Clark for President,
Inc.
Headquarters: 1400 Markham St., 4th Fl., Little Rock,
Arkansas
In the States
N
E W H A M P S H I R E (January 27 primary)
New
Hampshire State Director |
Steve Bouchard |
(Announced Oct. 10,
2003)
Bouchard served as New Hampshire State Director of Sen. Bob Graham's
campaign
from March 17, 2003 until Graham withdrew on October 6, 2003. In
2002 Bouchard was deputy campaign manager of Tony Sanchez's
gubernatorial
campaign in Texas. He was field director for Mark Warner's
campaign
for governor of Virginia in 2000-2001. Bouchard worked for Sen.
Bob
Kerrey's BACK PAC on the national level in 1999 and as NH director in
1998
as Kerrey considered a presidential campaign. Previously, he
served
in various capacities in NH Democratic politics, including
commnications
director for the House Democrats, House Caucus director, chairman of
the
Hillsborough County Democrats, chairman of the 1st CD for the NHDP, and
activity in numerous local and state campaigns.
S
O U T H C A R O L I N A (February 3 primary)
South
Carolina State Director |
Scott Anderson |
(Announced Oct. 21,
2003) Anderson
served as South Carolina State Director of Sen. Bob Graham's campaign
from
June 2003 until Graham withdrew on October 6, 2003. He came to
the
campaign from Geddings & Phillips Communications. A former
executive director of the South Carolina Democratic Party; he designed
and oversaw the party's Coordinated Campaign in 2000. Director
of the South Carolina State Democratic Caucus. Worked six years
as
a policy and political coordinator in the Florida House of
Representatives
under Speaker Peter Wallace, Majority Leader Jim Davis, and Minority
Leader
Buzz Ritchie. Managed dozens of campaigns in Florida and South Carolina
over the past ten years. Graduate of Florida Southern
College.
A
R I Z O N A (February 3 primary)
Arizona
State Director |
Mark Riddle |
Riddle came to the
campaign
from his position as executive director of the Kentucky Democratic
Party,
where he started in June 2003. Earlier in 2003 he served as
campaign
manager for Ben Chandler, the 2003 Democratic gubernatorial nominee in
Kentucky. In 2002 Riddle managed Jack Conway's campaign against
Rep.
Anne Northup (R-KY) in the Kentucky 3rd CD.
O
K L A H O M A (February 3 primary)
Oklahoma
State Director |
Jessica Vanden Berg |
Served as Iowa State
Director
of the Bob Graham for President campaign from May 2003 until Graham
quit
the race in October. Vanden Berg came to the Graham campaign from
her position as caucus director for the Iowa Democratic Party. In
2002 she worked as the deputy director of the IDP's 2002 Coordinated
Campaign.
She served as Rep. Leonard Boswell's communications director after
managing
his successful re-election campaign in 2000. From Pella, Iowa.
D
E L A W A R E (February 3 primary)
Delaware
State Director |
John Oldfield |
(Joined the campaign
in September,
2003; arrived in Delaware on November 9, 2003) Most recently,
Oldfield
co-founded the non-profit WaterLife
Foundation in New York City, raising money for it throughout summer
2003. Previously he worked five years at a business research firm
in Manhattan. Oldfield also has five years of experience with
USAID
contractors on democratization/nation-building projects in Africa and
Eastern
Europe. He has been active in City Council races in New York City
and Washington DC.
N
E W M E X I C O (February 3 caucuses)
New Mexico
State Director |
Brian Burke |
Prior to being
appointed to
state director, Burke was a Principal at The Burke Group, Inc., a
government
relations and public policy consulting firm. Burke has served in
various capacities in federal government, including Counselor to
Secretary
of Energy Bill Richardson; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Army; and Deputy Under Secretary, Natural Resources and Environment in
the Department of Agriculture. He also worked as a senior policy
analyst
at the White House under the Clinton Administration and was a trial
attorney
in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of
Justice.
Burke, 44, holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and an
A.B.
from Brown University.
