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BIDEN
Field Office: 1760
N. 16th Street, Ste #2, Council Bluffs, IA 51501 712-328-2008
CLINTON
Field Office: 136
W Broadway, Council Bluffs, IA 51503 712-352-0286
Pottawattamie Leadership
Council (11/28/07)
County Coordinator
- Connie Gronstal, social worker, Iowa Civil Rights Commissioner, FAMILY
Program Supervisor at the Loess Hills Area Education Agency
Sue Akers, labor activist,
OPEIU 277
Mary Aney, teacher
Nancy Bleth, former state
representative candidate, retired educator
Kate Cutler, attorney
Bob Dodder, State Democratic
Central Committee member, former pastor
Ellen Fritz, local AFCSME
leader, retired U.S. Army
Kate Gronstal, engineer,
local political activist
Karen Keithley, small business
owner
Dr. Allen Kurland, health
care professional
Bonni Leiserowitz, Pottawattamie
County Democrats Membership Committee Chair, retired nurse
Judy Miller, Pottawattamie
County Treasurer
Joan Minikus, small business
owner, educator
Kim Muta, teacher
Walt Pyper, former Council
Bluffs Mayor and City Councilmember
Hersch Rodawski; Iowa Western
Community College professor
Georgia Sievers, former
Eastern Pottawattamie County Vice Chair for the Pottawattamie County Democrats
for 30 years
Chuck Smith, attorney
Dawn Trotten, labor activist
DODD
Field Office: 105
Pearl Street, Council Bluffs (712) 352-0030
County Chair: Justin
James of Council Bluffs – President, IAFF Local 15 (9/18/07)
More County Leadership:
Edward Bremmer - former
Iowa State Representative (11/28/07)
Dan McGinn - Pottawattamie
County Assistant County Attorney (11/28/07)
EDWARDS
Field Office:
8 N. 34th Street, Council Bluffs, IA 51501 712-352-0908
County Chairs:
Dean Jennings, Pamela Wilson of Council Bluffs (6/12/07)
Rural County Chair:
Fred Howard of Underwood (4/20/07)
Member of Statewide Steering
Committee: Pam Wilson, Mental Health Advocate and 2007 “100 Great Iowa
Nurses Honoree”, Council Bluffs (8/15/07)
OBAMA
Field Office:
500 West Broadway, Ste. 150, Council Bluffs, IA 51503
(712) 352-0640
County Leadeership Committee
(9/28/07)
Sue Lett, Committee Co
Chair
Ryan Sewell, Committee
Co-Chair
Susan Slauson, Women
for Obama Co-Chair
Jan Sutherland, Women
for Obama Co-Chair
Lori Cupit-Stott, Educators
for Obama Chair
Doreen Knuth, Republicans
for Obama Co-Chair
Anne Crowl, Republicans
for Obama Co-Chair
Rich Price, Rural Outreach
Chair
Austin Bailey, Veterans
Chair/Labor Chair
Jonathan Grieder, Students
for Obama Chair
and
Chuck Wredt, Chair of Pottawattamie
County Democrats (12/06/07)
State Rep. Paul Shomshor
of Council Bluffs (12/10/07)
See also (unofficial):
Omaha
for Obama - Mike Nellis, executive director.
RICHARDSON
Field Office: 1760
N. 16th St., Suite 103, Council Bluffs, IA 51501 (712) 352-0890
Regional Leader:
Lynne Brock - Vietnam veteran (12/10/07)
former
VILSACK
Field
Office: 407 W. Broadway, Council Bluffs
Contact:
Britt Johnson-Dunlop
STAFF
BIDEN
Council Bluffs/Western
Iowa: David Sabados
Recently worked as field
director for a state board of education campaign and advised a state senate
campaign in Colorado, 2006. Active volunteer in Matsunaka for Congress
and John Kerry campaigns, 2004. Chapter chair of Colorado Public
Research Interest Group, 2002-06. B.A. in philosophy and English,
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, 2004.
Pottawattamie,
Carroll, Crawford, Harrison, Cass, Monona, Shelby, Mills, Page, Montgomery,
Audubon, Fremont
DODD
Regional Field Director:
Greg Neil
Previously served as a field
organizer for Indiana Congressman Baron Hill and Chicago City Clerk Miguel
del Valle
EDWARDS
Regional Field Director:
Doug Niemela
OBAMA
Regional Director:
Rory Steele. Field Organizers: Michael Lindley, Jim
(Kyong) Nam.
RICHARDSON
Regional Field Director:
Seth Brooks
Robby Tinker |
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GIULIANI (6/11/07)
County Chair:
Supervisor Loren Knauss (also Southwest Iowa Regional Chair)
First elected in Nov. 2002;
re-elected Nov. 2006. Became a police officer with the Council Bluffs
Police Department in 1996; previously served as a corrections officer with
Pottawattamie County Jail starting in 1992. Associate degree in criminal
justice from Iowa Western Community College; bachelor's degree in criminal
justice administration from Bellevue University, 2002.
County Co-Chair: Troy
Johnson
McCAIN
SW Iowa Regional Chair:
Melanie Bates - Captain and paramedic on the Omaha Fire Department, as
is her husband Darren. Served on the Council Bluffs Community School
Board. The Bateses moved to Council Bluffs in 1995. Bachelor's
degree in emergency medicine from Creighton University, 2000. Worked
for the 9-11 response system in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Went to
paramedic school at Creighton University in 1990.
(9/6/07)
ROMNEY
County Chair:
Matt Schultz - Elected to the Council Bluffs City Council in 2005.
Recently completed law school at Creighton University, and now practices
with Smith Peterson in Council Bluffs. He and his wife Zola have
two children. (4/13/07)
Member of Iowa Legislative
Leadership Team
State Rep. Doug Struyk (4/4/07)...previously
backed McCain
Members of Iowa Business
Coalition (6/20/07)
- Tony Beck, President,
Beck Accounting Services
- Don Coats
- Doug Coziahr, Convenience
Store Operator
- Liz Doll
- Scott Doll
- David Edwards
- Steve Johnson, Realtor,
Heartland Properties
- State Representative Doug
Struyk, Co-Owner, Struyk Turf
- Vern Welch, Retired Consultant
TANCREDO
Field Office:
101 Pearl Street, Council Bluffs, IA 51503
(712) 256-6645 ...Tancredo
officially opened April 14, 2007
Dennis Murphy is running
the Council Bluffs office. 5th CD coordinator is Angie Weaver.
County Chairs:
Troy Tech and John Ranney.
former
BROWNBACK
Member of Iowans for
Brownback Leadership Committee
Jon Jacobsen of Pottawattamie
County—TS Bank, Republican official (2/26/07)
Member of Brownback's
Faith and Family Leadership Committee
Joe Ranney, Council Bluffs
(7/9/07) |
