Campaigns & Elections articles from December 2003

Campaigns & Elections archives from December 2003

New year, new look.
December 1, 2003... Two thousand four will feature elections from president of the United States to city council and everything in between. To keep up with all of these, Campaigns & Elections magazine is introducing some changes in both design and content. ...

Missing the mark on Young Voters.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... While I appreciate C & E's efforts in the October/November 2003 issue at tackling the "Young Voters" issue, I believe they have missed the mark. Sure, phone banking might be more effective than direct mail; and certainly Internet organizing is...

Eight Senate races to watch in '04.(On the Record)
December 1, 2003... As the calendar rolls into 2004, and the raucous presidential primary season heats up, there are plenty of U.S. Senate races that bear watching. At least eight contests promise to be tough battles, with half of them located in four contiguous...

No registration required.(Inside Politics)
December 1, 2003... North Dakota is the only state that does not require voter registration. And folks there see no reason to change that, thank you very much. "What we have presently works quite well," said Secretary of State Al Jaeger (R). "Nobody's ever...

From cradle to grave to the Web.(Inside Politics)
December 1, 2003... The locations for gravesites of many statesmen are well-known, whether it be President Kennedy at Arlington Cemetery or Grant's Tomb in New York City. Less famous are the final resting places for thousands for former members of Congress, state...

Teens take advantage of fleeting voting rights.(Inside Politics)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... In the end, 16-year-olds turned out in healthy numbers in Baltimore's oddly scheduled primary in September 2003. Due to a quirk in state election laws aggravated by bickering between elected officials, the primary was held in September, a...

The primary season.(Play Political Trivia)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... 1. Which presidential candidate received his party's nomination without having run in a single primary? 2. Where will the first presidential primary of 2004 take place? 3. What state introduced the first presidential primary? 4....

Firm changes.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Frank Schubert, former partner in Goddard Claussen Porter Novelli, established his own firm, Schubert Public Affairs, in Sacramento, Calif. Schubert managed public affairs campaigns throughout the country for Goddard. His new firm will provide...

Firm changes.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Robin A. Pressman left Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, a Democratic polling firm, to open her own firm in Washington, D.C. She did message development, targeting and polling for numerous campaigns at Greenberg. Robin A. Pressman Consulting...

Firm changes.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Mindshare Internet Campaigns, headquartered in Washington, D.C., opened a new office in Pittsburgh, Pa., with Danielle Robinson in charge. She manages online promotional campaigns for national and international clients.

Firm changes.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Phoenix, Ariz., Republican political consulting firm of Cantelme, Kaasa & Associates changed its name to reflect a new management team. Now called Kaasa, Milton & Reithmann, the new partners are Tom Milton, the former vice mayor of Phoenix...

Firm changes.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Pericles consulting is a new consulting firm headquartered in New York that offers interactive marketing strategies to candidates and advocacy organizations. Four of the five founders--Tom Hespos, Eric Porres, Denise SooHoo and Jim...

Firm changes.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Baltimore-based law firm of Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler has formed an alliance with Sandler, Reiff & Young, a Washington law firm that specializes in election law. Joseph E. Sandler and Neil Reiff formerly worked for the Democratic...

Firm changes.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The University of Southern California and California Institute of Technology's Center for the Study of Law and Politics has joined forces with the Initiative and Referendum Institute (IRI) in Leesburg, Va. IRI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan...

New jobs.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Angelo Terrana, former press secretary for U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, (R-Pa.), has become an account executive in the Washington office of Hill & Knowlton. He has not been replaced yet in Shuster's office.

New jobs.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Former U.S. Rep. Tim Roemer, (D-Ind.) is the new president of the Center for National Policy, a left-leaning think tank. Prior, he worked for Johnston and Associates, a consulting firm run by his father-in-law, former U.S. Sen. J. Bennett...

New jobs.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Leah Levy returned to Empower America in Washington as vice president of development. She was part of the conservative think tank's original staff. Most recently, Levy was scheduler for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R.-N.C.) Levy replaced...

New jobs.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Andrew Miller is a new partner at Prism Public Affairs in Washington, D.C. Miller was a senior vice president at Powell Tate Weber Shandwick Public Affairs and a longtime D.C. correspondent for the Kansas City Star. Prism also hired Michael...

New jobs.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Former U.S. Rep. Frank Riggs (R.-Calif.) became vice president of government relations and business development for Sylvan Education Solutions and Connections Academy, a division of Educate Inc. in Baltimore, Md. Before joining the private...

New jobs.(People & Organizations)
December 1, 2003... Tracy Marie Allman joined Campaigns & Elections magazine as the director of political programs and operations handling seminars and the annual Political Pages issue. Prior, Allman was the executive director of the American Association of...

Party lines.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Mike Turk, executive director of the New Mexico Republican Party, resigned after five months in the job. He said he was leaving because of differences of opinion between himself and the party's chairwoman, Ramsay Gorham.

Campaign consultant/client sign-ups.
December 1, 2003... A.B. Data Ltd./D - direct mail Joe Lieberman, President '04 Tom Daschle (in), SD, U.S. Sen. '04 Harry Reid (in), NV, U.S. Sen. '04 Arena Communications/R - direct mail Jim Nussle (in), IA, H01, '04 Tom Latham (in),...

