The Republican National Committee has filled its top communications slot ahead of the 2010 mid-term elections with the appointment of Hill vet Doug Heye as communications director.
He fills the post vacated by Burson-Marsteller veteran Trevor Francis in a November shake-up. Adman Alex Castellanos had been filling the role as an unpaid advisor to RNC chair Michael Steele.
Heye, who appears regularly on cable news and in print, was communications director for Steele’s failed 2006 Senate bid in Maryland. He backed a winner in 2004 as comms. director for Sen. Richard Burr’s (R-N.C.) election campaign and on his Senate staff.
The RNC has also promoted Katie right to deputy communications director as press secretary Gail Gitcho exits for the staff of newly elected Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.). |