Jeb Bush’s PAC names first South Carolina advisers

Jeb Bush’s political-action committee, Right to Rise, has named two senior advisers in South Carolina ahead of the former Florida governor’s expected bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, The State has learned.

Brett Doster, a longtime Jeb Bush adviser, and Jim Dyke, who worked with President George W. Bush, are Jeb Bush camp’s first two paid staffers in the Palmetto State.

Jeb Bush is scheduled to speak Saturday at the S.C. Republican Convention in Columbia.

Jeb Bush is gaining some major backers in the state.

Spartanburg Republican financier Barry Wynn said he was among 250 attendees at a meeting in Miami with top Bush supporters over the weekend. Wynn backed Bush’s brother in his presidential runs.

Right to Rise’s advisers in South Carolina have experience in presidential campaigns.

Dyke has worked on four presidential campaigns and served as a communications adviser to President George W. Bush.

Dyke was communications director for the Republican National Committee during President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election and press secretary for U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans.

He lives in Charleston where he operates JDA Frontline, a communications consulting firm.

Doster is president of Front Line Strategies, a public relations firm in Tallahassee, Fla.

The Citadel graduate was the Florida senior adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.

He also was Florida political director for the George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign and Florida executive director for his 2004 re-election campaign.

Doster was a special assistant to Jeb Bush in his gubernatorial campaigns and worked in Florida’s tourism and economic development office.

This story was originally published April 29, 2015 at 4:51 PM with the headline "Jeb Bush’s PAC names first South Carolina advisers."