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Friendly Fire: Julie & Mike on the GOP’s Whitman wing and the great reopening
Updated May 15, 2021;
Posted May 15, 2021
Jersey political insiders: On the left, Julie Roginsky, a career Democratic strategist and TV commentator; on the right, Michael DuHaime, a Republican strategist and public affairs executive.
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, editorial page editor of The Star-Ledger.
Q. Let’s start with Rep. Liz Cheney’s expulsion from her leadership post. What does it tell us about today’s Republican Party?
Mike: Too many in Today’s republican party care more about Donald Trump than about its core values of economic freedom, strong national defense, and limited government. Liz Cheney is a true conservative, but she’s been ousted for not parroting trumps lie about the election being stolen.
Uganda now hires foreign PR firm to improve its image in US
May 9, 2021 President Yoweri Museveni
Uganda has hired an international public relations firm, Mercury International UK Limited, a subsidiary of Mercury Public Affairs, to improve its image on the international scene.
Documents seen by URN show that when Uganda hired Mercury International UK Limited, it subcontracted its mother firm Mercury Public Affairs to do the job. This signals that the focus of lobbying will be mainly in the US.
Mercury submitted its agreement with the subsidiary to the US Justice Department on April 26, 2021. In the USA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requires lobbyists of foreign governments “who are engaged in political activities or other activities specified under the statute to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those
Government hires PR firm to ‘clean Uganda’s image’
Saturday May 08 2021
This photo taken on November 18, 2020 shows police arresting one of Mr Robert Kyagulanyi s supporters near Nalufenya police post in Jinja where he [Mr Kyagulanyi] was rushed to following his arrest that sparked off a wave of protests across the country. PHOTO/ABUBAKER LUBOWA
Summary
The move was made a week after US Secretary of State, Mr Antony John Blinken slapped visa restrictions against unnamed Uganda officials over human rights violations orchestrated during and after the 2021 elections.
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The Government has hired an international public relations firm, Mercury International UK Limited, a subsidiary of Mercury Public Affairs, to improve its image on the international scene.