McCain General Election
Campaign Organization, Idaho
updated March 4, 2009 McCain-Palin 2008 Regional
Headquarters:678
Transfer Road St.
Paul, MN 55114
Golnik served as the campaign's
Midwest regional political director before the July 2007
restructuring. Executive director of the Minnesota Republican
Party starting in Jan. 2006 after serving as the party's political director starting in April 2005.
Campaign manager for congressional candidate
Brian Hamel in Maine's 2nd CD. Executive director of the
Vermont Republican Party, started March 2003. Legislative aide to
U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo. Studied in Russia through a State
Department
fellowship. 2000 graduate of Middlebury College.
Executive director and general counsel of
the Idaho Water Users Association. Of counsel to the law firm of
Barker, Rosholt & Simpson, LLP; previously previously a shareholder
in the law firm of Rosholt, Robertson & Tucker. Member of the
Eagle City Council, appointed on Jan. 8, 2008. Sought the
Republican nomination for Congress in 2006 in the 1st CD. A
legislative assistant for Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho in both the House
and Senate. Graduate of Georgetown University Law Center;
undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Idaho,
where he served as head of College Republicans. Grew up in
Rathdrum.
Executive
Director
Sid
Smith
(announced
Feb. 5, 2008) Previously spokesman for Sen. Larry Craig in
Boise. Idaho native.