carville, the morning after

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Last month probably wasn’t the best time to be around James Carville, but GMO/Hill, Holliday managed to make the best of it.

The San Francisco shop had named a conference room after Carville—one of 42 in its new offices—and invited him to town to celebrate. Alas, the attack-dog Democrat and sometime advertising talent (Nike, ESPN, etc.) arrived the day after the U.S. Supreme Court handed the presidency to George W. Bush.

“He was in a bad mood but it was that ragin’ Cajun, funny bad mood,” says agency president Nancy Hill.



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