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For ex-legislative director, all policy is local

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 12, 2017

Rep. Bruce Westerman's (R-Ark.) legislative director has moved from working on federal policies to representing the interests of county governments.

Jonathan Shuffield is now an associate legislative director for public lands at the National Association of Counties. The University of Texas grad joined Westerman's office in 2014 after leaving his post as executive director of the Congressional Western Caucus.

Founded in 1935, NACo lists protecting the federal-state-local Medicaid partnership and promoting criminal-justice reform among its top legislative priorities for 2017.