Steve Holton, a former Capitol Hill aide, has joined the Washington-based National Potato Council as director of corporate and public relations.
He takes a slot being vacated by Mark Szymanski, the former US Chamber of Commerce staffer who joins the Afghanistan Veterans of America in New York as communications director.
The 66-year-old NPC represents the $4.3B US potato industry, including its DC push to get potatoes on the menu of the federal food assistance program for women, infants and children known as WIC.
Holton worked communications and aide posts to Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL), the Bush-Cheney re-election in Michigan, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
He takes the reins on the NPC's media outreach, grassroots and social media, in addition to coordinating public policy PR.
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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