Obama General Election
Campaign Organization, Georgia revised
April 14, 2009disclaimer
In the first part of September
the campaign pulled significant
resources out of Georgia, but that was not the end of the campaign in
the state.
"The Obama campaign was a huge boost here; having more field staff
organizing and registering voters was a definite plus. Of course,
when OfA pulled staff out of Georgia, that was problematic, but what I
believe a lot of people miss is that when that happened, we had
literally thousands of trained volunteers to make up the staff
difference without missing a beat. In the end, this was the
largest, most complex, and most effective field effort ever seen in
Georgia... When you compare the Obama/McCain spread versus the
numbers from four years ago, you can see how far we've come."
-Georgia
Democratic operative
Obama for America
State
Director
Antwaun
Griffin
Ran the South Carolina political desk on Sen. Chris Dodd's
presidential campaign. Has served as campaign manager and special
assistant to Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA). In 2006 worked as
regional campaign director for the Virginia Democratic Party, briefly
campaign manager on Stuart Simms for Attorney General in Maryland, and
earlier on Doug Duncan's gubernatorial campaign in Maryland.
Political director for Sen. John Edwards' 2004 Virginia and Ohio
primary campaigns. A regional campaign coordinator for the DSCC
in Louisiana in 2002.
Communications
Director
Caroline Adelman
Started
on the campaign as a national press lead. Georgia press secretary
for the Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004. Georgia press secretary
for the Gore-Lieberman campaign in 2000. Georgia press secretary
for President Clinton's re-election campaign in 1996. Press
secretary to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. Georgia press
secretary for the Clinton for President campaign in 1992. Worked
in the Capitol Hill offices of U.S. Rep. Joan Kelly Horne (D-MO) and
U.S. Sen. Harris Wofford (D- PA). Native of Atlanta; wife of
State Sen. David Adelman.
Political
Director
Ashley Collier
Field director on Obama's
Georgia primary campaign. Came to the campaign from Attorney
General Thurbert Baker's
office.
Campaign for
Change |
1080 Spring Street | Atlanta, GA 30309
Field
Director
LeJamiel "Lee" Goodall
Degree
in communication from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., 2003.
Deputy
Field
Director
Lance Orchid
Deputy
Field
Director
Alice Brathwaite
initial field director Alex Lofton
(shifted to Ohio in first part of Sept.) Border state coordinator
on Obama's South Carolina primary
campaign (i.e.NC, GA and VA), also ran the Baltimore County office
during the Maryland primary campaign.
Offices a) WXIA-TV
states that the first five offices to open, on Aug. 2, were the Spring
Street headquarters in Atlanta, Athens, Jonesboro, "on Concord Road SE
in Smyrna" and in Valdosta.
b)
Early
offices listed on website: Albany, Athens, midtown Atlanta, downtown
Atlanta, Augusta,
Cumming, Gainesville, Hartwell, Jonesboro, Thomasville, Valdosta,
Winder.
c) 15 offices announced Aug. 22: Augusta, Brunswick, Columbus, South
Columbus, Dublin, Decatur, East Point, Gainesville, Jesup, LaGrange,
Macon, Monroe, Newnan, Warner Robins, Woodstock.
d) By Aug. 27, the
campaign reported 27 offices, listed below. Albany - 407 S Slappey Blvd, Albany, GA
31701
Athens - 2092 Prince
Ave., Athens, GA 30606
Atlanta
Office, Downtown (Morris Brown) - 643 Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr., Atlanta,
GA 30314
Augusta
Satellite Office - 214 8th St., Augusta, GA 30901
Augusta
- 852 Broad St., Augusta, GA 30901
Brunswick
- 1919 Glynn Avenue, Brunswick, GA 31520
Carrollton
- 119 Bradley St., Carrollton, GA 30116
Columbus
- 3160 Macon Rd, Store 4A, Columbus, GA 31906 South Columbus - 905
Third Avenue, Columbus, GA 31901
Conyers
- 1070 Iris Dr SW, Suite D100, Conyers, GA 30094
Covington
-2143 Washington Street, Covington, GA 30014
Cumming - 600 Peachtree Parkway, Suite 101,
Cumming, GA 30041
Decatur
- 2752 East Ponce de Leon, Suite F & G, Decatur, GA 30030
Douglasville - 8337
Office Park Dr., Douglasville, GA 30134
Dublin - 1505 Rice
Ave, Dublin, GA 31021
College Park-East Point
- The Hilliards Building, 2465 Main Street, East Point, GA 30344
Fayetteville -101
Devant St., Suite 501, Fayetteville, GA 30214 ...opened
Aug. 30, 2008 Gainesville - 1097
Athens St., Gainesville, GA 30501
Hartwell - 200 E.
