Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc.
| 31 South Henry St., Suite 300 | Madison
- and - 2040 W. Wisconsin Ave.. Suite 2024 | Milwaukee
State Director |
Richard J. Judge |
(announced June 17, 2004, officially
started June 28, 2004) A public affairs advisor with Foley &
Lardner's Public Affairs Practice Group. Judge previously served
as Political Director for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. In 2002
he served as Field Director for the state’s Coordinated Campaign.
Judge has worked as a legislative aide and research assistant in both the
State Senate and Assembly, and as a senior policy analyst for Assembly
Democrats.
Communications Director |
George Twigg |
(started May 1, 20040)
Served as State Director for Kerry's Wisconsin primary campaign (announced
Sept. 17, 2003, officially started Oct. 1, 2003) Twigg has been in
Wisconsin for the past five years. Before the campaign he had been
doing media communications on the Senate Chief Clerk's staff; he has worked
for the Democratic Leaders of both the Assembly and Senate in Wisconsin.
He also worked on former U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett's campaign for Governor
in 2002. Prior to moving to Wisconsin, Twigg was in Washington, DC,
including a stint as a press intern in Kerry’s Washington, DC Senate office.
Twigg is a native of Gilmanton, NH; he started out in Democratic politics
in 1994, as a volunteer for Wayne King's gubernatorial campaign in the
Granite State.
Chief
Wisconsin Strategist |
Teresa
Vilmain |
(for the final month of the
campaign) General Election Strategist at the Democratic National
Committee; Gore-Lieberman Wisconsin state director in the 2000 General
Election campaign; general consultant to Tom Vilsack's gubernatorial campaign
in Iowa in 1998; Wisconsin state director for Clinton/Gore 96; consultant
for the Human Rights Campaign's OutVote 96 project; political director
of Emily's List; campaign manager for Geraldine Ferraro's 1992 U.S. Senate
race; worked on the Iowa caucuses for Gary Hart in 1987 and Michael Dukakis
in 1988.
Statewide Leadership Team
(as announced June 17, 2004;
veterans added later)
Co-chairs: Sen. Herb Kohl,
Sen. Russ Feingold, Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton, Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager,
Cong. David Obey, Cong. Jerry Kleczka, Cong. Ron Kind, Cong. Tammy Baldwin,
and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.
African-Americans for
Kerry Chairs: State Sen. G. Spencer Coggs, Milwaukee City Council
President Willie Hines, Milwaukee County Democratic Party Chair Martha
Love, and Dane County Supervisor Rob Fyrst.
Latinos for Kerry Chairs:
State Rep. Pedro Colón, Milwaukee County Supervisor Peggy West,
Madison School Board Member Juan Jose Lopez, Milwaukee School Board Member
Jennifer Morales, and UW Regent Jesus Salas.
Women for Kerry Co-Chairs:
Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton, Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, Dane County
Executive Kathleen Falk, Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Linda Honold,
and Milwaukee County Democratic Party Chair Martha Love.
Veterans for Kerry Coordinators:
Don Eggert (Madison), Tracey Sperko (Milwaukee), Jack Krueger (Green Bay)
Milwaukee Chair:
former Milwaukee Mayor Marvin Pratt.
Coordinated Campaign
| W. Washington Ave. | Madison (opened July 1,
2004) Field
Offices
(start
July 1, 2004) On leave from position as political director for AFSCME
in Wisconsin. In 1998 Weeks directed the Democratic coordinated campaign
in Iowa.
Assistant:
Jackie Gran
Deputy
Coordinated Director |
Andy Engel |
Political
director for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Director of campaigns
for the Wisconsin State Senate Democratic Committee in the 2002 cycle.
Operations
Director |
Kasara Williams |
Worked
Sen. Kerry's New Hampshire Primary campaign out of the Manchester office.
Went on to work in the Virginia, Wisconsin, and Ohio primaries. Returned
to Wisconsin to start the field operations in Milwaukee before becoming
Operations Director.
