Obama General Election
Campaign Organization, Florida
revised
April 14, 2009 disclaimer
Obama for America
State
Director
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Steven Schale |
(reported June 15, 2008)
Florida Democrats' House Victory political director since 2005
(appointed by Democratic Leader Dan Gelber). Communications
director/press secretary for the Florida Democrats in the State House
(House
Democratic Leader Doug Wiles). Legislative
assistant in the Florida House. B.A. in history and political
science from Sewanee-The University of the South, 1996, and M.A. in
communications from Florida State University, 2008. From St.
Augustine.
Deputy
State
Director
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Ashley Walker
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(reported June 15, 2008) Earlier served as deputy to
political director Matt Nugen in
Chicago (hired by the campaign in Aug. 2007). Walker managed
Jeremy Ring's (D-Margate) successful 2006
campaign for State Senate.
Communications
Director
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Mark
Bubriski
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(announced July 9, 2008)
Moved over from
position as communications director at the Florida Democratic Party,
where he started in early 2006. An account executive with the
Caraway Group; he advised political organizations and major
corporations on diversity efforts. In 2004, Bubriski worked in
communications and advance for the John Kerry for President campaign
and in the press office of the Democratic National Convention in Boston
and as advance
director on New
Hampshire Democrats' 2004 Coordinated Campaign. Undergraduate degree from
Dartmouth College, 2002; graduate degree from Harvard University.
Deputy
Communications
Director
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Adrianne
Marsh
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Communications director to Sen.
Claire McCaskill since Jan. 2007; spokesperson on McCaskill's 2006 U.S.
Senate campaign. Press secretary to Rep. Bart Stupak (MI),
2005-06. Press secretary for the 2004 Michigan Coordinated
Campaign; communications director for the Michigan Democratic
Party. Public Relations Coordinator for the Oakland-Livingston
Human
Services Agency, 2001-03. Staffer on Congresswoman Lynn Rivers
2000
re-election campaign and worked with Michigan Victory 2000. B.S.
in political science from Eastern Michigan University, where she was
student
body president. Originally from Linden.
also see OFA
regional communications directors and press secretaries in regional
organization.
Political
Director
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Stephanie
Owens (Royster)
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(announced July 9, 2008) A
longtime Floridian, Owens serves as a lead advance consultant for Obama
for America. She has served in leadership roles for six presidential
campaigns. Director community relations at the 2009 Tampa Bay
Super Bowl Host Committee and in 2001. Vice president at the
American Cancer Society, 2001-05. Senior Advisor to the HUD Secretary Henry
Cisneros and Director of Federal Interagency Task Force, 1996-98
following civil unrest in St. Petersburg. Senior Advisor to the
U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1993-96. Graduate of University of
Southern California.
New Media
Director
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Kristen
Psaki
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Started on the campaign in the New
Hampshire primary. Graduate of Davidson College, 2007.
and
"big guns" came into the state in October:
OFA deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand oversaw
the Miami-Dade County operation from Miami Beach.
Tom Shea, Florida
state director for Kerry-Edwards '04, oversaw Broward County from Fort
Lauderdale.
Paul Tewes, chief
general election strategist at the DNC, directed GOTV from state
headquarters in Tampa.
Campaign for Change
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1771 E 9th Avenue | Tampa, FL 33605
General
Election Director
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Jackie Lee
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(announced July 9, 2008) Lee returns to the Sunshine
State for her third election cycle, having served as statewide field
director twice before: for the Florida Democratic Party in 2006 and for
former Sen. John Edwards’ campaign during the 2004 presidential
primary. In 2007-2008, Lee served as the Iowa field director for the
John Edwards for President campaign. Delaware State Director for
the Emergency Campaign for America’s Priorities and for Americans
United to Protect Social Security. Field Director for the
Oklahoma Democratic Coordinated Campaign. North
Central Iowa regional field director for the Edwards for President
campaign
in 2003-04, and then the campaign's field director in Virginia
and Florida. Worked for the Louisiana Democratic Party during
Sen.
Mary Landrieu's 2002 run-off campaign. Managed a field office for
the South Dakota Democratic Party during Sen. Tim Johnson's 2002
re-election
campaign. B.A. in international relations from University of
Delaware.
When she is not campaigning, Lee splits her time between Delaware and
Central Florida.
Field
Director
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Angela Botticella
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(announced July 9, 2008) Botticella has contributed
to the Obama campaign’s voter contact
efforts in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Illinois, Pennsylvania and
Oregon. Deputy field director for the 2006 Rhode Island
Democratic
Party Coordinated Campaign. Deputy field director on Francine
Busby's
campaign for Congress in the June 2006 special election in CA-50.
Worked in the field department of the Alliance for a Better California
2005 campaign.
Constituency
Director
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Gustavo
Rivera
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(announced July 9, 2008)
Rivera, a progressive political organizer born and raised in
Puerto Rico, has worked for 10 years in New York City. He was
part of the political team that cut the Republican majority in the New
York State Senate from seven to three seats. Most recently,
Rivera
worked with the Service Employees International Union in Texas,
Pennsylvania, Indiana and Puerto Rico, helping Sen. Obama become the
Democratic nominee.
Policy Director
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Ian
Bassin |
Law Clerk to Judge
Sidney R. Thomas of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit. J.D. from Yale Law School, 2006. Publisher of
Shout! magazine in New York City. Worked for Scholastic.
Undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University, 1998.
