Charlie Gerow
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| File:Charlie Gerow by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Gerow in February 2011.
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| Education | Villanova University School of Law |
| Occupation | political consultant and commentator |
Charles R. Gerow , called "Harrisburg's most politically well-connected conservative" by Harrisburg Magazine is an American strategic communications and political consulting professional.[1] Gerow is the CEO of Quantum Communications, a Harrisburg-based public relations and issue advocacy firm.
In 2010, Politics Magazine named him one of the most influential Republicans in Pennsylvania.[2] He was also named one of the Top Ten Political Consultants in Pennsylvania by PA2010.com
Gerow holds a law degree from Villanova University School of Law and has been an attorney for over 30 years.[3] Gerow began his career on the campaign staff of President Ronald Reagan and continued to do political work for President Reagan throughout the next 25 years.[4] He was an Alternate Delegate At Large at the 1988 Republican National Convention.[4] In 1989, he helped to found the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference.[5] During the 1996 presidential election, Gerow was a surrogate speaker for Bob Dole.[4] In 2000, he was a candidate in the 2000 Republican primary to represent Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district, where he lost to Todd Russell Platts.[6]
Gerow serves on the board of directors of the American Conservative Union, the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge and the American Swiss Foundation.[7]
He has taught as an adjunct professor at Lebanon Valley College, Dickinson College and Gettysburg College.[3] He works as a political analyst for WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.[3] He regularly hosts his own radio talk shows and has appeared as a political commentator on NBC, ABC, and several national radio programs.[3] He was the subject of a feature on CNN’s “Inside Politics” television program and regularly appears on C-SPAN and Pennsylvania Cable Network.[3] He has been named a "Commissioned Colonel" in the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.[3]
In 2005, the political website PoliticsPA posted a tongue-in-cheek feature similar to "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon".[8] The feature was called "The Six Degrees of Charlie Gerow", where the editors connected Gerow to various celebrities, including Hillary Clinton and Jessica Simpson.[8]
He was a spokesman for filmmaker Carlton Sherwood during the controversy surrounding Sherwood's anti-John Kerry film Stolen Honor.[8][9] He fellow conservative activist Jeff Lord, who works with Gerow at Quantum Communications, founded QubeTV, a conservative alternative to YouTube.[10] He also represented the electronic voting machine company Accupoll in their attempts to sell voting machines in Pennsylvania following passage of the Help America Vote Act.[8] Gerow represented "Bring our Taxes Home," a group created to expand gaming in Pennsylvania.[8]
On November 15, 2009 Gerow was chosen to head the transition team for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, mayor-elect Linda D. Thompson, the first African-American female elected to the office.
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