National
Trip Director |
Paul Vornholt |
Senior
advisor on attorney Matt Flynn's unsuccessful 2004 campaign for the Democratic
nomination in the 4th CD. Advisor to Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager.
Worked in the office of Assembly Minority Leader Spencer Black, D-Madison,
and for the Assembly Democratic Caucus. Assistant to Brown County
Executive Nancy Nusbaum.
P
O L I T I C A L / C O N S T I T U E N C Y
Political
Director |
Marilyn Davis |
(started
July 2004) Political action representative for AFSCME. Deputy
state director to U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine (D-NJ). Constituency director
for the 2000 coordinated campaign in New Jersey. Chief of staff to
New Jersey Assemblyman Neil Cohen, 1997-2001. Staff assistant to
Congressman Bob Torricelli (D-NJ), 1995-96. Worked for Congressman
Herb Klein (D-NJ). Graduate of the University of South Carolina with
a degree in government and international studies, 1994.
Deputy
Political Director |
Andy Gordon |
Gordon
came to the campaign after working for a number of years as an attorney
in London. He served as Democrats Abroad's regional chair in Europe,
Middle East & Africa, and chair and legal counsel for UK.. While
in the UK he helped the Kerry campaign with fundraising and the Gore-Lieberman
campaign with GOTV and as a surrogate. Worked on the Dukakis campaign
in Virginia. Has worked on state and local campaigns in Virginia,
Maryland, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Served as a kegislative aide
to Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA). J.D. from the College of William
and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, and undergraduate degree in government
and philosophy from Clark University.
Deputy
Constituency Director |
Stephanie Weix |
(based
in Madison, started September 2004) Previously assistant director
of public affairs for a non-profit organization in Washington DC; a policy
assistant at the University of Michigan’s office of Human Resources and
Affirmative Action; and legislative assistant for U.S. Sen. Russell Feingold
(D-WI). Also served on Sen. Feingold’s campaign steering committee.
Graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in political
science and journalism.
Base
Vote Director |
Sherwin Hughes |
(based
in Milwaukee; hired June 30, 2004) A field representative to congressman
Tom Barrett (D-WI); also served as Director of Community Development for
the Northside YMCA. B.A. in sociology from the Univesity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Latino
Outreach Coord. |
German Trejo |
(based
in Milwaukee) A chair of the Ohio Mexican American Association.
Has worked as an international electoral observer in Mexico, Peru,
Argentina, Nicaragua, and Russia. B.A. in political science and B.A.
in international studies, both from the Ohio State University.
LGBT
Outreach Coord. |
Andy Szekeres |
(based
in Milwaukee)
Women's
Outreach Coord. |
Karen Nelson |
(based
in Milwaukee) replaced Andrea Rowe.
Native
American Outreach Coord. |
John Powless
III |
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O M M U N I C A T I O N S
DNC
Press Secretary |
Lesley Sillaman |
Press
Secretary to Congresswoman Rosa L. De Lauro (D-CT). Communications
director for the Wisconsin Democratic Coordinated Campaign in 2002.
B.A. degree from the University of Dayton. Master's degree in communications
from the University of Pennsylvania, where she served as a research assistant
for Dean Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
Research
Director |
Stuart Rosenberg |
Assistant
Research Director |
Sam Sankar |
Press Secretaries:
Toby Hyde, Andrea Powers, Robert Johnston, Seta Hovagimian.
Madison Press Office:
Katie McCormick-Lelyveld, Rachel Stauch-Nelson.
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U R R O G A T E
Deputy
Political Director |
Linda Chappetto |
Deputy
Political Director/Scheduler on Sen. Kerry's Iowa caucus campaign, started
on that campaign February 17, 2003. Assistant to First Lady Kristi
Vilsack on the Vilsack-Pederson campaign in 2002. Worked on a state
assembly race in Wisconsin in 2000. Graduate of the University of
Florida in Gainesville with a degree in political science and sociology.
