Pro Politics with Zac McCrary From Communism to Cable News, the One-of-a-Kind Story of Julie Roginsky
Julie Roginsky has one of the most unique stories in politics…as a 6-year old, she and her family flee their homeland in the Soviet Union to make their way to the Bronx…she’s drawn to campaigns and spends 20+ years in the trenches in New Jersey politics…she enters the world of cable news, working for 10 years as a Democratic voice on Fox News…ultimately leaving Fox after suing the network and chief Roger Ailes for sexual harassment…and starts Lift Our Voices with former Fox News colleague Gretchen Carlson to eliminate NDAs and other silencing mechanism that protect harassment in the workplace. This is a wide-ranging conversation that covers Julie’s fascinating life, time in campaign politics, and the important work she’s doing now.
IN THIS EPISODE…
The story behind Julie and her parents escaping their native USSR…
Early memories of a 6-year old Soviet refugee growing up in NYC…
Julie campaigns for a presidential candidate as an 11-year old…
Julie changes her professional sights from foreign service to political campaigns…
Julie’s brief excursion working for the UK Labour Party in London…
Julie’s first New Jersey race and her NJ Politics 101 after 20+ years in state politics…
Julie mines her years as a communications expert to offer some comms best practices…
The story behind Julie’s years as a political commentator on Fox News…
Julie addresses her departure from Fox News & the sexual harassment she filed against Fox News and Roger Ailes…
Julie starts Lift Our Voices with Gretchen Carlson to eliminate workplace NDAs that protect workplace harassment…
Julie on the changing advice she gives to young people working in politics…
Julie’s advice on how campaigns can protect proprietary information while not enabling a toxic workplace...
AND…the 6 Train, Madeline Albright, Bombshell, George W. Bush, CNBC, Mary Beth Cahill, Gretchen Carlson, Chris Christie, Jon Corzine, Crayola, the deficit, distant cousins, economic sclerosis, EMILYs List, the Food Network, glasnost, Bernie Goetz, Mikhail Gorbachev, gulags, heroin alley, the Hotel Greystone, internecine primaries, the Iron Curtain, the Iron Sheik, JFK airport, Jersey girls, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Lenin, John Major, Walter Mondale, Rupert Murdoch, Northampton County, Frank Pallone, Perkins Coie, Zelda Perkins, Ronald Reagan, refuseniks, Condoleezza Rice, Susan Rice, Rutgers University, self-censorship, Yakov Smirnoff, Stalin, the Statue of Liberty, The Tea Party, Margaret Thatcher, Donald Trump, the WWF, Harvey Weinstein, Christine Todd Whitman & more!