 Antonia Ferrier |
Antonia Ferrier, a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has shifted to Definers Public Affairs as partner.
The 14-year Capitol Hill veteran told Politico she shifted to Definers because she wanted to get out of her comfort zone.
She praised McConnell for passing tax reform, approving judges and pushing for regulatory reforms.
Ferrier also was staff director at the Senate Republican Communications Center and worked for Sens. Roy Blunt (MO), Olympia Snowe (ME) and Bill Frist (TN).
Matt Rhoades, campaign manager for Romney-Ryan 2012, and Joe Pounder, research director for the Republican National Committee, launched Definers in 2015.
The shop made national headlines last month following a New York Times report about its opposition research for Facebook, which is now a former client.
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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