Bush Cheney '04, Inc. (The
national
campaign
headquarters were located at 2107 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA).
in
the states >
(announced
June 16, 2003) Prior to taking the position of campaign chairman,
Racicot served as chairman of the Republican National Committee; elected
January 2002. Governor of Montana, 1993-2001. Attorney general
of Montana, 1988-92. Assistant attorney general and special prosecutor
for the state of Montana, 1977-88. Deputy county attorney for Missoula
County, 1976-77. Prosecutor in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps
of the Army, 1973-76. J.D. from University of Montana in Missoula,
1973. B.A. in English from Carroll College in Helena, 1970.
| Campaign
Manager |
Ken Mehlman |
(announced
May 16, 2003) Served as director of political affairs at the White
House starting January 2001. National field director for Bush/Cheney
2000 after serving as Midwest regional political director during the primaries.
Chief of staff to Rep. Kay Granger (TX-12), 1996-99. Legislative
director to Rep. Lamar Smith (TX-21), 1994-96. Previously he practiced
environmental law for three years in Washington. During his career
Mehlman has worked on a number of campaigns including the elder Bush's
1992 re-election campaign and Bob Dole's 1996 campaign. Mehlman is
a 1991 graduate of Harvard Law School and 1988 graduate of Franklin and
Marshall College.
|
| Deputy
to the Campaign Manager for Campaign Operations |
Kelley McCullough |
(announced
May 30, 2003) Prior to the campaign, McCullough worked at the RNC
as regional political director for the South and director of political
education. Associate director of political affairs at the White House,
Jan. 2001-Jan. 2002. Alabama director for Karl Rove + Company, 1997-2000. |
| Deputy
Campaign Manager |
Mark Wallace |
(announced
July 2, 2003) Prior to the campaign, Wallace served as principal
legal advisor to the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and
the Bureau of Immigration and Citizenship Services at the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security. He was general counsel of the INS during its
transition into the Homeland Security Department. Wallace served
as general counsel of FEMA during the World Trade Center recovery effort.
He was part of the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign in Florida and served on Gov.
Jeb Bush's 1994, 1998 and 2002 campaigns in Florida.
Prior
to his government service, Wallace was a longtime partner in the Miami
commercial litigation law firm of Stack Fernandez Anderson Harris &
Wallace P.A.. Law degree from the University of Miami School of Law
in 1992; bachelor's degree from the University of Miami, 1989.
...in addition to his
day-to-day responsibilities in the management of the national campaign,
Wallace was the campaign’s lead liaison to the Republican National Convention
in New York City, was the campaign’s representative on the Bush-Cheney
’04 Debate Negotiations Team, and oversaw and managed the extensive team
of lawyers representing Bush-Cheney ‘04 nationwide in the run up and including
Election Day.
P O L I T I C A L
| Political
Director |
Terry Nelson |
(announced
May 30, 2003) Deputy chief of staff and director of political operations
at the RNC from January 2002 until joining the campaign. Deputy
chief of staff and director of political operations at the RNC from January
2002 until joining the Bush campaign. In February 2001 Nelson and
two partners formed Dawson, McCarthy, Nelson Media, a Washington, DC consulting
firm. Political director for the NRCC during the 2000 cycle, and
earlier served as the NRCC's national field director, 1997-99. Majority
staff director of the Iowa Senate, 1997. NRCC field representative,
1995-96. Campaign manager for Rep. Jim Nussle, 1992-95. Graduate
of the University of Iowa with a B.S. in Political Science, 1994.
From Marshalltown, Iowa.
F I E L D
| Field
Director |
Coddy Johnson |
(announced
July 17, 2003) Johnson has served in the Administration since January
2001 as associate director of political affairs at the White House, overseeing
political activity in nine Central states (IN, KY, KS, MO, NC, OH, TN,
VA, WV). Previously Johson worked on Bush's campaign, starting as
Iowa volunteer coordinator for the Ames Straw Poll, then as regional political
coordinator for ten Midwestern states during the primaries, and finally
as regional political director in five central states (IN, KY, OH, TN and
WV) during the general election. He graduated magna cum laude from
Yale in May 1999.
Regional Political Directors (announced July 17, 2003)
Northeast (MD, DC, DE, NJ, PA,
CT, RI, NY, MA, NH, VT, ME)
Mike DuHaime -- Served
as executive director of the New Jersey Republican Party starting in January
2002 and has his own political consulting firm, DuHaime Communications,
Inc., which he formed in 2001. Deputy campaign manager of Bob Franks'
2000 Senate campaign. From Hoboken, NJ.
Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, KY, WV, VA)
Dave DenHerder -- Served
as White House Liaison for the U.S. Department of Labor and senior advisor
to Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao. Iowa state field director for
President Bush's 2000 campaign. From Logan, Iowa.
