George F. Cronin
Principal
George manages the public affairs practice group for Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications. He is responsible for government relations, political intelligence, lobbying, procurement representation, ballot initiatives and grassroots organizing on behalf of a diverse group of clients including the Eli Lilly, Dell, Inc., MasterCard and Toyota. George has extensive experience representing these clients’ interests before local, state and federal government throughout the New England.
In addition to his lobbying victories and legislative accomplishments, George has been involved in many political campaigns throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and several presidential election campaigns. During the 2000 presidential election, he served as press secretary for the Democratic Coordinated Campaign in New Hampshire. Most recently he served as a senior advisor and New England political director for US Sen. Joseph Biden’s 2008 Presidential campaign.
He has been involved in a number of local and statewide ballot initiatives. In November 2006, he was a senior member of the Rasky Baerlein team to defeat the passage of a ballot question that would have allowed grocery stores to sell wine. In 2002, he managed a successful override campaign in the Town of Winchester, Massachusetts which limited property tax increases and in 2001, he worked on behalf of a Boston business coalition to defeat a ballot question that proposed a property tax increase in the City of Boston.
Prior to joining Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications, George was at The Choate Group, the government affairs subsidiary of the Boston law firm Choate, Hall & Stewart.
George earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts and a master’s degree in government from Suffolk University.