Winning Strategies Require a Good Foundation
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Chris Lehman is Founder and CEO of California-based Foundation Public LLC, a full-service political and public affairs firm with national and statewide experience including senior roles on over 32 ballot measure campaigns, a Presidential campaign, issue advocacy and crisis communications efforts, legislative caucus campaigns, and county supervisor and city council races.
Lehman says the common denominator in his client’s string of David vs. Goliath upset victories was “fighting from a good foundation of strategy, message, and team.” Lehman’s clients won longstanding fights over corporate taxes, clean air laws, and public health despite being massively outspent by entrenched opponents with giant campaign warchests.
Lehman has served as a strategist for four consecutive leaders of the California State Senate, philanthropist, environmental activist and Presidential candidate Tom Steyer, the advocacy group NextGen Climate, as well as an influential public health coalition led by the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Benefiting from over 20 years of political media experience, Foundation Public, LLC provides full-service narrative messaging for television, earned media, radio, direct mail, and digital ads for public affairs, ballot measures, issue and candidate campaigns, and crisis communications. In 2020, Chris was honored to serve as a senior advisor for Tom Steyer for President, overseeing all paid media and message development that helped the underdog campaign repeatedly outperform national expectations and polling.
A native of California’s rugged and rural Redwood Coast, Chris Lehman’s career in politics followed his degrees in both Physics and Political Science from University of California, Davis.