Mark Miner, a top PR aide to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, has moved back to the Austin office of McGuire Woods Consulting as a senior VP.
Miner was press secretary and communications advisor to Perry during his 2010 re-election and 2012 presidential campaign. He previously joined McGuire Woods in 2012 before leaving a year later to re-join Perry has the governor mulled whether to run again or mount another presidential campaign. [Perry announced in July that he will not run again.]
McGuireWoods president and former congressman L.F. Payne said Miner played a key role in getting the Washington-based firm's Austin office launched, adding, "we are very excited to welcome him back."
Miner was communications director for Tex. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, and worked Bill Simon's aborted 2003 run for California governor.
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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