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FirstView was designed by former White House pollsters Dr. Dee Allsop and Mike Dabadie. Recently teaming with Strat@comm, Allsop was previously president of Harris Interactive Solutions Group and was chairman and CEO of Wirthlin Worldwide. In 2000, he was named "Pollster of the Year" by the American Association of Political Consultants. Dabadie also served at both companies, formerly as Wirthlin’s political campaign pollster and most recently as president of Harris’ brand strategy group focusing on brands, reputation management, public affairs and political campaigning. He has conducted post-election surveys since 1992.
Allsop and Dabadie presenting the FirstView findings through a live webinar on November 5. Joining the pollsters to provide analysis on what the election means for your policy agenda were former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor, former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, and Roll Call Politics Editor Josh Kurtz. The analysts offered regulatory, political and corporate perspectives on the survey findings, drawing on their substantial Washington insider expertise. Moderating the webinar was Fleishman-Hillard Public Affairs President Paul Johnson. To hear a recording of the FirstView results and analysis webinar, click here.
Political Analysts
About Andy Card
A member of Fleishman-Hillard’s International Advisory Board, Andy Card served as Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush and U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President George H.W. Bush.
Previously, Mr. Card served in President Reagan's administration in Intergovernmental Affairs, where he was liaison to governors, statewide elected officials, state legislators, mayors and other elected officials.
Mr. Card was formerly General Motors' Vice President of Government Relations, where he directed the company’s international, national, state and local government affairs activities and represented GM on matters of public policy before Congress and the Administration.
He previously served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1975-1983.
About Mickey Kantor
Mickey Kantor, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and United States Trade Representative, is a senior counselor on Fleishman-Hillard’s International Advisory Board.
Mr. Kantor is one of the world’s leading international attorneys, specializing in corporate and financial transactions as a partner of Mayer, Brown and Platt. He rejoined the law firm in Washington, D.C., in 1997 after serving as President Clinton’s Secretary of Commerce in 1996 and 1997 and as U.S. Trade Representative from 1993 to 1996.
During his government service, Mr. Kantor concluded more than 200 trade agreements and negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He also negotiated side agreements on labor and the environment.
The issues and opportunities surrounding international commerce are becoming increasingly important. Mr. Kantor offers a unique ability to analyze trade and commerce issues from a regulatory, political, and private-sector perspective.
About Josh Kurtz
As the Politics Editor of Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, Josh Kurtz leads the paper’s coverage of congressional races throughout the country.
He also writes a monthly political column for Corridor Inc., a business magazine in Maryland.
Prior to his time at Roll Call, Mr. Kurtz spent seven years as a reporter, columnist and statehouse bureau chief at The Gazette newspapers in Maryland. Previously, he was a reporter for the Santa Fe Reporter, where he wrote about federal, state and local politics and did investigative pieces on the oil and gas industry. He also spent three years in an apprentice program for journalists at The New York Times, and his work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek and the Village Voice.
Researchers
About Dr. Dee Allsop
Dee Allsop, PhD is senior research counselor with Strat@comm. He was previously the president of Harris Interactive Solutions Group, and chairman and CEO of Wirthlin Worldwide. In 2000, the American Association of Political Consultants honored Dr. Allsop with the Pollster of the Year Award for political and public affairs excellence. More recently Dr. Allsop received the David Ogilvy Award from the Advertising Research Foundation in recognition of research and strategic consulting for the highly successful Steel Alliance Campaign. Allsop received a PhD. and M.A. in Political Science from The Ohio State University and a B.A. in Political Science from Brigham Young University.
About Mike Dabadie
A consultant passionate about brand strategy and political campaigning, Mike Dabadie has spent the past 17 years using both disciplines to help clients meet their objectives. Today, he is the managing director of Promise North America, a London-headquartered brand strategy consultancy with U.S. offices in Washington, D.C.
Promise was formed by the past senior executives of FutureBrand and by the global CMO of Visa. The firm uses a co-creation based research methodology to affect consumer decision-making and bring clients closer to their customers. This cutting-edge approach has produced great success for such brands as Prime Minister Tony Blair, Vice President Al Gore, Jumeirah Properties, British Airways, Bupa Healthcare, and Visa. Mike has worked on the Las Vegas "What Happens Here, Stays Here" campaign for the past six years and received a 2007 Ogilvy Award for the Las Vegas campaigns.
For 12 years Mike was with Wirthlin Worldwide and served in a wide variety of progressively senior roles and capacities, with a particular focus on brands, communications, reputation management, public affairs, and political campaigning. Between 1991 and 2000 Mike was Wirthlin’s pollster to over 60 political and referendum campaigns at the state and national level, and in 1998 was involved in a groundbreaking research study on the application of branding for political parties.
Moderator
About Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson has 27 years of public affairs and public relations experience on a wide range of corporate-image and public policy and crisis communications issues. He is responsible for Fleishman-Hillard’s global growth strategies and for the firm’s global public affairs assets. Mr. Johnson manages the firm’s Mid-Atlantic and Latin America regions and global practice groups, and co-chairs Fleishman-Hillard’s senior management committee which is responsible for the firm’s overall client service, growth, and operations.
A charter member of the Fleishman-Hillard’s Washington, D.C. office, Mr. Johnson joined the firm in 1985 and soon thereafter was asked to launch the firm’s government relations division, which quickly became one of the largest non-law firm lobbying operations in Washington. In 1995, Mr. Johnson was promoted to general manager of the Washington, D.C. office and within two years, had doubled the size of the operation, seamlessly integrating the firm’s public relations, public affairs, and government relations offerings. Throughout his career, he has worked closely with an array of Fortune 500 company executives on public affairs and communications issues.
Before joining Fleishman-Hillard, Mr. Johnson was a lobbyist for the Washington, D.C. office of A-K Associates. He also has Capitol Hill experience where he served as legislative director and chief of staff to Congressman Gene Chappie (R-CA).
The Experts
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Andy CardFormer White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of Transportation |
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Mickey KantorFormer U.S. Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative |
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Josh KurtzPolitics Editor - Roll Call |
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Dr. Dee AllsopStrat@comm Senior Research Counselor and Former White House pollster |
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Mike DabadieFormer Wirthlin political campaign pollster and Harris Brand Strategy Group President |
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Paul JohnsonFleishman-Hillard Vice Chairman & President of Public Affairs |