 Lisa Murkowski |
Michelle Toohey, deputy press secretary for former Alaska Governor Sean Parnell, has joined the communications staff of the state’s Senator Lisa Murkowski, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
She will serve as senior advisor and “play a key role in promoting the committee’s work to advance energy and resources for Alaska and the nation,” according to a statement from the Republican Senator.
Toohey, a native of Anchorage, has been running her own PA shop for the past three years.
Earlier, she served as chief of staff for ex-Alaska lieutenant governor Mead Treadwell and director of PR/advocacy at the American Lung Assn. of Alaska.
Erik Hotmire has rejoined the Securities and Exchange Commission as chief external affairs officer and director of the Office of Public Affairs.
California seeks a firm to handle a $3.5M marketing/ad program to promote awareness of, and increase sign-ups in, its job corps program. 
The National Highway Safety Administration has awarded its public education to Stratacomm following a competitive re-compete process.
Congress wants the FTC to probe whether TikTok violated child privacy laws when it launched a last-ditch lobbying blitz to defeat the bill requiring its owner, ByteDance, to divest it.
Jeffrey Nesbit, who served as communications director for former vice president Dan Quayle, is named assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