Southeast (NC, SC, GA, FL, TN, AL, MS,
LA, AR, MO)
Heath Thompson -- In
the latter part of 2002 Thompson worked as a consultant for Norm Coleman's
Senate campaign in Minnesota; earlier, in 2001-02, he led Lt. Governor
Bob Peeler's unsuccessful bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination
in South Carolina. He served as South Carolina state director for
Bush's 2000 campaign. Thompson, a longtime South Carolinian, was
chief of staff to Peeler. He has managed numerous state and local
campaigns. Originally from Columbia, MO.
Midwest (WI, MN, IA, ND, SD, NE, KS,
OK)
Karen Slifka -- Most
recently served as political director of the Iowa Republican Party.
Field representative for the NRCC in 2000. Worked for John Kasich
and, after he withdrew, for Steve Forbes during the 2000 Iowa caucuses
campaign. Started her political career in 1992 as a field representative
for Rep. Jim Nussle. Originally from Waterloo, IA.
Northwest (MT, WY, ID, NV, UT, OR, WA,
AK)
Cary Evans -- Field
director for Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR). Deputy campaign manager for
Sen. Gordon Smith's 2002 re-election campaign. Oregon state director
for Bush's 2000 campaign. Previously executive director and finance
director for the Washington State Republican Party. Originally from
Las Vegas, NV.
Southwest (TX, CO, NM, AZ, CA, HI)
Rudy Fernández
-- Director of grassroots development at the RNC. In October 2002
Hispanic
Business magazine named Fernández as one of the "100 Most Influential
Hispanics" in the United States. Prior to working in the political
division at the RNC, he served as the RNC's Southwest regional press secretary.
Previously he was press secretary for Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL).
Harvard graduate. From Miami, FL.
C O A L I T I O N S
| Director of Coalitions |
Jafar Karim |
Served as chief of staff and
earlier as legislative director to then Rep. John Thune (R-SD). BLS
'93 from University of South Dakota.
| National Business Coalition
Director and Northeast Regional Coalitions Director |
Mina Nguyen |
Director of the Department of
Labor’s Office of Public Liaison and earlier Special Assistant to the Secretary
of Labor, 2001-03. Prior to joining the Department of Labor, Nguyen
was a management consultant with Accenture, a global consulting firm, 1998-2001.
B.S. in Business Administration from Walter A. Haas School of Business
at U.C. Berkeley. U.C. Berkeley President’s Fellow in the office
of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA).
| Deputy Director of Coalitions
for the Central Region |
Davide Rexrode |
While at James Madison managed
Randy Fisher's first campaign for Augusta County sheriff. Graduate
of James Madison University. Native of Augusta County, Virginia.
| African Americans |
Tiffany Watkins |
(also Health Professionals)
Came to the campaign from her position as deputy associate director for
the White House’s Office of Public Liaison.
| Social Conservatives |
Gary Marx |
Previously Development Director
and lobbyist for The Family Foundation of Virginia. Political consultant
with Century Strategies, the firm headed by Dr. Ralph Reed. Executive
Director of the Virginia Christian Coalition during the 1999 General Assembly
elections. Master's degree in Political Management from Regent University.
Undergraduate degree in Political Science from James Madison University.
| National Youth Director |
Jordan Sekulow |
Graduate of the George Washington
University.
-National
Farm & Ranch Steering Committee (launched March 1, 2004)
-Democrats
for Bush (launched March 24, 2004)
-National
Hispanic Steering Committee (launched April 12, 2004)
-National
First Responders Leadership Team (launched April 21, 2004)
-National
Veterans Leadership Team (launched May 11, 2004)
-National
"Educators for Bush" Team (launched May 27, 2004)
-Small
Business Leaders for Bush-Cheney '04 (launched June 17, 2004)
-African
Americans for Bush National Steering Committee (launched July 19, 2004)
-Asian
Pacific American National Steering Committee (announced Aug. 30, 2004)
-Conservative Values >
-Health Professionals
-Seniors
-Sportsmen
-Students
-National
W Stands for Women Leadership Team (launched May 12, 2004) ...Coordinator
Cathy Gillespie
V O T E R
C O N T A C T
| National
Voter Contact Director |
Adrian Gray |
Previously he worked at the White House
as Deputy Director of Scheduling from 2001-03. In 1999 and 2000,
he served as Northeastern Regional Political Coordinator for Bush-Cheney
2000. He worked in the Chairman’s Office at the RNC during the 1998
election cycle and has also worked for Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY).
| Deputy
National Director of Voter Contact - Direct Mail |
Ted Jarrett |
(started in Oct. 2003) Started working
for a political firm in Washington, DC in 2000. Worked in mortgage
banking in Richmond, VA. 1998 graduate of Presbyterian College in
Clinton, SC; majored in history and political science.
| Deputy
National Director of Voter Contact - Phones |
Miguel Romano |
| Legislative Director |
Elise Finley |
(announced Jan. 29, 2004--"the
campaign liaison to Capitol Hill") Finley came to the campaign from
her position as Chief of Staff to Congressman John Shaddegg (R-AZ).
Previously she was the manager of federal affairs for the Southern Company.
She also served in legislative positions for Congressman Roscoe Bartlett
(R-MD) and former Congressman William Dannemeyer (R-CA). Finley has extensive
campaign experience on local, gubernatorial and Congressional elections.
