Julia Allison
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Julia Allison is an American journalist, who is a former contributor to a weekly social column entitled "The Dating Life." The column appeared in AM New York, a daily newspaper with a 325,000 circulation among Manhattanites. She has a monthly column in Co-ed magazine and has written for a variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Maxim, New York, Teen Vogue, Men's Health, Seventeen, and Capitol File. Allison is originally from Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago.
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[edit] Collegiate Life
In college, Allison wrote the dating column "Sex on the Hilltop," for Georgetown University's newspaper, The Hoya. She also worked as a full-time legislative correspondent for Illinois Republican Congressman Mark Kirk in the 107th Congress as well as in his 2000 campaign [1]. She has done political commentary for the 2004 election on Comcast cable.[citation needed] In 2004, Allison graduated from Georgetown University.
[edit] Political controversy
Allison has been romantically linked with former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., a Democrat, in 2002. Her relationship was used as an attack ad by the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Ford's unsuccessful run for United States Senate in 2006 [2]. In response, she commented on the experience ([3] [4]), and wrote about the relationship in a July 2006 Cosmopolitan article (and concealed Ford's name). Consequently, some of her comments were read aloud by Rush Limbaugh on his nationwide conservative talk radio show [5].
[edit] Present Day
She is a guest contributor on Fox News, has done commentary on CNN's Showbiz Tonight, on MSNBC's Scarborough Country, on New York City's Fox 5, and is on Sirius radio [6]. In 2006, Allison appeared in an episode of Elimidate.[citation needed] She was also a Gawker "Personality of the Year" in 2006 [7]. Currently, Miss Allison lives in New York City.
