{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcapitol-weekly-podcast.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fjennifer-fearing-fearless-advocate-coqZctw0","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Jennifer Fearing: Fearless Advocate","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/88b9bd/88b9bdb8-501e-48e4-bfa1-adafa53a2e93/ab43134f-517b-4875-b1de-7aba88561d17/artworks-g7nkxu1nmmp8viur-otdhqg-t3000x3000.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Lobbyist Jennifer Fearing operates Fearless Advocacy, a small \"white hat\" lobbying outfit that represents nonprofits, animal rights groups, environmentalists and other clients with feel-good causes. With clients like these, Fearing isn't the highest-billing advocate on the block, but her record at the capitol is the envy of many of her peers. She shared her most immediate concern: the pandemic has made this a difficult year for many of the nonprofits she represents; funding is suddenly unstable, and for many, demand for services is way up. We asked her about her recent Twitter post highlighting a list of good news among the seemingly never-ending downpour of terrible that is 2020. She also discussed the ugly end-of-session wrangling that ultimately doomed the ambitious recycling bill SB 54 (and, same bill, AB 1080) that she was working - similar legislation will be on the ballot in 2022. That 2022 election may be a ways off, but this year's Presidential election looms large. Fearing is going all-in: we caught her just as she prepared to relocate to a rural Pennsylvania swing county (voted twice for Obama, then for Trump) for the duration of the election season."}