Barack
Obama-Organization, Rhode Island
revised March 11, 2008
OBAMA FOR AMERICA
Headquarters: 235 Westminster, Providence, RI 401 277
2008
| State Director |
Mike Dorsey |
Dorsey previously served
as
the Obama's Missouri state director and earlier as Midwest political
director
in Chicago. Directed the Rhode Island Democratic Coordinated
Campaign
in 2006. Worked on Patty Wetterling's U.S. Senate campaign in
Minnesota
(she withdrew in Jan. 2006). Deputy research director for the
Democratic
Senatorial Campaign Committee during the 2004 cycle. Graduate of
the University of Kansas. Minnesota native.
| Political Director |
Jarel LaPan |
LaPan previously served as
Obama's
Massachusetts state director and earlier in the political department on
the NH Primary campaign doing health care, environment, disabilities
and
sportsmen. Moved to NH from Montana, where she worked on health
policy
and legislative matters for the Governor's office. In Fall 2004
LaPan
was early vote/vote by mail deputy at the DNC. Worked on Howard
Dean's
2003-04 NH primary campaign first as a Seacoast area organizer then as
the regional director in the Concord office. Graduate of The
George
Washington University with a degree in political science, May
2003.
From Santa Fe, New Mexico.
| Field Director |
Tim Fraser |
Fraser previously served
as
Obama's Arkansas state director and earlier as a regional director on
his
NH primary campaign.
| Deputy Field
Director |
Julia Fox |
Previously worked on the
campaign
in Massachusetts.
| Field
Organizer/Latino
Outreach |
Chris Torres |
Previously served as
Obama’s
New Mexico field director. Worked on the 2006 Democratic
coordinated
campaign in Rhode Island.
Communications
Director
|
Caleb Weaver
|
Previously communications
director on Obama's Missouri primary campaign; currently in his final
semester at Harvard Law School where he headed Harvard Law Students for
Obama. Experience includes staff of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, 2004 Holden for Governor
campaign in Missouri, staff of Gov. Bob
Holden, and the 2002 Carnahan for Senate campaign. Undergraduate
degree from Yale, 2001. St. Louis native.
| Deputy Press
Secretary |
Erin Fitzgerald
|
Endorsements
Congressman Patrick Kennedy (Jan.
28, 2008)
Attorney General Patrick Lynch (Feb.
9, 2008)
Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (Feb.
14, 2008)
Left the Republican party
in 2007 and is now an Independent. Appointed to the U.S. Senate
as
a Republican in Nov. 1999, elected in 2000, defeated in 2006
re-election
bid. Mayor of Warwick 1992-99; previously served on the
Warwick
City Council.
also
Brown University basketball coach Craig
Robinson is Obama's brother-in-law
Joe Fernandez
Finance Co-Chair Jeffrey M. Padwa
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