Scheduling
Director
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Gillian Rosenberg
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(announced July 9, 2008)
Rosenberg has worked for the Obama campaign since February 2007,
serving as Iowa director of political operations and the director of
Women for Obama in the caucus campaign, then continuing with the
campaign in Chicago headquarters in various capacities throughout the
primaries. Deputy political director at the Iowa Democratic
Party, 2005-06. Worked for John Kerry in Iowa in both the primary
and general election, 2003-04. Rosenberg attended the University
of Iowa.
Operations
Director
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Shannon Valley
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(announced July 9, 2008)
Valley has served the Obama campaign in the field in Iowa,
Nevada, North Dakota and Texas and in operations in West Virginia and
Pennsylvania. She also led campaign outreach to the African-American
faith community in West Virginia. Degree in political science and
international studies from Northwestern University and spent a year
studying abroad and interning at the UN’s International Labour
Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. She lives locally with her family
in Brandon, FL.
Information
Technology Director
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Phillip
Perry
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(July 2008) IT director at the FDP from Sept. 2006-July
2008; Perry also does consulting through his firm Philter Media, Inc.,
which he started in Feb. 2004. Assistant director at Floridian
Partners, LLC, Nov. 2005-Sept. 2006. Account manager at Emergin,
Inc., 2004-05. Customer service supervisor at EMS Computing,
Inc. Graduate of University of Florida, 2004.
Early Vote
Director
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Brendan
Beattie
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Beattie started out as a field organizer on the Iowa caucus
campaign and also served as a field organizer in western
Kentucky. Native of Treynor, Iowa.
Senior Advisor
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Nicholas
Baldick |
President
and founder of Hilltop
Public Solutions. Key
advisor to former Sen. John Edwards' One America Committee in
2006. Prior to starting Hilltop, Baldick
served for five years as a principal
at the Dewey Square Group. National campaign manager for Senator
John Edwards’ presidential campaign starting in Jan. 2003. New
Hampshire
primary state director for Vice President Al Gore’s 2000 presidential
campaign.
Directed and managed Gore's political action committee, Leadership
‘98.
Eastern Political Director in the White House Office of Political
Affairs,
1997. Director, Florida Democratic coordinated campaign, fall
1996;
state director in New Hampshire, Wisconsin and New Jersey, 1996 primary
campaign. Campaign director of the 1994 Rhode Island coordinated
campaign. Northeast political director at the DNC, 1993. A
field director in the 1992 Clinton primary campaign. B.S. from
Georgetown
University; J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Voter
Protection Coordinator
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David
Sullivan
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Served as voter protection director
in Ohio in Fall of 2004 while on
leave
from his position as election counsel for the Massachusetts secretary
of
state.
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Florida Democratic
Party | 214 South
Bronough Street | Tallahassee, FL 32301
850-222-3411 >
(elected chair in May
2005) Represented Florida's 5th
CD in Congress from 1993-2003 (defeated in 2002 by Ginney Waite
Browne). Elected to the Florida State Senate in 1982.
Elected to the Dunnellon City Council and served seven years on the
Council, including two terms as mayor. Math teacher at Dunnellon
Middle School. B.A.
from the University of Florida, 1973.
First Vice Chair Diane Glasser
Vice Chair Mayor Clarence Anthony
Vice Chair Former Congresswoman Carrie Meek
Vice Chair Rep. Luis Garcia
Secretary Janee Murphy
Treasurer Rudolph Parker Chair Emeritus
Charles Whitehead
DNC Members: Jon Ausman,
Terrie Brady, Mitch Ceasar, Representative Joyce Cusack, Diane Glasser,
Commissioner Allan Katz, Mayor Raul Martinez, Chuck Mohlke, Janee
Murphy, Rudolph Parker
Executive
Director
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Leonard
Joseph
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(announced Jan. 2007) Ran the FDP's
Orlando-based political operation in 2006. Deputy campaign
manager for Fernando Ferrer for New
York mayoral campaign. Worked on John Kerry's
presidential campaign starting in January 2003 in the political
department; a regional political director and served as Delaware state
director in the primary; regional political director (OH, MI, PA,
WV) in the fall campaign. Director of
financial services at the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee. Graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in American
history/politicial science, 1996. Native of
Jamaica, Queens, New York.
Political Coordinator
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Melissa
Lamkay |
Regional Director
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B.J.
Chiszar |
Regional Director
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Nate
Jenkins |
Voter File Director
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Ben
King |
| Communications Director |
Eric
Jotkoff |
(announced July 9, 2008) Most recently an advance staffer on Clinton for
President. Communications director and legislative assistant to
U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney (FL-16). In 2006 worked on Mahoney's campaign as
press secretary and research director, and earlier on Sen. Rod Smith's
2006 gubernatorial campaign. Worked on John Kerry's 2004
presidential campaign.
Finance
Director
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Christina
Boltin |
Deputy Finance Director
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Alexis
Searfoss |
| Central Florida Finance Director
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Kirk
Sander |
| South Florida Finance
Director |
Kyle
Schulberg |
Deputy
Comptroller
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Elliott
McCurry |
Director of
Party Affairs
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Mildred
"Milli" Smith |
Director of
Cabinet Affairs
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Justin
Day |
Director of
the Chair's Office
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Sandra
Lyon
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Jeff Ryan, House Victory Finance
Director
Nina Earle, House Victory Deputy
Finance Director
John Laurance Reid, Senate Victory
Political Director
Jens Ruiz, Senate Victory Events Coordinator
Nancy Texeira, Senate Victory Finance Director
Tawana Thompson, Senate Victory Legislative Liason
Obama
primary
2004
Kerry
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