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Presented by Obesity Care Advocacy Network: Delivered daily, Influence gives you a comprehensive rundown and analysis of all lobby hires and news on K Street. | | | | | |  | | By Caitlin Oprysko | Presented by Obesity Care Advocacy Network | With Daniel Lippman KELLY OUT AT TENEO: Days after reports emerged that Teneo chief executive and co-founder Declan Kelly had been ousted from the board of the charity Global Citizen and was stepping back from his duties at the global CEO consulting firm, Kelly and Teneo announced this morning that the former envoy to Northern Ireland had resigned his post after alleged inappropriate behavior toward women at a music festival. — In a statement posted on Teneo’s website Kelly said he’d made “an inadvertent, public and embarrassing mistake” on May 2, the day of the concert to promote Covid vaccinations. Kelly added that he “took full responsibility and apologized to those directly affected” for his alleged drunken misconduct and cited a “campaign against the reputation” of Teneo as a cause of his resignation. Within hours it appeared clear what he was referring to, with Page Six’s Emily Smith reporting that Kelly “allegedly carried on a not-so secret affair with a senior female executive” at the firm. — In a separate statement the firm’s board of directors thanked Kelly for his leadership and said that COO and co-founder Paul Keary would take over as chief executive effective immediately. The move appeared aimed at heading off the departure of any more of the firm’s blue-chip clients after General Motors told the Wall Street Journal it was severing ties with Teneo. Kelly is just the latest co-founder to depart from the firm, which was founded by top aides to former President Bill Clinton and even employed the former president himself for a time. Doug Band, one of Clinton’s top confidants for decades until a recent falling out, retired from Teneo in December. — As readers might recall, Teneo has more recently attempted to make inroads with Bidenworld, purchasing a “significant” minority stake in WestExec, the consulting firm co-founded by Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken that also employed a number of other top Biden administration officials, back in March. Teneo also added former Sen. Chris Dodd, a top adviser to President Joe Biden, as a senior adviser. Good afternoon and welcome to PI. Hope you’re all staying cool out there. Keep up the K Street tips and gossip: coprysko@politico.com . And be sure to follow me on Twitter: @caitlinoprysko. | | A message from Obesity Care Advocacy Network: Obesity is a disease affecting nearly 100M Americans. 78% of the people who were hospitalized, placed on a ventilator or died from COVID-19 lived with obesity, particularly impacting Black and Latinx people who suffer higher rates of obesity than White Americans. Healthcare providers know obesity is a preventable and treatable disease, but Medicare doesn't cover life-saving obesity treatment. Congress needs to change these outdated laws and provide Obesity Care Now to reduce inequities. Learn More. | | | PHARMA COALITION BATTLES APPROPS RIDER REQUIRING PAPER LABELS: A group of nearly 30 drugmakers and other health groups is protesting perennial language in an FDA spending bill set to be marked up tomorrow that would bar FDA from allowing pharmaceutical prescribing information, which provide prescribers with usage or other technical information about a drug, to be transmitted electronically. — In a letter to House Appropriations and Ag-FDA Appropriations subcommittee leaders Monday, the Alliance to Modernize Prescribing Information accused appropriators of putting the “interests of the paper lobby above the broader interests of patients and the environment by continuing to prevent the FDA’s efforts to modernize labeling.” The group extrapolated data from the Sierra Club to estimate that the practice has destroyed 30 million trees to create 540 billion sheets of paper labels that the coalition contends are oftentimes outdated and ignored in favor of more accessible information online. “Congress cannot claim to be in favor of patients and sustainability while continuing to thwart reasonable and commonsense labeling modernizations proposed by the FDA,” the group argues. — The coalition includes companies like AbbVie, AmerisourceBergen, Johnson and Johnson, Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, Viatris, Pfizer and Teva, among others, and believed up until last week that it had succeeded in getting the language left out of the bill, which provides funding for FDA as well as the Agriculture Department, according to a spokesperson. WHAT’S NEXT AFTER JUDGE TOSSES FACEBOOK ANTITRUST SUITS: “A federal judge’s rejection of a major lawsuit against Facebook gave Silicon Valley’s critics one reason for hope: They say it perfectly illustrates the urgency for Congress to rewrite the nation’s antitrust laws,” POLITICO’s Leah Nylen and Emily Birnbaum report. The ruling “fueled quick calls for action by tech industry critics from both parties in Congress, who called it further evidence that existing antitrust laws don’t deter the online industry’s behemoths from unfairly quashing competitors. ‘This decision underscores the dire need to modernize our antitrust laws to address anticompetitive mergers and abusive conduct in the digital economy,’ House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Antitrust Subcommittee Chair David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said in a statement Monday, four days after the committee passed a package of bills aimed at reining in the big tech companies.” Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), Cicilline’s GOP counterpart and a co-sponsor of one such bill, said the ruling “shows that antitrust reform is urgently needed.” | | | | SUBSCRIBE TO WEST WING PLAYBOOK: Add West Wing Playbook to keep up with the power players, latest policy developments and intriguing whispers percolating inside the West Wing and across the highest levels of the Cabinet. For buzzy nuggets and details you won't find anywhere else, subscribe today. | | | | | FLYING IN (VIRTUALLY): The U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association is kicking off a two-day virtual fly-in today to make the case to lawmakers to invest in research and incentivize sustainable policies in the tire manufacturing industry as they hammer out details for an infrastructure bill and take up a surface transportation reauthorization. They’re expected to meet with more than four dozen House and Senate offices, including several offices involved in crafting the bipartisan infrastructure framework the White House endorsed last week and that of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. LIGADO ADDS CONGRESSIONAL LIAISONS: The 5G satellite communications company Ligado Networks has added Jodie Moxley-Ramos and Scott Shiller as vice presidents of congressional affairs. Moxley-Ramos was most recently at the boutique government affairs firm Ignite Global Strategies and spent 13 years at Airbus and BAE Systems before that. Shiller is a Trump NSC and USAID alum and previously worked for Reps. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) and Billy Long (R-Mo.). STATE BROADCASTERS LOOKING FOR GREENLIGHT ON POT ADS: “A coalition of state broadcaster associations seeking to cash in on TV and radio ads for marijuana products hired a team of lobbyists with ties to senior lawmakers to secure congressional approval to air spots for pot,” Bloomberg’s Megan Wilson reports. The Safe Advertising Coalition comprises 20 state broadcasting associations including those in New York, California, Arizona, Oklahoma, Virginia, Texas, Ohio and Michigan and it recently brought on Klein/Johnson Group’s Izzy Klein and Matt Johnson, former aides to Schumer and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) respectively, to help the broadcasters take cannabis money, which their federal licenses prevent them from doing while marijuana is still illegal at the federal level. — “You already see billboard ads out there, you’ll see ads online, you will see ads in the press, but broadcasters —because I still have a federal license — we’re the only media entity that can’t,” David Donovan, president of the New York State Broadcasters Association, told the outlet. MORE TROUBLE FOR RUDY: “ Rudy Giuliani is the subject of a Justice Department inquiry into possible foreign lobbying for Turkish interests separate from a criminal probe of his activities in Ukraine,” Bloomberg’s Christian Berthelsen, Greg Farrell, and Chris Strohm report. “For almost a year, the former New York mayor and personal lawyer to Donald Trump has been fielding questions about whether he was acting for Turkey when he pushed the Trump administration in 2017 to drop money-laundering charges against gold trader Reza Zarrab and deport exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. Zarrab later pleaded guilty and implicated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a sanctions-evasion scheme, while Erdogan claims Gulen was behind a failed 2016 coup against his government.” — Giuliani, who last week had his law license suspended in New York over his role in promoting Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud in November, “has denied lobbying for either Turkish or Ukrainian interests,” and he hasn’t been formally accused of wrongdoing for either. “In the Turkey inquiry, if the government decides that Giuliani acted for a foreign interest, it could issue a determination letter requiring him to register” as a foreign agent, along with the various disclosures of U.S. contacts that would entail. | | | |   | | | | | | — American Beverage named Rick Rivas as California vice president, where he will lead the non-alcoholic beverage trade group’s government and public affairs operations in the state. He most recently served as legislative affairs director for Govern for California. — Seven Letter hired Elizabeth-Burton Jones as a director and Zeina Muhtadi as a content specialist. Jones was most recently press secretary for Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio). — Precision Strategies is promoting five to new leadership roles: Mike Spahn as a partner, the first non-founder in that role; Erin Lindsay and Deirdre Murphy Ramsey as managing directors in digital and comms, respectively; and Krishana Davis and Katie Tilson as directors in digital. — Alexis Moch is joining Prologis as director of government affairs, Playbook reports. She previously was federal legislative director at the National Association of Home Builders. — Bo Morris joined the Internet Association as director of federal government affairs. He previously worked in the House for Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) and now-Colorado Gov. 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