Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc.
| 602 Virginia Street | Charleston (Grand Opening June
15, 2004)
State Director |
Terri Giles |
On leave from Sen. Jay Rockefeller's
office, where she has served as a senior staffer since 1998. Ad-hoc
executive director of the Discover the REAL West Virginia Foundation, a
nonprofit organization founded by Rockefeller to spur economic development
in the State, 1993-96. Worked for former Gov. Gaston Caperton as
director of the Governor's Internship Program. Coordinated campaign
strategy for the West Virginia State Democratic Party during the 1992 election
cycle. Graduate of Concord College; pursued further studies in history
and politics at Kings College in London, England. Native of Hinton,
West Virginia.
Communications
Director |
Amy Schuler-Goodwin |
Prior to joining the campaign
Schuler-Goodwin served as press secretary to Gov. Bob Wise.
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Sportmen for Kerry
chair: Bernie Dowler - worked for the WV Division of Natural Resources
for over 30 years, including six years at Chief of the DNR's Wildlife Resources
Section and as Deputy Director of the agency. |
Coordinated Campaign
| 602 Virginia Street | Charleston
Field
Offices
Eyer served
as Deputy Campaign Director for Political Affairs on Sen. Joe Lieberman's
campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination (announced Feb. 10,
2003) after serving 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).
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Assistant
to the State Director |
Molly
Hooper |
Political
Director |
Anne
Barth |
Served
as State Director for U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd before the campaign (and
returned to that position after the election).
Veteran
of Maine politics.
Southern
Regional Field Director |
Ronce
Almond |
Worked
on Kerry's Iowa caucus campaign and in Arizona, Utah, California and Pennsylvania.
Law degree from Duke; undergraduate degree from the George Washington University.
Graduate of Buckhannon-Upshur High School. From Buckhannon, West
Virginia.
Northern
Regional Field Director |
Dan
Wright |
From Morgantown,
WV. Previously Wright served as Campaign Manager for Warren McGraw's
re-election bid to the WV Supreme Court; he left the campaign during the
primary.
Field
Offices
Press
Secretary |
Samantha
Dallaire |
Research
Director |
Dan Tompkins |
From WV,
graduate of WVU.
Operations
Director |
Clete Johnson |
From Georgia,
worked on Max Cleland's campaign and in his Senate office.
Surrogate
Scheduler |
Chai Komanduri |
Served
as a deputy national field director on Wesley Clark's campaign.
Comptroller |
Margaret Chapman |
From Huntington
WV. Served as Operations Director for the State Democratic Party
until Sept. 2004. Graduate of Marshall University.
Voter
File Director |
Gerrit Hall |
Special
Projects Director |
Greg Brazeal |
Volunteer
Coordinator |
Allison Ginsberg |
Voter
Protection Director |
Tracy Levine |
Notes
According
to an Oct. 4 report by the Associated Press there were a total of "69 paid
staffers working statewide for the Kerry-Edwards ticket."
Heidi
Kraus worked briefly in field but then returned to Minnesota. (She
worked on the Kerry campaign's field staff in Minnesota during the primary
phase of the campaign).
West Virginia Democratic Party |
5 Greenbrier Street | Charleston
G. Nicholas Casey, Jr. is a
principal in Lewis Glasser Casey & Rollins PLLC, a Charleston law firm.
Before
becoming state chair he served as campaign treasurer for then Secretary
of State Joe Manchin’s 2004 primary race for the gubernatorial nomination.
Casey earned his J.D. from West Virginia
University in 1977 and his B.S. from the University of Kentucky in 1974.
Casey was born in Charleston, WV.
Executive Director |
Scott Sears |
From Fairmont, WV. Worked
for then Secretary of State Joe Manchin and later as a Field Director for
Manchin's 2004 gubernatorial campaign during the primary. Sears
is also an elected at-large member of the Fairmont City Council.
Field Director |
Derek Scarbro |
From Huntington, WV. Also
serves as President of the WV Young Democrats. Graduate of Marshall
University.
Partnership Program Coordinator |
Ashley Harper |
From Hurricane, WV. Graduate
of WV State College.
Democratic Legislative
Council Executive Director |
Pam Van Horn |
From Charleston, WV. Served
as DLC Director since its creation in 1996. Previously worked for
Gov. Gaston Caperton. Graduate of Marshall University.
Allies
Americans Coming Together
| 1598 Washington Street East | Charleston
West Virginia Director |
Lisa McMurray |
Campaign manager for Gov. Ronnie
Musgrove's unsuccessful re-election campaign in Mississippi in 2003.
Chief of Staff for Virginia Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine through Feb. 2003; headed
Kaine's campaign in 2001. Staffer on Sen. John Edwards' 1998 North
Carolina Senate campaign.
Deputy Field Director |
Courtney Dozier |
Communications Director |
Andrew Poag |
Spokesperson on Gov. Ronnie
Musgrove's 2003 campaign in Mississippi. Assistant to the chief of
staff in Sen. Robert Torricelli's (D-NJ) office. Graduate of Muhlenberg
College, 2001.
West Virginia AFL-CIO | 501
Leon Sullivan Way | Charleston
President: Jim Bowen
Secretary-Treasurer: Kenny Perdue
Battleground
Desk/State Director: Doris Crouse-Mays
NEXT's Get on the Bus (GOTB)
A group of DC-area young
professionals, many of whom have worked their entire careers in politics,
started NEXT to address their "collective frustration with the political
climate and the lack of meaningful, concrete ways for people to change
it." A major project for NEXT was its Get on the Bus (GOTB) project
which focused on two counties in West Virginia:
"NEXT
focused on two counties in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia – Berkeley
and Jefferson counties – where NEXT volunteers canvassed door to door with
local activists to register, educate, and mobilize voters in an attempt
to turn the state Blue. After contacting 36,000 voters face-to-face,
NEXT increased Democratic turnout by 38% and 39% in our two counties, and
in the process trained hundreds of local volunteers in grassroots activism
and left a venerable structure in place for future activity." [more]
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