George McQuade, VP for Los Angeles-based Mayo Communications, has moved to the L.A. Homeless Services Authority as communications director.
McQuade, a West Coast correspondent for O'Dwyer's, heads external and internal communications for the 20-year-old city and county-funded agency, which serves the largest homeless population in the country.
The L.A. area has seen a 15% increase in homeless men, women and children since 2011, according to LAHSA.
McQuade was director of PR for the Housing Authority of L.A. in the mid-1990s before a year-and-a-half stint at Cerrell Associates.
Maggie Moran, who is well-connected in New Jersey and New York Democratic politics, has established Moxie Strategies in Asbury Park, NJ.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
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