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  • OUR TEAM

    Lori Wortz, Fred Wszolek and Katie Packer Gage lead the team at WWP Strategies. 

    We didn’t start in this field as practitioners of some narrow specialty. We started as generalists who saw how all the pieces came together. We later became specialists, but we kept our knack for strategy.

    We’ve been involved in campaigns at all levels, for candidates, constitutional amendments and big fights over issues in Congress and the Legislatures. We’ve worked in the legislative branch, the executive branch, the private sector.



  • Lori Wortz

    Lori specializes in strategic planning for public policy issue management campaigns, ballot proposal campaigns and grassroots/grasstops mobilization.

    Previously Lori served seven years as Chief of Staff to the Michigan State Senate Majority Leader, providing oversight of Senate operations, managing a multi-million dollar budget, helping plan and implement the legislative agenda, and interacting with members of the media, interest groups and the public. She directly participated in key policy debates, including property tax reform, school funding reform, energy and telecommunication deregulation, welfare reform, and changes in the unemployment compensation system.

    Lori began her career working on presidential politics. She worked for Pat Robertson in 1986, ran his 1988 campaign in Michigan and worked on the regional level, and later at the RNC, covering Alaska, Washington, Nevada, Oregon, Missouri, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Nebraska.

  • Fred Wszolek

    Fred works with clients to define the strategies and messages that will ensure victory. He brings more than two decades of political, creative and issue management experience to his work. From campaign manager in the field to media producer in the studio, Fred has been involved in winning political and issue campaigns since 1984.

    Fred is formerly a partner in a Virginia-based national political consulting firm where he provided services to key congressional campaigns in four states. Previously Fred was Director of the Michigan Senate Majority Communications Office. He also worked for a Michigan based PR and political advertising firm, working on issues like workers compensation and auto insurance reform, tax cut proposals and candidate campaigns.

    Fred is an innovator in politics. Working with a team of nationally recognized pollsters, Fred helped develop MicroTargeting, the most sophisticated targeting and market segmentation tools available to Republican campaigns in America. In 2002, Campaigns & Elections magazine named Fred one of the Rising Stars of Politics. Fred's broadcast advertising work for candidates and ballot proposals has been recognized with numerous Pollie, Telly and Communicator Awards.

  • Katie Packer Gage

    Katie is the master organizer who builds and mobilizes political organizations for clients. She participated in her first political campaign in the fall of 1988 as a Missouri college student working to elect then Vice President George Bush. Since then she has worked on campaigns at every level from State Representative to Presidential.

    After working on many state legislative campaigns in Michigan, Katie served as the Deputy State Director for the Dole for President Campaign in 1996. Following that, she was Director of the Michigan Senate Majority Communications Office as well as Executive Director of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee when Republicans saw historic gains in their majority.

    Katie has worked as a Senior Aide to U.S. Senator Spence Abraham (R-MI) first on Capitol Hill and then as Deputy Campaign Manager of his 2000 campaign. At the state level, Katie was also Chief of Staff to Michigan Lt. Governor Dick Posthumus, going on to manage the 2002 Posthumus for Governor campaign in Michigan.

    In addition, Katie spent two years working at the U.S. Department of Energy as a senior advisor to the Secretary on issues related to Science, Fossil Energy as well as Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

    Most recently, Katie worked as the senior strategist for the successful Michigan campaign for Governor Mitt Romney.

  • Patrick Meyers

    Patrick focuses on issue management campaigns, grassroots development, ballot proposal campaigns, project management and research.
     
    Patrick cut his teeth in politics in the state legislature. His 10 years with the State House allowed him to build a diverse resume both in policy work and in campaign tactics.  He has extensive background in campaign management, opposition research, fundraising, and development and implementation of legislative agendas. 
     
    In 2009, Patrick left the legislature and joined the Michigan Republican Party as their first Legislative Liaison.  In this role he coordinated candidate recruitment, campaign strategy, and grassroots efforts between the Party and the State House and Senate.  In the 2010, he took over the position of Director of the House Republican Campaign Committee. This gave him the opportunity to oversee a multi-million dollar statewide campaign under the leadership of now Michigan Lt. Governor Brian Calley.