K&L Gates lobbyist James Walsh might have come to the Republican National Convention last week to serve his official duty as an alternate delegate. But cigars were also on his mind.

Away from the media glare of the convention arena, Walsh had set up private receptions for delegates from Florida and Pennsylvania at the J.C. Newman Cigar Co. factory in Tampa, Fla.’s historic Ybor City neighborhood, where they could smell, taste and smoke cigars at one of the last remaining premium, Cuban-style factories in Florida.

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