John
Kerry for President, Inc.-Campaign Organization in the States
Primary and Caucus Edition
Jan. 19, 2004 precinct caucuses
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O W A
State Director |
John Norris |
(started Jan. 1, 2003)
In 2002 Norris ran for Congress in the 4th District against Rep. Tom Latham
(R). Prior to his campaign, starting in 1999, Norris served as chief
of staff to Gov. Tom Vilsack. In 1998 he served as chairman and executive
director of the Iowa Democratic Party. Previously he served as chief
of staff to Rep. Leonard Boswell and as district representative for then-Rep.
Tom Harkin. He owned and managed the Old Hotel Restaurant in Greenfield
from 1989 to 1992 and served as vice president of the Greenfield Chamber
of Commerce. During the mid-1980's Norris served as state director
for the Iowa Farm Unity Coalition. A native of Red Oak, Norris graduated
from Simpson College in Indianola with a B.A. in political science in 1981
and received his J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1995.
Jan. 27, 2004 primary
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E W H A M P S H I R E
State Director |
Ken Robinson |
(started end of January 2003)
Robinson served as executive director of the New Hampshire Democratic Party
from January 1999 through January 2003. In 2000 and 2002, he also
served as the Coordinated Campaign director for the New Hampshire Democratic
Party. He has worked on numerous campaigns including Gov. Jeanne
Shaheen's 1998 reelection campaign. In 1996 he served as field director
of Joe Keefe's campaign for Congress (1st CD). Robinson is a 1991
graduate of Brown University.
Feb. 3, 2004 primary
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O U T H C A R O L I N A
State Director |
James Dukes |
(started June 15, 2003)
Served as Field Representative for Sen. Fritz Hollings from February 1999-June
2003. Previously served as Outreach Director for Sen. Hollings' 1998
campaign and as regional field director for the South Carolina Democratic
Party Coordinated Campaigns in 2002 and 2000. Also worked on the
special congressional campaign of Brent Weaver for Congress in 2001.
Attended Coastal Carolina University, majored in Political Science.
Feb. 3, 2004 primary
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R I Z O N A
State Director |
Mario Diaz |
Before joining the Kerry campaign,
Diaz was a longtime aide to Janet Napolitano. He worked with Napolitano
starting in 1993, when President Clinton appointed her U.S. attorney for
Arizona. Diaz ran Napolitano's campaigns for attorney general in
1998 and for governor in 2002, and was serving as deputy chief of staff
for urban relations and boards and commissions. He started in politics
as an intern for Sen. Dennis DeConcini; he then worked on Rep. Ed Pastor's
campaign and on his staff. Diaz has a B.A. in political science from
ASU (1991) and a master's degree in public administration, also from ASU.
He famously arrived in Arizona with $25 in his pocket as he transferred
from a California community college to ASU.
Feb. 3, 2004 caucuses
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E W M E X I C O
State Director |
Geri Prado |
(started August 2003)
Before moving to New Mexico to work on the campaign, Prado was political
director for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 105 in
Colorado. Worked field in the last month of Tom Strickland's 2002
U.S. Senate campaign under the Democratic coordinated effort and as field
director for Congresswoman Diana DeGette's 2002 campaign; also worked as
a senior congressional aide in DeGette's district office. Ran a state
house race in Denver and was the Fair Housing Director for NEWSED, a non-profit.
Worked in the Manhattan District Attorney's office. Graduate of the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Feb. 3, 2004 caucuses
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O R T H D A K O T A
State Director |
Mike Malaise |
(started January xx, 2004)
Malaise served as political director for Kerry's Iowa caucus campaign starting
on June 18, 2003. He was communications director for the Iowa Democratic
Party from January 2003 after serving as communications director for the
Iowa House and Senate Caucus, April-Dec. 2002. Press secretary to
Congressman Ken Lucas of Kentucky in Washington, DC from January 2000.
Feb. 3, 2004 primary
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E L A W A R E
State Director |
Leonard Joseph |
With the campaign since January
2003 manning one of the political desks. Previously director of financial
services at the DCCC. Native of Jamaica, Queens, New York.