C
O M M U N I C A T I O N S
| Communications
Director |
Nicolle Devenish |
(announced
May 30, 2003) Came to the campaign after serving as special assistant
to the President and director of media affairs at the White House, responsible
for regional press strategy and outreach. Worked on the Florida recount.
Communications director for the Florida State Technology Office in 2000.
Press secretary to Gov. Jeb Bush in 1999. Worked for the California
Republican Party and Dan Lungren's gubernatorial campaign in 1998, and
for the Republican caucus in the California Assembly, 1997-98. Briefly
a television reporter in California. Graduate of U.C. Berkeley and
graduate school at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
in Illinois.
| Deputy Communications Director/Director
of Rapid Response |
Steve Schmidt |
Communications director at the
NRCC in the 2002 cycle. Communications director on Lamar Alexander's
2000 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination for the first
part of 1999. Press secretary on Matt Fong's 1998 U.S. Senate campaign
in California. From North Plainfield, NJ.
also rapid response: Matt McDonald
| Deputy Communications Director
for Regional Media |
Jennifer Millerwise |
Previously
Deputy Assistant for Communications and Press Secretary to Vice President
Dick Cheney, 2001-03. Assistant Press Secretary in the White House
Office of the Press Secretary for the first 10 months of the Bush Administration.
A Regional Press Coordinator for the RNC's Victory 2000. Press Secretary
for Congressman Porter Goss (R-FL). Served under Ari Fleischer at the House
Ways and Means Committee. Staffer to Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-MI).
Degree in Business Administration and Political Science from Western Michigan
University in Kalamazoo.
| Deputy Communications Director |
Susan Whitson |
(spokesperson
for Barbara and Jenna) Previously chief of the FBI's national press
office and spokesperson for the FBI director. Deputy Director of
the Office of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice, serving
as deputy sposkeperson for the Attorney General. Press secretary
to Rep. Bill McCollum and to then Rep. Bob Riley (R-AL). Taught 9th
and 10th grade English at Hoover High School in Birmingham, AL. Bachelor's
degree from Auburn University, 1991.
(announced
Nov. 13, 2003; started earlier in November-through early Sept. 2004)
Prior to joining the campaign, Holt was Senior Vice President and Director
of Public Affairs at The Dutko Group Companies, Inc. He served as
Director of Communications for Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) in the
U.S. House of Representatives; was the Communications Director of Victory
2000 at the Republican National Committee; worked for House Budget Chairman
John Kasich (R-OH); House Education and Workforce Chairman John Boehner
(R-OH); and Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Richard A. Lugar (R-IN).
--on
Sept. 9, 2004 the RNC announced that Holt would be joining its staff
as Senior Advisor to the Chairman starting that same week.
| Press
Secretary |
Scott
Stanzel |
Spokesman in the White House Media Affairs
Office. Bush campaign starting in Fall 1999 as a field rep. in Iowa
and later serving as Western Region Media Coordinator for Bush-Cheney and
as a media coordinator for the campaign’s Florida recount effort.
Assistant press secretary to Sen. Chuck Grassley starting in Jan. 1997.
Raised money for Jim Ross Lightfoot's 1996 Senate campaign against Sen.
Tom Harkin. Worked on Bob Dole's 1996 caucus campaign. Graduated
from Iowa State University in 1995 with a degree in Journalism. From
Sac City, Iowa.
Regional Press
Secretaries (5)
Merrill Smith
(IA, IL, MI, WI)
Served
as special assistant to the Vice President for public affairs.
Reed Dickens
(AR, WV, FL)
Served
as an assistant press secretary for President Bush. Worked on the
Bush campaign in Austin, then on the recount in Florida. Graduate
of Louisiana State University Shreveport with a B.A. in public relations,
2000.
Danny Diaz (Southwest and Mountain
States)
Previously deputy press
secretary for the NRCC. Has also worked for several public relations
firms in the Washington, DC area.
Tracey Schmitt (Western States and
Northern Plains)
Previously worked as a regional
spokesperson at the RNC; communications aide in the White House, 2001-02.
In 1999 and 2000, Schmitt was the cable television liaison for the Bush
campaign in Austin, TX.
Kevin Madden (Northeast including
OH, PA and NH)
Communications director
and a senior advisor to Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY), 2001-03. Public
relations associate at Craig Shirley and Associates, Jan.-March 2001.
Washington representative for the Yonkers Industrial Development Agency
from Jan.-Sept. 2000. primary spokesman for the Office of the Mayor
of Yonkers, 1997-99. Communications director for the Office of the
Yonkers City Council President, 1994-97. Degree in communications
from SUNY Cortland.
| Specialty Media |
Sharon Castillo |
Previously deputy director of communications
for the RNC (Hispanic Outreach). Before joining the RNC she was Telemundo's
Washington bureau chief.
| Senior Communications Advisor |
Brian Jones |
Previously served as Vice President for
Polling and Advertising of Mercury Public Affairs. Prior to joining
Mercury, Jones served as Research Director for the NRCC. He has worked
on campaigns at the local, state and national level. Research director
on Lamar Alexander's 2000 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination
for the first part of 1999.
