Glenn W. Smith (born September 30, 1953 in
Houston,
Texas) is an author, activist and political consultant.
Biography
Smith was a journalist for the ''
Houston Chronicle'' from 1979 to 1985 and the ''
Houston Post'' from 1985 to 1988. He covered state and national political affairs before leaving journalism to work for then-Texas Lt. Gov.
Bill Hobby
William Pettus Hobby Jr. (born January 19, 1932) is an American Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician who served a record eighteen years as the 37th List of lieutenant governors of Texas, Lieutenant Governor of Texas. He held ...
in early 1988. He subsequently worked for the late U.S. Senator
Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. (February 11, 1921 – May 23, 2006) was an American politician who was a four-term United States Senator (1971–1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for vice president in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ti ...
, and managed
Ann Richards' 1990 primary victory in her successful campaign for Governor of Texas.
Throughout the 1990s Smith designed public affairs campaigns for a variety of state and national clients. A managing director of Public Strategies, Inc., he wrote and produced award-winning communications for broadcast and direct mail, and designed communications strategies for business, universities, activist groups, and progressive candidates.
Smith left Public Strategies in 2001 and launched his own company, Affinity Dynamics, Inc. ADI provides strategic media, advertising and communications consulting to a variety of non-governmental organizations, businesses, political campaigns and advocacy groups. In 2003 Smith managed
MoveOn.org's campaign against
Tom DeLay's mid-decade congressional redistricting.
Smith has taught "religion and politics" at the
Starr King School for the Ministry in
Berkeley
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**University of California, Berkeley, a public university in Berkeley, California
* George Berkeley (1685–1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher
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,
California. He sponsored and organized national events with progressive religious leaders, including events challenging the Right Wing's "
Justice Sunday" rallies in 2005, a celebration of
Martin Luther King Jr. at
Riverside Church in
New York City, and "Freedom and Faith" bus tours throughout the northeast and mid-west.
Smith is the author of ''The Politics of Deceit'' (2004) and ''Unfit Commander'' (2004). He is director of the Texas Progress Council, a progressive think tank in Austin, and was a senior fellow at
George Lakoff
George Philip Lakoff (; born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguistics, cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors they use to explain comple ...
's
Rockridge Institute in Berkeley.
Works
* ''The Politics of Deceit'' (2004, Wiley)
External links
Texas Progress Council.orgDriveDemocracy.orgMoveOn.org*
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1953 births
Living people
People from Houston
American political consultants
American male journalists