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.
P O L I T I C A L
| 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 D U L I N G
| 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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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 |
| 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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