Kathy Casciani

I help emerging service-based businesses and founders get started with #PR and #ThoughtLeadership. Teen girl mom, So Cal sun lover. Proud solopreneur. #GenX.

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

RIP Connectively, the former HARO https://t.co/RWhjh6lcy2

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@DaniellaGeno I think come 3pm or so it is going to be tough to work - at least in this house! Too much excitement!

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Michelle Garrett | B2B PR Consultant/Writer @PRisUs]

Reality is setting in re: timing from a PR perspective - if you didn't get your news/announcements out before this week, you might have to consider holding off til after Veterans Day - then trying to squeeze them in before Thanksgiving 😬 🥴

#PRTips

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@Oriannarosa @FortuneMagazine Hope you plan a trip to Southern California soon! Enjoy.

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@kat_boogaard 100 percent I can relate to this! Wonder if they are hiring at Trader Joe's...they always seem happy there :)

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@PRisUs You are equally a delight! I loved meeting you IRL and I hope it is not the last time!

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@Oriannarosa @FortuneMagazine congrats and how exciting!

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@itsbethbooker Wishing you luck to get through all this 🙏

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

Whoah. A reminder to all PR people to rethink their strategy in the wake of a tragedy.

[Laura O. Ratliff @loratliff]

Anyone else just get a pitch from a travel publicist promoting a "digital detox" in... Asheville, North Carolina of all places? 👀🥴🤦🏼‍♀️

[Christina Farr @chrissyfarr]

I just heard there are podcasts charging $50,000 for founders to appear on them to talk about their companies. And founders are doing this because there is such a dearth of press covering them!!

Plz don’t do this. Instead use a fraction of that budget to pay for subscriptions to legit outlets. There’s no press because we aren’t supporting the press.

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@PRisUs one of my favorite things you have written - so helpful!

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@fredmgrier @X I love this! And you are correct, never assume who might be watching and getting value out of your content. Nice job 👏

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@NicolePajer @LinkedIn you get some Inmails with the LinkedIn Premium Career but more with higher levels.

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@NicolePajer @LinkedIn I have LinkedIn premium career. Here is a good article that lays out all the different levels and costs. https://t.co/ZbdTCEe19m

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@Matt_Schulman1 Well, I'm not sure everyone thinks it is "fun" but I do think if you are going to delegate it ALL, you lose your media relations edge to a certain extent.

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@TerryWardWriter The worst!! Definitely a necessary evil. I usually try to offer a new piece of information or something "extra" when I follow up but it is still cringey.

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@JoniSweet Great newsletter today - loved the tips!

[Kathy Casciani @KathyCash]

@bdanweiss If it is done in the spirit of education - without naming names - I am all for it. But screenshots? That's just mean.

[Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]

She picks it up. "Clearly I am not Joe Biden." She says she offers a new generation of leadership. A new optimism for what we can do. Let's compare plans. Let's talk about our plans. She is delivering this with just the right mix of hope and sadness for his inability to see it.