Pundits and practitioners, two consultants and a politician, will offer the insiders”™ view of the business side of political campaigns at Pace University on May 5.
“They will not talk about the issues per se,” said John Ravitz, executive vice president of the Business Council of Westchester, “but what”™s involved in building the infrastructure of a campaign.”
The Business Council of Westchester and the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation are hosting the event.
The day-to-day operations of a campaign require printing, videography, advertising and other services to convert positions and issues into votes.
The presidential campaigns alone are expected to spend more than $11 billion on political advertising, Marsha Gordon, president and CEO of the business council, noted in a press release. Closer to home, congressional and state legislative races will create business opportunities this year.
The “Business of Politics” forum is also meant to stimulate long-term thinking. “We want people to start thinking,” Ravitz said,” Could my business play a role in a campaign?”
The pundits and practitioners include Evan Stavisky, a political and legislative strategist for The Parkside Group in Albany and New York City; Bill O”™Reilly, a principal in The November Team communications firm in South Salem, and Tim Bishop, a former U.S. congressman who represented Suffolk County from 2003 to 2015 as a Democrat.
The forum will be moderated by Ravitz and Laurence Gottlieb, president of the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp.
It will be held from 8 to 9:30Â p.m. at Pace”™s Pleasantville campus. Admission costs $25.
