WHO WE ARE
Winning takes personalized service and attention to detail. But that can’t happen when a firm has too many clients. We refuse to be forced into running cookie-cutter campaigns because we are too busy to be creative. We are different from other firms.

Winning takes the ability to analyze each different situation, think outside-the-box, and follow through with strategic implementation. That’s who we are.

After countless successful campaigns, we’ve learned how to craft winning strategies. We know how to maximize your dollars to spread your message and turn out your vote with creative direct mail.

OUR SERVICES
Voter Targeting & Message Development
Most candidates waste thousands of dollars sending mail to the wrong voters. They don’t know who to talk to or what to say. By employing the newest scientific technologies, we can target the right voters with the right message to persuade and turn out the vote.

Direct Mail
Successful direct mail strategy demands the right blend of creative thinking and tactical planning. Our consultants understand political strategy and will utilize their experience, knowledge, and creativity to develop your unique mail plan. We will show you how to spend every dollar wisely, getting the biggest bang for your buck.

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT US
“They understand that successful campaigns depend on promoting good ideas with a common sense message. They really were an instrumental part of my 2004 campaign’s success.” Senator Jim DeMint

“When I was under attack by out-of-state special interest groups and outspent 3-to-1, these guys developed a strategy that led my campaign to victory.” Representative Bill Cotty

“I won a three-way primary without a run-off because of their creative mail and outside of the box strategy. They always took the time to give me the one-on-one attention I needed.” Representative Keith Kelly

Warren’s first campaign was a 1974 magistrate’s race, but it was his volunteer work for Strom Thurmond’s 1978 Senate campaign that made people take notice. His tireless efforts on the campaign won him a position as Senator Thurmond’s Statewide Coordinator of Special Events. His advice was so valued by the Reagan/Bush Campaign during the first Republican primary in South Carolina in 1980, that he was named Executive Director for the South Carolina Reagan/Bush Campaign for the general election. He later served in the same capacity for the 1984 reelection effort and as a strategist for the 1988 Bush Presidential campaign. A seasoned veteran by the age of 29, Warren was appointed Executive Director of the South Carolina Republican Party in 1981.

In 1986, Congressman Carroll Campbell turned to Mr. Tompkins to help him become South Carolina’s second Republican governor. As Governor Campbell’s Chief of Staff, he was a catalyst in one of the most successful administrations in South Carolina history. Warren was the chief architect in developing the administration’s strategy for economic development, education reform, tax cuts, environmental protection, and government restructuring. His talent for crisis management was vital in South Carolina’s recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo.

Warren began private practice in 1991, successfully providing government and legislative affairs guidance to public and private agencies, political organizations and candidates, corporations and individuals.

Warren served as the chief strategist for George W. Bush’s 2000 South Carolina presidential primary. In 2002, Warren was a general consultant to Lindsey Graham in his successful bid to fill the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Strom Thurmond.

In 2004, Warren served as an advisor to U.S. Representative Jim DeMint in his successful bid for U.S. Senate. He was also the Atlantic Region Chair of the successful Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign.

Campaigns don’t get much more heated than Jim DeMint’s 2004 United States Senate campaign in which Terry served as the campaign manager. DeMint, a little known Congressman from South Carolina’s UpState, was a long shot for the United States Senate against a former Governor, a self financing multimillionaire, and a former attorney general. He squeaked into the run-off as the underdog, but then routed his opponent by 19%. DeMint then moved to the general election to face the state’s most beloved Democrat.

Over the course of the general election the campaign was tested and had to overcome many hurdles, receiving much national attention. Terry led the campaign to a double digit victory.

Following DeMint’s victory, Terry was recruited by United States Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, a powerful Texas Republican, to manage her campaign as she weighed running for Governor of Texas. Although Hutchison decided to run for re-election to the U.S. Senate, her exploratory campaign drew significant national media attention as she regularly spared with the incumbent Governor. This gained Terry the reputation in Texas media outlets as a gunslinger in “all out brawls.”

Terry’s first political job was as youth coordinator for U.S. Senator Jesse Helms. In the late 90’s he moved to South Carolina, working on many legislative, congressional, and statewide races, including serving as state director of Steve Forbes’ presidential campaign. Soon thereafter he became partners with Heath Thompson in the consulting firm Crescent Creative. During their tenure, the firm had a better than 95% win rate.

In 2006 Terry served as the regional political director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, covering 14 United States Senate races from North Dakota to Florida. In 2008 Terry served as the SC State Director for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign before overseeing the daily operations of First Tuesday Strategies, direct mail firm On The Mark Direct, and the most successful slate of legislative candidates in the election cycle.

Terry recently served as the manager for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s gubernatorial campaign.

If you’re of a certain age, you remember Jim Bunning’s days as an all-star pitcher before he hung up his cleats for the suit and tie of a United States Congressman. I was proud to serve with my former colleague Lee Atwater as a consultant to Bunning’s 1986 congressional campaign. He’s retiring after this session, opening up his seat to another Kentuckian motivated to serve their state and country. But, he’s not going quietly.

