{"id":154492,"date":"2025-08-18T01:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154492\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T01:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:22:07","slug":"lobbying-powerhouses-move-in-on-arizonas-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154492\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobbying powerhouses move in on Arizona\u2019s politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Key Points:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\nD.C. lobbying firm partners with local consults\u00a0\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\nAlliance targets growth in defense, technology and health care\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\nAnother national flag planted portends further interest in future\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A partnership between a local lobbying firm and a Washington D.C. behemoth may just be a harbinger for greater national interest in Arizona, especially amid rapid growth in the state and a dynamic political climate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BGR Group, a bipartisan firm based in D.C., with offices in Austin, Texas, Atlanta, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee, announced in June it would be staking out a new headquarters in Phoenix with Consilium Consulting, a policy advocacy firm headed by former chief of staff to Gov. Doug Ducey and former Speaker of the House Kirk Adams.<\/p>\n<p>The D.C. firm stands as the third top-earning lobbying firm in 2025, reporting 281 clients totalling $32.1 million, with $17.5 million reported in Q2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Consilium Consulting, meanwhile, represents clients like the Mayo Clinic, Greater Phoenix Leadership and the Arizona Medical Association in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two firms plan to collaborate on economic development, as well as defense, health care and technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adams attributes the partnership and growing interest in Arizona to rising political competition and a growing economy, particularly in advanced manufacturing and the semiconductor industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have this much capital, both from foreign investors, but also domestic investors coming into our state like we have right now, that means there\u2019s going to be a lot of connectivity with public policy makers,\u201d Adams said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Loren Monroe, practice head and principal at BGR, said the firm deliberately looked at states with a strong economy, active private sector growth and dynamic political infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a Democratic governor, Republican Legislature, Democratic U.S. Senate delegation, Democratic AG, Republican House members, it\u2019s clear that there is a robust political environment that reflects the national mood,\u201d Monroe said. \u201cIt\u2019s, to us, really a microcosm of a lot of the great work that is going on across the country, and we want to be a part of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The result puts a national lens on state politics, and vice versa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe seem to do our part to hold the country\u2019s attention every election cycle. And now we\u2019re starting to hold the country\u2019s attention when it comes to our economy and the opportunity that exists here,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n<p>And, given the current trajectory, BGR and Consilium serve as an indicator of continued national presence in the state, especially in approaching upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Kenney, partner at Echo Canyon Consulting, a national firm headquartered in Arizona, with offices in Dallas, Texas, and Alexandria, Virginia, said Arizona\u2019s bipartisan representation at both the federal and state level, as well as the state\u2019s growing position as a major swing state have served as a catalyst for increased involvement in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the political side, close races for statewide offices continue to bring in interest from national fundraisers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And in the public and government affairs vein, key issues find an epicenter in the state in terms of energy, water, housing, development and international trade, especially cross-border trade with Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Kenney noted an undeniable overlap in national and state policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNational policy shifts or changes will have a local impact, and it\u2019s on firms just like Echo Canyon to help facilitate those conversations and make sure that politicians understand what those local impacts are going to be, the potential political implications of that,\u201d Kenney said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Monroe echoed the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreasingly, there isn\u2019t much of a red line between state government and federal government lobbying. There needs to be a collaboration where sometimes the most effective touch to a member of Congress in Washington can be through the Governor\u2019s Office or the best way to convince a company to locate in a state is because both sides of the political equation welcome them,\u201d Monroe said.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cThose are pieces of a puzzle that takes expertise on the ground to put together. You can\u2019t do that from thousands of miles away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key Points:\u00a0 D.C. lobbying firm partners with local consults\u00a0 Alliance targets growth in defense, technology and health care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49460,90219,90220,453,210,1141,1142,8302,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-154492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-arizona-politics","9":"tag-bgr-group","10":"tag-consilium-consulting","11":"tag-economics","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-health-care","14":"tag-healthcare","15":"tag-lobbying","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115047153212929920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}