Florida Readies for a Political Storm

"A bipartisan deployment of lawyers and legal challenges in the run-up to Election Day" has prompted the Republican Party to bolster its PR and media work, reports PR Week. Mindy Tucker Fletcher, an Ogilvy PR executive and the main Bush spokesperson during the 2000 recount, is leading the Bush campaign PR in Florida. Of the legal teams in swing states, Fletcher said, "The Democrats just don't like the laws, and they want to overturn them." Fletcher "and a team of GOP strategists are training spokespeople in swing states to answer questions regarding voter fraud, military ballots, and racial bias."