Punching Through the News Cycle

National Journal Magazine Profile 

By Greg Sangillo, January 19, 2008

Ron Bonjean is set to leave Capitol Hill...

The Politico Newspaper

Shenanigans 

by Anne Schroeder, March 27, 2008

Not your average "spokesmodel..."

GOP Spokesman with Deep Hill, Administration Roots Goes Private

White House Bulletin, May 12, 2008

Long-time GOP spokesman Ron Bonjean has left his post of chief of staff to the Senate Republican Conference to start a public affairs firm.

His first customers are Republican Senators who want media coaching and major energy and financial services firms who are seeking public relations counsel. “After having a seat at the leadership table,” Bonjean told the Bulletin,

“I thought I would offer my talents to the private sector who may be dealing with significant challenges and require strategic advice and assistance.”

Bonjean’s name is well known to Washington insiders, reporters and staff. Among his former bosses are former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert and former Commerce Secretary Don Evans. Several of his friends and protégées are installed in several top GOP communications posts around Washington.

Despite the Democratic take-over of Capitol Hill and better than even odds to take the White House, several top GOP communicators recently have gone private and succeeded, but few have signed up major clients as fast as The Bonjean Company.

Key among them is the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Bonjean said that he will provide media training for GOP Senate leadership officials as the Republicans bid to take back the chamber with an aggressive new agenda. Bonjean, who this summer is getting married to a Republican National Committee staffer, also plans to expand into lobbying. -- Bulletin exclusive from U.S. News

Hill Newspaper Op-ed Authored by Ron Bonjean,        May 14, 2008

Sitting in meetings in the Capitol with representatives of industry, I can’t tell you how often I have heard this phrase: “Congress would never pass that bill. That’s absolutely insane. Don’t they know what this legislation would do to our industry and the jobs we create?

Republican Bonjean, Democrat Singer Team Up on Communications Work

December 17, 2008
By Shira Toeplitz
Roll Call Staff

Former staffers make oddly cozy pair
By: Amie Parnes, The Politico
January 8, 2009

Bridging the Gap Between K Street and Obama

by Ron Bonjean, Oped for K Street Insiders, Hill Newspaper

April 1, 2009

Tuesday Becoming Democrats’ Favorite Day to Make News

Roll Call  Newspaper

By Jessica Brady 8/31/09

Crunch time for climate change bill

Analysis: Voters reward

purists, not pragmatists

 by Chuck Babington, 6/3/10

Associated Press

"You have a polarization happening on both the left and the right," Washington-based GOP consultant Ron Bonjean said. For most nominees to win in November, he said, "they're going to have to capture the center."

Bonjean says tea party favorites such as Paul in Kentucky, and Angle in Nevada, if she wins next week, will have to find a way to moderate their rhetoric this fall without appearing to moderate their core principles. That can be tricky for first-time candidates, as Paul learned when he publicly questioned the fairness of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Blame game could 'boomerang' on Obama, strategist says

"Nothing makes a president look weaker than pointing the finger at past administrations," said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean. "By blaming somebody, it looks like you are playing politics and people just want jobs. They don't care about whose fault it is. Playing the blame game only boomerangs on yourself."