[also
note: at the White House: Counselor Dan Bartlett, strategic communications]
e
- C A M P A I G N
Worked briefly on e-government
initiatives at the Office of Management and Budget. Oversaw redesign
of the U.S. Department of Energy's online communications. Turk worked
for Grassroots Enterprise (originally Grassroots.com) as a technology consultant
and director of D.C. operations for two years beginning in May 2000.
Previously he worked as a network architect for the Republican National
Committee, Deputy Director and Executive Director for the Republican Party
of New Mexico, and Information Systems Director for Quayle 2000.
He is a partner in Jamikal Data Technologies, an information systems and
communications consulting firm that has advised several campaigns including:
Redmond for Senate, the Republican Party of New Mexico and Heather Wilson
for Congress, Walter Bradley for Governor, and Rob Perry for Attorney General.
| e-Campaign
Manager |
Chuck Defeo |
(in charge of development of
the site, he also provided strategic counsel for banner advertising, new
technologies, and content). DeFeo worked in a similar capacity for
the RNC during the 2002 cycle. He spent much of his career serving
as a legislative and technology aide to Senator and then Attorney General
John Ascroft.
| Webmaster
and Blogger |
Patrick Ruffini |
(started June 2003. Managed
content on the site, wrote original content and managed author submitted
content for the blog). Ruffini ran a political blog which launched
in July 2001. He served as Deputy Director of Online Communications
at the RNC, July 2002-June 2003. Staff assistant at American Enterprise
Institute, March 2001-June 2002. May 2000 graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania with B.A. in Diplomatic History and Political Science;
was chairman of Penn College Republicans, 1998-99.
| Deputy
Webmaster |
Mandy Finn |
(Wrote, formatted and managed
email outreach and online grassroots activism, coordinated and managed
online chats). Came to the campaign from Capitol Hill where she worked
for Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), as legislative correspondent and Webmaster,
and for Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY). Prior to entering politics, Finn
worked as a congressional correspondent for a Connecticut daily newspaper.
She is originally from Houston, Texas.
| Videographer |
Justin Germany |
(Traveled with the Presidential
bus tours and provided a view into the grassroots activities, travel, and
speeches by the President). Graduate degree from George Washington
University's Graduate School for Political Management. Bachelor's
degree from LSU.
>The principal firm that did the design
work on the web site was New Media Communications (Richfield, Ohio).
R E S E A R C H
| Research
Director |
Matt
Rhoades |
Previously
Deputy Research Director at the RNC. Has served as White House Liaison
at the Office of Personnel Management and as an Associate Director in the
White House Personnel Office.
P O L I C Y
| Policy
Director |
Tim Adams |
(announced
Nov. 13, 2003; to start Dec. 1, 2003) Until joining the campaign
Adams was Chief of Staff to the Treasury Secretary, responsible for managing
the day-to-day operations of the Department, coordinating policy development
and review, and assisting in setting the strategic direction of the Department.
As senior member of the Bush-Cheney 2000 policy staff in Austin, TX, Adams
worked on macroeconomic and technology related issues, coordinated the
policy operations for the 2000 Republican Platform and National Convention,
and directed the policy operations for Vice Presidential candidate Cheney;
later he headed up the Treasury transition team for the new administration.
Co-founded and later led as the Managing Director, the G7 Group, a Washington-based
consulting firm, early 1993-March 2000. Served in the Administration
of President George H.W. Bush from 1989-93, including in the White House
Office of Policy Development from late-1990 to Jan. 1993. Undergraduate
degree and two graduate degrees from the University of Kentucky.
Native of Kentucky.
| Deputy Policy Director
for Education |
John Bailey |
Formerly director of the U.S.
Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology starting in
Feb. 2002. Previously ed-tech director for the state of Pennsylvania
where he worked on initiatives such as Link-to-Learn and the Digital School
District program during the administration of Gov. Tom Ridge. Bachelor's
degree from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. Native of Bethlehem,
PA.
| Deputy Policy Director for Health
Care |
Megan Hauck |
(started Jan. 2004) Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Human Services Legislation at the Department of
Health and Human Services, Aug. 2003-Jan. 2004. Previously worked
eight years in the Senate developing health policy for Sen. Don Nickles
(R-OK) as Health Policy Director at the Committee on Budget (Jan.-Aug.
2003), Policy Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Republican Leader
(Feb. 2001-Jan. 2003), and in other positions including Legislative Analyst
(starting in March 1997). B.S. from James Madison University.
Native of Pennsylvania.
| Deputy Policy Director |
Gary Blank |
Legislative director to Rep.
Pat Toomey. Graduate of George Mason University with a bachelor's
degree in public administration. Native of Lancaster County, PA.
V I C E P
R E S I D E N T I A L
| Director
of Vice Presidential Operations |
Mary Cheney |
(announced July 2, 2003)
MBA from the University of Denver's Daniels School of Business, 2002.
