Panel supports team as airport’s lobbyist

The Ron Fuller Enterprises team of Ron Fuller and Melissa Moody won a recommendation Tuesday to be the new lobbyist for Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field.

The firm was selected by a unanimous vote of the Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission’s lease and consultant selection committee after the committee heard presentations from Fuller and two other firms, Paschall Strategic Communications and the Little Rock law firm of Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard PLLC.

Fuller was the local subcontractor for the airport’s outgoing lobbying firm of six years, Witt Global Partners, which was paid a $5,000 monthly retainer. Witt didn’t pursue another contract with the airport.

Work by the Witt/Fuller combo included efforts to fight proposed legislation in 2017 that would have forced the commission to rename Clinton National.

The recommendation now goes to the commission for consideration at its regular monthly meeting next Tuesday.