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.
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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).
Southern Political Desk - Nadia
Garnett
Midwestern Political Desk - Scott
Tenley
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Communications Director |
Jonathan Sallet |
Overseeing the press, research,
policy and speechwriting operations.
(Announced April 3, 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
Issues
Director |
Elliot F. Gerson |
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.
F I N A N C E
Finance Director |
Shari Yost |
(Announced Feb. 10, 2003) Overseeing
the campaign's fundraising operations.
Vice President for Government
Affairs at Cablevision Systems Corporation. Previously served as
Finance Director for the DSCC under U.S. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle.
Served as Daschle's Finance Director.
Deputy Finance Director |
Jennifer Yocham |
(Announced Feb. 10, 2003) Yocham
worked at the DSCC starting as Midwest Deputy Finance Director, then Northeast
Regional Finance Director and then Senior Advisor to DSCC Chair, Sen. Patty
Murray and National Finance Director to Sen. Murray's re-election campaign.
She began her career on Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon's re-election
campaign in 1996 and worked on his US Senate campaign in 1998.
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.
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.
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order)
Campaign Manager for Hadassah
Lieberman |
Cynthia Jasso Rotunno |
Manage campaign appearance
and events for Hadassah Lieberman.
(Announced Feb. 10, 2003)
Previously 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.
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.
Director of Scheduling |
Melissa Winter |
Moved over from position as
scheduler in Lieberman's U.S. Senate office in Washington, DC.
Director of Information Technologies |
Dodd Guevara |
Experience includes work as
a systems engineer at Bitco Enterprises in Ashburn, Virginia.
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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Founders Plaza, East Hartford, 10th Floor
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 |
Key Early States:
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Iowa State Director |
Ted Osthelder |
(Announced February 12, 2003,
to start March 1) Osthelder, a Wisconsin native, most recently served
as director of operations for Bill Richardson's successful 2002 gubernatorial
campaign in New Mexico. He was the campaign manager for Antonio Villaraigosa's
2001 Los Angeles mayoral campaign. In 2000 he managed Adam Schiff's
challenge of Rep. Jim Rogan of California, one of the most expensive congressional
races ever. Osthelder served as executive director of the Democratic
Party of Wisconsin in 1996.
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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.
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Political Director |
Carleton Atkinson |
(announced April 13, 2003)
Most recently served as state GOTV co-director for the North Carolina Democratic
Party in 2002. Previously state field director on Erskine Bowles
for U.S. Senate campaign. Served as a policy advisor to the Office
of the North Carolina Lieutenant Governor. Law degree from North
Carolina Central University School of Law (2000).
More States:
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Political Directors
(announced April 15, 2003) |
Rep. Steve Gallardo
Rep. Robert Meza |
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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).
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