Potomac Flacks: Top Florida GOP Communicator Campbell Moving to DC to Lead Communications for the ACU

May 24, 2011

Top Florida GOP Communicator Campbell Moving to DC to Lead Communications for the ACU

Kristy Campbell, recognized as a “highly effective and extremely smart” communicator according to an exclusive report in Politico’s “Morning Score,” has signed on as the new Communications Director for the American Conservative Union (ACU). The new job will bring her to Washington, D.C. from her native Florida.

Campbell is the latest in “a series of big hires for ACU under the leadership of Al Cardenas, the former Florida GOP chairman who took over the organization this year.”

ACU is one of the nation’s largest and most influential conservative organizations, and, among other things, organizes the huge Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) each year.

Campbell is a former Press Secretary for former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) and was Florida communications chief for former Gov. Mitt Romney’s (R-MA) 2008 presidential campaign. Last cycle she was Communications Director for Bill McCollum’s (R-FL) 2010 gubernatorial campaign. Before working directly for Gov. Bush, she was Communications Director for the Florida Department of Community Affairs.

Said Chairman Cardenas, about Campbell, “Kristy is an experienced, respected conservative communicator...There has never been a more critical time to unite conservatives behind our common goals.”

Campbell is a diehard Florida State fan and an alumna, class of 2004. She is a native of Melbourne, FL. (Politico’s “Morning Score”)

Posted by Matt Mackowiak on May 24, 2011 in In the States , Outside Groups (527s) , People | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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