• D.C. lobbying firm partners with local consults • Alliance targets growth in defense, technology and health care • Another national flag planted portends further interest in future

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.

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.

The D.C. firm stands as the third top-earning lobbying firm

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