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 Wall Street Journal Febuary 7, 2013 "Scott Brown was the ace in the hole," said Rob Gray, a Republican strategist not currently working with any of the potential candidates.  New York Times December 22, 2012 Another consideration is that after the last election, some Republican money may have dried up. ''The Republican money guys are dead tired and don't want another race,'' said Rob Gray, a Republican strategist. Donors were drained, he said, by the $78 million Brown-Warren race, the most expensive in the country, and by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, neither of which yielded much return on the investment.  Boston Herald February 7, 2013 'It makes it tougher for him to run for governor, being a commentator on a conservative news network that's not all that popular beyond Republicans in Massachusetts,' said Republican consultant Rob Gray. New York Times March 24, 2012 “Romney was the young up-and-comer in ’94 who thought that the aging champ had lost his edge and was then surprised to get knocked out,” said Rob Gray, a Republican strategist who advised Mr. Romney in his 2002 race for governor. “That certainly caused him to reassess how any future campaign should be built.”  Rob Gray quoted in the Boston Globe October 24, 2011 "I think four years later he's less connected to Massachusetts," said Rob Gray, a Massachusetts-based Republican consultant who was a senior adviser to Romney's 2002 gubernatorial race but worked for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign in 2008. "You get the out-of-sight, out-of-mind factor. The last time around, he'd just been the governor, so your local fund-raising network tends to be a little more robust."  Rob Gray quoted in ABC news October 10, 2011 Rob Gray comments on the fundraising of both Senator Brown and his challengers. Read Here  Rob Gray on WCVB's "On the Record" June 18, 2011 Rob Gray, discusses President Barack Obama's job performance, and the recent GOP primary debate. Watch Here
January 6, 2010 Rob Gray, Baker's chief strategist, tells the Globe the former Harvard Pilgrim Health Care CEO "blew away" the campaign's fundraising benchmarks. Joe Biden is a run-of-mill mate August 26, 2008 For the past few weeks I've worried that Barack Obama would surprise us by picking an exciting, break-the-mold type of running mate who reinforced his outsider persona or a Southerner who changed the electoral map. In Joe Biden, he did neither, which gives me and other Republicans some relief. more...
Rob Gray, a Republican consultant who advised several
GOP governors, sees the casino vote as another example of the AFL-CIO's
declining power, pointing to the Democratic Party's weak showing in
several recent gubernatorial elections (though not in 2006), its
failure to advance a ballot initiative to give workers paid family
leave, and its inability to win the legalization of slot machines at
racetracks.
Rob Gray, a Boston-based GOP consultant and former
senior political adviser to Mitt Romney, will join the presidential
campaign of Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona and a Romney
rival.
Beacon Hill political consulting and public relations
firm Gray Media has been tapped by former
Massachusetts governor Bill Weld for his surprising tilt at the
gubernatorial race in New York.
The independent commission investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington will release its final report tomorrow. But Republicans are not waiting. They are invoking Watergate while Democrats shout partisanship over the leak of a nine- month-old investigation of former Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger... In the CROSSFIRE to debate all this, Republican
strategist Rob Gray and Democratic strategist Doug
Hattaway.
While some
businesspeople look for better times ahead, these young professionals
are doing great work now. Meet the best and brightest of Boston's
business community. Robert Gray
While every Republican
who ever stuffed an envelope now tries to land a job with the Bush
administration, one of the most prominent GOP operatives, who ran the
Bush campaign in Massachusetts, is turning down a top White House
position. Still smarting after long days that turned into weeks away
from his family during the Florida recount, Rob Gray
decided he had to "get over" his addiction to politics. more...
Pummeled by dismal poll ratings, Acting Gov. Jane M. Swift abruptly dropped out of the Massachusetts governor's race today, rattling the politics of one of the nation's most politically obsessed states. Tearful and shaken, the normally steel-nerved Ms. Swift made her announcement at the Statehouse this afternoon, just hours before Mitt Romney, who became popular as president of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics organizing committee, announced his plans to challenge Ms. Swift for the Republican nomination…. "To
a certain extent I think it was the death of a thousand cuts -- not any
one particular thing," said Rob Gray, a Republican
strategist, who added that Ms. Swift was also hampered by a
less-than-telegenic persona. "For her, before Romney it was an uphill
climb for Swift to win. Once Romney came in, it became like climbing
Mount Everest without oxygen for her."
Mitt Romney's Olympic credentials and close ties to President Bush make him a national star in the Republican Party - and a potential thorn in the side of a Massachusetts Democrat looking to take Bush's job… GOP sources say White House adviser Karl Rove was well aware of Romney's potential in 2004, and it helped persuade him to send Bush to Massachusetts… Romney adviser Rob Gray, who has ties to Rove and other White House officials, predicted Romney would be in "great demand" as a fund-raiser and GOP surrogate because of his reputation from the Olympics. "He's also a Republican governor from a heavily Democratic state and that has quite an appeal in a national sense," Gray said.
Mitt Romney and Shannon P. O'Brien are cramming for their biggest and riskiest night of the governor's race - tomorrow's final, high-intensity TV debate that could swing key undecided voters… "There's no question it's going to have the most viewers, because it's the final debate," Romney adviser Rob Gray said. The format - Romney and O'Brien sitting at a table on either side of Russert - will be much different than earlier debates, which included panels of questioners…. But Romney prefers not to stick too
closely to mock debates, aides said. He is getting input from his top
advisers, including consultant Mike Murphy, Gray,
campaign manager Ben Coes, adviser Cindy Gillespie, and campaign aide
Beth Myers... Advisers for both
candidates also said it's important to give the candidates some rest
time before the TV tune-up. Former Gov. Paul Cellucci used to go to
take in a movie matinee before all of his TV debates, according to Gray.
Senator John F. Kerry will have more than his 2002 reelection campaign in mind this week when he visits San Francisco, Seattle, and Iowa, host of the early presidential caucus... It is a long way, 2 1/2 years, before voters start casting ballots in the presidential primaries. But Bush's strategists already are at work courting key constituencies with 2004 in mind, and in Democratic ranks there is an acknowledgment that candidates need to raise money, and their national name recognition, as soon as possible…. For a Democrat from a state that Bush has virtually ignored, Kerry would find an unusual number of familiar names on the president's team if he decided to run. Stevens and Russell J. Schriefer, two top media advisers to the Bush campaign, worked for Weld in 1996. Rob Gray, political adviser to former governor Paul Cellucci, was a regional director for the Bush campaign and still has close ties to the White House. Bob Marsh, a former Massachusetts legislator, is now a special assistant to Bush. And there's Card. "They know him cold,"
said Ron Kaufman, who, as the Massachusetts committee member to the
Republican National Committee and a Bush ally, would be another
familiar face. "They know his warts. They know his blemishes. They know
how he's going to react."
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