Case Study: Taking Advocacy to New Heights Executive Summary Activists in NYC along with the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) proposed new construction projects that would restrict and change traffic patterns on Fifth Avenue, widen bus lanes, and add bike lanes. Our client was a nonprofit organization representing the high-end retailers of Fifth Avenue who would have been negatively affected had this proposal gone through. Majority Strategies ran a comprehensive campaign, from setup to finish, and was successful in pressuring the city’s lawmakers to kill the NYC DOT’s plan to restrict Fifth Avenue traffic.  The Problem Fifth Avenue Association Business…

Case Study: Protecting the Majority A Legislative Majority, Suddenly in Jeopardy Less than six months before Election Day, former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was arrested amid a federal $60-million racketeering and bribery investigation.  The resulting snowball effect immediately put the GOP significantly behind in establishing the political operation necessary to protect the GOP House majority.  The caucus did not have opposition research, nor voter contact plans, nor budgets. Work that would typically have been completed 6 to 12 months prior to the election would now have to be done in just a little over 2 months before the start…