Dan Scandling, senior VP of public affairs at Ogilvy PR, has moved to APCO Worldwide in a senior PA role.
Scandling, reporting to Washington managing director Lisa Osborne Ross, takes the title of senior director for PA at APCO.
Scandling was a longtime aide to Virginia Republican Reps. Frank Wolf and Herb Bateman, including chief of staff and press secretary to each during tenures of 14 years and 10 years, respectively.
He started out in journalism running the weekly Caroline Progress in Virginia and serving as copy editor for the theRichmond Times-Dispatch before moving to the PR realm with the Virginia Housing Development Authority in the late 1980s.
The principles of liberty, self-government and individual rights are often discussed as matters of history. Last week in Odesa, Ukraine, I was reminded they are also very much matters of the present. 
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Too many executives view public affairs as a technical task. They think that if their policy is strong, their facts are correct, and their lawyers are ready, the outcome will naturally follow. That’s a dangerous misconception.
A majority of Americans (52 percent) say president Trump launched the invasion of Iran in part to distract voters from the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal. Forty percent disagree, according to Drop Site/Zeteo/Data for Progress survey conducted March 6-8.
