We're a father/son team, therefore I'm very much by the book. I shop bills first to educate and fish out any opposition and will let a sponsor know that I oppose their bill before I kill it. You can put on a good show but in the end its all about votes. We get votes. I'm also a former reporter which aids in our PR efforts.
11-15 years
Arkansas College Media Award winner for photo and print
Arkansas Business 30 under 30
National Junior Chamber President's Medal of Honor winner and Ambassador to Japan
Arkansas Junior Chamber Star Award
Our representation for energy and insurance clients keeps us close to the Insurance and Commerce Committees. Our pharmaceutical and other health related clients keep us close to the Public Health Committees. However, we regularly have bills in other committees and can successfully lobby the entire house and senate.
We have relationships all over our state government. If we don't know someone already we will find an introduction. We specialize in cultivating long term relationships with people and always remain loyal to our friends and those that help us.
My father returned home to Harrison, Arkansas after playing for the Denver Broncos for a few years and began working as a sales rep for Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Over the next decade he worked his way up to VP of marketing. In 1986 I was 8 years old and he was asked to be something called a "lobbyist". I immediately was in love. I knew at eight years old that I wanted to be a lobbyist when I grew up. Believe it or not I planned my life accordingly.
In the early 90's the newspapers had painted a target on all of the lobbyists in Arkansas. Dad had a heated exchange with a legislator and an editorialist took some liberties with article. I knew then that I wanted to join the media before lobbying in order to avoid anything like that. In high school, I managed the local GNC, volunteered for every campaign that I could and took summer work at the capitol as a driver and staffer for our Treasurer and Attorney General. I took some journalism courses and immediately got a job as a reporter when I started college.
After college I was an inaugural staff member for Governor Mike Beebe. After serving as a policy adviser I left to join my father's firm, Phillips Management and Consulting Service. After having a very successful run under a Democratic administration, we had a very smooth transition into the next Republican administration with myself serving on incoming Governor Asa Hutchinson's transition team in the areas of the Department of Human Services and the Department of Information Systems.
We love our job. Neither my father nor myself plan to retire. We want to lobby as long as we can.
In 2009 I started a company called LobbyUp. I was disappointed with the only bill tracking service available in Arkansas so I built my own. We now have over 50,000 users in 14 states and we'll continue to add states until we are in all 50 and congress. We have a free mobile app for android and ios.
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2) 3M COMPANY
3) Associated Public-Safety Communications Officers, Kansas Cha
4) Catalyst
5) Center for the Rights of Abused Children
7) Equifax Inc
8) HCA
10) Kansas Advanced Practice Nurses Association
11) KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF NURSE ANESTHETISTS
12) KANSAS BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION
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800 SW JACKSON STREET, SUITE 1005, Topeka, KS, 66612, 
2) 3M COMPANY
3) AMERICAN MULTI-CINEMA, INC.
4) Associated Public-Safety Communications Officers, Kansas Cha
5) Catalyst
6) DIRECTV, LLC
8) Earnin
9) ENVISION
10) HCA
12) KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS
13) KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHAIN DRUG STORES
14) KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF NURSE ANESTHETISTS
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16) KANSAS PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION
18) KANSAS SOCIETY OF RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGISTS
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24) NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF KANSAS & WESTERN MO.
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