Assistant:
Peter Butler
In-State
Surrogate Scheduler |
Robbyn Corbyn |
Surrogate
Advance |
Jesse Rosen
Ali McJunkin
Lisa Ellman |
Surrogate
Trip Directors |
Brett Blomme
Eric Couto
Jonathan Ward
Jim Mulhern
Deb Sutinen |
Events
Volunteer Coordinator |
Chris Johnson |
Chris
Johnson was initially Sign-In Coordinator; he replaced Michael Schroeder
Crowd Builders:
Elise Braun, I-Ming Shiou, Chris Lyons, Kara Anderson, Zach Mason, Mike
Cassaday, Aaron McCormick, Andrew Dowds, Shane Siemers, Ron Carson
F
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Field
Director |
Michael Teter |
In the
2004 Iowa caucus campaign, Teter ran the Kerry campaign's field office
in Decorah. Graduate of Pomona College and Yale Law School.
Deputy
Field Director |
Amanda Howe |
On leave
from position as special assistant to the Secretary of Commerce in Virginia.
Deputy
Field Director |
Joanna Beilman-Dulin |
Assistant
Field Director |
Kate Sienicki |
Regional Field
Directors:
Milwaukee-Kris
Schultz Southeast-Jocelyn Bogdan
Central-Casey Slaughter Northwest-Andrew
Sullivan Northeast-Craig Trost
Field
Offices
Statewide Campus
Coordinator: Emily Anderson (12 paid staffers total
related to students)
Statewide Student
GOTV: Al Acker (Oct. 2004 - national youth outreach
director; worked in WI for the last month of the campaign)
Statewide Road
Trip to Victory Coordinator: Alexandra Simbana
Assistant:
Jen Chau
Rural Organizers:
David Ricketts, Micah Bycel, Jefry Robison, Brendan Rose, Debbie Sitrin,
Andy Robichaud, Zach Stewart, Connolly Keigher (nine
total)
Canvassing Team
Leaders: Ben Golombek and Bill Schwulst
Canvassing Team
Members: Liz Quinn, Katie Ingebretson, Darryl Teske, Daniella Puls,
Lauren Perkins, George Gillis Jr., CJ Frogozo, Travis Laird, Katie Harrigan
G
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DNC deputy
field director for programs. Deputy field director for Howard Dean's
New Hampshire primary campaign, starting April 20, 2003. Worked for
NYC councilwoman Eva Markowitz. Field director for the Vermont Democratic
Party Coordinated Campaign in 2002. 2002 graduate of Columbia University.
Worked for the Vermont Democratic House caucus in 2000 and the Vermont
Democratic Party as a canvasser in 1998.
Deputy
GOTV Directors |
Andrew Moyer
Brooke Lierman |
Lierman
served as Wisconsin state field director for Dean for America. She was
a field organizer on Sen. Paul Wellstone's campaign in 2002. Worked
on her father Terry Lierman's congressional campaign in Maryland in 2000.
B.A. from Dartmouth College.
GOTV
Logistics Coordinator, then La Crosse/Eau Claire student coordinator
(official title
"helper") |
Sam
Arora |
(In Wisconsin
for the last five weeks of the campaign, first doing GOTV, then student
coordinator) Political analyst at the DNC writing political briefings
and tracking polling for the Chairman and senior staff; joined the DNC
in August 2003 as a Political Operations Coordinator. Previously,
he was an intern for John Kerry for President and the Office of Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton. He graduated from Columbia University with a B.A.
in Political Science, 2003.
GOTV
Production Coordinator, then Green Bay student coordinator |
Adam Jentleson |
Graduate
of Columbia University, 2003.
Voter
Protection Coordinator |
Neal Higgins |
Deputy
Voter Protection Coordinator |
Jennifer Anderson |
GOTV
Assistant |
Aaron Galarowicz |
F
I N A N C E
Finance
Director |
Katie Belanger |
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
| 222 W. Washington Ave., Suite 150 | Madison
Became State Chair in June 2001.
