A media-savvy FrontBurnervian alerts us to this profile of Rob Allyn in yesterday’s New York Times. The article zeroes in on why some Hispanic groups are angry over Allyn’s hiring: the man is a gringo.
While you were running holiday errands, Dallas PR honcho Rob Allyn (yep, that’s his ad over there on the right side of this page) was getting the Christmas present of a lifetime. His newest client? Mexico, as in the country. The one year contract pays Allyn’s firm $720,000 (that’s 7,718,040 pesos), but as this story in DMN points out, Allyn is already earning his money dealing with prickly immigration issues.