User:Dwpollock/Dan pollock

Dan Pollock was born Daniel William Pollock in Miami, Florida on April 4th, 1968, the same day that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated in Bermingham, Alabama. Dan grew up in cities within Broward County, Florida including Hollywood, Ft. Lauderdale and Davie and attended Nova Elementary, Middle and High Schools. He moved to live with his mother, Nancy Scherer, in New York City in 1985 where he attended Seward Park High School for his senior year--graduating in 1986.

Dan Pollock then moved to Langley Park, Maryland where he joined the Chillum-Adelphi Volunteer Fire Department in 1987. He began college at the University of Maryland, College Park during the fall of 1987. In 1989, he was hired by the Ocean City, Maryland Police Department as a police officer. He worked as a police officer there until the fall of 1992. In early 1993, he moved back to South Florida where he attended Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and was graduated earning a bachelors of arts in political science in 1995.

In 1994, he was the assistant campaing manager on the successful Tom Rossin for State Senate Campaign and later became a legislative aide to Senator Rossin-D, West Palm Beach. In 1996, Dan was the campaing manager on Sen. Rossin's successful re-election campaign. In 1997, Dan was hired at the Executive Director of the Florida Greyhound Tracks Assosiation and relocated to Tallahassee, FL where he currently resides. By 1999, expanded his government relations work with the Greyhound Tracks Association by opening his lobbying firm--Pollock and Associates, Inc., which he operates today.