Tarrah Cooper, press secretary for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for five years, is moving to Mercury as the first hire for its new Windy City outpost.Cooper in November will take a managing director slot to lead client work and business development for the Omnicom firm's Chicago foray.
She was a press deputy for Emanuel's 2010 campaign and joined his administration in 2011 as press secretary and day-to-day spokeswoman. In a statement, she called her term with Emanuel "an incredible privilege." She added: "I look forward to launching Mercury Chicago’s office and leveraging my political and communication experiences to help solve the most pressing issues in Chicago and around the world.”
Emanuel in a statement called Cooper an "integral member of my team, by my side, helping to manage communications and community relations around the top priorities of my administration."
During the Obama administration's first term, Cooper was special assistant to the Secretary of Homeland Security and earlier served as press assistant to Obama for America.
Kieran Mahoney leads Mercury, which has expanded to San Francisco and Nashville this year.
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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