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Dr. Stephen R. MacNamara
Associate Professor of Communication Florida State University
Dr. Stephen R. MacNamara has worked with members of the U.S. House of Representatives and served as a Special Assistant to U.S. Senator Dick Stone. He was also a Special Assistant to the Florida Senate in 1982, primarily involved in reapportionment and served for a short period in 1992 as the Federal Government’s Florida expert in that area. Steve was appointed Secretary of the Department of Business Regulation under Governor Bob Martinez and succeeded Governor Lawton Chiles as the Director of the Collins Center for Public Policy. He served for three years as the Associate Dean of the Florida State University College of Law.
Steve was the General Counsel and Media Consultant to No Casinos, Inc., founding President of the Coalition for Family Safety and founding and immediate past president of the Florida Association of Health Plans. For eight years, Steve also assisted the Miami Herald in its annual ranking of the Florida Legislature.
During the 1999 Legislative Session, Steve was asked to serve as the first “Professor in Residence” for the Florida House of Representatives and during the 2000 Session served in the position of Chief of Staff for the Florida House under Speaker John Thrasher. Governor Jeb Bush appointed him to the position of Chairman of the Governor's Ex-Offenders Task Force to investigate ways for former prisoners to successfully reenter society and make recommendation for changes to the Governor and the Florida Legislature.
MacNamara is formerly the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Florida State University, immediate past Executive Director of both the Claude Pepper Center and the Claude Pepper Foundation and currently is an Associate Professor of Communication where he specializes in mass media law issues and political communications and strategies.
Columns
One final answer on how state government can stimulate Florida's economy and save money
March 25, 2009
If state government could do just one thing to stimulate the economy...
Question 2
February 26, 2009
If the Florida Legislature could do just one thing to save money...
Question 1
February 25, 2009
2010 - A Political Potpourri, Part II
The Rest of the Best
February 4, 2009
2010 - A Political Potpourri
January 14, 2009
Life In A Blue State - Part II
December 3, 2008
Life in a Blue State
November 12, 2008
And the next leader of the Republican National Party is…
October 21, 2008
Wall Street to Florida: “Sucks Being You!”
October 7, 2008
The Biden Choice
September 17, 2008
