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The rise of shadow lobbying and its influence on decades of US policy
Wolves of K Street co-author Brody Mullins on the history of modern lobbying.
It’s a definitive history of modern lobbying in America, told through the lens of some of the industry’s most unsavory characters and the influence they’ve exerted on DC politics across decades. Brody and I talked a lot about how lobbying has shifted over the years — from the regulated version on K Street, a real place in DC in proximity of Capitol Hill, to a much more diffuse and hard-to-track form of influence you might call shadow lobbying, in which companies spend tons of money on groups with innocent-sounding names that buy ads and coverage around the country to influence local elections. Sometimes it works; you’ll hear Brody and I talk about the famous internet “Blackout” protest of 2012 that brought down laws called SOPA and PIPA.
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