“If you’re a trade association or corporation and you want to play at the highest level, having something right near the Hill is very valuable,” said Stewart Verdery, CEO and founder of Monument Advocacy, a firm that counts Google’s parent company Alphabet, Amazon and Netflix as clients. “It gives you the mechanism to engage with members that others aren’t going to be able to do.”
Verdery said it sends the message that the corporate owners are “an access player, so it’s probably not for everybody.”
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