Arlington, VA.
| Campaign
Director and Senior
Advisor |
Craig T. Smith |
Responsible for
setting the
overall strategy and direction of the campaign.
(Announced Jan. 31,
2003)
Senior Vice President at mCapitol Management, a government and business
relations firm; previously President of the public affairs firm Chief
Advantages.
Smith is a native Arkansan and spent almost all of the 1990s working
for
Bill Clinton and Al Gore. He served as Finance Director of the
Clinton
for President Exploratory Committee; Field Director of the 1992
Clinton/Gore
campaign; Political Director of the DNC; Deputy Director of White House
Personnel; Deputy Director of White House Office of Political Affairs;
Deputy Campaign Manager and Political Director of the 1996 Clinton/Gore
reelection campaign; Co-Executive Director of 53rd Presidential
Inaugural
Committee; White House Political Director; Campaign Manager for Gore
2000
from January 1999 until it moved to Nashville.
| Deputy
Campaign Director |
Brian Hardwick |
Communications
and Finance.
(Announced Aug. 5,
2003)
Most recently served as national political director for Senator Tom
Daschle,
the Democratic Leader in the Senate, directing DASHPAC and overseeing
his
activity at the DSCC. Campaign manager and chief spokesman for
Tom
Strickland's 2002 US Senate race in Colorado. In 2000 he served
as
national finance director for the DNC, raising over $185 million.
Earlier in the 2000 cycle he worked for Vice President Gore's
leadership
PAC and on Gore's 2000 primary campaign. He has also worked for
the
DSCC, Sen. Bob Kerry, Sen.. Carl Levin and on many other
campaigns.
| Deputy
Campaign Director |
Cynthia Jasso Rotunno |
Constituency
outreach, administration,
Hadassah Lieberman.
(Announced August 5,
2003)
Rotunno served as campaign manager for Hadassah Lieberman since
February
2003. Previously she served as the Southwestern States Campaign
Director
for the DNC. She has also served the DNC in the Chairman's Office, the
Campaign Division as Deputy Director of Latino Outreach & Base
Vote,
and as the Deputy Southern Political Director in the '94 Coordinated
Campaign.
In the Clinton/Gore Administration, Jasso Rotunno served as Special
Assistant
to the President and Chief of Staff for the White House Office of
Political
Affairs. She was Deputy Director for Government, Business and
Community
Affairs on the 53rd Presidential Inaugural, and Deputy Public Liaison
Director
on the '96 Clinton/Gore Re-Elect Campaign.
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| Deputy
Campaign Director
for Political Affairs |
Joe Eyer |
Helping to
oversee the campaign's
day to day political operations.
(Announced Feb. 10,
2003)
Eyer served as Political Director for ROCPAC, Lieberman's leadership
PAC,
2001-02. In the 2000 general election campaign, Eyer directed the
Gore-Lieberman effort in Oregon. He worked at SpeakOut.com for
six
months. From Jan.-Oct. 1999 he worked on fundraising for the Gore
campaign. In 1998, he was the Northeast Political Director for
Gore's
leadership PAC, Leadership '98. Prior to that, Eyer served as a
special
assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for then Vice President Al
Gore,1995-98.
Eyer has a Master's degree in political science from OU (1995).
| Deputy
Political Director |
Chris Lavery |
Southern Political Desk - Nadia
Garnett
Midwestern Political Desk - Samerra
Ali
(replaced Scott
Tenley who
left in Sept. 2003 to go to law school in Boston)
| Director of
Delegate Operations |
Matt Nugen |
Help the campaign
manage
its relations with all potential delegates to the 2004 convention.
(Announced Feb. 10,
2003)
Most recently served as Vice President of Operations for Kwame Building
Group, Inc. In 2000, he was Deputy Chief Operating Officer for the 2000
Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. From 1998-2000, Nugen
was
the Deputy Director and then the Director for the Office of the
Secretary
at the DNC. He spent time as a regional field director for the '98
South
Carolina Coordinated Campaign and as the field director for the 2000
South
Carolina tracking operation. Bachelor's degree in Business
Administration
from the University of Missouri, Columbia
| Deputy
Director of Delegate
Operations |
Brad Koplinski |
Attorney.
