By Greg Hazley
Bill Burton, the Obama press aide who left to advise a super PAC that supported the president's re-election campaign, has landed at Global Strategy Group in a PR role in D.C.
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Burton takes an executive VP role focused on strategic communications and public affairs for the firm, which worked with the Priorities USA Action super PAC during the recent election cycle. GSG was the lead consultant to PUSAA, which has been credited with inflicting early damage on the image of challenger Mitt Romney in the campaign.
On the corporate side, GSG, based in New York, has worked with ESPN, IBM and A&E Networks. It is helping hedge funder Bill Ackman in his campaign to discredit the nutritional products giant Herbalife.
Burton, a Hill PR aide and communications director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee when it was led by then-Rep. Rahm Emanuel,was national press secretary for Obama's 2008 campaign. He joined the White House as deputy press secretary before leaving to work on the re-election push for PUSAA.
Jen Psaki left her senior VP/managing director role at GSG to be Obama's traveling press secretary during the campaign. Jim Papa now heads the D.C. office of GSG. |