Zac Petkanas, communications director of the Nevada Democratic Party, has been named to that title for the high-profile Texas gubernatorial campaign of state senator Wendy Davis.
The Davis campaign has suffered a series of PR stumbles in its uphill push against former state attorney general Greg Abbott and the San Antonio News Express reported last month that changes in the communications operation were afoot.
In addition to Petkanas, the campaign added Obama for America Texas alum Hector Nieto as a traveling press secretary.
Bo Delp, who held the comms. director slot and was previously a press assistant at the Environmental Protection Agency, was bumped down to deputy.
Petkanas is a former communications deputy to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and comms. director to Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper (D-Pa.).
He was also press secretary to Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.).
Rebecca Acuna is press secretary to Davis.
On the Abbott campaign trail, Abe Huerta is press secretary and Matt Hirsch is communications director.
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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