Worked on Mark
Shriver's campaign in the Sept. 2002 Democratic primary in Maryland's
8th
CD. Author of Hats in the Ring: Conversations with
Presidential
Candidates (Presidential Publishing, 2000). J.D. from the New
England School of Law, 1995. Undergraduate degree from the
University
of Illinois at Chicago. Originally from Kankakee, Illinois.
C O M M
U N I
C A T I
O N S
| Deputy
Campaign Director/Communications
Director |
Jonathan Sallet |
Overseeing the
press, research,
policy and speechwriting operations.
(Announced as
Communications
Director on April 3, 2003; named a Deputy Campaign Manager in Sept.
2003)
In 2001 Sallet formed a consulting group, Quintessence, LLC, to advise
start-up technology companies on marketing and business
development.
He headed Lieberman's 2000 vice presidential debate team and and
managed
Lieberman's announcement and convention speeches. From 1996 to
2000,
he served as Chief Policy Officer of WorldCom. From 1993 to 1996
Sallet headed the Office of Policy & Strategic Planning at the U.S.
Department of Commerce. He worked on Al Gore's vice presidential
campaigns in 1992 and 1996. Sallet practiced law in Washington,
DC
from 1980 to 1993. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Lewis
F. Powell, Jr. in 1979-80. Sallet is a graduate of the University
of Virginia Law School and has his undergraduate degree from Brown
University.
| Deputy
Communications Director/Press
Secretary |
Jano
Cabrera |
Day-to-day press
operations
and national spokesman.
(Announced Jan. 31,
2003)
Served as former Vice President Al Gore's spokesman from Jan.-Dec.
2002.
Previously spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of
America.
Deputy National Spokesman on the Gore-Lieberman 2000 campaign; worked
in
the White House communications office. Started as an aide to Rep.
Xavier Becerra (D-CA).
|
Deputy
Press Secretary |
Adam Kovacevich |
(May 1, 2003) Moved over from position as press secretary in
Lieberman's
Senate office.
| Deputy
Communications Director |
Tovah Ravitz-Meehan |
Regional press
operations
and public events.
(Announced April 3,
2003)
Most recently communications director at the DSCC. In 2000 she
was
communications director in Washington State for the Gore-Lieberman
campaign.
In 1996 she worked as assistant director for state communications on
the
Clinton-Gore campaign.
| Deputy
Communications Director |
Dan
Gerstein |
Long-term
communications strategy and planning; emphasis on policy.
(Announced
April 3, 2003, started July) Started working for
Lieberman
as his Senate campaign press secretary in 1994, then became chief
policy
advisor for education, communications and cultural issues, with a
special
focus on media responsibility, and in 1999 became Lieberman's
communications
director in the Senate. Gerstein took leave for several months in
2000 to serve as Lieberman's national spokesman for his vice
presidential
campaign. Prior to working for Lieberman, Gerstein was
communications
director for Rep. Gerald Kleczka (D-WI). From 1989-1992 he was a
staff writer for the Hartford Courant, covering local news,
politics
and sports. A graduate of Harvard University, Gerstein is a
native
of West Hartford, Connecticut.
| Speechwriter |
Josh
Greenman |
(Annnounced
August 5, 2003) Most recently served as communications advisor
for
the Senate Committe on Governmental Affairs and Lieberman's Senate
speechwriter.
Prior to that he served as speechwriter to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani
and special assistant to the Deputy Mayor for Planning , Education, and
Cultural Affairs in New York's City Hall.
| Director of
Internet Strategy
(including fundraising) |
Mike
Liddell |
(July 2003) Mike
Liddell founded
Campaign Momentum, an online communications firm based in Austin, TX,
where
he worked with a number of Democratic candidates including Tony
Sanchez,
Governor and John Sharp for Lt. Governor, and current Austin Mayor Will
Wynn. Before that he worked at Public Strategies, Inc. where he helped
develop their Internet shop.
