| | | | |  | | By Caitlin Oprysko | | Presented by |  | | | With Daniel Lippman TOP EMMER AIDE HEADS DOWNTOWN: Chris Maneval has left the Hill after more than a dozen years — including the last eight with House Majority Whip Tom Emmer — to join Porterfield, Fettig & Sears as a vice president. Maneval was most recently a deputy chief of staff on Emmer’s leadership team; before that, he served as his top aide during Emmer’s tenure as head of House Republicans’ campaign arm and oversaw Emmer’s financial services and tax portfolio, including the 2017 GOP tax bill. — Maneval will register to lobby and plans to work with the firm’s existing book of clients, which skews toward the finance sector and includes the American Bankers Association, M&T Bank, Coinbase, Block, State Farm and the Managed Funds Association. But he said in an interview that he’ll also work to help the firm grow its client base in other areas like health care, tech and appropriations. — “I've worked with PFS since I started for Mr. Emmer as a legislative director back in 2016 doing financial services policy,” Maneval told PI, “so I had a chance to get to know them really well, know a lot of their clients really well, and do a lot of work with them on the policy front over the years.” — In a statement provided by the firm, Emmer hailed Maneval as “not only … a power player on Capitol Hill” but a “close confidant and friend” of the congressman. Maneval’s “in-depth policy knowledge on a variety of complex issue areas, invaluable relationships across every spectrum of our House Republican Conference, and political acumen gained through pivotal election cycles make Chris the ultimate asset for any team,” Emmer added. FORMER GIFFORDS LOBBYIST RE-UPS: Robin Lloyd, a former longtime member of the government affairs shop at gun control group Giffords, has registered to lobby for the advocacy group once again. Lloyd left Giffords early last year after seven years with the organization, most recently as its managing director, to join Rational 360 as a senior vice president. — She’ll be lobbying on issues related to the NICS background check system and gun violence prevention as well as funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, FBI, violence reduction programs and gun violence research via the firm Sunnyside Strategy, according to a disclosure filing. — Giffords has just one other outside lobbying firm, Capitol Counsel, on retainer in addition to a team of in-house lobbyists. The group has spent $120,000 on lobbying so far this year — placing it well behind the lobbying arm of another major group in the gun control advocacy space, Everytown for Gun Safety, which dropped nearly $1.7 million in the same period. — But the main channel for Giffords’ influence is its political operation, which just pledged $15 million to help elect Vice President Kamala Harris. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), who is married to the group’s namesake Gabby Giffords, is also under consideration to be Harris’ running mate. Happy Thursday and welcome to PI, where we join the rest of the world in cheering the release of journalists Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva and Vladimir Kara-Murza as well as Paul Whelan. Let us know how you’re spending your August recess: coprysko@politico.com. And be sure to follow me on X: @caitlinoprysko.
| | | | A message from the Small Business Payments Alliance: Small business owners depend on credit cards to grow sales and expand their reach. Studies show businesses earn more when customers use credit cards, receiving 220% more on average from credit card transactions compared to cash. Credit card transactions guarantee payment and avoid costs and risks associated with cash, while granting access to e-commerce channels. That’s why Small Business Payments Alliance members oppose the Durbin-Marshall Credit Card Bill that would threaten security, access, and benefits. | | | HOW WSJ KEPT THE PRESSURE ON: While the Wall Street Journal’s deeply reported account of the secret negotiations leading up to today’s prisoner swap and the release of their reporter Gershkovich is also must-read, The New York Times’ Katie Robertson recounts how the paper managed to keep his detention front and center for more than a year. — Since his arrest, “the top of The Wall Street Journal’s website has featured prominent coverage of the imprisonment of Evan Gershkovich. … His image and the words #IStandWithEvan appear on a large screen in The Journal’s New York newsroom. Colleagues wear ‘I Stand With Evan’ T-shirts and ‘Free Evan’ pins.” — “The maneuvering behind the international prisoner swap on Thursday … was far outside the bounds of what The Wall Street Journal could do to help him. But since Russia imprisoned Mr. Gershkovich in March 2023, The Journal has pushed to keep his detainment top of mind.” — “The organization has operated letter-writing campaigns, launched social media blitzes and staged a 24-hour read-a-thon of Mr. Gershkovich’s reporting. Colleagues across the world took part in runs on the first anniversary of his arrest, while employees in New York plunged into the cold waters at Brighton Beach in Brooklyn for a swim event.” FAMILY MATTERS: “As he campaigned in 2018 to be the next governor of Illinois, Democrat J.B. Pritzker was on a mission to convince voters of his commitment to fighting climate