Kevin Kellems

Update - see my update "when scandals collide" May 2007 here.

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* someone in the commnets to my earlier post chimes in with:

"Melissa Dollaghan once ran a PR firm with Kevin Kellems... who is now the Vice President's spokesman. Kellems previously held that role for Paul Wolfowitz at the Pentagon."

thanks for that.

from her scrubbed bio at GroupW:

"In 1998, Ms. Dollaghan returned to Washington, D.C. and started a political consulting and communications firm with partner Kevin Kellems, former District Director and Press Secretary for Senator Dick Lugar. Kellems Dollaghan Communications wrote and produced television and radio advertisements for their political clients and provided strategic consulting services to the Indiana State Republican Party during the 1998 cycle."

I didn't know that he was now in the OVP. Kellems is guilty by proximity, if nothing else.

here's a bit more about him (from Oct03):

"Kevin Kellems (J 86), Special Advisor for Communications Strategy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense-Public Affairs, not only served as the panel moderator, but also offered his administrative insight into U.S. policy regarding the media in Iraq. He discussed his experiences alongside Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz while in Iraq and led the discussions about the effectiveness of the journalist embedding process. Kellems transitioned into a career in government and politics after working as a journalist.