HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT , INC.
Headquarters: 38 Eastwood Drive, South Burlington, VT 05403 ...opening Feb. 22, 2008
Rutland Office: 734 U.S. Route 4 E, Rutland, VT   ...Feb. 26, 2008

(staff announced Feb. 22, 2008)

State Director

Nancy Richardson

Served as Director of Planning for the Vermont State College system starting in Feb. 1999.  Executive director at Trinity College of Vermont's Institute for Program Development.  She has served as Education Advisor to Gov. Michael Dukakis, Policy Analyst for the Joint Committee on Education of the Massachusetts Legislature, and Policy Liaison to the U.S. Secretary of Education.  Senior advisor to the Mahoning County, Ohio campaign in the 2004 presidential election and recently participated in the Hillary Clinton campaign as a field organizer in the North Country of New Hampshire.
 
 

Senior Advisor

Dana Singiser

Singiser also serves as the National Director of Women’s Outreach.  She grew up in Mendon, Vermont and in her first job in politics she ran the Rutland field office for the Clinton/Gore campaign in 1992.  Prior to joining Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in January 2007, she was staff director at the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, chaired by Senator Clinton.  In 2004, she served as deputy political director for Gov. Howard Dean’s campaign.  She served in President Bill Clinton's administration in the White House and was the Florida deputy state director in his 1996 re-election campaign.
 
 

Deputy State Director

Bradford Cheney

Cheney is a native Vermonter and graduate of Montpelier High School.  He has called all parts of the state home, living in Enosburg Falls, Springfield, Montpelier and St. Johnsbury.  He served as the deputy state director for Sen. Clinton's campaign in Virginia.  Associate at the Glover Park Group starting Oct. 2006.  From 2003-06 Cheney was the Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff in Sen. Clinton's Washington office.  In 2002 he worked as director of operations for the New Hampshire Democratic Party's Coordinated Campaign.  In 1999 and 2000, he interned for Sen. Patrick Leahy in Washington.
 
 

Regional Field Organizer

Stephen Anderson

Anderson is a New England native.  He was a field organizer for the Hillary Clinton campaign in the Lakes Region in New Hampshire.  Prior to joining the New Hampshire and Vermont teams, he served as the director of correspondence and as a staff assistant in Sen. Feinstein's Los Angeles office.  In 2006, he worked as an intern for Senator Kennedy’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and the House Sergeant at Arms.
 
 

Regional Field Organizer

Michael Delany

Delany is a New Hampshire resident, was a field organizer along part of the Vermont border for the New Hampshire Primary. Prior to joining the campaign, Delany went backpacking from Russia through South East Asia. Delany graduated from The George Washington University in 2006.
 
 

Regional Field Organizer and Rutland Office Director

Julie Zelnick

Zelnick is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas. She has been with the Clinton campaign since April, as field organizer in Iowa and South Carolina, and as a Congressional District director in Wisconsin. She has also worked at a consulting firm and at the Progressive Majority.  Throughout her life, she has enjoyed summer vacations at her family’s home on Grand Isle, Vermont.
 
 

Student Organizer

Emily Walsh

Walsh is a native of Manchester, NH and is currently a freshman at the University of Vermont. She started with the Clinton campaign in New Hampshire since April, working in field and operations.  In addition to taking off her first semester of college to stay on the campaign, she was also elected a NH pledged delegate from the 1st Congressional District.
 
 

Student Organizer & Hillblazer

Scott McCarty

Lifelong resident of Brattleboro and a senior at the University of Vermont, where he is majoring in history and political science.  McCarty has worked on numerous local, state and federal campaigns in Vermont including: U.S. Senate candidate Rich Tarrant, State Senator Hinda Miller's campaign for Mayor of Burlington, Jan Backus' campaign for Lieutenant Governor and Ed Adrian's campaign for Ward 1 City Council in Burlington.  This year, McCarty served as a volunteer for the Clinton campaign in Keene, New Hampshire.
 
 

Communications Director

Carly Lindaeur

Deputy press secretary on Clinton's NH primary campaign, then communications director on the campaign in Missouri and Wisconsin.  Came to the campaign from Rabinowitz/Dorf Communications.  Served as the Public Policy Fellow for the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA).  B.S. in communications from Boston University's College of Communication, 2004.  Lindauer has also served as a communication intern for the Department of Women in New South Wales, Australia.
 

Statewide Steering Committee (Feb. 26, 2008)
former Gov. Madeleine Kunin, Burlington, Co-Chair (supporter at least since May 2007)
Speaker Gaye Symington, Jericho, Co-Chair (endorsement announced Oct. 30, 2007)

House Majority Leader Carolyn Partridge, Windham
Sen. Hinda Miller, Chittenden
Sen. Claire Ayer, Addison
Sen. Sara Branon Kittell, Fairfield
Rep. Steve Howard, Rutland
Rep. Shap Smith, Morristown
Rep. Daryl Pillsbury, Brattleboro
Rep. Kathy Pellet, Chester
Rep. Kathy Keenan, St. Albans
Rep. Johanna Leddy Donovan, Burlington
Rep. David Deen, Westminster
Rep. Allison Clarkson, Woodstock
Rep. William Aswad, Burlington
 
 

Early endorsements
(announced July 20, 2007)
Sen. Hinda Miller
Sen. Sara Branon Kittell
Rep. Donna Sweaney
Rep. Johannah Leddy Donovan
Rep. Kathleen C. Keenan
Rep. Bill Aswad
Rep. Steve Howard
Rep. Albert "Sonny" Audette
Rep. Daryl Pillsbury
 

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