A sign of the problems plaguing Kathy Dunderdale’s aging Conservative administration and their dramatic fall in the polls: she’s punted her communications director and hired a new one.
Lynn Hammond has the key job in the administration and it will fall on her shoulders to right the communications mess the Dunderdale Tories have been mired in since last year.
Dunderdale’s old comms director – Glenda Powers – got a new job. It looks like a promotion to the top communications job in government. Under the Tories, though, it has always played second fiddle to the Premier’s Office.
The real strategic heavy lifting doesn’t get done by the person with the big title. That job - the real head of government communications - is now Lynn Hammond.
What’s more noticeable about Powers’ new title is that she has the job in an acting capacity. Odd they haven’t filled it permanently even though the head hunters have been trying to staff the job since well before Josephine Cheeseman left. Is there anyone in town they haven’t spoken to about it?
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