change. In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, the wealthy businessperson and heir to the Hyatt hotel chain fortune touted his backing of the Paris Climate Accord and vowed to increase state investments in battery technology. Pritzker, moreover, remarked on his support for a little-known climate initiative in Chicago,” the Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky writes. — The initiative, the Clean Energy Trust, counted as one of its founding board members “his cousin, ex-Hyatt Development Corporation CEO Nicholas Pritzker. His cousin was co-chair until 2020 of the climate nonprofit organization, which listed Nicholas Pritzker as a ‘director emeritus’ on its tax forms filed in 2022.” — Since renamed Evergreen Climate Innovations, the nonprofit “has seen a financial boost in Illinois under the leadership of J.B. Pritzker, who is now in his second term as governor and, according to reports, rumored as under consideration by Vice President Kamala Harris to be the running mate of the presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.” — “Pritzker’s administration has awarded at least $3.6 million combined to two companies — NuMat Technologies, Inc., and Iris Light Technologies, Inc. — that Evergreen Climate Innovations invests in, according to state funding records. Evergreen Climate Innovations manages the Illinois Clean Energy Innovation Fund, which has invested millions of dollars in over a dozen Illinois-based companies and received seed funding from an agency within the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.” WHO’S PAYING TRUMP: “Campaigns and political groups have spent more than $1.8 million at Trump properties so far this election cycle,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel writes in a new analysis. — The vast majority of that spending — more than $1.2 million — has come from former President Donald Trump’s political operation, which includes his campaign, joint fundraising committees and allied super PACs, “but it’s not just Trump’s own political apparatus that’s providing the payday — Senate campaigns and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have spent more than $366,000 at Trump properties, and House campaigns have spent more than $256,000.” — Since the sale of Trump’s eponymous hotel in D.C., his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida has become a new hub for Republican politicos, per CREW. And “as Trump faced financial pressures related to civil lawsuits that found him liable for defamation and business fraud this year, his campaign ramped up spending at his properties.”
| | | | Live briefings, policy trackers, and procedural, industry, and people intelligence from POLITICO Pro Analysis gives you the insights you need to focus your policy strategy this election cycle. Secure your seat. | | | | | | | | | — Alexander Perez has joined The Normandy Group as director of federal affairs. He was previously the government relations and public policy manager at the American Association of Universities. — Bullpen Strategy Group is adding Carolyn Needham as senior vice president for research and analysis, Ben Vihstadt as vice president for communications, Madeleine Lefranc and Sydney Maingot as communications associates and Cameron Helms as a media intelligence associate. Needham previously was research director for Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign. Vihstadt previously was senior comms adviser for New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu. — Yash Mori is starting a new consulting firm, Mori Strategies. He previously has been deputy director of the White House Photo Office. — Spencer Brown is rejoining Young America’s Foundation as chief communications officer. He previously was managing editor at Townhall.com. — The Federation of American Hospitals is adding Hannah Hurley as vice president of communications and Geoff Werth as vice president of government relations. Hurley most recently was deputy chief of staff for comms for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.). Werth most recently was a principal at K10 Government Relations. — Gus Hunt has been appointed as adviser for Veritone’s public sector division, where he will provide guidance to the company to expand its AI offerings for government and public sector clients. — Karina Lynch is joining DLA Piper’s public policy practice as partner. She was previously at Williams & Jensen.
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| | | | A message from the Small Business Payments Alliance: A new report from the Small Business Payments Alliance demonstrates the value of the current electronic payments system to small businesses. Debit and credit card transactions are two to four times larger than cash transactions – in 2022, the average credit card transaction was $95, compared to $39 for cash transactions. When small businesses switch to accepting credit card payments, they feel the impact: businesses experience a 10 to 15 percent increase in average transaction size after starting to accept cards. Small businesses know the value of credit cards, which is why Small Business Payments Alliance members oppose the Durbin-Marshall credit card bill. Learn more about how credit cards impact small businesses and get involved in efforts to protect our electronic payments system. | | | | | | | Follow us | | | | |
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