Honold had served as chair of Sheboygan County Democrats and chair of the
Northshore/Eastside Democrats in Milwaukee. Delegate at the 1984
Democratic National Convention. Started her involvement in Democratic
politics in 1977, joining Young Democrats as a sophomore at the University
of Wisconsin. Honold has also earned a PhD in Human and Organizational
Systems, 1999.
Executive Director |
Kim Warkentin |
Warkentin previously worked
as a political consultant in Oregon. She served as executive director
of the Iowa Democratic Party from March 1999 through May 2000.
Communications Director |
Seth Boffeli |
Previously served as a spokeman
for Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA).
Voter File Manager |
Dan Langer |
Deputy Voter
File Manager: Joel Gratz
Compliance Director |
Michael Childers |
Allies
Americans Coming Together
| 122 State Street, Suite 500 | Madison
State Director |
Tamara Pogue |
Started working on the Dean
campaign in Burlington, VT in February 2003 doing Special Operations, moved
to field role and officially titled as Field Director on November 13.
Campaign manager for John Baldacci's successuful 2002 gubernatorial campaign
in Maine. Graduate of Bates College ('99).
Communications Director |
Phillip Walzak |
Press for Rep. Jerry Kleczka.
Press secretary for Rep. Tom Barrett starting in April 2002. Director
of public affairs for the American Maritime Congress. Deputy director
of communications for Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI)'s 2000 re-election campaign.
Worked as a freelance writer for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
AB from University of Chicago ('99). From the east side of Milwaukee.
Outreach
Director |
Jasper
Hendricks |
In the Wisconsin primary Hendricks
worked on the Dean campaign as a Milwaukee field organizer.
Field Director |
John Marchant |
Served as Wisconsin field director
on Wesley Clark's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In 2003 Marchant managed the Ellen Karcher's race in the New Jersey 12th
State Senate district, unseating the Senate President, a 23-year incumbent
and the highest-ranking Republican elected official in the state.
Ran the
South Carolina House Caucus
in 2002. Dennis Moore's congressional campaign in KS-3rd in 2000.
Graduate of Rockhurst University.
Regional Field Directors
Appleton
305 East College Avenue
Alex Rabb |
Madison
Kim Puglio |
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Milwaukee
207 Buffalo St., Suite 212
Molly Richardson |
Stevens Point
17 Park Ridge Dr., Suite 100
Dan Robinett |
"ACT-WI aggressively
pursued independent, undecided voters and the progressive base alike.
In just seven months of activity, the ACT-WI team knocked on almost one
million doors before beginning its GOTV program. For the four days
leading up to and including Election Day, ACT-WI made 400,000 phone calls,
direct mailed 229,000 households three times for a total of 687,000 pieces
of mail, and knocked on 336,000 doors three times. On Election Day,
we had 5,377 canvassers deploy from 12 staging areas across the state.
Not only did ACT-Wisconsin drive voter turnout across the state, our movement
engaged and energized new voters to participate. From minorities
to young people, ACT-WI inspired a new legion of voters to get involved
and share their voice with our political process. For example, in
Milwaukee, where we knocked on 156,000 unique households, the average ACT
ward outperformed expected turnout by 4.8%. Some city of Milwaukee
wards reported turnout of over 115% due to new voter registrations and
turnout. In ACT targeted wards in Brown County, we beat Gore’s
vote total percentage by 1.54% and Doyle’s vote total from 2002 percentage
by 4.33%."
America Votes | 122
State Street, Suite 500 | Madison
Wisconsin Organizing Director |
Peter Shakow |
Wisconsin State Director for
Wesley Clark's campaign, starting Dec. 27, 2003; 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.
Environmental Victory Project
| League of Conservation Voters, 160 S 2nd St. |
Milwaukee
Wisconsin State Director |
Mike Palamuso |
(started Feb. 2004) Palamuso
worked on Sen. John Edwards' New Hampshire primary campaign starting as
Manchester Area Regional Field Coordinator on May 8, 2003 and then serving
as Voter Contact Coordinator. After the NH primary he worked field
for the campaign in Buffalo, New York for the March 2 primary. Palamuso
left his position as deputy director at the NHDP to join the Edwards campaign.
