Key
People-Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN)
updated Dec. 31, 2016
FRIENDS OF EVAN BAYH
(exploratory committee filed
with the FEC to establish on Dec. 5, 2006)
ALL AMERICA PAC
Executive Director |
Marc Farinella |
(from March
2006)
Partner in
Murphy Putnam Shorr & Partners, one of the nation’s top Democratic
media firms. Managed the late Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan's 2000
U.S.
Senate campaign in which Carnahan, who died in a plane crash three
weeks
before the election, defeated the then-incumbent Sen. John
Ashcroft.
Chief of Staff to Gov. Mel Carnahan and managed Carnahan’s successful
campaign
for governor in 1992. Master’s degree in Public Policy from the
University
of Chicago and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the
University
of Illinois. Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from
Northwestern
University.
Midwest Political
Director |
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.
Northeast
Political Director |
Sean Downey |
All America PAC paid for
Downey
to work as finance director for the NH Democratic State Senate Caucus
starting
roughly May 2006. Worked on Joe Lieberman's NH primary campaign
starting
as Manchester co-director (announced July 28, 2003) and finishing doing
advance. Field and political director for Manchester City
Democrats
during the 2002 elections. 2002 graduate of the College of the
Holy
Cross in Massachusetts. Native of East Sandwich, Mass.
Note: All America PAC
held
a number of "Camp Bayh" training sessions and on August 15, 2006 announced
it was deploying about 50 activists to work as paid staffers on
campaigns
in IN, IA, NV, NH and SC.
Communications
Director |
Dan Pfeiffer |
(started Sept. 2006--day
after
Labor Day) Came to the PAC from Bayh's Senate office, where he
started
in 2005. Deputy campaign manager on Senate Majority Leader Tom
Daschle's
unsuccessful re-election campaign in 2004. Worked on Sen. Tim
Johnson's
(D-SD) successful 2002 re-election campaign. Communications director at
the Democratic Governors Association.
Press Writer |
Jonathan Kott |
Policy Coordinator |
Jennifer Linker |
Technology/Internet
Operations |
Chris Smith |
Online
Organizer/Blogger |
Ryan Alexander |
(started June 5, 2006)
Finance Director |
Kory Mitchell |
(announced June 21, 2006;
Nancy
Jacobson had been filling this role) Most recently served as
Regional
Finance Director for the Democratic National Committee. John
Kerry's
Florida finance director in 2003-04. Originally from Sioux City,
Iowa.
Senior Advisor |
Nancy Jacobson |
(from June 21, 2006 "will
focus
on overall fundraising strategy and building and managing relationships
with the donor community" previously had been filling finance director
role) Has worked with Bayh for over a decade. In 2004
helped
co-found Third Way, "a strategy center for progressives." Founded
and served as executive director of Next Generation, a political action
committee devoted to supporting moderate Senate candidates. The
third
person hired on Bill Clinton’s 1992 Presidential campaign, served as
his
Inaugural Finance Director, Finance Director of the DNC when President
Clinton assumed office in 1993. B.A. in Political Science from
Syracuse
University and a Masters in Public Relations from American
University.
Married to Mark Penn, who served as pollster and strategic advisor to
President
Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Senior Advisor |
Thurgood Marshall Jr. |
(announced June 29,
2006-"policy
and political") Partner at Bingham McCutchen LLP and is a
principal
of Bingham Consulting Group. Member of the White House senior
staff
in the Clinton administration, serving as assistant to the president
and
cabinet secretary from 1997 to 2001. Director of legislative
affairs
and deputy counsel for Vice President Al Gore. Counsel to the
Senate
Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Commerce, Science &
Transportation,
as well as the Governmental Affairs Committee. Law clerk to U.S.
District Judge Barrington D. Parker of the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia. J.D. from University of Virginia School of
Law, 1981; B.A. from University of Virginia, 1978.
Chief Technology
Officer |
David Holtzman |
former CTO of Network
Solutions.
Chief Financial
Officer |
Barry Wagman, CPA |
(from March
2006) Comptroller
on
Gen.
Wesley Clark's presidential campaign from Oct.
27, 2003; directing all financial operations. Private sector experience
includes chairman of ISEC World Trade Group and chief financial officer
of Image Entertainment, Inc.. Government
experience from 1977-81 includes director
of the Office of Enforcement Policy and Planning in the U.S. Department
of Energy, special assistant to the Director General of the U.S.
Foreign
Commercial Service, and consultant to the Director of Enforcement of
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. National compliance
director of the Carter/Mondale '76 general election presidential
campaign. Chief financial officer of the Brown for President
campaign. Financial roles within several congressional and state
campaigns. Author of The
Democratic
Party Campaign Treasurer's Handbook, the first text ever written on
political accounting, endorsed by the DNC in 1975. B.S. in
accounting from
the
University of Southern California.
Pollster |
Paul Maslin |
|
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Media Consultant |
Anita Dunn |
Note: In early 2005
Bayh
reorganized his leadership PAC; Americans for Responsible Leadership,
formed
in 1999, was renamed All America PAC. Steve Bouchard, who
served as Ohio Director for ACT in summer and fall 2004 and earlier was
State Director for Wesley Clark's and for Sen. Bob Graham's campaigns
in
the 2004 NH primary campaign, headed up the PAC but left in Dec. 2005.
SENATE OFFICE
Ran Bayh's campaign for
Senate
in 1998. Director of policy and planning during Bayh's second
term
as governor. Worked as a field organizer on Rep. Jim Jontz's
campaign.
From Kokomo.
Deputy Chief of
Staff |
Linda Moore Forbes |
Deputy Chief of Staff to
Sen.
Evan Bayh (D-IN) since 2001. Political Director for Sen. John
Edwards
on the Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004. Deputy Political Director
in the Clinton White House during the second term. Deputy
Political
Director on Clinton/Gore '96. Special Assistant to the President
for Political Affairs during Clinton's first term. Field Director
for the Democratic Leadership Council, 1988-92. Executive
Assistant
to the Campaign Manager on Rep. Dick Gephardt's 1988 president race,
March
1987-April 1988. Scheduler on the Dave Garrett for Senate
campaign
in Georgia from Aug. 1985-Aug. 1986. Government relations work
for
a Dallas law firm. Worked on then State Sen. Lloyd Doggett's 1984
campaign for U.S. Senate in Texas, starting as a volunteer and then on
staff. Graduate of the University of Texas with a B.A. in English.
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2006
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