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Press release of the week: Owens still majoring in spin

By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper

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Old congressmen may retire — but they keep sending out press releases.

So this week’s coveted “Press Release of the Week” award goes to former Rep. Major Owens’s new consulting firm, Major Owens Communovations Associates.

The release announced Owens’s support for Jessie Hamilton, one of a gaggle of candidates running in next week’s special City Council election.

Owens called Hamilton “the superior candidate,” to replace new Rep. Yvette Clarke, but that’s not why he won our award. He won it because he put out the release in the first place.

Communovations Associates?

“This is my consulting firm and I’m going to do plenty of pro-bono work,” Owens told us. “Though I hope a paying client or two come along.”

Owens said his two decades in Congress make him well suited to advise non-profits on how to tap into billions in school funding.

“Education is my expertise,” he said.

He’s also writing a book about the history of the Congressional Black Caucus, thanks to a fellowship with the Library of Congress.

“I don’t intend to be less dedicated to public service over the next two decades of my life,” said Owens, 70.

Just don’t call him in the morning. The Communovations Associates office is definitely operating on retired Congressman hours.

©2007 The Brooklyn Paper

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