Former McConnell staffer joins Definers Public Affairs
Source: Politico
Antonia Ferrier, a former staffer for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has joined Definers Public Affairs as a partner.
Ferrier was previously staff director to the Senate Republican Communications Center.
In an interview, Ferrier praised Definers Public Affairs as among “the best in the business.”
“I wanted to work with people who were open to new ideas, different ideas, new ways to confront problems and challenges — that’s frankly what they do here at Definers,” she said, adding that after 14 years on Capitol Hill, she was ready for a new chapter and wanted to get out of her comfort zone.
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In addition to working for McConnell, which Ferrier described as “the honor and privilege of [her] life,” Ferrier was also a senior adviser and communications director to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and worked for John Boehner (R-Ohio) when he was House minority leader.
She also worked for Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri when he was House Republican Whip and for Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Bill Frist (R-Tenn.).
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From the NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/technology/facebook-definers-opposition-research.html
A key part of Definers’ strategy was NTK Network, a website that appeared to be a run-of-the-mill news aggregator with a right-wing slant. In fact, many of NTK Network’s stories were written by employees at Definers and America Rising, a sister firm, to criticize rivals of their clients, according to one former employee not allowed to speak about it publicly. The three outfits share some staff and offices in Arlington, Va.
Before Ms. Sandberg’s Senate testimony, Facebook lobbyists pushed lawmakers to refrain from questioning her about privacy, censorship and other issues, and to stick to election interference. The committee’s chairman, Senator Richard Burr, Republican of North Carolina, was swayed and warned members to stick to the hearing’s planned topic, The Times reported Wednesday.
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The day before the hearing, NTK Network reported that Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, had suggested that Google was possibly a monopoly. The next day, shortly after the hearing ended, NTK Network posted another story highlighting Mr. Rubio’s criticism of Google during the hearing.
Those pieces were just two of at least 11 negative items NTK has posted about Google since late March, including an article questioning why Mr. Zuckerberg needed to testify to Congress at another hearing earlier in the year but a Google executive did not.
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