R. Thompson & Associates was founded in 2009 by Rick Thompson, the former head of the Georgia State Ethics Commission, a multi-decade veteran regulator in the states of Georgia and Missouri. Jason Boles, a 20-year veteran business consultant and globally experienced media and marketing expert joined the firm a couple years later. Together they have assembled a diverse team of people, systems and organizations known today as RTA Strategy, A Political Management Group. RTA incorporates ethics, compliance, registration and disclosure reporting, public relations and strategy consulting services for candidates, campaigns, committees, lobbyists and corporations. In addition to candidate disclosures, RTA has an impeccable track record for consultation, preparation and evaluation of disclosure reporting for PACs, ballot measures, constitutional amendments and lobbyists. In addition to general consultancy and rudimentary reporting functions, RTA engages in the comprehensive management of state and federal PACs across the nation. Complimenting its ethics and disclosure reporting services, supporting comprehensive PAC management solutions, RTA offers a unique niche to strategy. Unparalleled public relations, crisis management, campaign and fund raising strategy dovetail proven excellence in ethics and compliance ensuring clients comprehensive, aligned representation.