Barack
Obama-Organization, North Carolina
revised January 19, 2009
OBAMA FOR AMERICA
Headquarters: 130
East Morgan Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
| State Director |
Craig Schirmer |
State director on Obama's
Wisconsin
primary campaign (Feb. 19), GOTV director on his South Carolina
primary
campaign, and helped oversee and execute strategies in the other three
early states (IA, NH, NV). Los Angeles-based political
consultant.
Did early work on California State Treasurer Phil Angelides' campaign
for governor. Campaign
manager on Erskine Bowles' 2002 race for U.S. Senate in North Carolina
(open Helms seat; lost to Elizabeth Dole). Campaign manager on
Brian
Schweitzer's 2000 race for U.S. Senate in Montana (lost to Conrad
Burns). Statewide field director on Vice President Al Gore's New
Hampshire primary campaign, 1999-2000. State director on South
Carolina
Democrats' Coordinated Campaign in 1998. Directed statewide field
and
grassroots operations for Clinton/Gore '96 in Florida. Political
aide
to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in Washington and Boston. Graduate of
University
of
Wisconsin-Madison.
| Political Director |
Eureka Gilkey |
(announced Oct. 10,
2007)
Gilkey started out as the campaign's deputy political director in
Chicago,
then served as the Georgia state director and after that as Texas
political
director. National training director for EMILY's List during the
2006 cycle. Deputy political director of NARAL Pro-Choice America
during the 2004 election cycle. PAC coordinator at the AFL-CIO
during
the 2002 election cycle. Message and polling coordinator at the
DNC.
Gilkey has worked on several campaigns, including Diane E. Watson for
Congress
(CA-32) and Ron Kirk for U.S. Senate in Texas. First job out of
college
was political assistant at EMILY's List. Graduate of Howard
University.
Texas native. [Note. As national training director for
EMILY's
List, Gilkey collaborated with Obama's Leadership PAC, Hopefund, to
launch
"Yes We Can" -- a training program for young African American and
Hispanic
activists].
| Field Director |
Katina Tsongas |
Most recently worked on
the
campaign in Cincinnati; started out on Obama's NH primary campaign
where
she was a regional field director, based in Concord. Came
to
the campaign from Washington, DC where she was a regional field
director
for Environmental Defense's Climate Change Campaign. Worked on
Sen.
Tom Daschle’s campaign in 2004. Full-time volunteer on Wesley
Clark's
2004 NH primary campaign. Experienced the 1992 NH primary at age
14 when her father, the late Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-MA) was a
candidate.
M.P.P. from Harvard. Undergraduate degree in urban studies from
Brown
University.
| Communications
Director |
Dan Leistikow |
Previously communications
director
for Obama's Wisconsin primary campaign. Communications director
on
John Edwards 2007-08 Iowa caucus campaign. Communications
director
to Gov. Jim Doyle (D-WI) starting in 2004, and also worked on Doyle's
2006
re-election campaign; joined Doyle's staff in Feb. 2003 as press
secretary.
Communications director for Missouri Senator Jean Carnahan’s 2002
campaign.
Deputy communications director for Carnahan's Senate office in
Washington,
D.C., 2001. Communications director for the Washington State
Coordinated
Campaign in 2000. Chief speechwriter to Washington, D.C. Mayor
Anthony
A. Williams from Feb. 1999 to June 2000. He also served in the
offices
of Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell and Hawaii Congressman Neil
Abercrombie.
1998 graduate of Georgetown University.
Marti Adams
Chris Sopher
| Deputy Political Director and GOTV Political Director |
Dan
Kanninen |
Started on the campaign in the
political department in the Wisconsin primary, and then served as the
early vote lead in Ohio. Chief of staff to Wisconsin state
Senator Bob Jauch (D-Poplar) for four years, and has almost a decade of
experience in the Wisconsin State Capitol.
| Early Vote Director |
Mike
Moffo
|
Field director on the Jan. 19
Nevada caucus campaign; field director on the Feb. 5 New Mexico
campaign; regional field director in San Antonio for the March 4 Texas
primary/precinct conventions and statewide co-field director for the
March 29 county conventions. In 2006 Moffo served as
field/GOTV
consultant for the DCCC, and briefly as field director on Tom Suozzi's
2006 campaign for governor in New York. Strategic planning role
(online
organizing and targeting for field and paid voter contact) on Jon
Corzine's
2005 campaign for governor in New Jersey. In the 2003-04 cycle,
Moffo
was a field staffer on Kerry's Iowa caucus campaign in the Sioux City
office,
then field director on the Feb. 3 Delaware primary campaign, for the
Feb.
