After French Laundry dinner, a lobbying boom for Newsom adviser s firm
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FILE - This Thursday, March 19, 2020 file photo, is The French Laundry restaurant in Yountville, Calif. Eric Risberg/Associated Press
SACRAMENTO Billings by lobbying firm Axiom Advisors rose by more than 25% last quarter, following an infamous birthday dinner held by partner Jason Kinney at Napa Valley’s French Laundry restaurant. Gov. Gavin Newsom attended the November event in violation of his own social distancing rules in effect at the time, helping to spur the recall drive currently underway against him.
The Sacramento-based consultancy logged revenues of $2,008,046 between January and March, according to lobbying reports filed with the state, an increase of $406,916 from the fourth quarter of 2020 and its second-best reporting period since the firm was formed two and a half years ago.
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President and managing partner, Axiom Advisors As a private-practice attorney at a large San Francisco law firm, Cassie Gilson felt, “It was the right table but the wrong seat at the table.” A client suggested she move to Sacramento and work for him as a lobbyist. “It was really a leap of faith to change careers, to go from practicing law to lobbying, and then moving to a city where you knew no one,” Gilson says of relocating in 2001. In January 2019, Gilson founded Axiom Advisors, making her one of the only women who are managing partners at the top lobbying