Political calendar.(Calendar)
December 1, 2003... DECEMBER 2003 2 Vermont Republican Party executive committee meeting, Montpelier 4 District of Columbia Democratic Party monthly meeting 5-6 Pennsylvania Democratic Party state committee meeting, Grantville 5-7 Florida...

George "Duf" Sundheim: Chairman, California Republican Party.(Movers & Shakers)
December 1, 2003... Career Background Business attorney for 23 years; former member, Lincoln Club of Northern California, California Master Plan for Education, Committee to Reform and Restructure the California Republican Party. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

James Gee: deputy chief of staff, Gov. James E. McGreevey (D-N.J.).(Movers & Shakers)
December 1, 2003... Career Background Intern for the late New Jersey Assemblyman John S. Watson (D). Has participated in more than 20 electoral races, including serving as political director for the statewide New Jersey State Democratic Committee's 2001...

Courting disaster: a case in North Carolina will decide if candidates can be sued over ads.(Feature)
December 1, 2003... RALEIGH, N.C.--North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper heads into 2004 facing the very real prospect that he will have to interrupt his re-election race to sit under the spotlight of a deposition and hand over boxes of campaign documents to...

Help to the states; how an obscure Washington, D.C. campaign organization assists in local races.(Feature)
December 1, 2003... Campaigns for state legislative offices sometimes are run on a local level by the candidates, as low-cost, grass-roots affairs, but in the last few years an increasing number of Democratic aspirants have received help from the nation's capital....

The winners and losers of 2003.(Political Consultant Win-Loss Records)
December 1, 2003... AFTER EACH two-year election cycle, Campaigns & Elections presents the win-loss records of political consultants across the nation. This year we are introducing a bonus edition covering the 2003 races at the federal, state and local levels. ...

The birth of a recall; insiders explain how they started the process that toppled a California governor.(Opinion)
December 1, 2003... It was perhaps prophetic that following a phone call from U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R) in early 2003, we went to a Sacramento watering hole called the Long Shot to contemplate how to pull off what most political experts and media pundits said...

Writing the fundraising letter right.(Opinion)
December 1, 2003... When writing a fundraising letter for a political candidate, committee or cause, the mission is to inspire the reader to do something he or she had no intention of doing: part with their hard-earned money and receive no tangible or concrete...

After surviving California, punch cards are hanging around.(Voting Matters)
December 1, 2003... In late spring 2003, Los Angeles Registrar Conny McCormack invited reporters to a retirement party for the county's punch-card voting system. While tongue-in-cheek, the occasion nonetheless marked a turning point for the nation's largest...

Political Web players.(Internet)
December 1, 2003... Mike Hailey Austin is considered among the most competitive political news environments in the country and its newspaper participants already form a crowded field. Now the Texas capital press corps has a relatively new addition to its...

The young and the restless.(The Online Campaigner)
December 1, 2003... One out of every eight eligible voters in the United States is between the ages of 18 and 24. In an era of virtual parity in party allegiance, campaigners should be devoting considerable resources to finding young people who will support them,...

Life After Reform: When the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Meets Politics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Life After Reform: When the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Meets Politics, edited by Michael J. Malbin, Rowman & Littlefield, 225 pages. Provides a comprehensive look at the new federal campaign finance law, its practical implications, and...

The Reagans: Portrait of a Marriage.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... The Reagans: Portrait of a Marriage, by Anne Edwards. St. Martin's Press, 420 pages. Profiles the personal and public lives of former President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan. Starts the story when he was a newly divorced actor...

That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, by Robert H. Jackson, Oxford, 290 pages. Memoirs of former Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Attorney General Jackson, who was FDR's close advisor and friend. The collection of...

The Case Against Lawyers: How Lawyers, Politicians and Bureaucrats Have Turned the Law into an Instrument of Tyranny--and What We as Citizens Have to Do About It.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... The Case Against Lawyers: How Lawyers, Politicians and Bureaucrats Have Turned the Law into an Instrument of Tyranny--and What We as Citizens Have to Do About It, by Catherine Crier, Broadway Books, 245 pages. Blasts the legal process and...

One-Car Caravan: On the Road with the 2004 Democrats Before America Tunes In.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... One-Car Caravan: On the Road with the 2004 Democrats Before America Tunes In, by Walter Shapiro, Public Affairs, 220 pages. Each presidential campaign cycle spawns dozens of books and other post-mortems on the past contest. Now comes a...

Buyer's guide: political graduate schools.
December 1, 2003... WHERE TO FIND IT, WHERE TO BUY IT POLITICAL GRADUATE SCHOOLS All information was provided by the companies listed. They are responsible for its accuracy and completeness. For updates, see the Campaigns & Elections Web site at...

Political professional graduate schools consultant and expert q&a.(Political Professional Graduate Schools: Questions and Answer)
December 1, 2003... C&E: How do you think students in college and graduate school today view careers in government service? Are they more or less inclined to enter the public sector than 10 or 15 years ago? How about lobbying or public affairs? BATES:...

Candidate confidentiality agreements and PAC donations; how effective is direct mail?(Campaign Doctor)
December 1, 2003... With all the junk that people get through the postal service, is direct mail really all that effective? Bad news: People spend more time eating in their cars than reading direct mail--and for the same reason. They're stressed, busy and...

Off the record.
December 1, 2003... What does Hannibal Lecter have for dinner at the White House? Condoleeza Rice. "President Bush said the attacks in Iraq have caused people to run, and he is right. At last count there were nine Democrats running against him." --Jay...