Personal aide to Dick Cheney on the 2000 campaign. Has Worked for
the Colorado Rockies baseball team. Worked for Coors Brewing Company
as a gay community liaison. Graduate of Colorado College.
| Campaign Press Secretary
for Vice President Cheney |
Anne Womack Kolton |
Prior to joining the campaign,
Kolton was Director of Public Affairs at the Department of the Treasury.
She served as Senior Advisor to Chairman William H. Donaldson at the Securities
and Exchange Commission. Kolton joined the Bush administration in
January 2001 as Assistant Press Secretary in the White House Press Office.
Assistant Press Secretary to then Vice Presidential candidate Dick Cheney
on the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign. Washington Liaison for Texas Attorney
General John Cornyn. Graduate of Southwestern University in Georgetown,
Texas. Native of Nashville, Tennessee.
F I R S T L A D Y
| Director of First Lady
Operations |
Clare Pritchett |
Director of the White House
Visitors Office. Advance Representative for Mrs. Laura Bush and Regional
Finance Director for the Bush for President campaign in Austin, Texas.
Started working for George W. Bush as Administrative Director and Deputy
Finance Director for the Governor Bush Committee in Austin, Texas in 1996.
Fifth Grade teacher at Old Town Elementary in Round Rock, Texas.
Bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Grew up
in Fort Worth, Texas.
F
I N A N C E
| Finance
Chairman |
Mercer Reynolds |
(announced
May 16, 2003--later "bumped up" to the position of Victory 2004 finance
chairman) Sworn in as Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein
on August 14, 2001 Reynolds served in the post through March 2003.
Reynolds is a Cincinnati businessman. He was a co-finance chair in
Ohio for the Bush/Cheney campaign, a member of the Bush/Cheney national
executive finance committee, and co-chairman of the Presidential Inaugural
Committee. In 1979 Reynolds co-founded Reynolds, DeWitt & Co.,
an investment firm based in Cincinnati, and he co-chaired the company until
taking up his diplomatic post in August 2001. He was also co-chairman
of Spectrum 7 Energy Corporation from 1980 to 1985.
| Deputy
Finance Chairman |
Jack Oliver |
(announced
May 16, 2003--later "bumped up" to Victory 2004 vice chairman)
Deputy chairman of the RNC, serving as political strategist and chief operating
officer, starting January 18, 2001. In 2000 Oliver served as national
finance director for Gov. George W. Bush’s presidential campaign, leading
the effort that raised a record $99 million. Previously he worked
for various Missouri Republicans in a variety of capacities. Oliver
earned his law degree from The University of Missouri at Columbia in 1998,
and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Vanderbilt University
in 1991. Raised in Cape Girardeau and St. Louis, MO.
Special Assistant:
Matthew C. Jessee ("liaison between the national finance staff, major donors,
and supportive organizations.")
Worked for Congressman Eric
Cantor (R-VA) in variety of political and legislative roles B.A. in political
science from The George Washington University. Native Missourian.
| National
Finance Director |
Travis Thomas |
(announced
July 2, 2003) Part of Bush's team since the 1994 Texas gubernatorial
race. During the 2000 campaign he served as deputy national finance
director. Most recently Thomas was director of the Office of Business
Liaison at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
T R E A S U R Y
| Chief Financial Officer |
Sandra Pack |
(announced Dec. 19, 2003)
Pack came to the campaign from the Pentagon where she served as Assistant
Secretary of the Army (Financial Management & Comptroller) from November
2001 to December 2003. Previously she served as Treasury Director
for both Bush for President, Inc. and Bush-Cheney 2000, Inc.; as Deputy
Treasury Director for Bob Dole for President, Inc.; and as Treasury Director
for Phil Gramm for President, Inc. In the private sector she has
worked in a number of positions including: Director of Planning and Operations
for the MicroProse Division of Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.; Director of Small
Business Consulting and Accounting Services for Ernst & Young in Baltimore,
Maryland; and Director of Microcomputer Consulting and Accounting for Ernst
& Young in Atlanta, Georgia.
| Assistant Treasurer |
Sal Purpura |
O P E R A T I O N S
| Deputy
to the Campaign Manager for Campaign Operations |
Kelley McCullough |
(announced
May 30, 2003) Prior to the campaign, McCullough worked at the RNC
as regional political director for the South and director of political
education. Associate director of political affairs at the White House,
Jan. 2001-Jan. 2002. Alabama director for Karl Rove + Company, 1997-2000.
| Associate
Director for Operations |
David Hill |
Previously
worked at the White House in the Office of Presidential Personnel.
Worked on Bush's 2000 campaign in the political department. B.A.
from the University of South Carolina, 2002.
| Director of Advance and
Scheduling |
Reed Galen |
Previously
worked at FEMA and as an Advance Representative at the White House.
[Note.
The campaign heavily coordinated with WH advance and Victory 2004 advance.
