THE REPUBLICANS
Brownback
| Unpaid Advisor |
Chuck Hurley |
President of the Iowa
Family Policy Center. Former state representative (represented
Lafayette).
Huckabee
| Coordinator
of Hope for America PAC |
Eric Woolson |
(first reported June 13, 2006;
June 14 press release) President and CEO of The Concept Works, a
public, media and government relations and crisis management firm with
offices in West Des Moines and Bettendorf that he founded in 2002.
Communications director on then Gov. George W. Bush's Iowa caucus campaign,
1999-2000. Communications director for Gov. Terry Branstad during
his final term. Previously worked for 20 years as a member of the
Iowa press corps. He is also author of Grassley: Senator from
Iowa (Mid-Prairie Books, Nov. 1995).
McCain
(announced Sept. 22, 2006)
Chair of the Lamberti for Congress Committee and the Vaudt for State Auditor
Committee. Chaired the Iowa Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign. Managing
partner of StrataVizion, Inc. in Des Moines. Served as the Economic
Development Coordinator for Iowa State University. Chief of staff
for Gov. Terry Branstad, 1991-95; campaign manager for Gov. Branstad, 1990-91.
Director of the Iowa Department of Commerce, 1988-90. B.A. from the
University of Northern Iowa, 1973. [Also, in the private sector Roederer
worked for two and a half years in Saudi Arabia designing a national law
enforcement agency for a Lockheed Martin company].
Pataki
| Chairman |
State Senator Stew Iverson |
(announced June 14, 2006; part
of initial leadership team) Represented Senate District 5, which
includes the counties of Story, Hamilton, Wright and part of Webster.
Iverson was elected Senate Majority Leader in 1996 and served in that position
through April 2006; he announced in June 2006 that he would not be seeking
re-election. Iverson is a farmer and resides in Clarion (Wright County).
Elected to the Iowa Senate in 1994; elected to the Iowa House of Representatives
in 1989. Served fifteen years on the Dows Community School Board.
Served in the United States Marine Corps as budget chief of the First Marine
Division. B.A. in accounting from Buena Vista College; attended Ellsworth
Junior College.
| Co-Chair |
Former State Rep. Steve Sukup |
(announced Sept. 26, 2006)
Co-owner of Sukup Manufacturing Co., a family-owned agricultural business
in Sheffield started by Eugene Sukup in 1963. Candidate for the 2002
Republican gubernatorial nomination; gained 64,490 votes, finishing second
to Doug Gross in the June 2002 primary. Served in the Iowa House
starting in 1994 and finishing as speaker pro tem. From Daugherty
in North Central Iowa.
Romney
(announced May 23, 2006)
Attorney at Brown, Winick, Graves, et al.. The 2002 Republican gubernatorial
nominee. Lawyer and lobbyist. Chief of staff to Gov. Terry
Branstad, 1984-89.
Legislative liaison to Gov. Robert Ray, 1981-83. Director of the
Fuels Division for the Iowa Energy Policy Council. Chief legislative
assistant to
Congressman Tom Tauke; worked
on Tom Tauke's successful 1978 campaign for Congress. Law degree
from Drake University, 1985. Bachelor's degree from Iowa
Wesleyan College in 1977.
Born in Earling, Iowa (Shelby County).
(Krusty Konservative reported
on Dec. 13, 2006 that Collins will run Romney's day-to-day effort in Iowa)
Political director for the Republican Governors Association in the
2006 cycle. Deputy
chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa (effectively acting chairman)
in the 2004 cycle following the deployment of then Chairman Chuck Larson
to
Iraq in Sept. 2003; earlier
served as the party's executive director. Campaign manager for Doug
Gross's 2002 gubernatorial race from Jan. 2002. Administrative assistant
to then Majority Leader
Christopher Rants. Graduate of Iowa State University with a degree
in political science, 1998.
