[November 20, 2009] BLOG: Political Fix: Slay continues youth movement with new press secretary [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] Tweet (St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 20--ST. LOUIS -- Mayor Francis Slay has added another member of the Facebook generation to his office staff. New press secretary Kara Bowlin, 25, began work in Room 200 last week, adding to the crop of 20-somethings that have taken posts in the Slay administration since he was sworn into a third term last year. (Scheduler Heather Dunsford is 26; special assistant Patrick R. Brown is 24.) Bowlin comes to City Hall after two years with Public Eye, the downtown PR-firm run by uber-flak Richard Callow, a key Slay confidante. Callow, who was press secretary under former Mayor Vince Schoemehl, is on Slay's campaign payroll and is responsible for much of the content on his popular website, MayorSlay.com [http://www.mayorslay.com/index.asp]. Bowlin met Callow after interning for one of his clients, the City Museum. She is at least the second Cor Jesu Academy alum hired by Slay; Board of Aldermen liaison Mary Ellen Ponder, 29, is also a Cor Jesu Charger. Bowlin replaces veteran press secretary Ed Rhode, who left the mayor's office after two terms to go out on his own. To see more of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.stltoday.com. Copyright (c) 2009, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email [email protected], call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]