"Dysfunctional D.C.: Will It Get Worse Before It Gets Better?" with Mike Murphy, Political Media Consultant

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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Seminar with Mike Murphy, Political Media Consultant and Belfer Senior Fellow, in the Belfer Center Library (L369).

Mike Murphy is one of the Republican Party’s most successful political media consultants, having handled strategy and advertising for more than 26 successful gubernatorial and Senatorial campaigns. Murphy has been called a “media master” by Fortune magazine, the GOP’s “hottest media consultant” by Newsweek, and the leader of a “new breed” of campaign consultants by Congressional Quarterly. Murphy served as senior strategist for both John McCain’s first campaign for President in 2000 and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s historic election as Governor of California.

Murphy has directed successful campaigns for GOP Governors and Senators including Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Terry Branstad, Lamar Alexander, Jeff Sessions, Slade Gorton, Dirk Kempthorne, Tommy Thompson and John Engler.  He has also advised political leaders in several foreign countries.

A partner in the Washington, DC based Revolution Agency, Murphy also advises several Fortune 500 corporations and several of America’s largest trade associations, working with industries including insurance, energy, financial services and commercial real estate. Murphy is a columnist for TIME Magazine as well as a regular on the Meet the Press roundtable. Murphy was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

In 2001 he was an Institute of Politics Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Murphy also works as a writer/producer in the entertainment industry. He lives with his wife Tiffany in Los Angeles, California.

Murphy’s magazine writing can be found at www.MikeMurphyCommentary.com.

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