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Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee’s campaign manager, Ian Lang, and speechwriter, Catherine Taylor, have opened a public affairs and political consulting firm in Providence.

This will be the fourth collaboration between Lang and Taylor. In addition to Chafee’s ’06 reelection campaign, they worked together on the Christy Ferguson for Congress campaign in 2002 and on Chafee’s Providence staff in 2001.

But as they tell it, the relationship between their families goes back almost 100 years, to the Lorraine Mill, in Pawtucket, where Taylor’s husband’s great-grandfather, James R. MacColl, served as the CEO and Lang’s great-grandfather, James Baldwin, headed the cost department.

“A century ago, the cloth woven by our two families helped to sustain an era of unprecedented prosperity in Rhode Island,” said Taylor. “At Lang Taylor, we are continuing in that tradition, this time weaving together strategies for our clients to use to tell their unique and compelling stories of innovation, of reform, of political courage, of a vision for a brighter future.”

Before joining the Chafee reelection drive in 2005, Lang was involved in the launch of First Focus, a national bipartisan child and family advocacy organization based in Alexandria, Va., where, coincidentally, former Chafee press secretary Christopher Spina has landed a spot as director of media relations.

Lang also did a stint as chief of staff at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, where he oversaw the daily policy and management activities for the 3,000-person agency.

Taylor worked on the Senate staffs of Linc Chafee and his late father, John H. Chafee, for 20 years, in Washington and Rhode Island, first as a legislative assistant for defense and foreign policy. She first became a speechwriter during the intensive effort to enact health-care reform in 1993-94.

Lang Taylor is doing work on behalf of a number of clients, including Chafee and the Matthews Castor campaign for Montgomery County, Pa., county commissioner. The new firm has helped Chafee craft speeches and articles, for example, for the New York Times Op-Ed page, the Brown Journal of World Affairs and a recent Arab-American dinner in New Jersey.

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Paul Davis said:

Lang Taylor is currently doing work on behalf of a number of clients, including former Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), and The Matthews Castor ’07 Campaign for Montgomery County PA County Commissioner. This tandem is so sweet, don't you think?

Link | May 15, 2007 4:54 PM
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