Here’s a dispatch from Bill Black, who oversees Fleishman-Hillard’s global public affairs practice (and who is traveling as I write this), on what the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday on Citizens United v. FEC might mean for companies’ and unions’ public affairs activities. He writes:
I am just returning from the annual National Grassroots Conference of [...]
I came across an interesting article that examined online advertisement spending levels for both candidates in the recent New Jersey gubernatorial election, and the results are somewhat surprising. Neither candidate spent a significant portion of their budget on online advertisement, even though both ran online ads on state political Web sites for the bulk on [...]
Sir Christopher Meyer, a member of Fleishman-Hillard’s International Advisory Board and career veteran of the British diplomatic corps (he closed out his career in 2003 as Ambassador to the United States), was here in Washington today to share his views on emerging international trends. We’ve captured some of his thoughts in the following series of [...]
Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office has issued its own scorecard of the just-held European Parliament elections and their implications for business. The big take away:
Turnout (43%) was lower than 2004 (45%)
The European People’s Party (EPP), Centre-right Christian democrats, were the clear winners of the elections
The Centre-left Party of European Socialists (PES) suffered devastating losses for (especially in [...]
Most people wouldn’t associate The Wizard of Oz with economic policy.
But during a lecture at the Scottish Tory Party conference last Friday sponsored by Fleishman-Hillard Edinburgh, former Scottish Secretary of State Lord Michael Forsyth did just that. Applying the popular movie’s storyline to British economic policy, Forsyth interpreted the iconic tornado that sends Dorothy to [...]
Seth Godin, a marketing expert, spoke at the most recent TED conference about the role that “tribes” play in social change. His premise:
I call it the idea of tribes. What tribes are is a very simple concept that goes back 50,000 years. It’s about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it’s something that people [...]
New developments in media and technology are often ignored and dismissed as passing fads, only to change the paradigm of how people work, live, and communicate. Time has shown that media and technology are inherently tied to progress. Time has also shown that those who ignore the evolution of communication mediums are destined to play catch [...]
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Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., has been in office for just a month, but he’s already lost at least lost one staffer.
The Politico says top aide Darrel Thompson is returning to the relative safety of the majority leader’s office.
“Three weeks ago I was temporarily detailed to serve as Chief of Staff to Senator Roland W. Burris. [...]
President-elect Obama’s slate of energy and environmental officials represents a new influx of pragmatic, experienced, scientifically based, and environmentally friendly leadership. But more importantly, they also signal that federal policy is about to take a drastic turn toward addressing climate change and promoting alternative energy.
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To start, Energy Secretary-designate Steven Chu, a Nobel-prize winning physicist, has [...]
The results are in: Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States. In this video, FH D.C’s Pat Cleary and Bill Black provide their views on the election and the road ahead for the new President and Congress.
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