Mike Geoghegan

Michael Geoghegan (born November 1965) is a Canadian government and media relations consultant.^[1]

He was a ministerial assistant to the New Democratic Party's Bill Barlee from 1991 to 1996.^[2] After resigning from his job when political ally and long time friend Bill Barlee was defeated, Geoghegan set up a government relations firm with Bill Barlee known as "Barlee Geoghegan and Associates", which was succeeded by "Michael Geoghegan Consulting Ltd".^[3] The firm released a series of polling studies in 1999 and 2000 authored by Bernard von Schulmann and former Green Party leader Stuart Parker that predicted the BC NDP would win only zero to four seats in the next British Columbia provincial election. In May 2001, the BC NDP were reduced to only two MLAs.

After Glen Clark became premier Mike Geoghegan became increasingly disillusioned with the leftward drift of the NDP, and by 1997 Mike had joined the BC Liberals.

In 2003 he was hired as the president and CEO of the BC Construction Association.^[1] Thanks to his frequent appearances in the media, the BCCA enjoyed an extremely high profile. That ended when in November 2003 Geoghegan made some highly controversial remarks about NDP MLA Jenny Kwan.^[4] Although Geoghegan apologized for his on air comments, he was dismissed and returned to consulting, primarily for a variety of associations and unions involved in the construction sector as well as several First Nations.

Mike Geoghegan continues to work as a freelance government and media relations consultant [1]. He still makes appearances from time to time on various radio, television and print media. From 1996 to 1998, he was a monthly political guest on Tyabji a weekday current events show on Victoria television station CHEK 6 hosted by Judi Tyabji. After that show's cancellation he became a weekly political guest on Vancouver radio station CKNW and Victoria radio station CFAX until November 2003. From 2005 until 2009 he wrote a monthly column for the Thompson Okanagan Business Examiner [2] and in 2007 he returned to being a weekly guest and political commentator on CFAX radio. In 2009 he became a frequent guest on CTV's national news channel.

Mike Geoghegan has been observing the proceedings of the trial of David Basi, Robert Virk and Aneal Basi in connection with the BC Legislature Raids,also known as Ledgegate and alleged connections to the sale of BC Rail.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Michael Geoghegan Bio". Michael Geoghegan Consulting. http://mgcltd.ca/mgcltd/associates/geoghegan.php. Retrieved 2006-09-26. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "B.C. Film shift puzzles industry". Playback. http://www.playbackmag.com/articles/magazine/19960325/5174.html. Retrieved 2006-09-26. 
3. ^ "Bill Barlee". CEFPI. http://pacificnorthwest.cefpi.org/2003conference/bill_barlee.html. Retrieved 2006-09-26. ^{[dead link]}
4. ^ http://www.diversitywatch.ryerson.ca/media/cache/kwan_vansun_nov25.htm

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