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MSHC Partners has won Yahoo!’s “Big Idea Chair” Award, and the trophy that comes with it: a big purple chair. The award recognizes our outstanding work in interactive marketing in 2007. We are the first political firm to receive this prestigious award, and the first firm of any kind to be recognized for an entire body of work (as opposed to just a single creative idea).
Presented by Yahoo! along with the American Association of Political Consultants at the 2008 Pollie Awards, the “Big Idea Chair” means that “your hard work is more than exemplary; you’ve broken the mold and shaken up the industry as a whole.” 25 of our colleagues - “the brightest minds and toughest critics in advertising” – decided that MSHC Partners displayed that kind of rare genius.
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MSHC Partners Congratulates 2007 General Election Winners!
2007 was our busiest “off-year” ever, and MSHC Partners is proud of our many victorious clients in November’s elections.
In Virginia, the election of our client John Miller to the State Senate in a Republican district flipping the Senate from Republican to Democrat was the first time for a Southern legislature, and we helped continue the House Democratic Caucus’s winning streak with the election of Margi Vanderhye in a Republican seat and the re-election of Del. Paula Miller.
MSHC client Jeff Berding won a tough re-election to the Cincinnati City Council, making a strong showing in a crowded field.
We were proud to help the AFL-CIO make its voice for working families heard in the election of Kentucky’s new Governor, Steve Beshear.
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Wrapping Up the 2007 Votes for the 2008 Race
(The Washington Post)
By Chris Cillizza And Shailagh Murray
Sunday, May 27, 2007; Page A02
Here's a presidential pop quiz: Which state will cast the first votes of the 2008 presidential race?
Iowa? Wrong. New Hampshire? Nope.
Try North Carolina, where early voting begins on Dec. 17.
The Tar Heel State will be followed by New Jersey on Dec. 27, California on Jan. 2, and Florida and Illinois on Jan. 14. All told, seven states and the District of Columbia will be voting by the time the Jan. 14 Iowa caucuses roll around, according to a report compiled by MSHC Partners, a Democratic direct-mail firm.
Lost amid the hubbub of mega-states moving up their presidential primaries to late January and early February are the effects that absentee voting -- originally developed to allow those serving in the military to cast votes -- and polling places that will be open well in advance of their voting day might have on the nomination fight.
Access to absentee voting has been loosened dramatically in recent cycles as election officials try any means necessary to involve citizens in the electoral process.
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Global warming debate over, time to act now: report
(The Washington Post)
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent, Reuters
Tuesday, February 27, 2007; 1:14 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Declaring the global warming debate over, an international team of scientists urged the world's nations on Tuesday to act now to keep climate change from becoming a catastrophe.
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Satire in Speedos
(The Sydney Morning Herald)
By Dylan Welch
March 7, 2007 - 2:16PM
Not everybody has had enough of NSW Opposition Leader Peter Debnam in his skimpy swimwear.
The NSW section of the National Union of Workers has slapped together an internet animation www.videosendups.com that casts Mr. Debnam as the lead singer in "In the Liberals" - a parody of the "In The Navy" by 1970s gay icons, the Village People.
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He Finds His Veritas in Vino and in Politics
(The Politico)
By Aoife McCarthy
January 24, 2007 06:23 PM EST
Rich Schlackman has two labels. Politicos know him well as one of the country's premier direct mail consultants. But it is also no secret that he is a connoisseur of wine.
Schlackman, a partner in the firm MSHC Partners, is a member of the American Association of Political Consultants and also serves on the Great Capital Wine Network of San Francisco. MSHC's client list includes four Democratic presidential hopefuls and the Napa Valley Vintners Association.
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City Council passes smoking ban
(The Baltimore Sun)
Nine voted for law that could take effect Jan. 1; momentum for state law grows
By John Fritze
Sun Reporter
February 26, 2007, 10:45 PM EST
Baltimore will join hundreds of communities across the nation that prohibit smoking in bars after the City Council approved a controversial smoking ban Monday night with a margin of support that swelled in the hours leading up to the final vote.
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