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.
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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).
| 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.
| Deputy Director of
Delegate Operations |
Brad
Koplinski |
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
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| Director of
Scheduling |
Melissa
Winter |
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
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.
| 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.
N 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 |
