1. Neal Boortz
2. The Alan Colmes Show (FOX Radio)
3. Michael Medved Show (nationally syndicated)
4. Book TV (C-SPAN)
5. Bill Cunningham Show (nationally syndicated)
6. Pre-Inaugural analysis for 23 television and radio stations across the nation.

By Rachel Tobin Ramos
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Friday, January 09, 2009

Apparently, being the head of a multimedia news and polling company striving to go international isn’t enough to satisfy Atlanta businessman Matt Towery.

The lawyer-by-training and CEO of InsiderAdvantage/Poll Position is rejoining Atlanta-based law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge as “of counsel,” meaning he will practice with the firm but won’t be a partner.

“The one missing ingredient,” Towery said, “is that I’m a lawyer. I enjoyed working on projects on a national basis. Why not give a try and go back to this again?”

The last time Towery, 49, practiced law, from 1994 to 1998, also was with McKenna. That was also when he was a Republican legislator at the state Capitol. After leaving, he said, he’s largely avoided practicing law because he didn’t have malpractice insurance. His law license is active with the Georgia Bar Association.

Towery, a Cambridge University (in England) undergrad, earned a law degree from Stetson University in Florida.

More recently, he’s made a name for himself as book author, political analyst and the head of a polling company he leads with former CNN executive Eason Jordan.

The company had a big break in 2008, acting as the official pollster for Politico, a Washington-based Web site focused on national politics, during the presidential election. His company also produces several political news Web sites.

Towery’s GOP credentials run deep: he’s been a strategist for Georgia Republicans such as former U.S. Sen. Mack Mattingly and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Jeff Haidet, McKenna’s chairman, admitted it may seem odd to hire a Republican just as Democrats gain control of the White House and have a bigger majority in Congress. But Senate Democrats still need to work with Republicans to get bills passed, Haidet said.

“I was meeting with a client yesterday,” he said on a phone interview from Washington. “Their view was that they couldn’t get [legislation] through without Republican support in the Senate for it. Those relationships are still very important to work getting done up here in Washington.”

Towery will practice with the government affairs group, led by Eric Tanenblatt, the one-time chief of staff to Georgia’s Republican governor, Sonny Perdue.

Tanenblatt said Towery also brings knowledge that McKenna’s clients may want around political strategy, grassroots organization and using new media.

“Matt brings a sense for how the media is an important tool on impacting public policy,” Tanenblatt said. And the relationship with Towery could bring new clients to both McKenna and Towery’s firm.

“We have arrangements with other professionals who work for us part time and have consulting business on the side,” Haidet said. “It works.”

Said Towery: “There are so many things they are doing that cross pollinate with what we do in terms of research and information gathering. It’s not taking more of my time away here but augmenting it. Rainmaking? I suppose it runs both ways.”

Source: AJC

Manuel’s Tavern to Host
“Paranoid Nation” Book-Signing

Atlanta – The metro Atlanta political class is gathering Tuesday, January 28 at legendary Manuel’s Tavern to celebrate Matt Towery’s new book, “Paranoid Nation: The Real Story of the 2008 Fight for Presidency.” Towery will be on hand to meet, greet and sign books. And you and your friends are invited!

Towery chronicles the rise of Barack Obama and how Hillary Clinton’s well-oiled machine fizzled. The book also takes an in-depth look at how John McCain beat the GOP establishment at their own game.

Come party and enjoy an evening of sharing memories of the election and looking ahead to the future. A who’s who of politicos is sure to be on hand.

See you there.

RSVP Tom Houck
thouck@mindspring.com

Wednesday January 28 – 6 to 9pm
Manuel’s Tavern
602 N. Highland Ave NE @ North Ave
Atlanta, Georgia 30307

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Towery to Discuss “Paranoid Nation”
On C-SPAN Broadcast
From Atlanta-Area Barnes & Noble

Atlanta – Matt Towery will be on hand at the Cumberland Barnes & Noble Booksellers at 7 pm Thursday night, January 8 to appear on C-SPAN to talk about his new book, “Paranoid Nation.” You are invited to attend, and to ask questions of Towery. He will also be available to sign books.

C-SPAN will nationally broadcast the event at a later date. See you there!

Cumberland Barnes & Noble Booksellers
2952 Cobb Parkway
1 mile south of I-285, adjacent to Cumberland Mall
7 p.m.

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“Paranoid Nation: The Real Story of the 2008 Fight for the Presidency”

(TO ORDER YOUR COPY, see www.matttowery.com.)

Atlanta — A nation on edge elects an unknown commodity as president of the United States. How did it really happen?

Ask the man who has known every president since Richard Nixon. The man who runs an independent opinion research firm that polled primary after primary correctly in 2008. The man who once chaired U.S Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s political organization, and who once was his state’s Republican nominee for lieutenant governor. Ask the guy who is both a longtime political player and a celebrated observer of American politics.

Ask Matt Towery, author of the new book, “Paranoid Nation: The Real Story of the 2008 Fight For The Presidency.”

Says Towery about his book, “‘Paranoid Nation’ is an accessible first-person narrative of how Barack Obama and John McCain came out of nowhere to win their parties’ presidential nominations, and how Obama finally won the race for the White House. The book also brushes on my own unpredictable experiences in politics over the last generation. It’s been a wild ride.”

“This is nothing like any political book you will ever read,” says Walter Jones of the Morris News Service. “Towery takes us through a unique personal history that includes having met or known every president since Richard Nixon. He ties together amazing stories of our nation’s political past to help explain what most of us don’t know…how Barack Obama really won the presidency.”

Towery looks at events from the predictable to the bizarre, and all from the perspective of his “paranoid” readers, who are weary, frustrated and scared at political and economic developments in these historic but strange times. Towery takes an outsider’s view of the inside happenings surrounding the historic 2008 election, including answers to these vital but unasked questions:

• Which poll’s odd findings set Obama on an early course to victory?
• What was the real reason the Democratic National Committee refused to seat Florida’s primary delegates?
• Which Republican presidential candidate “won” a televised debate that helped catapult the GOP “outsider” John McCain to the head of the Republican ticket?
• What American celebrity made the upstart Obama an instant star right when he most needed a boost?
• What forces sewed the seeds of Hillary Clinton’s destruction before her campaign ever hit full stride?

Was all not what it seemed on the surface of the presidential election, or are Americans just paranoid?

“Paranoid Nation” answers these and lots of other questions that penetrate behind the headlines to explain how Barack Obama won the presidency.

Matt Towery is the author of two previous major book releases, “Powerchicks: How Women Will Dominate America” (1998), and “Mean Business: The Insider’s Guide To Winning Any Political Election” (2000), which he co-authored with former Georgia Democratic Lt. Gov. Pierre Howard.

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