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Jennifer Cunningham, one of the most powerful women in New York politics, is exiting SKDKnickerbocker in March to travel and explore new challenges, according to an email sent to staffers.
The SKDKnick partner is former political director of the powerful 1199SEIU union and a long-time friend of Governor Andrew Cuomo.
She handled Cuomo’s first run for governor and the successful 2011 bid to legalize same-sex marriage in the Empire State.
City & State NY ranked Cunningham and then-SKDKnick partner Josh Isay No. 1 in its inaugural Political PR Power 50 list released Jan. 13. It lauded Cunnigham as “one of New York’s savviest communications strategists.”
SKDKnick elevated Isay, who was campaign manager for New York Senator Chuck Schumer, to CEO on Jan. 16 and named five new partners.
He promised, “an incredibly exciting year for SKDK as we actively pursue companies to acquire, new talent to come in-house and deliver an even better and more robust product for our clients.”
Mark Penn’s Stagwell Group owns SKDKnick.
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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