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Batch Zero and your Texas power allocation

Build local support before a decision becomes a fight.

JD Key helps companies earn a fair hearing in Texas cities and counties. We listen to local concerns, find people willing to speak up, and make the public case for projects and businesses worth supporting.

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Where we can help

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We do the work in public and in person

Local work comes first. The firm has helped clients at the state and federal level when needed.

We speak with officials and residents to understand support and opposition. We help willing constituents contact their own representatives, track those conversations, and recruit people prepared to speak publicly. James and Blake also make the case themselves through interviews, op-eds, testimony, and direct conversations.

Listening is part of persuasion. A useful objection may reveal a question your team needs to answer or a change worth making. We report what we hear so your team can act on it.

Experience on both sides of a local decision

Your team knows the business and works through local challenges every day. When you need another credible voice, local relationships, or a different way to explain a complex issue, James Dickey and Blake Sbrocco work alongside you.

James leads client strategy. Blake brings municipal experience and stays involved as outreach moves forward. Together, they help explain complex business and technology issues in terms that matter to local decision-makers and residents.

Their experience in business and local government helps them understand the questions officials face and explain what a company is trying to accomplish. Read their biographies for the roles and experience behind that work.

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Work alongside the people you trust

You may already have a strong government-relations team, a lobbyist, a public relations firm, and legal advisers. JD Key adds local conversations, constituent support, and another public voice when the situation calls for them. State and federal assistance is available when it connects to the client's issue.

No associate takes over your file. Either James Dickey or Blake Sbrocco may lead a matter.

JD Key works with existing lobbyist relationships and with clients' internal government affairs and communications teams.

One public example

A company with operations across the country could immediately name three local areas where its proposals had been rejected after residents objected. The company hired JD Key for outside help understanding the opposition and building local support.

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Tell us where the decision stands

Which city or county is involved? What are you trying to accomplish, when is the decision, and what concerns have you heard? Start with what you know. We'll discuss where outside help would be useful.

Discuss your local government challenge

Tell James Dickey and Blake Sbrocco where you need support and what your team is working to accomplish.

  • Principal-Led Engagement
  • Texas local government experience
  • Every inquiry reviewed personally

City or county, objective, timing, and concerns if you know them.

Every inquiry reviewed personally