BIO manager joins campaign; lobbyist for podiatrists volunteers; NRF’s French has not endorsed any candidate in the race Former Capitol Hill staffers for Rick Santorum, who served in the U.S. House and Senate for 16 years, are not entirely surprised by his success—but say the former senator may be. “He definitely has surpassed his own expectations on where and how far he’d go in the race,” said Peter Stein, director of legislative advocacy for the $13 million-revenue American Podiatric Medical Association, based in Bethesda, Md. Both Stein and David French, top lobbyist for the $32 million-revenue National Retail Federation, remember a meeting in the summer of 2010 in… Read More