Thompson
(reported by DMR's David
Yepsen mid-Dec. 2006) President (recently stepped down) and CEO of
Victory
Enterprises, Inc., a Davenport-based technology communications company
that specializes in internet web sites, as well as radio and television
advertising. Senior advisor on the Forbes 2000 campaign. Chairman
of the Republican Party of Iowa, 1998. Candidate for U.S. Senate,
1996. Iowa Caucus chairman, Dole for President, 1996. State
Representative, 1991-97. Polling and research director for Tauke
for Congress, 1988. Campus director of University of Iowa Students
for Dole in 1987, then a field staffer for Dole for President in 1988.
J.D., University of Iowa School of Law, 1994. B.B.A., University
of Iowa School of Business, 1989.
Cox
| Iowa Coordinators |
Central - Patrick Anderson
Eastern - Steve Huff
Western - |
THE DEMOCRATS
Edwards
Key Supporter - Roxanne
Conlin.
Co-chair of Edwards' 2003-04
Iowa caucus campaign. Conlin has practiced law at her own firm in
Des Moines, Roxanne Conlin & Associates, P.C., since 1991; "she exclusively
represents people who have been harmed by others, whether by discrimination,
products, doctors or vehicles." From 1983-1990 she was a principal
at Galligan and Conlin, P.C. Among her many accomplishments, Conlin
was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1982, and she served as first
woman president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (1992-93).
In 1995 she was elected to Inner Circle of Advocates, whose membership
is limited to 100. Conlin served as United States Attorney for the
Southern District of Iowa from 1977-81. She obtained her J.D. from Drake
University Law School in 1966 at age 21.
Vilsack
campaign headquartered
in Des Moines and has much Iowa talent including
| Senior Communications
Strategist |
Jeff Link |
(announced Nov. 9, 2006, also
worked for the Heartland PAC) Principal of Link Strategies, an Iowa-based
political and government relations consulting firm he founded
during law school.
Campaign manager for Sen. Tom Harkin’s successful 1996 and 2002 campaigns.
Iowa State Director for Gore-Lieberman in 2000. Chief of Staff for
Sen. Harkin, 1997-99.
Directed Democrats' efforts to maintain their majority in the Virginia
House of Delegates, 1995. Executive assistant to Speaker Robert W.
O’Donnell of the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives from 1991-94; managed O'Donnell's gubernatorial
campaign in 1994. Law degree from Drake University, 2002.
| Iowa State Director |
Dusky Terry |
(announced Nov. 9, 2006, also
worked for the Heartland PAC starting in July 2006) Sought the Democratic
nomination for Secretary of Agriculture in the June 2006 primary but lost
to Denise O'Brien. Served as Gov. Vilsack's Constituent Casework
Coordinator; Policy Advisor on Agriculture, Environment, and Transportation;
Legislative Director; Senior Advisor to the Governor; and finally as Policy
Director before leaving to run for office. Started working for Vilsack
on his gubernatorial campaign in January 1998. Graduated from the
University of Northern Iowa with a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration,
1997. Grew up on a farm near Greenfield, IA.
| Iowa Field Director |
Jesse Harris |
(from the start of the campaign)
Most recently worked as the Field Director for the Iowa Democratic Party’s
Coordinated Campaign. Field Director for the Chet Culver for Governor
campaign. Regional Field Director for the 2004 Iowa Democratic Party
Coordinated Campaign (Linn County). Field staffer on John Edwards'
Iowa caucus campaign (Warren County). May 2003 graduate of Simpson
College with a double major in History and Political Science.
(announced Nov. 9, 2006)
Director of political strategy at the DNC in the 2004 cycle (announced
as "General Election Strategist" in February 2003). Gore-Lieberman
State Director in the 2000 General Election campaign. General consultant
to Tom Vilsack's gubernatorial campaign in Iowa in 1998. Wisconsin
state director for Clinton/Gore 96. Consultant for the Human Rights
Campaign's OutVote 96 project. Political director of Emily's List.
