Political insider Erik Huey joins the ESA

Erik Huey has joined the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the trade organization representing the interactive entertainment industry announced today. Huey is a former partner at Kilpatrick Stockton LLP who specializes in government relations for the entertainment, communications, and media sectors, A the ESA’s new Senior Vice President for Government Affairs Huey will assume leadership for the ESA’s federal and state government relations department, which advocates on behalf of the entertainment software industry to elected officials and regulatory agencies.

Prior to his arrival at Kilpatrick Stockton, Huey practiced with Venable LLP for a variety of entertainment, communications, and technology clients. He also worked in the Legislative and Regulatory Matters Department of BellSouth Corporation’s general counsel office in Atlanta, where he developed and coordinated telecommunications policies for the corporation’s telephone, wireless, cable, Internet, and international affiliates.

Huey is most definitely a political insider with ties to the Democratic political machine. He helped coordinate voter protection and mobilization efforts in Western Pennsylvania for the Obama Campaign during the 2008 primary and the 2008 general election. Huey had a similar role during the 2006 mid-term elections, and served as the Kerry/Edwards Campaign’s Get Out the Vote Director for Western Pennsylvania in 2004. Huey also served as an advance coordinator for the 1992 Clinton/Gore Presidential Campaign and as a summer associate under then-State Attorney Janet Reno in the Florida State Attorney’s Office’s legal division.