On May 30, 2002, Dean mailed the FEC papers establishing Dean for America,
a presidential campaign committee. Dean for America is headquartered
in Burlington, Vermont. Joe Trippi became national campaign director
on March 3, 2003 and national campaign manager starting April 7, 2003 and
continuing until he left the campaign on Jan. 28, 2004; Roy Neel then took
over as CEO.
Dean for America Arizona Leadership
Campaign Headquarters: 3105 N 24th Street, Phoenix (opened
Sept. 5, 2003)
Tucson Office: 4639 E. First St. (opened
Dec. 8, 2003)
Bisbee (Cochise County) Office: 821B Hwy. 92 (opened
Dec. 19, 2003)
| Arizona State Director |
Frank T. Costanzo |
(Started volunteering in March
2003; started July 15, 2003; officially announced mid-Aug. 2003)
Costanzo is providing overall campaign advisory services through his consulting
company, FTC & Associates, Inc. Since the mid-1980s he has done
consulting work on start-ups and turn-arounds. He is educational
coordinator for the Arizona Democratic Party, and has also served as the
party's finance chair. Before moving to Arizona, Costanzo lived in
New York, where he served two terms as a legislator from Chautauqua County
and helped lead urban renewal efforts in City of Jamestown. Costanzo
also has military experience as a U.S. Army officer, including a stint
as a Nike Hercules Missile Commander. He earned a B.A.from St. Bonaventure
University and an M.A. from Keane College of New Jersey.
| Arizona Deputy State Director |
Alexis Tamerón |
(Started in December 2003) Tamerón
will provide liaison with unions, elected officials and prospective endorsers.
She most recently served as the Political Director for the Arizona State
Democratic Party. She previously held positions of Assistant Director
of Compliance, Database Manager & Hispanic Outreach Director. Tamerón
was elected Democratic National Committeewoman for the Young Democrats
of America in August of 2003 and is now a member of the Democratic National
Committee (and an uncommitted, super-delegate for the 2004 DNC Convention).
In 2002, she was elected to serve as the statewide president of the Young
Democrats of Arizona and was reelected to serve another year as president
in January 2003. She is a member of the Arizona State Democratic Executive
Committee.
| Field Director |
Erica Henri |
(Started with the campaign October
2003) Henri is responsible for overseeing the direction of Field
Organizers and volunteers statewide in the 2004 Arizona Democratic primary.
A San Francisco native, Henri came to Arizona directly from Washington,
D.C. where she most recently served as fundraising consultant to the International
Women’s Democracy Center. She has also served as Special Projects
Coordinator for the Children’s Defense Fund and, from 1998 to 2002, worked
as Political Director of the Women’s Campaign Fund. Henri has a long
history of political involvement at the national level and in California.
She is a veteran of four presidential campaigns. She also worked on the
1991 race of San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan, and subsequently served
as Special Assistant in the Mayor’s Citizens’ Assistance Office.
| Deputy Field Director |
Judy Lavendar |
(Appointed in February 2003)
Lavendar has had a varied career. She learned horse farming in Bluegrass
country and has operated several successful horse operations, training
both show and race horses, has worked as a freelance photographer and writer,
and ran a private practice in art therapy. In 1994 Lavendar became
interested in politics and worked as a legislative aide for Sen. Elizabeth
T. Stefanics in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2002 she was an active volunteer
for the Janet Napolitano gubernatorial campaign in Arizona. Before
joining the Dean for America campaign, she worked with the Tom Volgy For
Mayor campaign in Tucson. Lavendar earned a B.A. from the University
of Kentucky and an M.A. from the George Washington University.
| Office Manager |
Dave Lelsz, Ph.D. |
(Started November 2003)
Lelsz was the Deputy Democratic Commissioner of Elections in Chautauqua
County, New York and the Clerk of the Chautauqua County Legislature for
the last three years. He served as the Executive Director of the Dallas
County Democratic Party and was the Finance Director for the Regina Montoya
Coggins for Congress Campaign in 2000. Lelsz earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry
from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and
served his post doctoral fellowship at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
in Dallas, Texas.
