Washington, DC
I receive a call from NRCC Chairman Bill Paxon (R-NY) and GOP operative Dave Carney on the same day: they wanted to discuss my involvement in the NY-13 special election to succeed retiring Rep. Susan Molinari. GOP City Councilman Vito Fossella was the NRCC’s candidate running against Democratic State Senator Eric Vitaliano. A House race? seriously?
I was also getting other calls about working on campaigns, and after Paxon and Carney met my NRCC contract requirements, I decided to revive my old campaign consulting company as a new corporate entity, Strategic Media, Inc. at 1230 31st Street NW in Georgetown.
I would soon be headed to NYC to meet with Fossella as one of his senior consultants.