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Clay Hollis, 34

A lobbyist learned long ago that government is about finding balance.


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 p.m. October 12, 2023
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Clay Hollis, right, with his dad and mentor, Clayton Hollis.
Clay Hollis, right, with his dad and mentor, Clayton Hollis.
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Clay Hollis came by his profession in politics naturally.

Growing up, his father, Clayton Hollis, worked in government relations and corporate communications. That meant that the topic of conversation at family dinners often centered around his work.

The junior Hollis remembers that it was during those conversations where he learned how people in, and around, elected office work to help constituents solve problems and try to best represent their constituencies, all while balancing different, and often competing, interests.

 


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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.

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