Firm established 1996,  provides strategic planning; government realtions; media consulting; strategic communications services, also affiliated with c3 Strategies public relations firm> ROBERT STEARS former principal in ISSUES MANAGEMENT firm, former deputy executive director of Assembly Republican majority staff, also worked on state, federal campaigns for Republican National Committee, House Republican Caucus, Political Action Committee GOPAC, Republican Congressional Committee (liaison to House Republicans in Northeast during Reagan Administration)> Partner THOMAS WILSON resigned February 2001 to become communications director for Acting Governor DONALD T. DIFRANCESCO, rejoined firm 2002> Patrick Torpey former executive director of Assembly Republican Majority campaign committee, coordinated 1997 campaign in which all GOP incumbents re-elected, previously senior research staff for NJ Senate Republican majority and senior policy adviser on Assembly Republican staff, brother of MICHAEL TORPEY, former chief of staff to Governor Christine Todd Whitman, now partner in STATE STREET PARTNERS> Staff includes Mark Duffy,  former staff member at NJ REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE; Shauwea Hamilton, formerly with RUTGERS UNIVERSITY grant office. 

Comments: Veteran lobbyist and public relations consultant for over 25 years, concentration on harness racing, insurance and security industry> Served as member, Governor CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN Racing Industry Study Commission 1996-98; president, North American Harness Publicists’ Association and immediate past president of US Harness Writers Association 1996-97; president, NJ Legislative Correspondents Club 1971; prior to founding firm in 1973, award-winning journalist with THE RECORD of Hackensack, serving as politics editor and State House bureau chief, also executive director in 1972 of blue-ribbon Statewide committee to promote Governor William Cahill’s tax reform program, director of communications 1973 for Cahill re-election campaign and consultant to numerous other campaigns.