Personnel note: Chris Cate joins Salter>Mitchell PR
It’s like a Montague-Capulet marriage in Tallahassee’s PR world. Chris Cate has joined Salter>Mitchell, the public relations firm has announced. Firm president April Salter was communications director to the late Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles and was once appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve on the White House Conference on Tourism and Travel. Cate has served as spokesman for a succession of Republicans: then-Gov. Charlie Crist, state Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, and Florida Secretaries of State Kurt Browning and Ken Detzner. He also was spokesman…