14 Washington, DC caucuses, and for the March 9 Louisiana primary; in
the
general election he was field director for the Arizona Democratic
Coordinated
Campaign; and finally he served as a field consultant on the Christine
Gregoire for Governor re-count team. Graduate of Boston
University.
Regional Field Directors include:
northeastern North Carolina (Elizabeth
City) - Lauren Champaign
38 offices as of May
6, 2008
Asheville - 107 Merrimon Avenue,
Asheville, NC 28801
Boone - 920 West King Street,
Suite
B, Boone, NC 28607
Burlington - 113 East Front
Street,
Burlington, NC 28144
Chapel Hill - 504 West Franklin
Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Charlotte - 1523 Elizabeth
Avenue,
Suite 120, Charlotte, NC 28204
Charlotte satellite (University area)
- 7925 N Tryon St, , Charlotte, NC 28204 ...grand
opening April 28, 2008
Clayton - 34 Oleander Dr.,
Clayton,
NC 27527
Clinton - 305 E. Main St.,
Clinton,
NC 28328
Durham - 112 West Main St., 2nd
Fl, Durham, NC 27701
Elizabeth City - 427 South
Hughes
Boulevard, Elizabeth City, NC 27909 ...grand
opening March 29, 2008
Fayetteville - 214 Hay
Street,
2nd Floor (Rear entrance), Fayetteville, NC 28301
Gastonia - 413 W. Main Ave.,
Ste.
110, Gastonia, NC 28052
Goldsboro - 210 S. William St.,
Goldsboro, NC 27530
Greensboro - 500 West Friendly
Avenue,
Greensboro, NC 27401
Greenville - 414 Evans Street,
Greenville,
NC 27858
Hendersonville - 614
Spartanburg Highway, Hendersonville, NC 28792
Hickory - 258 1st Avenue NW,
Hickory,
NC 28601
High Point - 710 East Washington
Drive, High Point, NC 27260
Jacksonville - 468-A Western
Ave.,
Jacksonville, NC 28546
Lexington - 223 S. Main St.,
Lexington,
NC 27292
Lumberton - 1209 N. Pine St.,
Lumberton,
NC 28358
Monroe - 616B West
Roosevelt Blvd., Monroe, NC 28110
Mount Airy - 228 Franklin St.,
2nd
Fl., Mount Airy, NC 27030
New Bern - 806 Queen
Street,
New Bern, NC 28560
North Raleigh - 8321 Six Forks
Rd.,
Raleigh, NC 27615
Raleigh - 130 East Morgan
Street,
Raleigh, NC 27601
Rocky Mount - 1956 Stone Rose
Drive,
Rocky Mount, NC 27804
Salisbury - 215 Depot Street,
Suite
B, Salisbury, NC 28144
Shelby - 205 S. Washington St.,
Shelby, NC 28150
Southern Pines - 175 W.
Pennsylvania
Ave., Southern Pines, NC 28387
Statesville - 240 W. Broad
St., Statesville, NC 28677
Washington - 408 N. Market St.,
Washington, NC 27880
West Charlotte - 1520 West
Blvd.,
Charlotte, NC 28208
Wilmington - 511 North 3rd
Street,
Wilmington, NC 28401
Wilson - 1211 Tarboro St.,
Wilson,
NC 27895
Windsor - 102 E. Granville St.,
Windsor, NC 27983
Winston-Salem - 8 West 3rd
Street,
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Endorsements include
U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield (NC-1)
(switched
from supporting John Edwards on Jan. 11, 2008)
U.S. Rep. David Price (NC-4) (announced
April 23, 2008 with other former Edwards supporters)
U.S. Rep. Mel Watt (NC-12) (announced
April 23, 2008 with other former Edwards supporters)
Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue (candidate
for governor) (March 12, 2008)
Treasurer Richard Moore (candidate
for governor) (Feb. 2008)
29 state legislators (announced April
22, 2008)
43 mayors, mayors pro tem and former
mayors (announced April 23,
2008)
including several announced earlier
Durham Mayor Bill Bell (approx
Nov. 1, 2007)
Greensboro Mayor Yvonne Johnson (March
24, 2008)
former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt
former Edwards supporters including Ed
Turlington, Edwards' former National General Chairman (announced
April 23, 2008)
Adelaide Daniels Key - philanthropist
of Beaverdam and former John Edwards supporter (announced April 30,
2008)
more superdelegates
Everett Ward
Dannie Montgomery
Joyce Brayboy
and
Charlotte Observer (05/04/08)
also note
national communications
director Robert Gibbs is a North Carolina State University graduate.
post-primary
North Carolina Democratic Party
Chairman Jerry Meek and North Carolina DNC
member Jeanette Council (announced
May 7, 2008)
U.S. Rep. Brad Miller (May 8,
2008)
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