Nicholas Thimmesch II, son of the late Los Angeles Times Syndicate columnist & journalist, Nick Thimmesch, was born in Iowa City, Iowa, where his father taught English & Journalism at the University of Iowa. Raised in New York and Washington, where his father worked as a journalist, Mr. Thimmesch attended private school in Washington, and continued his education at Montgomery College and West Virginia University, graduating with degrees in Criminal Justice and Social Work respectively.
Mr. Thimmesch’s professional background includes extensive writing, research and communications experience with public and private organizations. With a political appointment to the White House as a staff writer, he drafted responses for correspondence to the President and the Chief of Staff regarding public policy issues. Additional responsibilities included research and preparation of special messages from the President for public and private service organizations.
Mr. Thimmesch continued his national political experience: serving as a communications & media consultant to four national political conventions coordinating media & advance efforts; serving as media & research director for an independent presidential committee and as a communications & staff writer for two presidential campaigns. As an independent consultant, he has directed media & research for U.S. Senate and Congressional campaigns as well as other projects impacting public policy.
Mr. Thimmesch served as Press Secretary to a high-profile U.S. Representative serving on the House Budget, Commerce & Science Committees.
Mr. Thimmesch has served as an independent media and communications consultant to numerous political, public policy and business organizations.
So what is the point of all this navel gazing when it comes to political candidates or elected officials and their medical records or conditions? I thought privacy was the operative word when it comes to medical records and current conditions: what gives? For that matter: why is MSNBC’s resident douche, Keith Olbermann, giving us the blow-by-blow of his dying father instead of demanding Bush and Cheney be imprisoned for war crimes?
President Obama’s “physical” leaves more for us to learn than it tells: is he still smoking and what is he smoking (and where: he lives in a government building that forbids smoking of any kind)?; what on Earth is he “drinking” in terms of alcohol consumption and why would any physician advise he curtail it?; and what physiological and/or psychological damage has been done to one-time marijuana and cocaine abuser Barack Obama that we should nose about?
Inquiring minds and prodding doctors wanna know.
Nicholas Thimmesch II is a long-time media and communications consultant to numerous campaigns, government representatives and public policy organizations, serving in the Reagan White House as a staff writer.