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This article by Theodoric Meyer at Politico refers to stories that we shall read November 18-20:
Definers Public Affairs is rebranding nine months after Facebook cut ties with the Republican consulting firm and as several of its top staffers leave to join a Washington lobbying firm.
Matt Rhoades, the Republican operative who ran Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, is leaving Definers to become the co-chief executive of CGCN Group, a lobbying firm with ties to President Donald Trump’s White House and Republicans in Congress.
Rhoades is taking a number of Definers staffers with him, including Antonia Ferrier, a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Meanwhile, Joe Pounder, the GOP operative who co-founded Definers with Rhoades in 2015, has bought out Rhoades’ stake in Definers and has rebranded the firm as Bullpen Strategy Group.
The changes come less than a year after The New York Times detailed how Definers used “campaign-style opposition research” tactics to target Facebook’s rivals, including senators investigating the social network — a move that deeply irked some lawmakers. Facebook severed its ties to Definers shortly after the Times story ran.
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