Hillary
Clinton-Organization, South Dakota
revised November 25, 2008
HILLARY CLINTON FOR
PRESIDENT
Headquarters:
2101 W. 41st Street, Suite 30, Sioux Falls (on the east side of the
Western Mall) ...open house
May 5, 2008
| State Director |
Geoff Wetrosky |
(announced April 24,
2008)
Started on the campaign as deputy field director (CD-2) in New
Hampshire.
State field director for 2006 Massachusetts Democratic Coordinated
Campaign.
Campaign manager for Manchester Mayor Bob Baines' unsuccessful 2005
re-election
campaign (position paid for by Sen. John Kerry's leadership PAC).
Regional field director for Southwest Florida/the Gulf Coast for
Kerry-Edwards
in 2004. Field director on Stephanie Herseth's winning campaign
in
the June 2004 special election for Congress in South Dakota's At Large
district. Field organizer on Sen. Tim Johnson's 2002 Senate
race.
Graduate of Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD.
| Field Director |
Matt Tepper
|
(announced May 9,
2008) Tepper started on the Clinton campaign in New Hampshire as
regional field director in Laconia; he then proceeded to Missouri,
Texas and Pennsylvania. Before
joining the campaign, Tepper was a public school teacher at
Intermediate
School 339 in the Bronx, where he served as a Team Leader in the 7th
grade,
coordinated the iTeachiLearn Laptop Program, and taught sixth and
seventh
grade language arts. Tepper entered teaching through Teach For
America
in 2004. Graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
with a degree in political science.
| West River
Communications Director |
Ben Kobren
|
(announced May 9,
2008) Deputy communications director in Nevada; worked on the
campaign in California; communications director in Wyoming, deputy
press secretary in Ohio, and deputy communications director in Indiana. Previously special assistant in Clinton’s
Senate office. Graduate of Emory University.
| East River
Communications Director |
Brendan Gilfillan
|
(announced May 9,
2008) Started on the Clinton campaign during the Iowa caucuses in Linn County, then New
Jersey communications director, a regional press secretary in
Philadelphia, PA, and worked on the campaign in Indiana. Deputy
press secretary to Gov. Jon Corzine (D-NJ). Graduate of
Georgetown University.
| Senior
Communications Advisor |
Kathleen Strand |
Communications director on
the NH primary campaign, then senior communications advisor for the
Ohio and in Pennsylvania primaries. Communications director for
the New Hampshire
Democratic
Party in the 2006 cycle. Communications manager of the Illinois
Department
of Healthcare and Family Services under Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich.
Press secretary for the 2004 New Hampshire Democratic coordinated
campaign.
Deputy press secretary on Congressman Richard Gephardt’s 2004 Iowa
caucus
campaign. Bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of
Missouri-Columbia. Grew up in Chicago, IL.
Endorsements
41 former state legislators and
constitutional officers (announced
May 12, 2008)
Argus Leader (May 30, 2008)
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© 2008 Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action |
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