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Conn Carroll

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Conn Carroll came to the Washington Examiner in April 2010, after serving for more than three years as The Heritage Foundation's Assistant Director for Strategic Communications.

While at Heritage, Conn created Heritage's rapid response blog, The Foundry, and its morning email product, The Morning Bell.

A native of Oakland, California, Conn first moved to Washington in 1996 to attend the George Washington University. Since that time he has worked/interned for a member of Congress, a polling firm, a lobbying firm, a media firm, a federal agency, a federal court, and a litigation firm. Conn first entered journalism in 2006 when he joined National Journal's The Hotline.

Conn is a graduate of the George Mason University Law School and was a member of the D.C. Bar.

He lives in Fairfax with his wife and two children.
  • Morning Examiner: Do the Obama scandals help or hurt the rest of his agenda?

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Tuesday night, at a Koch Industries-sponsored BuzzFeed immigration event, BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith asked the panelists whether the Obama administration scandals now dominating the news made passage of the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill more or less likely. The panelists unanimously agreed it made...

  • Don’t forget about HHS’ Obamacare shakedown

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

    As expected, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney fielded tough questions at his press briefing Tuesday on the big three ongoing Obama scandals: the false Benghazi talking points, the AP phone record seizure and the IRS audits of administration critics. All three scandals still have plenty...

  • Morning Examiner: Who’s breeding cynicism now?

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

    “What’s blocking us right now is a sort of hyper-partisanship in Washington that I was, frankly, hoping to overcome in 2008,” President Obama told a room full of Democrat donors wealthy enough to afford the $16,000 price of admission last night in New York City. “I genuinely believe...