During the past week, Bunning objected on a voice vote to appropriate another $10 billion for government projects, which if it wasn’t spent, would end up furloughing about 2,000 Federal employees. True to form, Democrats suffered another bout of temporary insanity.

Sen. Dick Durbin was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying, “It is simply unfair for one Senator to attempt to hold the Senate hostage.” Maybe he should check with the rhetoric of his fellow Illinoisan, President Obama. Less than a month ago, Obama said that Congress should pay for what it spends, as in, adhere to a pay-as-you-go philosophy. And here’s something funny – the Obama administration said that Bunning was playing political games. Figures.

What’s truly unfortunate here is that he’s only one of a few conservatives, and one alone who has already said he is not running for reelection, that is standing up to say no to yet another spending spree by Washington liberals. Even worse is the Democrats’ reaction. Seriously, Obama’s mention of pay-as-you-go was good a few weeks ago, but apparently it’s not worth anything now, not even to the man who uttered the words.

Because, here’s the thing – liberals are fine with pay-as-you-go requirements as long as they’re limited to one part of government spending. But, what happens when they want to spend more, as they inevitably will? They’ll just push through an “emergency” appropriations bill, which is exactly what happened here.

As you might expect, their definition of what should be a recipient of emergency Federal spending and what yours is are likely to be very different. While most people would think an emergency outlay of taxpayer dollars would be needed only for very important things, like national defense, Congressional liberals seem to believe that payment for a road worker on a pork project rises to that level.

We need more Bunnings in Washington right now. Luckily we have one who hails right here from South Carolina. In coming to Bunning’s aid, Senator Jim DeMint said “When we borrow the money to do it we threaten the futures of our children and grandchildren, diminish their quality of life and likely cause their unemployment in the future.” I’m just glad we have people calling out the Democrats when their rhetoric doesn’t match their actions.

Then there’s just being arrogant.

President Obama is not content to sit by after his first plan to institute a government takeover of health care is being rejected from coast to coast. It’s so bad, his friend in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, had to cut backroom deals just to get the Senate to pass a version of the plan. Then, liberals decided that the only way to reconcile the House and Senate versions of this big-government behemoth was to again shut out everyone else.

The issue here is not that Obama hasn’t succeeded, but that he’s spectacularly failed. There have been marches, calls and letters to legislators, spontaneous grassroots organizing by conservatives and incredible election wins by conservatives. Sometimes it’s time to admit that you got beat, and take your ball and go home. Not this administration.

Monday, Obama released a new health care plan that has a span of 10 years and the outrageous price tag of $1 trillion dollars. In the end, it’s just like the latest offer during a bargaining session at a marketplace stall. And the American people aren’t buying. The new plan still mandates coverage, puts more business-killing regulations on the health care industry and raises taxes on some insurance plans.

On top of that, the new plans mark an unprecedented Federal involvement in handling insurance. Instead of letting states continue their long-established practice of supervising insurance companies, and deciding what was best for that particular state, Obama wants a seven-member Health Insurance Rate Authority. Just what we need – more bureaucracy and more Federal meddling in state affairs.

Liberals have already seen what happens when they try to ram through a health care plan that nobody wants. Their arrogance was repudiated by conservatives winning statewide in New Jersey and Virginia, and Scott Brown’s amazing victory in Massachusetts. The public is up in arms about watching, day after day, their wishes, wants and needs going unheard and unheeded in Washington.

This is certainly catastrophic for the Democrat party. Hopefully conservatives can get into gear and stop these plans before they become catastrophic for America, as well.

A report released by the Government Accountability on Feb. 11 said that through the end of last year, only $9,100 homes were a part of this program, even though 593,000 homes were supposed to be involved, according to the Obama administration. And how much money has been allocated to this boondoggle? A cool $5 million.

It’s not like the warning signs weren’t out there already. Way back in June of last year, an Associated Press story called the weatherization program “one of the most difficult-to-track portions of the $787 billion recovery act signed into law by President Barack Obama in February.” Unsurprisingly, it’s yet another example that Obama’s promises of transparency have been just that. If you can’t see where the money’s going and why, that’s not change – that’s more of the same.

Weatherization is a part of a wider effort by the White House to create “green jobs.” Ostensibly, by programs like weatherization, the administration intends to deal with our energy problems and bring down the unemployment numbers. However, in practice, it’s simply not working.

California, deep in its own fiscal crisis, was supposed to be a major beneficiary of the push toward green jobs. It hasn’t. Firstly, though the Obama administration said that California has seen more than 100,000 jobs created because of the stimulus, very few have been green jobs.

As well, analysis by the Los Angeles Times showed that what green jobs were created were in research. In other words, people are getting paid to come up with good ideas for green jobs. Enjoy the irony here – people are getting paid through stimulus funds to come up with ideas that the stimulus was supposed to be paying for right now, not at some indeterminate part of the future.

Is it any wonder that more and more Americans are turning to Republicans every day? The Obama administration, aided by liberal Democrats in Congress, has plowed through taxpayer dollars like they’re spending Monopoly money. They’re throwing around Park Place cash with a Baltic Avenue income. These days, conservatives are becoming more inventive about taking their message to the public. Liberals seem to be doing a great job themselves at proving that the conservative plan is right.

