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Leahy loses staffer to alcohol industry

Posted by LegiStorm on Oct. 7, 2015

An aide to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) left his office last month to work for an organization looking after millions of cases ... of beer.

Zuzy Zvarova joined the National Beer Wholesalers Association last month as a federal affairs assistant. She had been working for Leahy as an assistant to his chief of staff, John Dowd, since 2014 and served as a staff assistant in the office for the year prior. Zvarova also started her Hill career as an intern with Leahy in 2011 before rejoining the office after graduating from the University of Vermont in 2013.

The National Beer Wholesalers Association serves as an advocacy and lobbying organization for independent beer distributors. The Alexandria, Va.-based trade association most recently lobbied on a variety of alcohol regulation issues, including the Small BREW Act. The senior Vermont senator is a co-sponsor of the bill, which was referred to the Senate Finance Committee in February, would reduce the rate of the excise tax for certain qualified domestic brewers.