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Yet Kinney's personal and professional alliance with Newsom has given him and his firm a unique position of power. According to the firm, Kinney has built a firewall between his work for Newsom and Axiom's clients, makes money only on work for his individual clients and does not profit from the firm's overall earnings.Ĭalifornia law doesn't expressly prohibit lobbying the administration while also advising the governor, and some of Newsom's predecessors sought the input of Sacramento lobbyists. Kinney's firm, Axiom Advisors, has lobbied on behalf of several companies seeking to sway decision-making in Newsom's office, including Netflix and unsecured creditors of Pacific Gas & Electric, records reviewed by The Times show. “I think it certainly can cause the public to question whether any advice the governor is getting is in the public interest or in the interest of the companies that have paid Kinney’s firm to lobby,” said Emily Rusch, executive director of the California Public Interest Research Group, an independent consumer advocacy organization. His dual roles as an advisor to Newsom and a lobbyist paid by companies to influence the governor and his staff have raised questions about potential conflicts of interest for the administration. Kinney is well known around the state Capitol as a strategist, ghostwriter of Newsom's speeches and unofficial fixer summoned to help loosen the governor from political jams.
But the episode also exposed something that has long been the subject of quiet discussion in Sacramento: Newsom's decision to maintain a tight relationship with Kinney, who is director of a lobbying firm with business before the governor.
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