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Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Joe Lang

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63. Joe Lang

Joe Lang is the managing partner of one of the Capitol’s most successful and well-known lobbying firms, Lang, Hansen, Giroux and Kidane. The firm boasts so many power players, in fact, that two others who have their name on the shop – Bev Hansen and Bob Giroux – have made the Top 100 before while the fourth name on the marque, Awet Kidane, is described as a rising star in Sacramento. You don’t get any more big time than that, and Lang sits at the head of the table. Lang, Hansen, Giroux and Kidane’s client list is three-dozen strong, and includes Advantage Capital, the California Academy of Eye Physicians & Surgeons, E&J Gallo Winery, the Hilmar Cheese Company, Hollywood Park Casino, Intuit, the Los Alamitos Race Course and the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams. Lang began his political career on the staff of the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee and was the principal consultant who oversaw major legislation reorganizing the Health Services Agency and restructuring horseracing in California.

Updated Aug. 15, 2023

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