Volunteer Political Director - Justin Leites
(started Sept. 2004)  On leave from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) where he served as a staffer to Administrator Mark Malloch Brown starting in 2000; promoted to head of the internal communications department in 2002.  (Leites' involvement in the campaign later became a subject of some controversy as the subject of  an official complaint with the internal investigative arm of UNDP on April 7, 2005; reported by the New York Sun in May). 
 

Victory 2004

Coordinated Campaign Director

Dana Stinson

Worked as a program manager at National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) handling their Bosnia portfolio.  Previously worked on educational programming for congressional staff at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC.  Served with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina.  Started career in foreign policy as a civil servant at the Department of Defense in 1993.  Master's degree in public policy (international economic and security policy studies) from University of Maryland, College Park and B.A. in government from Colby College in Waterville.
 
 

Field Director

John Hennessy

(Finance director for the last month)  Lobbyist.  Regional field director in Southern Maine on the 2002 Coordinated Campaign.  Originally from New York.
 

Deputy Field Director

Anne Bagley

 

Communications Director

Christopher Harris

 

Director of Information, Events, Audiences

Jonathan Hillier

 

Road Trip To Victory Coordinator

Liz McMahon

 

Operations Director

Mercedes Marino

 

Legal Advisor

Sarah Baker

Field Organization

Portland Office: 137 Kennebec Street Regional Field Director - Maggie Allen Field Organizer - Samantha Kurkjy Adam Cowing LGBT Field Coord. (MDP) - Ryan Anderson Senate Caucus Field - Kevin Moynihan	Waterville Office - 16 Common Street Field Director - Kate Nyhan	Bangor Office - 56 Main Street Regional Field Director - Sarah Stevens also Aymie Walshe Deputy Field Director - Torvic Vardamis Field Organizer - Eric Black Field Organizer - Winthrop Roosevelt Field Organizer - Kerry Wahl House Caucus Field - Steve Ransom Senate Caucus Field - Greg Olson
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Lewiston Office - 110 Lisbon Street Regional Field Director - Stephanie Hart Deputy Field Director - Ben Buxton Field Organizer - Mackenzie Keliher House Caucus Field - Paul Brunetti Volunteer - Jim Horwitz	East Millinocket Office - 101 Main Street Field Organizer - Diane Gagnon	Presque Isle Office - 431 Main Street Field Organizer - Rachel Smith House Caucus Field - Dara Kidder

Maine Democratic Party  |  12 Spruce St.  |  Augusta

State Chair

Dorothy "Dottie" Melanson

Elected in June 2003.  From Falmouth.  Delegate to the 2000 Democratic National Convention; neonatal nurse at Maine Med.
 
 

Executive Director

Aymie Walshe

(started January 2003)  Born and raised in Maine.  Second District field coordinator for John Baldacci's successful gubernatorial campaign in 2002, then worked on the transition team to plan the Governor's inauguration.  Started full time political work in 2001 as the field director for Sean Faircloth's congressional campaign in a heated six-way primary.  B.S. in education and early child development from the University of Maine, Farmington. 
 
 

Voterfile Coordinator

Steve Frampton

 

Finance Director

Karen Sudbay

 

Compliance/Books

Claire Pomerleau

 

Office Manager

Diane Kirchner

 

House Caucus Director

Toby McGrath

House Caucus Field Staff: George Austin, Paul Brunetti, Amelia Golden, Erika Helgerson, James Keiliszek, Sarah Ripley
 
 

Senate Caucus Director

Ben Grant

Senate Caucus Field Staff: Lauren Debelius
 
 

Allies
Americans Coming Together  | 145 Lisbon Street, Suite 504  |  Lewiston (opened May 15, 2004) >>
other offices in Bangor and Fort Kent
ACT Maine was the smallest of the ACT state organizations with eight field staff and about 30 paid canvassers.  ACT focused most of its efforts on the 2nd CD.  Over the summer ACT registered about 11,000 voters.  ACT set a goal of contacting 20,000 infrequent voting Democrats and unenrolled voters eight times before the election (this was done using layered communications, for example an auto call, a door knock, a follow-up mail piece...).  In the final two weeks ACT workers focused on a GOTV universe of 17,000 people in 32 towns in the 2nd CD.  In sum State Director Rich Pelletier-Simpson described the effort as "a very targeted campaign" that reached "folks that weren't regularly communicated with." 
 

State Director

Rich Pelletier-Simpson

Started with ACT as New Hampshire communications director in late 2003.  Political director for Think About It, an unsucessful November 2003 referendum to build a casino resort in Sanford, Maine.  Maine House Caucus Director in the 2000 and 2002 cycles.  Graduate of University of Maine at Fort Kent.  A Mainer.
 
 

Field Director

John Murphy

A regional field director for John Baldacci's 2002 gubernatorial campaign.
 

Lewiston

Jeremy Foster

Native of Waterville.
 

Bangor

Roxanne Munksgaarde

Member of IBEW Local 1837.  Dean delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention.  Northern Maine Regional Organizer, Dean for Maine campaign.
 

Fort Kent (office on Main Street)

Jeremy Lestage

University of Southern Maine.  Interned for Congressman Tom Allen in Fall 2003 and the Maine AFL-CIO in Spring 2004.
(Note. Fort Kent in St. John Valley is the highest Democratic performing area in the state).
 
 

Canvass Coordinator

Julia Shannon

 

Communications Director

Bill Brown

Hails from Maine.  Was the Legislative Director for Speaker of the House Michael Saxl and Pat Colwell.
 

Deputy Communications Director

Zandra Rice

 

Maine AFL-CIO  |  Bangor Office: 157 Park St.  |  Augusta Office: 65-71 State St. 
President: Edward Gorham
Vice President: Brenda Kaler
Secretary-Treasurer: Ned McCann