Feb. 3, 2004 primary
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I S S O U R I
State Director |
Roy Temple |
(January 24, 2004) Washington
chief of staff to Sen. Jean Carnahan, and senior advisor to her U.S. Senate
campaign. Senior advisor on Gov. Carnahan's 2000 U.S. Senate campaign.
Executive director of the Missouri Democratic Party, 1998-2000. Ran
Gov. Carnahan's 1996 re-election campaign. Served in the Carnahan
administration as deputy chief of staff and as chief of staff. Political
director on Mel Carnahan's successful 1992 campaign for governor in Missouri.
Feb. 7, 2004 caucuses
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I C H I G A N
State Director |
Jim Curran |
(started September 2003)
Associate at Karoub Associates a lobbying firm in Lansing; he joined in
2000. Curran is former manager of government relations for Suburban
Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART). He is a certified
professional of the Academy for Health Care Management. Curran earned
his B.S. from Michigan State University.
Feb. 7, 2004 caucuses
W
A S H I N G T O N
(Nov. 1, 2003) Prior to
joining the campaign Wade served as chief of staff to Congressman Adam
Smith.
Feb. 8, 2004 caucuses
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A I N E
Political Director (Portland) |
Jesse Connolly |
Previously worked as communications
director for Senate President Beverly Daggett, and in the 2002 cycle he
was director for the State Senate Caucus. A Mainer, Connolly graduated
from Bates College in May 2001 with a B.A. in political science.
Field Director (Bangor) |
Lisa Baldacci |
Feb. 10, 2004 primary
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I R G I N I A
State Director |
Susan Swecker |
Swecker, a DNC Member, served
on the DNC's convention site advisory committee in 2001-02 and was elected
chair of the party's Southern Caucus at its February 2003 meeting.
She chaired the Gore for President campaign in Virginia in 2000 and chaired
the Virginia delegation to the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los
Angeles. Former executive director of the Democratic Party of Virginia.
Lives in Richmond. According to the AP she "led the push" for the
legislation that moved the state's 2004 presidential primary forward.
Feb. 10, 2004 primary
T
E N N E S S E E
State Director |
Stephen Lindsey |
(named as state director on
September 15, 2003) Lindsey is a Tennessee native from Columbia (Maury
County; central Tennessee). Lindsey graduated from Columbia Central
High School in 1989, and received a degree in Political Science and Sociology
from the University of North Alabama in 1994. He worked for various
Democratic candidates from 1993-96. In 1996 Lindsey returned to Columbia
Central High School where he taught US Government for two years.
From 1998-2003, he worked for the Tennessee Democratic Party; when he left
as the Deputy Director of the Party he had been in all of Tennessee's 95
Counties.
Feb. 14, 2004 caucuses
N
E V A D A
Co-Chairs: former
Congressman James A. Bilbray, State
Senator Terry Care
Feb. 17, 2004 primary
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I S C O N S I N
State Director |
George Twigg |
(announced Sept. 17 2003, official
start 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 for
former U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett’s campaign for Governor. Prior to moving
to Wisconsin, Twigg was 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.
Feb. 24, 2004 caucuses
H A W A I I
Co-Chairs: Richard
Port, a former State Party Chair, and Jane Sugimura,
activist
Feb. 24, 2004 caucuses
I
D A H O
State Director |
Dawna Rasmussen |
(Nov. 2003) Prior to joining
the campaign Rasmussen worked as one of two Idaho Democratic Party field
coordinators in Bannock County (Pocatello). Staff assistant in the
Idaho Senate starting in Jan. 2003. Managed Sen. Bert Marley's 2002
election campaign. Interned with then U.S. Rep. Tim Roemer (D-IN)
in 2001.
Feb. 24, 2004 primary
U
T A H
State Director |
Haley Zachary |
Zachary worked on the field
staff of Kerry's Iowa caucus campaign out of the Dubuque office, then on
the Arizona campaign.
March 2, 2004 primary
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A L I F O R N I A
State Director |
Larry Grisolano |
(started Feb. 15, 2004)
A partner in The Strategy Group's
Los Angeles office, Grisolano has two decades of campaign experience.
