Qorvis does PR, public affairs, grass-roots and Internet-based campaigns.
Lauer earlier was senior director of media relations at America's Promise, an advocacy group for children's issues; served as communications director for the South Carolina Democratic Party; and did press for the successful Senate campaign of John Edwards (D-N.C.), now the Democratic nominee for vice president.
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Pair Under Inquiry May Face Tribal Action (The Washington Post, Oct 7, 2004)
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Snowmobiles? This Isn't Yellowstone! (The Washington Post, Sep 30, 2004)
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Lobbying Up a Storm for Beaches (The Washington Post, Sep 23, 2004)
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Berger's Firm to Aid Oil Interests in Iraq (The Washington Post, Sep 16, 2004)
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Sonnenschein Gains a New Democrat (The Washington Post, Sep 9, 2004)
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He has learned how popular NBC's "Today" show host Matt Lauer is.
"I get a lot of fan mail, love letters. . . . [E]everybody at NBC calls me back immediately," Matt J. said in an interview.
Changes Afoot in PR
In other Washington PR news . . . Patti Solis Doyle, previously executive director at HILLPAC/Friends of Hillary, the leadership political action committee of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), has joined the Glover Park Group as a senior vice president of the strategic communications shop. Doyle also worked in the White House as director of scheduling and advance for then-first lady Hillary Clinton.
Financial Dynamics Business Communications has signed on Christopher Colford, a Hill and Knowlton executive and speechwriter for former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt Jr.; and Bob Peirce, a political and public affairs counselor at the British Embassy in Washington who is on leave before taking up the post of British consul general in Los Angeles next year.
Hyde Park Communications has added Rob Black, previously chief spokesman for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; and Lisa Wolfe, who worked at RFBinder Partners, a member of the Ruder Finn Group.
Association Executive Goes Solo
Furthermore . . . Health care lobbyist Stephen J. Ubl has left the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), where he was executive vice president for government relations, to open his own lobby shop -- Ubl Health Solutions. Earlier, he was chief lobbyist for the Federation of American Hospitals and, even earlier, worked for Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa).
