By Jim Small | Arizona Mirror
Martha McSally was sworn in last week to replace Jon Kyl as Arizona’s U.S. Senator, after Kyl’s brief stint in the Senate that saw him replace his former seatmate, the late John McCain. Last night, Kyl filed his long-awaited financial disclosure statement showing how much he made as a lobbyist at a prominent D.C. law firm.
The disclosure, which was first reported today by the Arizona’s Politics blog, lifts the veil on Kyl’s pay in 2017 and 2018, and shows that he earns $930,000 annually for his lobbying work at Covington & Burling.
But it was always widely believed that Kyl, who was the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. Senate when he retired, would make gobs of money as a lobbyist. And some suggested that his return to the Senate would bolster his return to the lobbying world and allow him and his firm to make even more money.