P O L I
C Y
| Policy
Director |
Michele Stockwell |
(Announced Aug. 5,
2003)
Stockwell had been serving as the campaign's deputy policy director
under
Elliot Gerson. She previously served as Lieberman's legislative
assistant
for education, housing and the media, 1999-2003. Prior to that
she
served as associate at Murray, Scheer, Montgomery and O'Donnell and was
a legislative assistant for Rep. Dave McCurdy and later for Rep. Bart
Gordon.
M.A in Public Administration from University of Oklahoma; undergraduate
degree from University of Kansas.
| Senior
Policy Advisor |
Sally Katzen |
Coordination and
management
of external policy advisory groups.
(Announced Aug. 5,
2003)
Katzen served almost eight years in the Clinton Administration,
starting
as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in
the OMB, then deputy assistant to the President for economic policy and
deputy director of the National Economic Council, and finally deputy
director
for management at the OMB. Previously she was a partner at
Wilmer,
Cutler & Pickering. She served in the Carter
Administration.
Most recently she was teaching American Government and Public Policy at
Smith College and Johns Hopins University.
S C H E
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| Director of
Scheduling |
Melissa Winter |
Moved over from
position as
scheduler in Lieberman's U.S. Senate office in Washington, DC.
A D V A
N C E
| National
Trip Director
and Director of Advance |
Steve Adamske |
Before the campaign
Adamske
worked as communications director for Rep. Zoe Lofgren.
F I N A
N C E
| Finance
Director |
Tracy Sturman |
Overseeing the
campaign's
fundraising operations.
(Announced July 15,
2003,
replacing Shari Yost) Previously served as Lieberman's California
Finance Co-Director. A longtime fundraiser to Reps. Cal Dooley
and
Jane Harman and the New Democrat Network. She served as Finance
Director
on Rep. Adam Schiff's 2000 campaign, raising $4.2 million to defeat
incumbent
Rep. James Rogan. Sturman also worked in marketing for three
years
and on Capitol Hill as an aide to Rep. Dooley and to Sen. Alan Cranston.
Regional Deputies
Finance Offices: Chicago,
Fort
Lauderdale, Los Angeles, New York.
| Senior
Advisor for Finance |
Fran Katz Watson |
(Announced Feb. 10,
2003) Served
as the Finance Director for ROCPAC and is President of the Katz Watson
Group. National Finance Director for the DNC from 1997-99 and
Senior
Advisor to the DNC Chairs through the 2000 Presidential election.
Deputy Political Director of AIPAC from 1992-97. Prior to that
Watson
was National Finance Director for the McCarthy for Senate race in
California
and the Deputy Finance Director at the DSCC.
| Finance
Chairman |
Elliot
F. Gerson |
(from
July 2003) Previously serving as issues director. Gerson has
worked
in the corporate world since the mid-1980s. He became president
of
FHC Health Systems in June 2000; previously, he was CEO of Lifescape,
LLC,
a joint venture between FHC Internet Services and Liberty Digital, Inc.
He served as president and then CEO of a technology division of TCI
Ventures
and Liberty Media. After starting as a vice president at the
Travelers
Corporation in 1986, he continued to work for Travelers and its
successor
companies in various senior executive positions for the next
decade.
Gerson served as Deputy Attorney General of Connecticut. He has
practiced
law in Connecticut and Washington, DC. Graduate of Harvard
College,
Oxford University--as a Rhodes Scholar, and Yale Law School. Law
clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
National
Finance
Co-Chairs: Mitchell Berger of Fort Lauderdale, FL; Francisco L.
Borges
of Simsbury, CT; Susanne Brody; Scott Heiman of Deerfield, IL; Peter
Joseph
of New York, NY; Marvin Lender of Woodbridge, CT; Mel Levine of Beverly
Hills, CA; Michael Sonnenfeldt of New York, NY; Rep. Ellen Tauscher
(CA-10)
of Alamo, CA; and Brett Messing of Los Angeles, CA.
