Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele has teamed with crisis guru Lanny Davis in Purple Nation Strategies, a Washington PR, lobbying and legal crisis management firm.
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Steele, who is credited with coining the phrase “drill, baby, drill” in 2008, was lieutenant governor of Maryland before leading the RNC from 2009-10.
“The focus here is on time sensitive, strategic and bipartisan focused solutions with insight from those on both sides of the political aisle,” said Steele, who has served as an MSNBC pundit earlier was a law partner at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, the law firm that merged into Dewey & LeBoeuf and collapsed this year.
Davis, who set up a PR shop in 2010 with American-Israel Public Affairs Committee spokesman Josh Block, continues to practice law and handle clients through Lanny J. Davis & Associates and the D.C. office of Dilworth Paxson.
Davis Block has been dissolved.
Former "Larry King Live" producer Eleanor Spektor McManus is also on the PNS team.
In a statement, Davis said there are advantages to working with a firm that incorporates legal strategies, including the ability to gather facts under attorney-client privilege, developing strategies to correct the record, avoiding legal liabilities, and “protecting client reputations from misinformation in the media and on the internet.”
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