| Southern Arizona Field
Director |
Juan Camacho |
(Started December 2003)
Camacho worked in various capacities for Congressman Raul Grijalva, including
Get Out the Vote Coordinator during the 2002 election, and as his Campaign
Field Director in 1988. Camacho also served as Field Director for
the Ibarra for Ward 1 campaign in Tucson in the mid ‘90s, and as Campaign
Manager for the Ibarra for City Council campaign in 1999. A native
of Yuma, AZ, Camacho attended the University of Arizona.
| Southern Arizona Assistant
Field Director |
Peter Newton |
(Started December 2003)
Newton has been a Precinct Committee Person for Precinct 181 in Pima County,
Arizona, for the past year. He carried petitions for the 2003 Tucson
Transportation Initiative and canvassed the City of Tucson for Tom Volgy
and Jose Ibarra. Because of his efforts to organize the Young Democrats
of Pima County, he was recently elected to the Board of Democrats of Greater
Tucson. Newton studied at Washington University in St. Louis School
of Architecture and is an architectural intern by training.
| Northern Arizona Field
Director |
Tom Fry |
(Started as a volunteer in Spring
2003; appointed to position in December 2003) Fry, a freelance writer,
became active with a small group in Flagstaff very early in the campaign,
meeting monthly to discuss ways to promote Dean’s campaign. Applying his
experience in public relations, Fry oversaw all the advance and day-of
press work for Gov. Dean’s first Flagstaff visit in July. Fry organized
Verde Valley 4 Dean, a volunteer effort to raise awareness among Democratic
voters in western Yavapai County about Dean’s record.
| Dean Team Leader Program
Director |
Ellen Terry |
(Started as a volunteer October
2003, officially appointed December 2003)
Media Coordinator
Jodie Patterson
Advisory Board
Alfredo Gutierrez
Mary Judge Ryan
Carolyn Warner
Claire Sargent
Dr. Tariq Mian
Renz Jennings
African-American Outreach
- Sandra Kennedy
Hispanic Outreach - Rosie
Lopez and Esther Duran-Lumm
Northern Arizona Volunteers
- Karen Turney
Fundraising - Cindy Cooke
DeanforAZ.com webmaster -
Tom Ryan
So. Arizona GLBT - Amelia
Craig-Cramer
Individual Donors - Jill
Pennington
Vote by Mail Coordinator
- Lois Pfau
Database Design - Robert
Tu and Dave Keeler
Education Coordinator - Rex
Scott
Hispanic translator - Cynthia
Franklin
Special Events - Kathy Peper
Tabling - Catherine Miller
Constituency Outreach - Diane
Watson
Graphic Design - Karen Piovaty
and Lezlie Cox |
County Coordinators
Cochise - Cochise County
Coordinator
Coconino - Peggy Toomey
Hamman
La Paz - Rodney Martin
Maricopa - Carolyn Maxon
Mojave - John and Janet
Olson
Pima - a number of contacts
(Rex Scott, media)
Pinal - Carolyn Badger,
Betty Hughes
Santa Cruz - John and Jean
Rogers
Yuma - Rodney Martin
and Legislative District
Coordinators in all 30 Districts.