Greg Jenkins served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of
White House Advance, while RNC Director of Events Michael Crain worked
on RNC Victory 2004 events].
| Director of Surrogate Scheduling |
Lori McMahon |
Communications
director for Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX). Surrogate director at the
RNC in the 2002 cycle. Spokeswoman at the Justice Department in 2001-02.
Worked for Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX). Graduate of Texas A&M, 1996.
Grew up in Plano, TX.
| Director of Administration |
Janan Grissom |
Previously
executive director of the Texas Governor's Mansion. Deputy director
of the White House Visitors Office.
| Director of Correspondence |
Jenny Crooks |
| Office Manager |
Carol Apelt |
B.F.A. from SMU in Dallas, 1997.
| Staff Secretary |
Henry Hager |
[coordinated briefings to the
White House] Started as an intern for Karl Rove. From Richmond, VA;
attended St. Christopher's School and is son of former Virginia Lt. Gov.
John Hager.
L E G A L
| General
Counsel |
Thomas J. Josefiak |
(announced May 30, 2003)
Came to the campaign from position as chief counsel to the RNC; started
in the Counsel's office in Feb. 1992. Appointed by President Reagan
as a commissioner on the Federal Election Commission in 1985 and served
a six-year term. Special deputy to the Secretary of the Senate, representing
the Secretary at the FEC, 1981-85. Special Counsel to the Minority
of the Committee on House Administration, 1977-79. Counsel to the
NRCC, 1977-80. Legislative Assistant to Congressman Silvio Conte
(R-MA). J.D. from Georgetown University. Undergraduate degree
from Fairfield University in Connecticut. Native of Adams, MA.
| Counsel
(outside) |
Ben Ginsberg |
(announced May 30, 2003)
Partner at Patton
Boggs LLP; joined the firm in 1993. Served as outside counsel
for the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2000 and was a central figure in the Florida
recount. Prior to joining Patton
Boggs served eight years as counsel to the RNC, the NRSC, and the NRCC.
Worked for five years as a newspaper reporter for the Boston Globe,
the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, the Berkshire Eagle and
the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise, prior to law school.
J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, 1982. A.B. from University
of Pennsylvania, 1974. (resigned
Aug. 2004).
| Counsel (outside) |
Mark "Thor" Hearne |
(from Sept. 2004) Partner
at Lathrop & Gage L.C., St. Louis since 1997. Partner, principal
at Ziercher & Hocker, P.C., St. Louis, 1988-97. Candidate for
U.S. Congress in Missouri's 3rd CD, 1988. Attorney-Advisor-Law Clerk
in the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, 1986-87.
J.D. from Washington University, 1986; B.A. from Washington University,
1983.
S T R A T E G Y
| Senior
Strategist (includes polling) |
Matthew Dowd |
(announced May 16, 2003)
Senior advisor to the RNC. Director of polling and media planning
for the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign. Prior to the campaign, Dowd was
president and founding partner of Public Strategies Inc., a public affairs
firm based in Austin, Texas. The firm started with four employees
in January 1989 and had 116 employees when he left ten years later.
Graduate of Cardinal Newman College in St. Louis, Missouri.
|
| Deputy
to the Chief Strategist |
Sara Taylor |
(announced
July 2, 2003) Taylor worked for the White House as an associate political
director (Midwest) doing political and public affairs outreach. During
the 2000 campaign she worked from late April 1999 through Januay 2000 as
coalitions director for Bush's Iowa caucus campaign, then did field work
in the SC, VA, WA and IL primaries, and finally served as executive director
of the Michigan campaign. Previously Taylor worked for two years
at the Tarrance Group, the No. Va. polling firm headed by Ed Goeas.
In 1995-96 she worked on Sen. Phil Gramm's presidential campaign in Iowa. |
M E D I A
| Media |
Mark McKinnon, Maverick Media |
(announced May 16, 2003) Did
Bush's advertising in the 2000 campaign.
14 person creative team headed up by McKinnon:
includes some who worked
on Bush's 2000 advertising:
Stuart Stevens and Russ
Schriefer, The Stevens and
Schriefer Group, Washington, DC.
Alex Castellanos
and Robin Roberts, National Media,
Alexandria, VA.
Lionel and Kathy Sosa,
Sosa Consultation & Design, San Antonio, TX.
Lionel Sosa has been Hispanic
media consultant on six Republican presidential campaigns starting with
Reagan in 1980. With his wife he ran the Hispanic advertising agency
Garcia-LKS, 1995-2000; chairman of DMB&B/Américas, 1991-95;
founded Sosa, Bromley, Aguilar & Associates. He is also author
of a book El Sueno Americano: Como Los Latinos Pueden Triunfar En Estados
Unidos.
Harold Kaplan, New
York, NY.
and some new faces:
Fred Davis, Strategic
Perception, Inc., Hollywood, CA.
As media consultant to Sonny
Perdue in his 2002 gubernatorial campaign Davis produced a video portraying
Gov. Barnes as a rat that gained some noteriety. First presidential
campaign was Morry Taylor's longshot bid in 1996; did first political work
for his uncle Jim Inhofe in 1974.