Most recently he did the direct mail for Kerry's Iowa caucus campaign.
Served as Senior Consultant to the Gore 2000 primary campaigns in Iowa,
Washington State and California. Served as field director of the
California Democratic Party in 1994. Oversaw the Clinton-Gore coordinated
campaign in California in 1992. Worked in press and research for
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's re-election in 1991. Managed Bill
Hoppner's campaign for Governor of Nebraska in 1990. Worked for U.S.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg's re-election in 1988. Began his career as
an organizer for Tom Harkin's upset victory for the U.S. Senate in 1984.
B.A. degree with honors in political science from the University of Iowa;
MBA candidate in marketing and entrepreneurship at Northwestern University's
Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
March 2, 2004 primary
C
O N N E C T I C U T
State Director |
Rich Gardner |
Previously a Kerry field organizer
in Iowa and Michigan.
March 2, 2004 primary
G
E O R G I A
State Director |
Stephen Lindsey |
Previously directed Kerry's
campaign in Tennessee. (see above).
March 2, 2004 primary
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A R Y L A N D
State Director |
Nick Clemons |
Clemons served as field director
of Kerry's New Hampshire primary campaign for a full year stating Jan.
27, 2003. Previously he served as field director of Gov. Jeanne Shaheen's
2002 U.S. Senate campaign and her 2000 re-election campaign. Campaign
manager on Manchester Mayor Bob Baines' 2001 re-election campaign.
Worked for Gov. Jeanne Shaheen in the Office of Citizen Affairs and as
scheduler. Graduate of UNH with a degree in history.
March 2, 2004 primary
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A S S A C H U S E T T S
State Director |
Lynda Tocci |
(Toward the close of the New
Hampshire primary campiagn Tocci went to direct GOTV efforts there; announced
Jan. 15, 2004) In 2002 she was a consultant on Shannon O'Brien's
Massachusetts gubernatorial race. In 2000 she was the GOTV coordinator
for the Democratic Coordinated Campaign in New Hampshire. In 1993
she was Field Director for Edward Kennedy's re-election. She has
been working on Democratic campaigns since 1989. Tocci graduated
from Wheaton College with a bachelor's degree in 1989 and from Simmons
Graduate School of Management with a MBA in 1998.
March 2, 2004 caucuses
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I N N E S O T A
State Coordinator |
Ken Martin |
Manager of Buck Humphrey's campaign
for Minnesota Sec. of State, 2002; deputy state director of Al Gore's Minnesota
presidential campaign, 2000. State field director for the Minnesota DFL
Party, 1997-1999. Kansas Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign, 1996.
Graduate of the University of Kansas with a B.A. in political science and
history.
March 2, 2004 primary
N
E W Y O R K
State Director |
Paul Rivera |
(started March 2003) He
worked for Carl McCall's 2002 gubernatorial campaign in New York and previously
as a White House advance person from 1994 through 2000. He is a veteran
of the past four presidential elections and the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Democratic
National Conventions. From the Bronx.
March 2, 2004 primary
O
H I O
State Director |
Antoinette Wilson |
March 2, 2004 primary
R H O D E
I S L A N D
March 2, 2004 primary
V E R M O N T
Previously Kerry's campaign
in Maine (see above)
March 9, 2004
F L O R I D A,
L O U I S I A N A, M I S S I S S I P P I,
T E X A S
March 16, 2004 primary
I L L I N O I S
David Wilhelm
(On September 15, 2003 Wilhelm
endorsed Kerry, and the campaign said he would head up their efforts in
Illinois) Wilhelm is president of Wilhelm & Conlon Public Strategies,
founded in 1998. He managed Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign,
and subsequently served as the chair of the DNC, the youngest person ever
to do so. He directed the 1989 and 1991 campaigns of Mayor Richard
M. Daley, and the 1984 campaign of Senator Paul Simon.
April 13, 2004 caucuses
C O L O R A D O
(Note: On September 30,
2003 former Sen. Gary Hart, who himself considered making a presidential
run, endorsed Kerry).
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ID
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