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Becker leaving Senate Ag for consulting firm

Ben Becker
Ben Becker
Benjamin Becker, the national spokesman for Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich, is leaving to join Precision Strategies, a communications consulting firm.

Becker was hired by then-Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and promoted by Stabenow in 2011 when she succeeded Lincoln.

As the committee’s national spokesman Becker aggressively promoted and protected the Senate farm bill throughout its multiyear route to passage and conference in 2014.

Before his position in the Senate, Becker worked for the Glover Park Group in its energy and sustainability price and before that, for two other Washington firms, FD Dittus and SDI.

Becker was born in southern California and grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs. He holds a bachelor’s degree from California State University and a master’s degree from George Washington University. Early in his career he was a reporter for the Los Angeles News Group.

Becker begins his role as a principal at Precision Strategies next Monday.

Precision Strategies was founded by Stephanie Cutter and Teddy Goff, who were deputy campaign managers on President Barack Obama’s election campaigns and held high -level White House positions, and Jen O’Malley Dillon, the deputy campaign manager on Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and a former executive director of the Democratic National Committee.

According to its website, the firm prides itself on “creating new data-driven tools and technology to reach the right audiences with the right messages, then move them to action” by turning “supporters into evangelists.”

Precision Strategies