Johnson St., Hartwell, GA 30643
Jesup
- 179 N. Brunswick St., Jesup, GA 31546
Jonesboro
- 2745 Mt. Zion Rd., Jonesboro, GA 31601
LaGrange
- 411 South Greenwood, La Grange, GA 30240
Macon
- 438 Cotton Avenue, Macon, GA 31201
Marietta
- 1200 Cobb Parkway N, Suite 700, Marietta, GA 30062
Monroe
-124 Sorrells St., Monroe, GA 30655
Newnan
- 25 E. Broad St., Newnan, GA 30263
Rome
-1007 N. Broad St, Suite 100, Rome, GA 30161
Roswell
- 1020 Woodstock Rd., Suite 2108 and 2110, Roswell, GA
30075 ...opened
Aug. 30, 2008
Savannah
- 201 E. York St., Savannah, GA 31401 ...opened Sept. 13, 2008
South
Cobb County - 1025 East-West Conn Suite 604, Austell, GA
30106
Gwinnett
County Regional - 3245 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Rd, Suite S,
Suwanee, GA 30024 ...opened Aug. 30, 2008
Thomasville
-2951 E. Pinetree Blvd., Thomasville, GA 31792
Thomson
- 133 Knox Shopping Center, Thomson, GA 30824
Tifton - 213 3rd Street East, Tifton, GA
31794
Valdosta - 102 E. Adair St., Valdosta, GA
31601
Warner Robins - 1770
Watson Blvd., Warner Robins, GA 31088
Winder - 144 East
Midland Ave., Winder, GA 30680
Woodstock - 180 Parkway 575, Suite 140, Woodstock,
GA 30188
Democratic Party of Georgia | 1100 Spring
St., Suite 408 | Atlanta, GA 30309 678-278-2008>
Chairwoman
Jane
V. Kidd
(elected Jan. 2007) Served
as a State Representative from Athens, and ran for the State Senate in
2006. Public relations consultant, specializing in higher
education. Campaign
manager for congressional candidate, State Sen. Don Johnson and upon
his election served as Congressman Johnson's district director. Elected to the Lavonia City
Council at age 27 and served three terms. Graduate of the
University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass
Communication. Daughter
of former Georgia Governor Ernest Vandiver and the grand-niece of
Senator Richard B. Russell.
Executive Director
Matt
Weyandt
(from June 2007) Finance director
and deputy campaign manager on Jim Martin's campaign for Lieutenant
Governor in 2006. Regional director with Grassroots Campaigns,
Inc.in California, training and managing organizers and canvassers for
the DNC's 2004 Presidential Grassroots Fundraising Program.
Worked on the finance staff for Shirley Franklin's first campaign for Atlanta Mayor in 2001. Graduate of the Atlanta
public schools and Emory University. Native Georgian.
Communications
Director
Martin
Matheny
(joined the state party in Feb.
2007) Experience includes
communications director on Doug Haines' 12th District congressional
primary campaign in 2004, and earlier in the cycle was a field
organizer for Dick Gephardt in the Iowa caucuses. Field staffer
and deputy political director for Jim Humphries' congressional campaign
in West Virginia in 2002. Graduate of the University of
Georgia. Native
Georgian, originally from Athens.
Finance
Director
Tim
Alborg
Alborg has worked for the
California Democratic Party as well as in the television news business
and for Linden Labs.
