Roger Salazar has exited his managing director post at Mercury Public Affairs in Sacramento to open Alza Strategies to focus on media relations, crisis management in the Hispanic market.
Prior to Mercury, Salazar ran his own media firm. His new shop takes on the Spanish name for “rise.”
Salazar has strong Democratic connections. He served in President Clinton’s White House as assistant press secretary and was Al Gore’s deputy spokesperson during his 2000 run for the presidency.
Salazar also worked as 2000/2001press aide to former California governor Gray Davis, who was recalled by voters and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003, and as senior VP at Porter Novelli.
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.
Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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