Michael Comer, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s deputy communications director, is leaving Capitol Hill to join S-3 Group.
Comer has been with Scalise since 2018. He was previously Scalise’s digital director – Scalise has a healthy digital presence.
The S-3 Group is home to a number of former Scalise staffers, notably Matt Bravo and Marty Reiser. S-3 represents clients such as the American Petroleum Institute, Blue Origin, CTIA, DoorDash, Expedia, H&R Block, Intel, JPMorgan Chase and Boeing.
Comer is only the most recent Scalise staffer to leave the leader’s office. Ben Napier recently went to Andreessen Horowitz and Francis Brooke was nominated for an assistant secretary role at the Treasury Department.
Uriarte lands: Carlos Uriarte, the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legislative Affairs in the Biden administration, is heading to the law firm Morrison Foerster to run its congressional investigations group.
Uriarte helped lead the Biden Justice Department’s response to a number of GOP investigations during the 118th Congress.
Uriarte has extensive Capitol Hill experience, including serving as chief counsel for investigations on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, and as counsel on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Uriarte was also judiciary and oversight counsel to Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.).
Other executive-branch stints for Uriarte include associate deputy attorney general at DOJ and as senior counsel at the Interior Department.
BEAT tax ad. The Common Sense Leadership Fund is running a new $1.5 million ad campaign, targeted at changing international tax law – the Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax and Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income. The spot is running nationwide on cable.
Bacon targeted: Liberal outside group Unrig Our Economy is running an ad attacking Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) for backing Medicaid cuts. Check out the ad here, which features a South Omaha, Neb., resident whose family relies on Medicaid.
Equality PAC endorsements: The campaign arm of the House Democratic LGBTQ caucus is endorsing JoAnna Mendoza in Arizona’s 6th District, Eric Chung in Michigan’s 10th District and Jeremy Moss in Michigan’s 11th District.