A N D (in no
particular
order)
| Director of
Information
Technologies |
Dodd Guevara |
Experience includes
work as
a systems engineer at Bitco Enterprises in Ashburn, Virginia.
| Director of
Community Outreach
(Jewish Community) |
Jay Footlik |
Served as Clinton's
Special
Liaison to the Jewish Community, or more formally Special Assistant to
the President in the White House Office of Public Liaison.
| Chief
Financial Officer
and Assistant Treasurer |
Brian Foucart |
Foucart also held
this position
for Gore 2000, Inc. when it was headquartered in Washington, DC during
much of 1999. He was deputy chief operating officer for
Clinton/Gore
'96 under Ted Carter. Foucart worked at the DNC for over 10 years
through November 1992.
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| Chief of
Staff |
Sherry Brown |
Responsible for
day-to-day
operations.
(Announced Jan. 31,
2003)
Lieberman's chief political aide since 1982. Campaign Manager for
his successful Attorney General bid in 1982, his 1986 reelection
campaign,
his 1988 Senate victory, and two Senate re-election campaigns.
Starting
in 1989, in between campaigns she served as State Director in
Lieberman's
Senate office. Most recently she served as Executive Director of
ROCPAC, the leadership PAC Lieberman established in March 2001.
| Campaign
Treasurer |
Francisco L. Borges |
(Announced Feb. 10,
2003) President
and CEO of Landmark Partners Inc., a private equity advisory firm based
in Simsbury, CT. In 1998, he was Managing Director and a
Member
of the Board of Directors of Financial Guaranty Insurance
Company.
Borges served as Treasurer of the State of Connecticut from 1987-1993,
and prior to that was Deputy Mayor of the City of Hartford and legal
counsel
for the Travelers Insurance Companies.
DC.
| Media
Consultant |
Mandy Grunwald |
(Announced April 15,
2003)
President of Grundwald Communications, a Washington, DC communications
firm. Has done strategy and produced ads for dozens of
candidates.
Served as media advisor and director of advertising for Clinton/Gore
'92.
| Polling |
Mark Penn, Penn
Schoen & Berland |
| Senior
Advisor |
Carter Eskew |
| Senior
Advisor |
Harold Gist |
(announced Sept. 8,
2003) focusing
on African-American outreach and general field operations...Gist held
senior
positions in the Clinton Administration, DNC, and the 1992 and 1996
Clinton-Gore
campaigns. He is currently Managing Principal of the Lancer
Group,
a public affairs consulting firm. Prior to co-founding the
company,
he was Senor Advisor to the Chairman and Director of African-American
Outreach
Strategies at the DNC in the 2002 campaign cycle. He also
previously
served as DNC White House Liaison and coordinated its African-American
voter turnout. Gist served as Acting Director and Associate Director of
Intergovernmental Affairs in the Department of Transportation under
President
Clinton, working closely with elected officials at all levels. He
also has extensive campaign experience, serving as Deputy Campaign
Manager
for Clinton-Gore 1992; Associate Deputy Campaign Manager for
Clinton-Gore
1996; and Arkansas Field Director for both the Al Gore 1988 campaign
and
later the Dukakis/Bentsen 1988 campaign. He is an Arkansas native
and holds Masters of Public Administration and Bachelor of Arts degrees
from Arkansas State University.
Key Early
States:
I
O W A
(Announced as State
Director
on July 25, 2003, replacing Ted Osthelder. Announced as Political
Director on April 28, 2003.) McCarthy represents District 67 in
Des
Moines; he is the ranking member on the Public Safety Committee and
serves
as well on the Ethics, Natural Resources, and Transportation Committees
and the Justice System Appropriation Sub-Committee. McCarthy is a
former Assistant Iowa Attorney General. He served as a counsel in
Washington D.C. for the Tobacco Project, which represents the fifty-two
settling governments under the tobacco Master Settlement
Agreement.
He served as campaign manager for Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller in
1994
and 1998.
