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Texas local government and public affairs
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.
Local work comes first. The firm has helped clients at the state and federal level when needed.
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.
Where we can help
Before a local decision. Learn how JD Key helps
Learn what matters to the community, address objections early, and build support before the public meeting.
When a proposal meets opposition. Learn how JD Key helps
Understand the reasons behind a setback, find willing supporters, and decide how to make a stronger case.
Across cities and counties. Learn how JD Key helps
Keep a consistent public case while responding to different officials, concerns, and decision processes in each place.
We do the work in public and in person
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
Vice President
Blake Sbrocco
Read Blake’s biographyJames 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.
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.
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.
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