Gary Maloney (born 1958) is an American political consultant specializing in research, strategy, media and debating for candidates of the Republican National Party. He is president of the Jackson-Alvarez Group, a consulting firm located in

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. Former clients include Rudolph Giuliani,

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, Mike Huckabee,

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, Strom Thurmond, Christine Todd Whitman, Mel Martinez, all four Republican national committees, and several state parties. In 2009, Maloney served as research consultant for Republican nominees in all four statewide campaigns being contested, including the successful gubernatorial efforts of

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in New Jersey and

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in Virginia. A veteran of more than 30 years of politics, Maloney has worked for nine presidential campaigns and dozens of races for Senate, Governor, Congress, Legislature, Supreme Court and downticket offices. A native of

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, he began his research career in 1983, doing

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for Ed Rollins and

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at the Reagan-Bush '84 re-election campaign. He holds a B.A. in journalism and political science from the

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and a D.Phil. in politics from

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, Oxford, UK. In 1989, he edited and compiled ''The Almanac of 1988 Presidential Politics'' for the Campaign Hotline. In 1990, he incited a controversy over his research of

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, a candidate for Governor of Texas. Maloney was reported to have contacted the ex-wife of a Williams staffer, and asked her "inappropriate" questions about Williams's drinking habits. Despite news coverage of this gaffe, Maloney was not fired from his job as the director of strategy and research at the

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. (The Williams campaign later hired Maloney to continue his research on their candidate.) Maloney lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and three children. He was featured briefly in the 2003 HBO series on political lobbyists, '' K Street'', agreeing to conduct research at the behest of a lobbyist.http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm1528069/

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maloney, Gary 1958 births Living people Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford