Sherry Sylvester

Sherry Sylvester is a political worker and journalist. She was the communications director for Doug Forrester's 2005 campaign for Governor of New Jersey before their loss in the November polls.

Prior to that, she was briefly the communications director for the Republican Party of Texas. From 2002 to 2004 she headed Texas Media Watch, a nonpartisan project of the Lone Star Foundation, producing a newsletter dedicated to defending Republican officeholders and policies from critical coverage by the state's major dailies. It also tended to accuse the papers of being insufficiently positive about the Iraq WarFact|date=February 2007. The Lone Star Foundation (devoted to "family, freedom, free enterprise, and the Constitution") is funded by former Austin banker David Hartman, a 1994 GOP candidate for state treasurer and a state Republican heavyweight. Hartman also underwrites The Lone Star Report, a conservative legislative newsletter; LSR's associates include William Murchison and Citizens for a Sound Economy's Peggy Venable, famous for her accusations that MoveOn is a Communist front organization.

Prior to this project, Sylvester was an award winning journalist who had been writing about politics, public policy and the media for over two decades. She is the former political writer for the San Antonio Express-News, stepping down in early 2003. At the Express-News she covered the 2000 presidential election, the Florida recount and the 2001 San Antonio mayoral election. She wrote a weekly column, "It's All Politics" and was awarded a Knight Fellowship in Specialized Journalism for her coverage of the 2000 Census. Before coming to Texas, Sylvester was the Chief Political Writer for the "Trentonian" in Trenton, New Jersey where her commentary appeared in several state newspapers. She was part of the "Trentonian" team that won the New Jersey Press Association Community Service Award for a series of news and commentary on illegal gambling. She appeared weekly on New Jersey Reporter's Roundtable and was a frequent guest on New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia radio and television.

Prior to her career in journalism, Sylvester was a speechwriter for U.S. Senate candidate Geraldine Ferraro and served in the administration of New York City Mayor David Dinkins. Sylvester is originally from Oklahoma.

External links

* [http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-04-02/pols_capitol.html Austin Chronicle] "Kill the Messenger! In its Tomstown counterattack, the GOP keeps looking for scapegoats" April 2, 2004
* [http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/gop-spokeswoman-may-have-lied-in.html Nashua Advocate] "GOP Spokeswoman May Have Lied in Denying Any Knowledge of Bobby Eberle, Owner of Talon News" February 21, 2005
* [http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051113/OPINION/511130358/1029/POLITICS.html Asbury Park Press] "Mrs. Corzine was right--ex already letting New Jersey Down" November 13th, 2005 by Sylvester