by Gordon Hensley | Jun 22, 2010 | Campaign 2010, GOP Politics, Media Relations |
Just several months ago, Illinois GOP Senate candidate, Rep. Mark Kirk, was flying high — and a solid front runner to win Barack Obama’s Senate seat while Democrat Alexi Giannoulias was being dogged by a family banking scandal. Giannoulias still has severe...
by Gordon Hensley | Jun 16, 2010 | GOP Politics, Uncategorized |
The results of a recent Mark Mellman survey on public attitudes surrounding the Grateful Dead — where even Republicans give the band a higher favorable than unfavorable rating — was reported today on Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller website. Tucker saw...
by Gordon Hensley | Mar 6, 2010 | Campaign 2010, GOP Politics |
As Clayton Williams’ press secretary during the 1990 campaign for governor against Ann Richards, I flew around Texas with the candidate on many an occasion accompanied by a variety of surrogates. Kay Bailey Hutchison, then State Treasurer, was enormously...
by Gordon Hensley | Jan 5, 2010 | GOP Politics |
Among other tone deaf offenses rooted in self-aggrandizement, RNC Chairman Michael Steele recently decided to collect speaking fees when out on the hustings on the rubber-chicken circuit. This is highly unusual, unseemly, and unprecedented for a chairman of either...