SACRAMENTO: California's multibillion-dollar budget woes are creating uncertainty for PR and public affairs firms in the state capital.
Facing a $30 billion budget gap, Governor Gray Davis has called on all state agencies and departments to cut back on non-essential spending, including PR. How much damage this will do to local PR firms remains to be seen, as state departments begin to look at their own budgets.
"That's the million-dollar question," said Robert Deen, managing director of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide's Sacramento ...