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E W H A M P S H I R E
| New
Hampshire State Director |
Peter Greenberger |
(announced March 3,
2003)
Most recently, Greenberger served as senior advisor to the New
Hampshire
Democratic Party. He was Al Gore's trip director for New
Hampshire
during the 2000 primary, and Gore's state director for Western
Pennsylvania
in the general election. In 1998, Greenberger served as field
director
for Gov. Jeanne Shaheen's re-election campaign. He worked in the
White House Office of Legislative Affairs from 1997-98. During
the
1996 general election campaign he served as the New Hampshire political
director for Clinton/Gore, and during the NH primary campaign he did
field.
More States:
S
O U T H C A R O L I N A (February 3 primary)
| South
Carolina State Director |
Barry Butler |
(from June 2003,
announced Aug.
8, 2003) Directed the Oklahoma Coordinated Campaign in
2002.
Graduate of North Carolina Central University.
A
R I Z O N A (February 3 primary)
| Arizona
State Coordinator |
David Schapira |
(announced July 1,
2003)
Native Arizonan. Most recently worked with at-risk inner city
students
at Phoenix Union's alternative school Desiderata. Managed Terry
Goddard's
successful campaign for Attorney General in 2002. Taught at North
Canyon High School (his alma mater).
O
K L A H O M A (February 3 primary)
| Oklahoma
State Director |
Josh Geise |
(announced June 26,
2003)
Managed two congressional campaigns during the 2002 cycle: Richard
Romero
in New Mexico and Jill Long Thompson in Indiana (both
unsuccessful).
Successfully managed the Albert Pollard for Delegate campaign in
Virginia.
A graduate of Indiana University, he also served as communications
director
to Congressman Peter Visclosky (D-IN).
D
E L A W A R E (February 3 primary)
| Delaware
State Director |
Larry
Windley |
(announced September
30, 2003)
A former aide to Sen. Tom Carper and 20-year veteran of state
campaigns.
Windley, who lives in Dover, began his state political career as driver
and constituent services aide for then-Congressman Carper, and served
as
economic development policy advisor in Carper's 1992 and 1996
gubernatorial
campaigns. From 1985-1996, he served in the Delaware Economic
Development
Office as Director of Policy and Planning, Director of Business
Development,
and International Trade Specialist. From 1996-2000, he was
Assistant
Secretary of State and Director of the Division of Corporations and
E-Government.
Since leaving government he has worked in a number of private-sector
ventures.
N
E W M E X I C O (February
3 caucuses)
| Senior
Advisor |
David Griffin |
(announced Dec. 4,
2003)
Griffin formed his own company, High Desert Broadcast Communications,
twelve
years ago. In 2000 he worked with the Gore-Lieberman campaign in
2000, producing and buying time for campaign commercials. Worked
as a news and sports anchor at KASA-TV, Albuquerque's Fox affiliate,
from
1986-1992; he has also served as a news anchor at KKOB-AM radio in
Albuquerque.
A graduate of the University of New Mexico.
V
I R G I N I A (February 10 primary)
Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine
is supporting
Lieberman.
W
I S C O N S I N (February 17 primary)
State Senator Jeff
Plale
has endorsed Lieberman.
N
E W Y O R K (March 2 primary)
| New York
State Director |
Basil
Smikle |
(announced August
21, 2003)
Smikle came to the campaign from his position as deputy state director
for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, serving as her liaison to elected
officials,
labor leaders, and community organizations throughout the state.
During Clinton's 2000 campaign he managed her events in the
field.
He previously worked at the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone and as a
Special
Assistant to Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer. He is a graduate
of Cornell and Columbia University's School of International and Public
Affairs. Smikle was raised in the Bronx and lives in Harlem.
C
A L I F O R N I A (March 2 primary)
Lt. Gov Cruz
Bustamante
has endorsed Lieberman and is state chair.
Garry South is
Senior Advisor.
C
O L O R A D O
Attorney General Ken
Salazar
has endorsed Lieberman.
P E N N S Y L V A
N I A
Co-Chairs (announced
Jan.
13, 2004) are:
Philadelphia City
Controller
Jonathan Saidel and
Pittsburgh City
Councilmember
William Peduto
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