David Merritt, managing director for Luntz Global Partners, is moving to America's Health Insurance Plans in Washington to lead communications and advocacy planning.
Merritt led political, policy, healthcare and energy assignments at Luntz, advising executives, candidates and campaigns.
Earlier, he was an advisor to Newt Gingrich's 2012 presidential bid and served as CEO of Gingrich's healthcare policy and lobbying shop. He later was partner and managing director at Leavitt Partners, the firm of former Health and Human Services Secretary and Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt.
Merritt, who returns to AHIP after serving as a director in the early 2000s, is slated to take the executive VP for public affairs and strategic initiatives title at the trade association.
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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