Over the recent months, we’ve seen widespread repudiation of President Obama’s liberal agenda. Last November, Republicans rolled to victories in Virginia and New Jersey. Last month, Scott Brown won a Senate seat in Massachusetts that had been held by Democrats for more than half a century. If you recall, Massachusetts went for Obama by 28 points in 2008.

Voters in these elections clearly said that what they’ve been getting over the past year is definitely not change they can believe in. When asked about the conservative surge, Obama said he got the message. But what message did he get? It certainly wasn’t from the voters. He proved that by submitting a record $3.8 trillion budget for the coming year.

We’re already drowning in debt, yet this budget will double the national debt in five years. Credit is already a problem for businesses and homebuyers. The more the government has to borrow, the less money is in the pool for everyone else. Business can’t expand, home sales dry up and the economy continues to be weak.

The same goes for the spending binge. How is Obama paying for it? With your tax dollars, of course. If unchecked, the tax increases contained in the budget would reach $2 trillion in the next decade. It’s incredible. Raising taxes in a recession? OK by them. Talk about another burden placed on the American people to pay for his misplaced priorities. Liberals chafe when we call them out for taxing and spending. We should add borrowing to the list, and we’d have the exact description of what’s going on in Washington.

Next is the unprecedented $1.6 trillion deficit. In what universe does this sort of thing fly? Republicans in Congress need to get out in front and make sure the Obama budget never makes it close to passing in the form it’s in. The taxpayers of this country cannot be saddled with the budgetary mistakes of Washington liberals. The numbers are against them right row, but tough fight could make a real difference in making some concrete changes to the legislation.

One thing is for sure – voters will not stand for this rank disregard of their wishes as it comes to responsible government. They must be pulling out all the stops, knowing things are really going to change, and for the better, after this year’s elections.

Brown, to his credit, responded, “Mr. President, unfortunately in this economy, not everybody can buy a truck. My goal is to change that by cutting spending, lowering taxes and letting people keep more of their own money.” And he’s right. People don’t invest in big-dollar purchases like automobiles in times like these. A majority of Massachusetts voters agreed, too, making history by putting a Republican in the seat held by the Democrats for decades.

Maybe it never came across the minds of liberals, in their elitism, attacking Brown that the pickup truck has led auto sales in this country for years. From the smaller models to a decked-out full size version, you’ll see pickups involved in every aspect in American life. They also missed the fact that Brown’s truck is American-made, by GM of all places. Like most of us, Brown hasn’t been going out and getting newer models. He’s put more than 200,000 miles on his vehicle.

This episode is eerily reminiscent of when Obama went to San Francisco in 2008 and tore into small-town America, saying, “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Sounds a little more like the bitterness and antipathy is coming from the left side of the aisle. It’s no wonder the country is in the depths of buyer’s remorse.

Though Massachusetts is a decidedly blue state, the voter registration numbers tilt heavily in favor of independents. Recently, independents have been swinging races across the country, and they’re not happy with the way liberals are acting. From bailouts to health care, cap-and-trade and giveaways to unions, they’re realizing that their voices and opinions and needs aren’t making it to the powers that be.

Liberals are now reaping what they’ve sown. Long-time Congressional Democrats are retiring. U.S. Rep. John Spratt is reportedly considering not running for reelection. Others, up and down the line, are switching parties. Because voters have seen the liberals for who they really are, the tide is switching back to conservatives, who will get this country working again.

Not all that surprising a liberal is willing to sell out everyone else for his paymasters. If the bill is signed into law, unions will get about a $60 billion tax break over eight years. The rest of us will have to cough up $90 billion in taxes. And forget about dental and vision insurance – those will be exempt forever.

Doesn’t hardly seem fair, does it? Democrats like to paint Republicans as discriminatory, but this is another example that it’s the liberals themselves that choose who benefits and who doesn’t. Of course, they’re just “dancing with the girl what brung ‘em,” as the saying goes. The amount of money given by unions to Obama and Democrats in the 2008 cycle is simply staggering. Obama got $526,597, the Democratic National Committee received $661,586, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee brought in $1,086,820, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee socked away $1,057,700. That’s a lot of “change.”

Just how out of touch can these people be? It seems that Washington liberals believe they can go about their business, giving sweetheart deals to their backers while taxing the pants off middle-class families and small businesses to pay for it.

The movement of this health care plan has been bad from the get-go. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made giveaways, with taxpayer dollars, to Sens. Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson to get them to vote for the bill. Then instead of reconciling the House and Senate bills in conference committee, as is the usual process, Democrats chose to negotiate the changes among top leadership behind closed doors. Obama campaigned saying he would have all the health care debates and negotiations televised on C-SPAN. That didn’t even come close to happening.

And now we have another back-room deal, a deal cut between Washington Democrats and Big Labor to save union fat cats a ton of money while giving the shaft to the majority of Americans – non-union workers.