Tom Edmonds (media consultant)
Tom Edmonds is a veteran Republican political media consultant and president of his own firm in the Washington, D.C. area. His firm, Edmonds Associates, Inc., has received over 100 [national awards for its communications strategies on behalf of presidential, senatorial, congressional and gubernatorial candidates. Additionally, Campaigns & Elections Politics magazine has called Edmonds "the issue/advocacy guru" for his work with some of the largest issue/advocacy groups in the U.S.
Currently, Edmonds is president of the International Association of Political Consultants. He is also a past president of the American Association of Political Consultants as well as a 2005 recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 1986, he was one of the small group of political consultants who lent their support to the creation of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University in Washington., D.C.
Tom is the author of two books on politics and public policy: and has produced a number of documentaries including the official video biography of President Ronald Reagan, A tribute to Ronald Reagan : an American president.