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James Richardson    

Communications strategist and writer

James Richardson serves as vice president of public relations at Hynes Communications, a boutique communications firm specializing in blogger engagement. He was formerly a communications adviser and spokesman for Governors Haley Barbour and Jon Huntsman, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the College Republican National Committee (CRNC).

He’s published political and social commentary in the Washington Post, USA TODAY, The Atlantic Magazine, GQ Magazine, The Guardian (UK), Politico, Roll Call, The Christian Science Monitor, Fox News, CBS News, National Review, the Washington Times, the Huffington Post, Human Events and the Daily Caller.

A proud product of the University of Georgia, James now lives in Atlanta.

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I'm a senior GOP spokesman, and I'm gay. Let me get married.
Throughout my career I’ve publicly advocated for the freedom to marry, urging the party for which I work to allow gay men and women to wed even as I never openly disclosed my personal stake. I’ve preached the small-government virtues of equal marriage, echoing a conservative case that had been made many times before by thinkers more eloquent and far brighter than myself. Never once did I write that I am gay.

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