POLITICO — The Washington Redskins has brought in K Street reinforcements amid a major political fight brewing over the team’s name.
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The team hired McGuireWoods Consulting in late May, according to newly-filed lobbying disclosures.
The hire of a major K Street firm came just one week after 50 Democratic senators sent a letter to the National Football League asking the league to formally support a change in the Redskins name. “The N.F.L. can no longer ignore this and perpetuate the use of this name as anything but what it is: a racial slur,” the senators wrote.
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