In the 2002 cycle he worked as a regional field director for the New Hampshire
Democrats' 2002 Coordinated Campaign, then worked on Sen. Landrieu's runoff
in Louisiana. Staff associate at Fingerhut, Powers, Smith and Associates.
Graduate of St. Bonaventure University, 1999.
Field Director |
Ben Nuckels |
(started May 2004) From
Feb.-April 2004 Nuckels co-developed and co-founded Redraw America, a project
to focus grassroots energy to state legislative races subsequently incorporated
into Democracy for America. He worked on Howard Dean's presidential
campaign, first directing the field office in Clinton, Iowa for the caucuses,
and then in Michigan and Wisconsin. Graduate of Governors State University
in University Park, Illinois.
Volunteer Operations Director |
Hollin Kretzmann |
Milwaukee Team
Leaders |
Lauren Goldberg
Tassos Coulaloglou
Trish Kelly |
Milwaukee Organizers:
Andy Watson, Audrey Chan, Brian Rolison, Carrie Maas, Christopher Peterson,
Dan Bass, Dana Spindler, Emma Tai, Laurel Steele, Liz Lundeen, Richard
Lindsay, Sarah Grenzeback, Sarah Tulley, Virginia Weihs, Will Bernstein
Madison Office: 210 N. Bassett Street
GOTV Program Coordinator |
Chris Warshaw |
Madison Team
Leaders |
Rick Coelho
Aaron Freidman |
Madison Organizers: Alicia
Robinson, Andrea Sorum, Brendan Detzner, Chris Hayes, Colin Barreno, Crystal
Martzall, Daniel Favre, Darrow Vanderburgh-Wertz, Matt Schneider, Robbie
Adams, Tim Gondek
According to the
Environment Victory Project's website in mid-2004, "With Madison and inner
Milwaukee expected to fight the northern reaches of the state to a draw,
the suburbs and exurbs of Milwaukee will decide this contest."
The website further states,
"The ten county cluster around Milwaukee and along the lake shore comprise
the Milwaukee media market. The Environmental Victory Project will canvass
in all 10 of those counties, knocking on close to 400,000 doors in the
summer and fall. From the inner suburbs in Milwaukee County itself, to
precincts of undecided voters from Kenosha to Sheboygan, we will spread
the word of the Bush Administration's radical anti-environmentalism."
According to an October 26
press release, in Wisconsin the Environmental Victory Project had 33 staff
and over 1000 volunteers, "LCV has knocked on over 250,000 doors in key
swing precincts in Milwaukee, Dane, Waukesha, Sheboygan and Racine counties,"
the release stated. And after the Election, organizer Dana Spindler
noted that, "By Election Day, LCV's Environmental Victory Project had mobilized
4,899 volunteer canvass shifts in more than 300 targeted swing precincts
in Southeast Wisconsin...ran major canvasses every weekend during the final
months of the campaign, and had knocked on the doors of more than 365,000
voters." "Besides ACT, which relied on paid canvassers, we ended
up as the single largest independent grassroots campaign in the state."
Spindler stated.
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO | 6333
West Blue Mound Road | Milwaukee
President: David Newby
Executive Vice President: Sara Rogers
Secretary Treasurer: Phil Neuenfeldt
In Madison:
AFL-CIO Desk Coordinator (MN, WI &
IL): Tanya Bjork
A November
1 press release trumpeted, "In the largest member mobilization in Wisconsin’s
history, the union movement has marshaled 322 full-time staff, recruited
11,522 volunteers, set up 15 phone banks with 184 lines, and distributed
2,115,100 leaflets across the state."
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Environmental
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Wisconsin State
AFL-CIO |
Planned Parenthood Advocates
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