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Mike McCurry (press secretary)

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980: 627: 420:-based government relations firm Public Strategies Washington, Inc. In 2006, in his position as co-chairman of Hands Off the Internet, he lobbied against Internet regulations in the controversial 294: 278:, where he graduated in 1972. During his senior year in high school, McCurry served as Governor of the California Junior State, a student-run mock government that today is better known as the 1029: 755: 87: 471:
sponsored the "CREATE -- A Forum on Creativity, Commerce, Copyright, Counterfeiting and Policy" conference with members of Congress, artists and information-business executives.
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during his tenure, but his honesty and competency were not always appreciated by his colleagues. In 1998 he expressed doubts about Bill Clinton's fitness to remain in office.
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on the subject, which drew a favorable comment from the MPAA, McCurry said the new proposals addressed concerns of past critics.
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McCurry was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended
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In a later round of the network neutrality fight, in 2011, McCurry came out in favor of the
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McCurry serves on numerous boards or advisory councils for organizations including
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from 1976 to 1981. Between 1981 and 1983, he served as press secretary to Senator
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and renaming it the Lincoln-Mercury Memorial". He was well respected by the
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From 1988 to 1990, McCurry served as director of communications for the
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to elevate Harper's and Canada's profiles with American news outlets.
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incident by saying that the federal government was also "selling the
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as press secretary to Clinton, McCurry served as spokesman for the
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in 1985. He began his political career as press secretary to the
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Starting May 2005, McCurry was a contributing blogger at
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Spokesperson for the United States Department of State
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On April 15, 2009, it was announced that McCurry and
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opinion piece], June 14, 2011; retrieved 2011-11-30.
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White House Press Secretary
Bill Clinton
Dee Dee Myers
Joe Lockhart
Spokesperson for the United States Department of State
Richard Boucher
R. Nicholas Burns
Charleston
South Carolina
Democratic
Princeton University
BA
Georgetown University
MA
Wesley Theological Seminary
MA
Bill Clinton
White House Press Secretary
United Methodist Church
Commission on Presidential Debates
Charleston, South Carolina
Princeton University
Georgetown University
San Carlos High School
San Francisco Peninsula
Ravenswood High School
East Palo Alto
Junior State of America
Princeton University
Georgetown University

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