James (Jim) R. Foster
jim@jrfinc.comFor over 25 years, Jim Foster has built an impressive track record of creative work on behalf of Republican candidates ranging from local county judges to the President of the United States.
In 2000 & again in 2004, Foster & Associates was one of four firms in the nation selected to form the creative direct mail team for the Bush-Cheney campaign, handling the key battleground state of Florida in both campaigns.
Foster & Associates' 2004 campaign credits also include historic U.S. Senate victories in South Dakota for John Thune defeating Democrat Minority Leader Tom Daschle, and in Florida where Mel Martinez became the first Cuban-American ever elected to the United States Senate.
Over the years, Jim Foster has worked for dozens of Republican members of the U.S. Senate including 1996 upset winner Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Jon Kyl of Arizona, and Conrad Burns of Montana and an impressive array of Republican members of Congress which includes former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, John Culberson and Sam Johnson of Texas, Jeff Flake of Arizona as well as Tom Feeney and Katherine Harris of Florida.
Jim Foster has been the direct mail consultant to Governor Jeb Bush of Florida for the past ten years. Since the 1980s, Foster & Associates has worked closely with all of the Republican Party organizations on both direct mail fundraising and voter contact mail.
Jim Foster's expertise in direct-response marketing was recognized when he received the Direct Marketing Association's International ECHO Award on behalf of the Goldwater for United States Senate campaign. Samples of his work have been featured in Campaigns & Elections, Campaign Magazine, Direct Marketing News, as well as ABC News.
Beginning his career in politics twenty-nine years ago in the 1976 Reagan for President campaign, Jim Foster gained his early political experience in stints with the Republican Party of Texas, and as Chief of Staff for Representative Tom Delay.
After rising to the position of Vice-President and head of the Political Division for a Washington-based direct marketing agency at the age of twenty-six, Foster left Washington in mid-1983 to open his own agency in his hometown of Dallas, Texas.
Today, after nearly 25 years of designing successful campaigns, GOP consultants consider James R. Foster and Associates among the top political direct mail firms in the nation.
Jim and Charlotte Foster have been married for 25 years, and have two sons.