Bob Casey ‘confidante’ lobbied for US Steel before Nippon acquisition

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A former “confidante” and campaign manager for Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and co-chair of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s inaugural committee lobbied on behalf of US Steel in the year before its acquisition by Japan’s Nippon Steel, according to state disclosures. Vanessa DeSalvo Getz, one of Pittsburgh’s “Power 100” who has “raised millions of dollars for political candidates and charitable organizations,” according to the outlet City & State, worked on Casey’s state-level races before serving as western Pennsylvania campaign manager for his successful Senate run in 2007. Considered a “longtime confidante” at the time of that election, the founder and president...