In 2000, he moved his company, Mercury Public Affairs, to New York. Later, Strimple managed campaigns and learned polling. Hunt introduced Strimple to famed GOP strategist Ed Rollins, who hired Strimple as a TV adman to help elect GOP House candidates in 1989-90. Strimple’s mom taught in a preschool where Wall Street Journal reporter Al Hunt’s kids attended. His dad, who was a leader in Veterinarians for Nixon, had clients who included 10 members of President Reagan’s Cabinet. Strimple grew up in the Washington, D.C., area, graduated from Denison University in Ohio and later returned to D.C. “I seriously considered Bend, (Ore.), but as I was going through the process they decided they were going to raise taxes even higher and I said, ‘No, not for me.'” “When you start doing that, quickly it narrows to Boise,” said Strimple, 45. Their intersecting sets: the West, good public schools, healthy economy, modest taxes, lower cost of living, easy airport access, good weather and fly fishing. He said he and his wife, Kari, a stay-at-home-mom, used a Venn diagram to pick the city. “I needed to create some better life balance,” said Strimple, who moved his family to Boise in 2010. ![]() BOISE, Idaho - For 20 years, Greg Strimple was a fixture in the Republican Party’s New York-Washington campaign machine and also worked for corporate clients such as AARP, AT&T, Fox, GE and the NFL.īy 2009, he had four young children and had spent all but 89 days of the year away from home.
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