Scott Howell, Scott
Howell & Company, Dallas, TX.
Frank Guerra, Guerra
DeBerry Coody, San Antonio, TX.
"the architect of the advertising
plan for the Republican National Committee's Hispanic outreach efforts
during the 2000 elections." Campaign manager for Henry Bonilla in
his first race for Congress, in which Bonilla defeated the incumbent.
Started his career working form more than 10 years as a reporter and executive
producer at the San Antonio CBS affiliate.
Chris Mottola, Chris
Mottola Consulting, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.
Vada Hill - Chief
Marketing Officer, Fannie Mae.
Joined Fannie Mae in June
1999. Chief marketing officer for the Taco Bell Corporation (chihuahua
advertising campaign); senior vice president - group account director for
BBDO West, Inc.; brand manager for The Procter & Gamble Company (Cheer
(R), Dreft (R)). Special Assistant to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander,
1991-93. B.A. from Harvard University. Cincinnati native.
| Director of Production |
Ashley O'Connor |
(On leave of absence from Red
October) Owner and President of Red October Productions, a full service
production and post-production house in Washington, DC, since 1999.
Previously worked on Madison Avenue in New York City. Graduate of
Mount Holyoke College.
"She oversaw a team of
seven advertising agencies that produced more than 100 ads, films and videos...
Overseeing every film shoot with the President and First Lady, Ashley managed
a four million dollar production budget, as well as editorial of all the
television and radio ads. She also produced a series of videos for
the Republican National Convention in New York City, including the keynote
video introducing the President of the United States to the convention
hall."
A D V I S O R S
| Senior
Advisor |
Karen
Hughes |
(joined the campaign the week
of Aug. 16, 2004) Returned to Texas in 2002 but continued to serve
as an informal advisor to President Bush; author of Ten Minutes from Normal
(March 2004). Counselor to the President for Bush during his first
18 months in the White House. Communications Director during Bush's
six years as Governor of Texas, and communications director for his successful
1994 and 1998 gubernatorial campaigns and his 2000 presidential campaign.
Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas. Television news
reporter for KXAS-TV, the NBC affiliate in Dallas/Fort Worth. B.A.
in English and a B.F.A. in Journalism from Southern Methodist University.
| Senior
Advisor |
Tucker
Eskew |
Director of the White House
Office of Media Affairs in 2001. In summer and fall 2000 Eskew worked
on the Bush campaign in Austin as a Senior Communications Advisor; earlier
he directed communications for Bush's South Carolina primary campaign.
Co-founded an electronic commerce business and built his own public relations
firm. Press Secretary and Communications Director to South Carolina
Governor Carroll Campbell. Assistant Press Secretary for the Reagan-Bush
'84 campaign.
| Senior
Advisor |
Mary
Matalin |
Served
as assistant to President George W. Bush and counselor to Vice President
Dick Cheney, the first White House official to hold that double title.
Previously Matalin hosted CNN's Crossfire; she was the founding co-host
of the Washington-based political weeknight talk show, Equal Time, which
premiered in May 1993 on CNBC. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush named
her the deputy campaign manager for political operations, responsible for
the overview and organization of all 50 state operations. She served
chief of staff for the RNC and in senior positions in George H.W. Bush's
1988 campaign.
| Lead
Debate Negotiator |
James
A. Baker III |
(announced Sept. 7, 2004) Senior
partner at Baker Botts LLP (Houston). Following the Nov. 2000 vote
served as chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney campaign during the Florida
recount battle. White House Chief of Staff and Senior Counselor to
President George H.W. Bush, August 1992-January 1993. Secretary of
State under President Bush, January 1989-August 1992. Secretary of
the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan, 1985-88. White House
Chief of Staff to President Reagan, 1981-85. Started in public service
in 1975 as Under Secretary of Commerce to President Gerald Ford. Led the
presidential campaigns for Presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush over the course
of five consecutive presidential elections from 1976 to 1992.
Debate Negotiation Team
(announced Sept. 7, 2004)
Robert B. Zoellick (U.S. Trade Representative), Gov. Haley Barbour (MS),
Allan B. Hubbard (President of E&A Industries, Inc.), Karen Hughes
(Senior Advisor), Mary Matalin (Senior Advisor), and Mark Wallace (Deputy
Campaign Manager).
Regional Chairpersons (total
of 11, announced July 10, 2003)
| Pacific
(AK, HI, NV, CA) |
Mario Rodriguez |
Chairman of the Latino
Coalition Foundation, a national organization that advocates for common
sense business legislation. President of the Hispanic Business Roundtable
of California. A vice chairman of the California Republican Party.
CEO of Jonathan Grey & Associates, Inc., San Clemente, CA.
| Northwest
(WA, OR, ID, MT, WY) |
Molly Bordonaro |
Bordonaro, a fifth generation
Oregonian, is a principal in the Portland office of The
Gallatin Group, a strategic consulting firm. She served as Pacific
states chair for the Bush-Cheney 2000 presidential campaign and as
chair of Oregon Victory 2000. In 2001 President Bush appointed Bordonaro
to the board of directors of the Fannie Mae Corporation. In 1999,
she was appointed by the U.S. Congress to serve on the Commission for Advancement
of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology. She
was the 1998 Republican nominee for Congress in Oregon's First District.
