Tina Pelkey, most recently senior VP of Republican communications shop Black Rock Group, has signed on as spokesperson for Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai.
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Tina PelkeyPreviously, she worked at Weber Shandwick (Belgium), DCI Group and served as national press secretary for Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).
“Tina brings to the job a wealth of media relations experience, a tremendous work ethic, and a lot of energy,” Pai said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Internet companies such as Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Netflix, Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn and Amazon are participating in today’s “Day of Action” to protest a threat to retreat from “Net Neutrality.”
They want to head off a Trump administration effort to roll back regulations that require Internet service providers to treat all customers and data equally.
Pai in April expressed support for the ISPs, saying it was “basic economics.”
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.
