Republican
Committees-Organization
2005-06 Edition --updated
Dec. 2, 2006
Republican Governors Association
555 11th Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC . 20004
Chairman |
Mitt
Romney (MA) |
(from the end of Nov. 2005)
Elected Governor in Nov. 2002; did not seek re-election in 2006.
President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, 1999-2002.
Republican nominee for United States Senate, 1994. CEO of Bain Capital,
Inc., which he founded in 1984. A Vice President of Bain & Company,
Inc., a Boston-based management consulting firm, 1978-84. MBA from
Harvard Business School and JD from Harvard Law School, both in 1975.
B.A. from Brigham Young University, 1971. Born 1947 in Michigan (son
of George Romney who served three terms as Governor of Michigan).
EXECUTIVE
Executive Director |
Philip A. Musser |
(Nov. 2005) Vice president of
The Dutko Group Companies, announced July 2004. A deputy director
in organizing the G8 Summit, in Sea Island, GA. Deputy chief of staff
to Secretaries Alphonso Jackson and Mel Martinez at the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development. Senior staff member for the 2001
Presidential Inaugural Committee. A lead advance representative for
the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2000 in Austin, Texas. Assistant vice
president to Dutko’s state and local lobbying firm, K*N*P, Jan. 1998-Aug.
2000. Worked on Dole for President. B.A. in History from Kenyon
College in Gambier, Ohio.
Executive
Assistant |
Betsy
Savage |
General
Counsel and Chief Financial Officer |
Charlie
Spies |
Election law counsel at the
RNC in the 2004 cycle; started at the RNC in 2001. Government Relations
group of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn in Washington, DC.
Legal and policy advisor to FEC Chairman Darryl R. Wold. An associate
at Carr Goodson Warner in Washington, DC. Has worked in the Counsels
Office at the NRSC, and been a policy advisor to Republican candidates
in Michigan. J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in1998;
B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1995.
Budget
Director |
Mindy
Anderson |
Special
Assistant |
William
Gideon |
POLITICAL
Political
Director |
Gentry
Collins |
{has also done consulting for
the Commonwealth PAC and the Massachusetts Republican State Congressional
Committee} Deputy chairman/executive director of the Iowa Republican
Party in 2004. Managed Doug Gross' 2002 campaign for governor.
B.A. in political science from Iowa State University in Ames, 1998.
Deputy
Political Director |
Troy
A. McCurry |
(June 2006) Aide to Congressman
Joe Wilson (R-SC). Law degree from Catholic University Law School.
Undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia. Native of Augusta,
GA.
COMMUNICATIONS
Press
Secretary |
Rob
Van Raaphorst |
Came to the RGA from Butte,
MT, where he was a television reporter for a local ABC affiliate.
Also worked in customer relations at Goal Financial, and as a production
assistant at Fox Sports Net, as well as an intern for Sen. Conrad Burns
and at the ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh, PA. Graduate of Indiana University
of Pennsylvania.
Special
Assistant |
Lindsay
Sweetin |
FINANCE
Finance
Director |
Caitlin
Schroder |
Dep.
Finance Director |
Elizabeth
Verrill |
Finance
Committee Director |
Angela
Danhof |
Events Director for the 2005
Presidential Inaugural Committee, in charge of the Candlelight Dinner.
Events Director for Michigan Victory 2004, based in Lansing, managing Michigan
presidential rallies for the RNC. Senior Account Executive and Practice
Group Director for the Sterling Corporation in Lansing, MI. Finance
Director for Dick Posthumus' 2002 gubernatorial campaign in Michigan.
Deputy Finance Director for Spencer Abraham's U.S. Senate contest in 2000.
Graduate of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.
Events
Director |
Robyn
Knecht |
Major
Donor Coordinators |
Kate
Szafran |
Finance
Assistant |
Susan
Russel |
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Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action |
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