Charlie Gerow
Charles R. Gerow , called "Harrisburg's most politically well-connected conservative" by Harrisburg Magazine is a nationally recognized leader in strategic communications and political consulting. Charlie Gerow is the CEO of Quantum Communications, a Harrisburg-based public relations and issue advocacy firm.In 2010, Politics Magazine named him one of the most influential Republicans in Pennsylvania. He was also named one of the Top Ten Political Consultants in Pennsylvania by PA2010.comGerow holds a law degree from Villanova University School of Law and has been an attorney for over 30 years. Gerow began his career on the campaign staff of President Ronald Reagan and continued to do political work for President Reagan throughout the next 25 years. He was an Alternate Delegate At Large at the 1988 Republican National Convention. In 1989, he helped to found the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference. During the 1996 presidential election, Gerow was a surrogate speaker for Bob Dole. In 2000, he was a candidate in the 2000 Republican primary to represent Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district, where he lost to Todd Russell Platts'>Todd Russell Platts.Gerow serves on the board of directors of the American Conservative Union, the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge and the American Swiss Foundation.He has taught as an adjunct professor at Lebanon Valley College, Dickinson College and Gettysburg College. He works as a political analyst for WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He regularly hosts his own radio talk shows and has appeared as a political commentator on NBC, ABC, and several national radio programs. He was the subject of a feature on CNN’s “Inside Politics” television program and regularly appears on C-SPAN and Pennsylvania Cable Network. He has been named a "Commissioned Colonel" in the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.In 2005, the political website PoliticsPA posted a tongue-in-cheek feature similar to Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The feature was called The Six Degrees of Charlie Gerow, where the editors connected Gerow to various celebrities, including Hillary Clinton and Jessica Simpson.He was a spokesman for filmmaker Carlton Sherwood during the controversy surrounding Sherwood's anti-John Kerry film Stolen Honor. He fellow conservative activist Jeff Lord, who works with Gerow at Quantum Communications, founded QubeTV, a conservative alternative to YouTube. He also represented the electronic voting machine company Accupoll in their attempts to sell voting machines in Pennsylvania following passage of the Help America Vote Act. Gerow represented "Bring our Taxes Home," a group created to expand gaming in Pennsylvania.On November 15, 2009 Gerow was chosen to head the transition team for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, mayor-elect Linda D. Thompson, the first African-American female ever elected to the office.
