Philadelphia has won a three-way pitch to host the 2016 Democratic convention, where the party will nominate a candidate to succeed President Barack Obama.
The City of Brotherly Love beat out finalists Brooklyn, N.Y., and Cleveland, Ohio, for the confab.
Columbus will host the Republican National Convention July 18-21, 2016.
Democratic National Convention chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Philadelphia committed to a "seamless and safe convention" and praised the city's "deep rooted place in American history."
The Democratic convention, centered on the Wells Fargo Center, is slated for the week of July 25.
The PR coup for Philadelphia comes on the heels of The Vatican's announcement in November that Pope Francis will visit in the city at the World Meeting of Families in September 2015.
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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