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From the Rocky Mount (N.C.) Telegram - Originally published Sunday, Feb. 10
Congress' swift approval of a $168 billion economic stimulus package sends a strong signal to worried consumers and wobbly financial markets that the federal government is capable of taking swift action when it feels it has to. > Read More

From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Originally published Wednesday, Aug. 6

The change in position by Sen. Barack Obama, the putative Democratic nominee, on tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and allowing offshore drilling is one more episode in a sad political dance around the gas pump. > Read More

From The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer - Originally published Tuesday, Aug. 5

Long-bearded, intense and messianic, Alexander Solzhenitsyn the man could be hard to take. In a blunt 1978 Harvard speech while in exile, he upbraided Americans for their materialism, loss of faith in God and "TV stupor." Finally able to return to a newly independent Russia in 1994 with his citizenship restored, Solzhenitsyn turned that scolding finger on his countrymen. > Read More

Ron Christie

Ron Christie is a vice president of Navigators, full-service issues management firm with offices in Washington, D.C., Sacramento, California, and Tallahassee, FL which provides integrated public affairs campaigns that combine lobbying, issue advertising, strategic public relations and grassroots pressure to solve difficult public policy problems.. He is also the author of the book Black in the White House published by Nelson Current in January 2006.

Mr. Christie, a veteran senior advisor of both the White House and the Congress, brings years of government relations experience. Most recently, he was Executive Vice President and Director of Global Government Affairs at Ruder Finn and Of Counsel at the DC law firm of Patton Boggs, LLP. From 2002 to 2004, he was Acting Director of USA Freedom Corps and special assistant to President George W. Bush. He began service at the White House in 2001 as deputy assistant to Vice President Cheney for domestic policy, advising the Vice President on policy initiatives in health care, budget, tax and other policy areas.

Prior to joining the Vice President's staff, he briefly served as counsel to U.S. Senator George Allen (R-VA). He also served as senior advisor to former House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich (R-OH).

Active in international affairs, he was elected to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2001, a distinguished group devoted to promoting improved understanding of international affairs through the free exchange of ideas.

As a frequent commentator on current political events, he has appeared as a political/legal analyst on Hannity & Colmes, The O'Reilly Factor, Fox and Friends, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Lou Dobbs Tonight, The Tavis Smiley Show, and Fox News Sunday. He also serves as an outside communications and political strategist to Republican Members of the House of Representatives and the United States Senate where he advises on current policy and political matters

He received his B.A. from Haverford College and his J.D. from the George Washington University National Law Center.

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