OnMessage Strategic Communications

03/22/2014

I guess it's safe to announce that, starting Monday, I will be joining Congressman David Jolly's staff as his Scheduler. Wish me luck on the new job!

Rep. David Jolly opened one of three district offices today and annouced his staff:

03/17/2014

"People are tired of deficit budgets, bigger government, less freedom, more taxes and factual misrepresentations in Washington."

In case you have been on another planet the past few days and haven’t heard, David Jolly beat Alex Sink for the local District 13 congressional seat.

03/17/2014

The hard working folks who helped David Jolly defeat Alex Sink in Florida's CD-13.

03/11/2014

The polls close in three hours, and if you live in , please vote David Jolly for Congress!

After almost $9 million in outside spending, a storm of attacks and counterattacks and endless speculation about its implications for the midterms, voters will cast their ballots in the Florida special congressional election on Tuesday. The stakes are particularly high for Democrats. The party has b...

03/10/2014

With less than 48 hours to go, all eyes are on the race and David Jolly for Congress!

It's just for one congressional seat for about eight months but Tuesday's special election in Florida has taken on huge political significance.

03/09/2014

As of Saturday, about 117,000 ballots had been cast in Pinellas County’s special election for Congressional District 13 - more than half of the votes likely to be cast - and Republicans are gaining steam in the closing days. The GOP advantage in votes cast more than doubled over the last week to abo...

02/24/2014

Welcome to Florida, Mr. Speaker!

The House speaker and his wife purchase a high-rise condo for $835,000.

02/16/2014

Speaker John Boehner was in Sarasota last night for a fundraiser at Katie & Jesse Biter's, which OnMessage Strategic Communications helped coordinate. Thanks to everyone who attended!

01/28/2014

With Alex Sink continuing to trail in the polls and focusing campaign efforts on attempting to discredit David Jolly via a Washington-funded, million-dollar TV smear campaign, the David Jolly for C...

01/25/2014

"For Jolly to win, he’ll need money to match Sink so he can be on TV in equal numbers. If he comes close to matching her money, I believe he will be the victor; because Jolly knows the district better and he’s more personable than Sink, whose pleasantries when interacting with voters comes across as forced."

On Wednesday, I sat down for lunch with David Jolly. Despite his jeans and untucked button-down shirt, he looks like a congressman. He has a low-key and modest demeanor, but his personal style doesn’t make him a slouch. Although no freshman member of Congress from Pinellas County (or Hillsbo

01/22/2014

When St. Pete Polls published a survey last week showing Alex Sink trailing David Jolly in the CD13 special election, some angry Tampa Bay Democrats went about bashing the methodology of the survey, suggesting that too many Republicans were called in it, skewing the results. Who knows what they'll b...

01/21/2014

For the third time in four years, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner will spend part of his winter in Sarasota and raise a few bucks while doing so.