Roy Temple

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch once referred to Temple as “one of Missouri’s Internet pioneers.” Temple has twice served as a battleground state director for presidential campaigns, has managed two gubernatorial campaigns, and served as a senior advisor to multiple United States Senate and congressional campaigns.

Temple was an early adopter of new media as a political campaign tool and is nationally recognized as an innovator in its use in the political context.

He has been running political and advocacy blogs since before Google owned Blogger. He founded Fired Up! Missouri, recognized by the Washington Post as an outstanding local political blog. Temple secured a pivotal FEC advisory opinion (FEC AO 2005-16) that offers guidance to bloggers about the intersection of blogging, advocacy, and campaign finance law.

Temple’s analysis and commentary has been cited in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, U.S.A. Today, U.S. News and World Report, POLITICO, and the Associated Press. In addition, he has appeared on the NBC Evening News, CNN, MSNBC, the Fox News Channel, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and others.

Temple firmly believes that technology is a means, not an end. He works to find ways to ensure that digital tools are deployed to help achieve the larger strategic objectives of his clients.