Campaign manager for Geraldine Ferraro's 1992 U.S. Senate race. Worked
on the Iowa caucuses for Gary Hart in 1987 and Michael Dukakis in 1988.
First presidential campaign worked on was Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1980.
Native of Cedar Falls, Iowa.
FORMER POTENTIAL CANDIDATES
Bayh
| Midwest Political
Director for All America PAC |
Chris Hayler |
Hayler served as Southeast regional
field director on Kerry's Iowa caucus campaign starting March 1, 2003.
Directed the Iowa Coordinated Campaign in the 1st CD in 2002. Regional
organizer for the Alliance for Justice, organizing youth for gun control.
Field organizer for Gore in Washington State. M.A. in political management
and B.A. in political science from George Washington University.
On August 15 All America
PAC announced
deployment of 50 graduates of its campaign-training program to work as
paid staffers on campaigns in Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and
South Carolina. Fully half of the staffers were sent to Iowa.
Frist
| VOLPAC Iowa Chairman |
Brian Kennedy |
(announced July 13, 2006)
Attorney affiliated with the Davenport law firm of Gallagher, Millage &
Gallagher, P.L.C.; resident of Bettendorf. Most recently competed
in the June 2006 primary to be the Republican nominee in Iowa's First Congressional
District (announced April 2005). In 2003, founded Campaign
of One, a Republican committee dedicated to creating a new generation of
political entrepreneurs in Eastern Iowa. A co-founder of Progress
for America, a national grassroots issue advocacy organization working
to support President Bush's legislative agenda. National political
director on Lamar Alexander's 2000 presidential campaign, then joined the
McCain campaign as national political consultant. Has served as Chairman
of the Republican Party of Iowa, a member of the Republican National Committee,
a Co-Chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee,
and Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association as well
as a political advisor or campaign manager to former Iowa Governor Terry
Branstad and several other Republican candidates. Graduated from
Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. Grew up in
Eastern Iowa.
| VOLPAC Iowa Field Director |
Marcus Branstad |
(first reported late June 2006)
Graduated from Buena Vista University in Storm Lake in May 2006.
Youngest child of former Gov. Terry and Chris Branstad.
Feingold
Friend/Volunteer - Paul
Tewes. (visited Iowa and made some recommendations in advance
of Sen. Feingold's first trip there on April 28-29, 2006)
Campaign manager of Americans
United to Protect Social Security in 2005; formed a consulting firm with
Steve Hildebrand in early 2005. Political director of the DSCC in
the 2004 cycle. Field director on Vice President Al Gore's 2000 Iowa
caucus campaign starting in June 1999. Executive director of the
Wisconsin Democratic Party, 1998. Managed Sandy Pappas’ mayoral campaign
in St. Paul in 1997. Managed U.S. Rep. David Minge's re-election
campaign in 1996. Western MN field coordinator for Ann Wynia's U.S.
Senate campaign in 1994. Graduate of Carleton College with a degree
in Political Science, 1993. Native of Mt. Lake, MN.
Grassroots Supporter -
Patrick Stansberry.
Stansberry, who lives in
central Iowa, runs the Iowa
for Feingold blog (launched Jan. 16, 2006).
"I have lived in central
Iowa my entire life. I headed off to college at the University of
Iowa thinking I knew what I wanted to do with my life. After graduating
and working for a year, I decided to go back to school to get my elementary
education degree. I recently graduated [Dec. 2005] and will be teaching
2nd grade starting in August [Aug. 2006]."
Warner
Starting August 2006, Forward
Together PAC is paying the salary of Courtney Dozier, who will work
for the Iowa Democratic Party. (Most recently deputy director
of the House Democratic Caucus in Virginia. Deputy field director
for America Coming Together West Virginia in 2004. Graduate of George
Mason University.)
Grassroots Supporter -
Matthew Moore.
Draft
Mark Warner Iowa Coordinator.
Grassroots Supporter -
John Zimmerman (Yellowdogjz).