N
O R T H D A K O T A (February 3 caucuses)
North
Dakota State Director |
John Marshall |
(on the ground in
Fargo Nov.
30, 2003) Marshall has over 30 years of political experience with
national and statewide races. Most recently he served as campaign
manager for the Max Baer for Supreme Court race in Pennsylvania in
2003;
in 2002 he served as the Western Pennsylvania Coordinator for Ed
Rendell
for Governor. Marshall served in the Clinton/Gore White House
from
1993-2001 advancing President Clinton and Secretary of Defense William
Cohen throughout the world. He was part of the Clinton/Gore 92
and
96 national staff. Marshall is originally from Columbus, Ohio.
M
I C H I G A N (February 7 caucuses)
Michigan
State Director |
Dana Houle |
A Michigan native
who resides
in Ann Arbor, Houle has extensive Michigan campaign experience.
Most
recently, she managed the statewide races of Gary Peters for Attorney
General
and Judge Edward Thomas for Supreme Court. Houle's experience
also
includes extensive field work for both state and federal campaigns in
Michigan,
as well as work for the AFL-CIO.
V
I R G I N I A (February 10 primary)
Virginia
State Director |
Doug Dodson |
Dodson served most
recently
as Chief of Staff for Congressman Tim Bishop (NY-1). He has been
involved in political campaigns for the past 16 years and has run seven
congressional races and numerous state legislative, mayoral and city
council
races. He served as state field director for the 1994 Mike
Andrews
for U.S. Senate campaign and has worked as an associate and senior
program
manager for The Tyson Organization, a Democratic voter turnout and
grassroots
strategies firm based in Fort Worth. He also served as an
in-country
Communications Strategist for the Department of Defense in the war on
drugs
and terrorism in Latin America. Dodson is a native of Amarillo,
Texas
and attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
T
E N N E S S E E (February 10 primary)
Tennessee
State Director |
Will Drake |
(started in
Tennessee in late
Nov. 2003) Drake has campaign experience in five Southern
states.
In 2003 he worked on Kathleen Blanco's gubernatorial campaign in
Louisiana.
In 2002 he served as field director for the South Carolina Democratic
Party
Coordinated Campaign and later was the SCDP's political director.
Drake is from Hoover, Alabama and attended Indiana University.
W
I S C O N S I N (February 17 primary)
Wisconsin
State Director |
Peter Shakow |
(started in
Wisconsin Dec. 27,
2003 following Julie Stauch; previously, starting Sept. 21, 2003,
Shakow
was Deputy Political Director in Little Rock) Before joining the
campaign Shakow worked as a lawyer in Los Angeles for four years.
He worked in Political Affairs at the White House, 1993-94, and worked
on Clinton/Gore '92 in Texas. Shakow earned his undergraduate
degree
in History from Brown in 1992, and his law degree from the University
of
Texas at Austin.
N
E W Y O R K (March 2
primary)
New York
State Director |
Mark Benoit |
(Nov. 2, 2003)
Benoit,
who has extensive experience in New York campaigns, joined the Clark
campaign
from Nevada where he was doing lobbying on federal legislation and
political
consulting. His New York experience includes: campaign manager
for
Betsy Gotbaum's successful campaign for Public Advocate, 2001; deputy
campaign
manager on Peter Vallone's gubernatorial campaign, 1998; campaign
manager
for Mark Green's re-election campaign, 1997; downstate field director
for
Victory 96, the Coordinated Campaign; and Catherine Abate's 1994
election
to the State Senate from the District 27.
G E O R G I A (March
2 primary)
On Dec. 30, 2003 the
campaign
announced the endorsements of Mayor Floyd Griffin of Milledgeville,
President
of the Georgia Conference of Black Mayors, and Mayor Jack Ellis of
Macon.
On Dec. 21, 2003
Ambassador
Andrew Young.
O H I O (March
2 primary)
Ohio State
Chair/Senior
Advisor |
Columbus Mayor Michael
Coleman |
(announced Dec. 22,
2003)
other supporters:
Cuyahoga
County Treasurer James Rokakis and Montgomery County Treasurer Hugh
Quill
|