Melissa Sellers, former communications director for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, is moving down the Gulf to Florida, where she will take up the same post for Gov. Rick Scott.
Brian Burgess, who led Scott’s communications since before his 2010 election, is moving to a post heading media relations and communications for the Florida Republican Party later this month. Burgess was a staffer at the conservative PR shop CRC PR, which handled Scott’s anti-Obamacare Conservatives for Patients Rights PAC when Scott was a former healthcare executive mulling a run for governor in 2010.
“His strong work ethic, strategic advice and leadership will be missed inside the administration, but he isn’t going far,” said Scott, who has garnered national attention in his criticism of the Obama administration and healthcare reform.
Sellers, who joins the Scott administration on Sept. 10, worked as director of regional media for the recent Republican National Convention in Tampa. She worked for Jindal during his campaign and his first term in office, including two hurricanes and the BP oil spill.
Burgess takes up the state party post on Sept. 17.