One of two firms hired by convicted fraudfeasor PAUL MANAFORT, TRUMP's campaign manager, MERCURY represents foreign clients, has some 21 offices worldwide, and is a subsidiary of FLEISCHMAN HILLARD, and brags on passing "healthcare tort reform" in Florida, Texas and California.
Overall, the company has 21 offices across the globe, including a Tampa location where Smith will be based. | Getty
Tampa Bay Times political editor to join Mercury PR firm
Tampa Bay Times political editor Adam Smith, a 20-year veteran of Florida media, is joining Mercury Public Affairs, a bipartisan strategy firm, the company announced this morning.
“Mercury’s Florida operation is comprised of the state’s top strategists across party lines," Mercury partner Ashley Walker said in a statement. "Adam’s vast experience in Florida politics will be a major asset to our work locally and nationally, as we broaden our communications abilities in the nation’s largest swing state.”
Walker is a longtime Democratic political operative, but the firm employs consultants from both major political parties. Overall, the company has 21 offices across the globe, including a Tampa location where Smith will be based.
Smith officially joins Mercury on Feb. 11.
“After covering many of the major political events of the last two decades in Florida in journalism, I’m excited to use those experiences and skills to craft strategy and messaging, and solve problems for clients at the highest levels,” Smith said in a statement announcing the move.
Smith's departure leaves the Tampa Bay Times, Florida's largest daily newspaper, without a top political editor.
One of Mercury’s largest 2018 political clients in the state was Floridians for a Fair Democracy, which led a successful campaign to pass a constitutional amendment restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentences. The firm also did work for a committee fighting Amendment 3, which was a successful ballot
measure aimed at making it harder to expand gambling in Florida.
measure aimed at making it harder to expand gambling in Florida.
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