Profiles in Conservatism
Rory Cooper /
NAME: Rich Galen
OCCUPATION: Writer, Political Pundit, Public Relations Advisor, Philosopher
HOMETOWN: Alexandria, VA
Rich Galen is the author of MULLINGS, a three-day-a-week column, which reaches some 400,000 people per month and is considered required reading by senior reporters and operatives on both sides of the aisle. He began writing MULLINGS in 1998 when he served as Executive Director of GOPAC. Prior to that stint, he served as press secretary to Dan Quayle, when he was a Congressman and a U.S. Senator; and to Newt Gingrich when Gingrich was House Republican Whip and, in 1996 became the communications director of the political office of Speaker Gingrich. In 2003-2004, Rich did a full tour of duty in Iraq, at the request of the White House. During the six months he was there, he was responsible for bringing the message of the positive aspects of what the coalition was doing in Iraq back to Middle America. (more…)