"A request, dear listener, for prayers for a speedy recovery for my friend Brad Todd, one of the good guys in politics." @BradOnMessage 🙏🏻

WH Deputy Press Sec @abigailmarone heading to OnMessage axios.com/2026/07/29/abigail…

I first met @posglen about a month after I came to Washington as a political consultant. Our first meeting was somewhat curt. He gave me advice on pitching business, without me asking. I was too dumb to ask, as he was an outstanding pitcher. We both built books of biz in Virginia, among other places, & over the next 27 years we worked together on a bunch of races, and won almost all of them - which I can't say about many people. As today's young people come into our business, I hate they cannot learn the urgency Glen had. More than anyone I have met in our line of work, he did not let grass grow under his feet. In his hey day, you'd be on the phone with him and he'd say something like: "gotta go; the congressman in Syracuse just retired so I'm heading to the airport." And he would hang up immediately. He won some work because he was good, and some work because he got there first. He was similarly capable of swift decisions in campaigns, without second-guessing. It was a great and radical lesson, and one I do not follow often enough. Late in his life, Glen spent a lot of time touring the world with his wife, Carol, and luckily he took pictures and wrote a blog about it so we could "go" with them. I think he got through his bucket list - and as a 56 year old, I will try to learn that Glen lesson, too. May God bless the Bolger family, his founding partners @KCkid & @pollsterguy, and everyone else at Public Opinion Strategies, the juggernaut they built. Welcome home, Glen.

Thank you, Mr. President. It’s time to get to work.