My first essay for the The Wall Street Journal edited by the patient Gary Rosen - Wealthy New Yorkers who moved to Florida are back North for August — forced to play in the same sandbox as Manhattan loyalists …a billionaire brouhaha unfolding in summer hot spots. wsj.com/lifestyle/trav…

SCOOP: Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas) uses a political consulting firm that is owned by a Texas man who previously served around three years in prison after pleading guilty to Medicare and Medicaid fraud. politico.com/newsletters/po…

NEW: As Gov. Walz continues to take heat over allegations that he falsely suggested that he observed a fallen soldier ceremony serving in Afghanistan, the Harris campaign told me that he was actually referring to a visit to Bagram when he was in Congress. politico.com/newsletters/na…

SCOOP: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently described his Bitcoin holdings as representing “most of my wealth.” But according to a recent financial disclosure statement, Bitcoin is no more than 23 percent of his net worth, and potentially as little as 3 percent. politico.com/newsletters/pl…

“The San Francisco Bay Area has a higher share of $1 million-plus homes than anywhere else in the U.S. In San Francisco, 80.6% of homes were valued at or above $1 million in June, according to Redfin’s data.” wsj.com/real-estate/mi…

NEW: Lobbyists scramble to understand how Kamala Harris would change Washington: politico.com/live-updates/2…

Overheard in Chicago: ‘We’ve got to make sure that the Democratic Party is a pro-Israel party’ ow.ly/q4Ct105Gn01

SCOOP: Last week Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) headlined a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Madison, S.D., for part of a water project that received $152M under Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law — which Thune opposed, citing fiscal concerns. politico.com/newsletters/pl…

Jacob Wohl, using this Twitter handle, has posted a video in which he confirms my story about his secret involvement in LobbyMatic. He said, "It was about half a decade ago, I was a young man, and since then, I've taken my energy in a new direction." x.com/TheLobbyistGuy…

NEWS: The former Biden (turned Harris) campaign recently refunded $50,000 that was given to it by businessman Gaurav Srivastava, who’s accused of fraudulently pretending to be associated with the CIA. The money had been previously put in “escrow.” politico.com/newsletters/we…

SCOOP: Akin Gump still does legal work for Chinese lidar maker Hesai Group despite dropping the company as a lobbying client in Feb. amid threats of getting blacklisted by Congress after Hesai was listed on a DOD list of Chinese-military linked companies. politico.com/newsletters/po…

SCOOP: As GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno hits Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown for failing to pay property taxes on time, a trust belonging in part to the wealthy Ohio Republican was more than a year late on paying a $20,000 tax bill on a house that it owns. politico.com/newsletters/pl…

SCOOPLET: LobbyMatic, the company trying to integrate AI into lobbying that was covertly run by far-right conspiracy theorists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, has killed off a fake employee named “Pat Smith” that it used to try to get intros on LinkedIn. politico.com/newsletters/po…