Students
University of Arizona -
Jonna Lopez, Shannon Randall
Arizona State University
- Tony Cani
Northern Arizona University
- Liz Navran
|
Endorsements see
www.deanforaz.com
| Congressman
Raúl M. Grijalva 8/18/03 |
Elected to serve
the newly created 7th CD in Nov. 2002. Served on the Pima County
Board of Supervisors, 1989-2002, including as chair 2000-02. Born
in Tucson, graduate of Sunnyside High School and University of Arizona. |
| Retired
Congressman James McNulty |
Served
1982-84. Author of Running Uphill. |
Former Interior
Secretary Bruce Babbitt
12/16/03 |
Secretary of Interior during
the Clinton Administration; unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential
nomination in 1987-88; Governor of Arizona from 1978-87; State Attorney
General from 1975-78. Presently of counsel in Latham & Watkins Washington
D.C. law office. |
| Hattie Babbitt
12/16/03 |
Senior vice president of
Hunt Alternatives Fund in Washington, D.C; former deputy administrator
of the U.S. Agency for International Development; U.S. ambassador to the
Organization of American States from 1993-97. |
| Renz Jennings |
Former Corporation Commissioner |
| Tom
Volgy |
2003
Candidate for Mayor of Tucson (narrowly lost); Former Mayor |
| George
Miller |
Former
Mayor of Tucson |
| Carolyn
Warner |
Former
Superintendent of Public Instruction |
| Dino DeConcini |
Former Administrator of
US Savings Bond |
| Jorge
Garcia |
State
Senator, LD 27 |
| Linda
Lopez |
State
Representative, LD 29 |
| Phil
Lopes |
State
Representative, LD 27 |
| Meg
Burton Cahill |
State
Representative, LD 17 |
| Mary
Judge Ryan |
Chief
Deputy Pima County Attorney |
| Alfredo
Gutierrez |
Businessperson,
Former State Senator |
| Sandra
Kennedy |
Former
State Senator |
| Vera
Berkman |
Secretary,
AZ State Democratic Party |
| Lois
Pfau |
Vice
Chairwoman, AZ State Democratic Party |
| Peggy
Toomey |
Vice
Chairwoman, AZ State Democratic Party |
| Dan
Mallar |
Sergeant-at-Arms,
AZ State Democratic Party |
| Carolyn
Maxon |
State
Committee Person, AZ Democratic Party |
| Paul
Cash |
AZ
State Democratic Party CD committee Member |
| Dana
Larsen |
Treasurer,
Pima County Democratic Party |
Early Organization
The Dean campaign was able to build upon a strong volunteer organization
developed in the first part of 2003 under the leadership of Judy Lavendar,
Arizona State Coordinator. Frank Costanzo started as State Director
in mid-July and the campaign was based out of his house in Phoenix until
the headquarters opened in September.
| Arizona State Coordinator |
Judy Lavendar |
Advisory Board
Alfredo Gutierrez
Mary Judge Ryan
Carolyn Warner
Claire Sargent
Dr. Tariq Mian
Renz Jennings
Afro-American Outreach
-- Sandra Kennedy
Northern Arizona Hispanic
Outreach -- Rosie Lopez, Esther Duran-Lumm
Fundraising -- Cindy Cooke
Media Coordinator -- Jodi
Patterson
Dean for Az.com Webmaster
-- Tom Ryan
So. Arizona GLBT -- Amelia
Craig-Cramer
Individual Donors -- Jill
Pennington
Information Technology --
Michael Bryan
Database Design -- Robert
Tu, Dave Keeler
Education Coordinator --
Rex Scott
Hispanic Translator -- Cynthia
Franklin
Special Events -- Cathy
Peper
Constituency Outreach --
Diane Watson
Office Manager -- Lois Pfau
Graphic Design --Karen Piovaty,
Lezlie Cox
 |
| The DeanforAZ website went
up in April 2003; Asad Mohamed did initial work; Tom Ryan and Marvel Stalcup
have continued to build the site. (Aug. 28,
2003) |
|
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|
Frank Costanzo and Judy
Lavendar (Sept. 2003)
|
Phoenix Headquarters Office. |
Bisbee Office. > |
|
Photos courtesy Dean
for America.
|
In a post-primary note to
supporters Frank Costanzo wrote:
"In the end, we achieved
over 90% of the turnout goal we thought would be necessary to attain delegates
for Governor Dean. However, the turnout was so high, that we did not meet
the statewide goal of 15%. Although that is the case, we did secure three
delegates and that is a major achievement for a state which was inundated
by television advertising for the other candidates and where we were fighting
national media unwilling to give a non-Washington insider a fair break.
"In any event, we have attained
three delegates to be selected from Congressional Districts 4, 7 and 8.
These will be selected in accordance with the Democratic State Party rules." |