Ed Gillespie, who ran an unsuccessful race for Virginia's Senate seat last year, has returned to Brunswick Group as senior counselor.
He'll concentrate on corporate reputation, PA, crisis management, data security and digital communications.
Based in Brunswick's Washington officer, the former Republican Party chairman and George W. Bush advisor will maintain his Ed Gillespie Strategies consultancy in Alexandria.
Gillespie also helped launch PA shops Quinn Gillespie & Associates (now QGA) and Policy Impact Communications.
He wrote "Winning Right: Campaign Politics and Conservative Policies."
Gillespie lost a squeaker to incumbent Mark Warner, a race in which he conceded three days after Election Day.
David Sutphen heads Brunswick's DC outpost.
Maggie Moran, who is well-connected in New Jersey and New York Democratic politics, has established Moxie Strategies in Asbury Park, NJ.
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.
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