Prior to joining the Gallatin Group, Bordonaro worked in commercial real
estate and owned her own strategic consulting firm.
| Southwest
(UT, CO, NM, TX, AZ) |
John Sanchez |
The Republican nominee for Governor
in New Mexico in 2002. In 2000, Sanchez defeated the Speaker of the
House, a 30-year incumbent, to win a seat in the New Mexico legislature
(he vacated the seat to run for Governor). In his first run for office
in 1997 he defeated a former mayor to win a seat on Albuquerque's city
council.
| Plains
(ND, SD, NE, MN, IA) |
Vin Weber |
Weber represented Minnesota's
Second District in Congress from 1981-93 and was an elected member of House
Republican leadership. He is the managing partner of Clark
& Weinstock's Washington office; he opened the office in 1994.
He is co-director of Empower America, of the Domestic Policy Project of
the Aspen Institute, and of the Policy Forum (formerly the Mondale Forum)
at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota.
| Central
(KS, OK, MO, AR) |
Warren Erdman |
Served ten years as chief of
staff to Senator Kit Bond. Involved in the strategic planning of
the Missouri Republican Party's voter identification and turnout data base
program. During the Reagan, Bush and Dole presidential campaigns,
Erdman served as a strategist for the fundraising and grassroots efforts
of the Missouri Victory Committees. In 2000, he assisted the Bush-Cheney
campaign in Michigan. Erdman currently serves as vice president of
corporate affairs for Kansas City Southern.
| Southeast
(LA, MS, AL, GA, FL) |
Ralph Reed |
Founder and president of Century
Strategies, a public relations and public affairs firm headquartered
in Atlanta. Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party from 2001-2002; he
assisted in the campaigns of U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, Governor Sonny
Perdue, and the GOP takeover of the state Senate. Reed has worked
on seven Republican presidential campaigns; he served as a consultant and
senior advisor to the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign. Executive director
of the Christian Coalition, 1989-97.
| Atlantic
(TN, VA, NC, SC) |
Warren Tompkins |
A veteran of South Carolina
and national politics, Tompkins experience includes work on six presidential
campaigns. Tompkins was executive director of both South Carolina
Reagan-Bush campaigns, the first at age 28. He also served as the
executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party. Tompkins
served as former Governor Carroll Campbell's chief of staff, supervising
a staff of more than 230 people and budgets totaling more than $91 million.
| Ohio
Valley (IN, KY, OH, WV) |
Jo Ann Davidson |
Davidson was a member of the
Ohio House of Representatives for 20 years, including service as Speaker
of the House from 1995-2000. She served as chairman of the Franklin
County Republican Party Central Committee for 25 years. Davidson
chaired the successful Taft for Governor campaigns in 1998 and 2002.
As chairman of the Ohio House Republican Campaign Committee from 1986-2000,
she spearheaded the successful effort to return the Republicans to the
majority in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1994, for the first time
in 22 years.
| Mid-Atlantic
(DC, MD, DE, NJ, PA, NY) |
Leslie Gromis |
Gromis served as a regional
chairman for the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. She has done extensive
work for Governor Tom Ridge. She ran Ridge 's successful re-election
campaign in 1998. Prior to the campaign, Gromis served as the director
of the Office of Public Liaison for Ridge. Before joining the Ridge
Administration, Gromis served as co-director of the 1995 Pennsylvania Gubernatorial
Inaugural Committee and as political director for the 1994 Ridge for Governor
campaign. Gromis served as the regional political director for former
President Bush's re-election campaign and for the RNC. From 1989
to 1990, Gromis served as a special assistant for political affairs in
the Bush Administration.
| New
England (ME, NH, RI, VT, CT, MA) |
Jim Tobin |
(resigned from the position
on Oct. 15, 2004 amid allegations of involvement in a phone jamming incident
on Election Day, Nov. 2002) Tobin is founder of The Tobin Company, a Bangor,
Maine based communications and political consulting company, and has more
than 20 years of political experience. He has served as national
political director for Forbes for President, Northeast political director
for the NRSC under Sen. Bill Frist, regional political director at the
RNC for Chairmen Barbour, Nicholson and Racicot, and as a consultant to
the NRCC. In addition, Tobin has advised Senators Cohen, Snowe and
Collins. Tobin grew up in Windham, Maine and graduated from Bates
College in Lewiston, Maine.
| Great
Lakes (WI, IL, MI) |
Bob Kjellander |
Kjellander has served as the
Republican National Committeeman for Illinois since 1995; he served as
Vice Chairman of the Rules Committee at the 2000 Convention and was elected
Chairman of the RNC Rules Committee for the 2000–04 term. Kjellander
was the mid-west chairman of the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. He has
been president of the Springfield Consulting Group, LLC, a marketing and
governmental relations firm, since 1984. |