{"id":954,"date":"2021-11-20T04:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T04:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/?p=954"},"modified":"2021-11-20T04:30:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T04:30:17","slug":"egypt-picks-up-former-dem-senator-turkey-loses-another-firm-daschle-lobbies-for-toyota-mondays-daily-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/egypt-picks-up-former-dem-senator-turkey-loses-another-firm-daschle-lobbies-for-toyota-mondays-daily-digest\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt picks up former Dem senator; Turkey loses another firm; Daschle lobbies for Toyota: Monday\u2019s Daily Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Middle East<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"kuwait\"><strong>Egypt<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Brownstein Hyatt<\/strong>\u00a0has\u00a0added\u00a0former US senator and Anchorage mayor\u00a0<strong>Mark Begich\u00a0<\/strong>(D-Alaska) to its new $65,000-a-month\u00a0account\u00a0with the Embassy of Egypt. Begich served in the Senate from 2009 to 2015, during the\u00a0<strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>\u2013<strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>\u00a0administration. Cairo is scrambling to build ties to Democrats following the defeat of the President\u00a0<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, who reportedly called President<strong>\u00a0Abdel Fattah al-Sisi<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cmy favorite dictator\u201d and shielded Cairo from repercussions over its human-rights record while siding with Egypt in its dispute with Ethiopia over the latter\u2019s new Nile dam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"turkey\">Others on the account include&nbsp;<strong>Nadeam Elshami<\/strong>, the former chief of staff to House Speaker&nbsp;<strong>Nancy Pelosi&nbsp;<\/strong>(D-Calif.), as well as former House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman&nbsp;<strong>Ed Royce<\/strong>&nbsp;(R-Calif.).&nbsp;The other six people on the account are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Veteran Republican lobbyist and Washington office manager\u00a0<strong>Marc Lampkin<\/strong>;<\/li><li>Democratic fundraiser\u00a0<strong>Alfred Mottur<\/strong>;<\/li><li>Policy director\u00a0<strong>Douglas Maguire<\/strong>;<\/li><li>Attorney\u00a0<strong>David Cohen<\/strong>, a former deputy director for Policy and Government Affairs with the\u00a0<strong>American Israel Public Affairs Committee\u00a0<\/strong>(<strong>AIPAC<\/strong>);<\/li><li>Policy adviser\u00a0<strong>Martha Burke<\/strong>; and<\/li><li>Policy assistant\u00a0<strong>Charlotte Carstens<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East Egypt:\u00a0Brownstein Hyatt\u00a0has\u00a0added\u00a0former US senator and Anchorage mayor\u00a0Mark Begich\u00a0(D-Alaska) to its new $65,000-a-month\u00a0account\u00a0with the Embassy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}