Alex Deane, managing director in FTI Consulting's strategic communications operation, is taking a leave from the firm to lead the campaign supporting the UK's exit from the European Union.
UK voters will decide their country's fate in the EU in a June 23 referendum.
Deane, a former PA chief at Weber Shandwick, has been named executive director of "Grassroots Out," the organization supporting withdrawal from the EU.
He is also a former chief of staff to British Prime Minister David Cameron, when he was a member of parliament.
The UK's possible exit from the EU, dubbed "Brexit," comes 40 years after its last referendum on its membership in Europe's common market. Polls say the public is split on the vote.
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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