Obama General Election
Campaign Organization, Alaska
revised
April 14, 2009 disclaimer
Obama for America >
Note
this is
before Sen. McCain's
selection of Gov. Palin.
State Director |
Kat Pustay |
State director for Obama's
Alaska
caucus campaign after initially serving as political/press
director. Legislative aide for state Sen. Bill Wielechowski.
Experience also includes associate
for Defenders of Wildlife.
Communications
Director |
Jeff
Giertz |
On leave from position as
communications director for
U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley (IA); served as spokesman on Braley's successful
2006 campaign. Graduate of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005. ...to Nevada
Campaign for Change
General Election
Director |
Pat
DeTemple |
Various positions with Obama for
America during the primaries. Geographic
Information
Systems
Manager for the City of Berkeley, CA, 1996-2006. In 2004 he
co-founded Map the Vote. Experience in community, labor and
political
organizing, negotiations, and campaigns. National field director
for Earth Day in 1990. M.P.A. from Harvard University Kennedy
School of Government, 1988. J.D. from Northeastern University
School of Law, 1981. B.A. in political science from Brown
University, 1974.
Field Director |
Dan
Correa
|
Anchorage
- 2513 Fairbanks St., Anchorage, AK 99503 (907)
677-1532 ...grand
opening July 8, 2008
Anchorage - 1015 W. 7th
Avenue, Anchorage, AK ...grand opening Aug. 13, 2008
Fairbanks
- 3352 College Road, 2nd Floor (Denali Building), Fairbanks, AK
99709 ...opening July 23, 2008
Juneau
- 431 N. Franklin Street, #301, Juneau, AK 99801 ...opening July 23, 2008
Mat-Su - 268 E. Fireweed Avenue, Suite 5, Palmer, AK
99645 ...opening
July 23, 2008
Alaska Democratic Party |
2602 Fairbanks Street | Anchorage, AK 99503-2428
(907) 258-3050 >
(assumed
the position of ADP chair in summer 2007 and elected Feb. 5, 2008;
previously served as ADP vice-chair for four years) Currently a
Realtor® and treasurer of a local Community Council. Served
on the Anchorage School Board in the mid 1990's. A former
vice-president of the AK State PTA; president of Wendler PTSA,
Montessori Elementary, and Bartlett Democratic Club; also a former
president and the current webmaster for the Alaska Women¹s
Political Caucus. Campaign experience includes running for Alaska
State Senate and running the successful Assembly campaign for Melinda
Taylor. B.Ed. from University of Alaska. Raised on Army
bases from Ft. Bragg, NC to Ft. Richardson, AK.
First Vice Chair Blake Johnson
(Kenai) Secretary Carolyn
Covington (Palmer) Treasurer Ron
Rivas (Anchorage) Past State Chair
Jake Metcalfe
National Committee Members: John
Davies (Fairbanks) and Cindy Spanyers (Juneau)
Executive
Director
|
Mike
Coumbe |
(since
January 2005) Coumbe has worked in the governor’s office and for
the legislature, and has been involved through the years in campaigns
to elect Democrats to local, legislative and statewide offices.
In
2004, he was the state party's Legislative Coordinated Campaign
Director.
Coordinated
Campaign Director/Communications
Director
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Kay
Brown
|
President of Kay Brown Communications from
1996-2005; worked with non-profit, corporate and political clients
developing and implementing communication strategies. A former
state Representative, Brown served in the Alaska House of
Representatives for ten years, 1987-96. The State of Alaska's
Director of Oil and Gas, 1982-86. She also has worked as a
journalist, technology consultant and legislative aide.
Technology
Director
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Angel
Bunger
|
(started Dec. 2005) Is also a partner of Earth Bed &
Breakfast in Anchorage since mid-2005. Voter file manager on
Knowles for U.S. Senate, 2004. Voter file manager for the Alaska
Democratic Party, 1996-2000.
Legislative Campaign
Director Heather
Beaty
Note: Fairbanks Mayor Jim Whitaker, a
Republican, has endorsed Obama. (reported Aug. 12, 2008)
Obama
caucuses
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