what the hell kind of name is Aravosis...Greek? (no pun intended)
another miserable liberal cakeboy projecting on the rest of us
Glad yer keeping an eye on this too.
How ya doing?
John Aravosis is a Washington veteran. As a lawyer, writer and political strategist, he has provided counsel on political, technological, and legal issues to the federal government, non-profit organizations, the media and private industry.
Before starting Wired Strategies, Aravosis served as the "online organizer" at the Children's Defense Fund (CDF). At CDF, John Aravosis devised and implemented the online strategy for the successful CHILD Act campaign, gaining the passage of a new $24 billion federal program to assist uninsured children. He was also responsible for creating and managing one of the nation's earliest, largest and most effective child advocacy email/fax networks -- providing policy information and action steps to over 5,000 child advocacy organizations, media representatives, government agencies and concerned citizens from Tennessee to Tanzania.
having served five years as a legislative attorney for US Senator Ted Stevens, and assisting on the campaigns of Senators Ted Kennedy and Chuck Robb.
Wired Strategies' current and past clients include the US Department of State, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the United States Information Agency, Priceline.com, MicroStrategy, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, the Widmeyer-Baker Group, the Georgetown University Law Center, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, America's Promise, the National Education Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, and AFSCME.
John Aravosis has a Juris Doctor and Master's in Foreign Service (1989) from Georgetown University (where he studied under former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright), a degree from the University of Paris, and a BA in Rhetoric from the University of Illinois.
John Aravosis is an influential United States gay activist and blogger. Aravosis, a former attorney who lives in Washington, D.C., is the founder of Americablog and a co-founder of StopDrLaura.com.
Aravosis is a lawyer and worked on Capitol Hill as a foreign policy advisor for a Republican Senator in the 1990s before becoming a Democratic activist.
In 2005, Aravosis outed Jeff Gannon as a gay male prostitute while Gannon (real name James Guckert) was working as a White House reporter for the right-wing group Talon News.
Also in 2005, Aravosis became engaged in a fight with the right-wing seniors group USA Next over copyright violations in a highly controversial web advertisement that appeared to link gay marriage and anti-military stances to opposition Republican plans to change Social Security. USA Next failed to secure copyright for the picture it used in the web ad.
He also hosts a show on DemsTV that aims to fight the far right.