Comcast adds lobbyists for merger fight

Comcast has hired a new team of high-powered lobbyists as it fights for approval of its proposed merger with Time Warner Cable.

The company added The Normandy Group to its advocacy roster, according to recently filed lobbying disclosure forms, and will have former Rep Henry Bonilla (R-TX) working on its behalf. It’s the second lobby shop Comcast has hired since announcing its intention to merge with Time Warner in February, and it brings the company’s total tally of lobby firms to 35, forms filed with the Senate indicate.

The Normandy Group will “work on Comcast's pending acquisition of Time Warner Cable and related Congressional hearing on the transaction,” according to the paperwork. Also on the account are Krista Stark, who served as legislative director to Rep James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-WI), when he was chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Louis Dupart, a veteran of Capitol Hill, the Defense Department and the CIA.