Politics

PR Pro Makes Move to Chamber

By Judith Siers-Poisson

The former CEO of PR giant Burson-Marsteller has been chosen for a top post with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. As the Chamber's vice chairman, Tom Bell will support the business lobby group's "biggest marketing/lobbying campaign to 'support free enterprise,' which the powerful business group believes is under attack by the Obama Administration." Chamber CEO Tom Donohue says the Chamber "will spend 'tens of millions of dollars annually' to counter inroads made by 'union leaders, some environmentalists and a growing force of anti-business activists' that are pushing to 'close trading markets, lock down capital markets, expand entitlements and raise taxes and debt to unsustainable levels.'"

Full post as published by PR Watch on June 15, 2009 (boomark / email).