Charlie Gerow

Charles R. Gerow
Gerow in February 2011.
Education	Villanova University School of Law
Occupation	political consultant and commentator

Charles R. Gerow is a prominent political consultant, commentator, and lawyer in Pennsylvania.

Gerow holds a law degree from Villanova University School of Law and has been an attorney for over 25 years.^[1] He worked as a member of the field staff for the 1980 Reagan campaign.^[2] He has performed advance work for 6 other presidential campaigns since then.^[2] In 1986, Gerow ran to represent the 10th senatorial district in the Pennsylvania Senate, losing the Republican primary to Jim Greenwood.^[3] He was an Alternate Delegate At Large at the 1988 Republican National Convention.^[2] In 1989, he helped to found the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference.^[4] During the 1996 presidential election, Gerow was a surrogate speaker for Bob Dole.^[2] In 2000, he was a candidate in the 2000 Republican primary to represent Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district, where he lost to Todd Russell Platts.^[5]

He has taught as an adjunct professor at Lebanon Valley College, Dickinson College and Gettysburg College.^[1] He works as a political analyst for WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.^[1] He regularly hosts his own radio talk shows and has appeared as a political commentator on NBC, ABC, and several national radio programs.^[1] He was the subject of a feature on CNN’s “Inside Politics” television program and regularly appears on C-SPAN and Pennsylvania Cable Network.^[1] He has been named a "Commissioned Colonel" in the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.^[1]

In 2005, the political website PoliticsPA posted a tongue-in-cheek feature similar to Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.^[3] The feature was called The Six Degrees of Charlie Gerow, where the editors connected Gerow to various celebrities, including Hillary Clinton and Jessica Simpson.^[3] In 2010, Politics Magazine named him one of the most influential Republicans in Pennsylvania.^[6]

He is the owner of Quantum Communications, a political communication and consulting firm, where he participated in "strategy development."^[1] He was a spokesman for filmmaker Carlton Sherwood during the controversy surrounding Sherwood's anti-John Kerry film Stolen Honor.^[3][7] He fellow conservative activist Jeff Lord, who works with Gerow at Quantum Communications, founded QubeTV, a conservative alternative to Youtube.^[8] He also represented the electronic voting machine company Accupoll in their attempts to sell voting machines in Pennsylvania following passage of the Help America Vote Act.^[3] Gerow was treasurer of "Citizens for a Stronger Pennsylvania," a political action committee created to oppose expansion of gambling in Pennsylvania; he later represented "Bring our Taxes Home," a group created to expand gaming in Pennsylvania.^[3]

On November 15, 2009 Gerow was chosen to head the transition team for Harrisburg, PA mayor-elect Linda Thompson, the first African-American female ever elected to the office.

See also

• Stolen Honor
• QubeTV

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} "Charlie Gerow". Quantum Communications. 2009. http://www.quantumcomms.com/about/. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} "Mr. Charles R. Gerow". Find a Republican Lawyer. Republican National Lawyers Association. 1007. http://www.rnla.org/bio/BioDetail.asp?MemberID=733. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "The Six Degrees of Charlie Gerow". PoliticsPA. Archived from the original on 2006-01-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20060109104747/www.politicspa.com/FEATURES/05sixdegreesofgerow.htm. 
4. ^ "History of the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference". Pennsylvania Leadership Conference. Pennsylvania Leadership Council. http://www.paleadershipconference.org/about.php. 
5. ^ "2000 General Primary - Representative in Congress". Commonwealth of PA - Elections Information. Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/ElectionsInformation.aspx?FunctionID=13&ElectionID=1&OfficeID=11. 
6. ^ Roarty, Alex; Sean Coit (January 2010). "Pennsylvania Influencers". Politics Magazine: pp. 44–49. Archived from the original on 2010-02-07. http://www.webcitation.org/5nNQI9Qgt. 
7. ^ "Sinclair to air only part of Kerry film, Amid rising pressure, it said portions of "Stolen Honor" would be included in a one-hour program.". Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 2004. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=105DC990139FA1CB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. "..."we had a valid contract," said Charlie Gerow, spokesman for Sherwood's..." 
8. ^ "Conservative Activists Gerow and Lord Announce Founding Of QubeTV.tv, a Conservative Video and Picture Platform". Business Wire. March 1, 2007. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_March_1/ai_n27308569/. 

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