12 — paid to seven other firms last year. MANCHIN FLEXING HIS MUSCLE AGAIN: “Joe Manchin wants Democratic leaders and President Joe Biden to rewrite its sweeping new tax-and-spend legislation — and he says he’s got a half-dozen other Democratic senators with him,” POLITICO’s Burgess Everett reports. “On Monday, Manchin told West Virginia radio host Hoppy Kercheval that Biden’s plan to pay for infrastructure by raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent is a non-starter and that ‘this whole thing here has to change.’” — “It’s just the latest power move from Manchin, who has become Democrats’ squeakiest wheel in the early days of Biden’s presidency. Manchin has voiced opposition to gutting the filibuster, didn’t like Democrats’ unemployment benefits plan on coronavirus legislation and said Monday that he will not just go along with a $2 trillion-plus package that raises taxes on the wealthy and corporations.” | | | | CHECK OUT FDA TODAY: Daily regulatory developments, sent directly to your inbox. 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Sign up for free today. | | | | | ANNALS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE: The New York Times’ Shane Goldmacher has a fascinating look at how the Trump campaign steered donors into weekly recurring contributions as its financial struggles peaked last year, resulting in a wave of fraud complaints while “the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and their shared accounts issued more than 530,000 refunds worth $64.3 million to online donors” in the final months of 2020. — Potential donors needed to read through lines of bolded text to get to the fine print on multiple pre-checked boxes and manually opt out of the recurring contributions, and Trump’s campaign ultimately “refunded 10.7 percent of the money it raised on WinRed in 2020; the Biden operation’s refund rate on ActBlue, the parallel Democratic online donation-processing platform, was 2.2 percent, federal records show.” — What’s more, according to Goldmacher: “Several bank representatives who fielded fraud claims directly from consumers estimated that WinRed cases, at their peak, represented as much as 1 to 3 percent of their workload. An executive for one of the nation’s larger credit-card issuers confirmed that WinRed at its height accounted for a similar percentage of its formal disputes.” HOW COVID SURVIVORS ARE LOOKING TO HARNESS THEIR POLITICAL POWER: “Fresh off a round of lobbying in favor of Biden’s pandemic aid bill, which saw more than 50 families meet with 15 Senate offices over Zoom, recently formed groups like Covid Survivors for Change and Marked by COVID with several thousand members are also launching efforts at the federal and state levels, including setting up local chapters,” POLITICO’s Alice Miranda Ollstein reports. “They have an ambitious agenda: more funding for research, treatments and some form of compensation for the Covid-related deaths of more than half a million Americans.” — The groups will target the White House’s new infrastructure push, specifically “on the follow-up plan Biden is expected to unveil later this month addressing the country’s ‘human infrastructure.’ They’ll press the White House and Congress to prioritize mandatory paid sick leave and make permanent the temporary expansion of Obamacare subsidies that was approved as part of Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package, among other goals.” MCCONNELL HAMMERS CORPORATE AMERICA: “ Mitch McConnell is putting Big Business on notice: There will be ‘serious consequences’ if corporate America continues acting like ‘a woke parallel government,’” Burgess writes. “The broadside from the Senate minority leader, who has aligned himself with the business community for decades, is just the latest sign of a fraying alliance between big companies and the Republican Party. In the wake of the cancellation of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Georgia over new election laws there, McConnell (R-Ky.) flashed frustration that companies appear to be taking direction from Democratic complaints about the law.” LEFT HOOK WANTS TO DIVERSIFY THE LEFT’S CONSULTANT CLASS: Left Hook, a major Democratic consulting firm that works with congressional candidates as well as committees, is “building a new public affairs practice and launching a paid fellowship program intended to increase diversity in the party’s consultant class,” POLITICO’s James Arkin reports. The firm “is launching the fellowship program this fall and bringing on a new veteran campaign operative to run a public affairs division.” — “The effort is part of a long-term goal to increase the diversity in their own ranks in the hopes of pushing the party to further develop talent pipelines for women and people of color. The firm has hired Shripal Shah, a veteran Democratic operative who was most recently a vice president at the super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, as a partner to lead the public affairs division.” | | | |   | | | | | | — Sanofi has hired Claire Brandewie as a senior director for federal government relations. She was previously a lobbyist for the Biotechnology Innovation Organization and is also a former aide to Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.). — Laura Maristany has joined Bitwise Industries as director of external affairs. Maristany most recently served as associate director for constructive politics at Democracy Fund. She also helped launch Representative Democracy, Women’s Public Leadership Network, and is a NALEO and Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities alum. — Danny Kazin has joined American Bridge 21st Century as vice president of campaigns to oversee its paid media program. He most recently ran the DCCC’s independent expenditure last cycle. — Bernard Fulton is joining the Housing Policy Council as vice president of government relations. Fulton was most recently a senior policy adviser for financial services at the National Association of Realtors and is a HUD alum. — The American Veterinary Medical Association has hired Whitney Tyler as assistant director for government relations, Susie Dumond as grassroots advocacy coordinator and Rachel Cole as manager in its state advocacy division. — Joan Kirchner Carr is starting Joan K. Carr Consulting after 20 years in the Senate, per Playbook. She was previously chief of staff to Georgia GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and Johnny Isakson, and Democratic Sen. Zell Miller. — Christina Lotspike is now senior manager of federal affairs at Instacart, Playbook reports. 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