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peter ragone
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peter ragone

peter ragone iii is an american public affairs expert and entrepreneur active in a range of political and civic efforts .
he is the senior adviser for strategic planning for new york mayor de blasio .
ragone had a long career in american politics .
he was press secretary to then-san francisco mayor gavin newsom .
ragone played a crucial role in crafting newsom 's major policy issues on topics such as same-sex marriage , universal healthcare and homelessness .
prior to working with newsom , ragone served as communications director for gray davis and worked in the governor 's anti-recall campaign .
ragone was also al gore 's new york and california presidential campaign communications director .
ragone also served as chief spokesman for andrew cuomo in his 2002 run for new york governor .
cuomo chose ragone for this role after he worked as cuomo 's national press office director during his tenure as housing and urban development -lrb- hud -rrb- secretary under the clinton administration .
ragone also worked on former governor mario cuomo 's campaign for reelection in 1994 .
ragone also briefly served on hillary rodham clinton 's first campaign for senate and got his start in national politics during the clinton-gore coordinated presidential campaign in 1996 .
since 2007 , he has served as principal of pwr , llc , a public affairs consultancy that provides private sector communications advice .
in 2011 , ragone founded exiles , inc. , a company devoted to organizing online clubs for sports fans that live outside the home market of their favorite teams .
ragone serves on boards including the america 's cup organizing committee , tahoe winter olympic games committee , and chinasf .
he is often quoted in the media for his opinion on international and domestic public relations issues .
he 's appeared in the new york times , new york post , cnn , bbc , san francisco chronicle , los angeles times among other publications .
