Campaigns & Elections articles from September 2003

Campaigns & Elections archives from September 2003

2004 Public Affairs Pollie Awards and Conference--Las Vegas.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... March 28-30, 2004 will be the AAPC's Public Affairs Pollie Awards and Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Bellagio. Along with the warm desert sun and fun spirited activities the conference will include numerous panels featuring the...

Chapter to hold elections and screening of presidential ads in NYC.
September 1, 2003... The Mid-Atlantic Chapter is gearing lip this month for a spectacular event in September in New York City. Members are invited to a special screening at the Museum of Television and Radio to watch "Madison Avenue Goes To Washington: The History...

Will Dean's rise be Gephardt's opening? Using Gephardt as the anti-Dean, anti-Sharpton battering ram may make sense for Democratic politicians and constituency groups who want to remove the messy threats to party viability posed by Dean and Sharpton.(On The Record)
September 1, 2003... No candidate dominates the field of Democratic presidential candidates yet. That opens the door for plenty of scenario spinning. At the start of this year, Sen. John Kerry appeared best positioned. His name recognition translated into votes...

Moderate Republicans aim to shrink conservative Club's Growth.(Inside Politics)
September 1, 2003... Moderate and conservative Republican groups are shadowboxing in advance of Pennsylvania's 2004 Senate Republican primary, which could presage more intra-party feuds in future election cycles. In one corner is the Republican Main Street...

Campaign veterans dish.(News Feed)
September 1, 2003... We all agree; we all want to see better-run, more genteel, substantive political campaigns. But reaching that state of political Nirvana may be impossible. To point us along the right path, we turned to veteran political writers Jack...

No political consulting for Congressman Cole.(News Feed)
September 1, 2003... When Tom Cole was elected to Congress in 2002, he moved from one political arena to another. The name of the Oklahoma Republican from the 4th Congressional District had long headed the name of one of the state's leading political...

Ed Gillespie was unanimously elected as the new Republican National Committee (RNC) chair.(Party Lines)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Ed Gillespie was unanimously elected as the new Republican National Committee (RNC) chair. He replaces former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot, who left to serve as chair for President Bush's re-election campaign.

Joe Erwin, the new chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, has hired a new executive director to help the party prepare for the Feb. 3, 2004, presidential primary, which is the pivotal first one to be held in the South.(Party Lines)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Joe Erwin, the new chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, has hired a new executive director to help the party prepare for the Feb. 3, 2004, presidential primary, which is the pivotal first one to be held in the South. The new executive...

Jennifer Kuzma was named the field director and political director for the New Hampshire Democratic Party.(Party Lines)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Jennifer Kuzma was named the field director and political director for the New Hampshire Democratic Party. Since January 2003, Kuzma has served as the senior scheduler for Children's Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman. From 1999...

Gary R. Thomson resigned as chairman of the Virginia Republican Party.(Party Lines)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Gary R. Thomson resigned as chairman of the Virginia Republican Party after pleading guilty in federal court to a misdemeanor for his role in a GOP eavesdropping scandal. He was fined $2,000. Thomson will be on supervised probation for two...

Grassroots Enterprise Inc., an online grass-roots public affairs firm chaired by former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry, hired Bill McIntyre as vice president of strategic communications and public affairs.(New Jobs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Grassroots Enterprise Inc., an online grass-roots public affairs firm chaired by former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry, hired Bill McIntyre as vice president of strategic communications and public affairs. McIntyre is a former...

Mindshare Internet Campaigns, an online public affairs firm, opened a Boston office.(New Jobs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Mindshare Internet Campaigns, an online public affairs firm, opened a Boston office. The company's northeast operations will be based there, headed by Brian Reich, a veteran national Democratic political operative and Internet strategist. Reich...

Aristotle International Inc., a political technology firm, hired Bret Garwood as director of political sales for the western region.(New Jobs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Aristotle International Inc., a political technology firm, hired Bret Garwood as director of political sales for the western region. In the last 10 years, he has worked for software firms doing sales and marketing. The firm also hired Fred...

Veteran Pennsylvania political analyst G. Terry Madonna left Millersville University after 36 years to run the new Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa.(New Jobs)
September 1, 2003... Veteran Pennsylvania political analyst G. Terry Madonna left Millersville University after 36 years to run the new Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. In addition, Franklin & Marshall hired...

Former New York Times.(New Jobs)
September 1, 2003... Former New York Times correspondent Adam Clymer joined the Washington, D.C., office of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center, as D.C. director of the National Annenberg Election Survey (NAES). The organization...

Mary Lynn F. Jones is now the online editor and publicist for The Hill, the Capitol Hill newspaper that will be publishing three times a week after the turn of the year.(New Jobs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Mary Lynn F. Jones is now the online editor and publicist for The Hill, the Capitol Hill newspaper that will be publishing three times a week after the turn of the year. Jones was previously senior editor of The American Prospect magazine and...

A group organized to keep Gov. Gray Davis (D) in office, Californians against the costly recall, has built its campaign staff.(Campaign Movements)
September 1, 2003... A group organized to keep Gov. Gray Davis (D) in office, Californians Against the Costly Recall, has built its campaign staff. Those working to fend off what would be only the second successful recall of a governor in American history include...

Reflections Photography, a Northern Virginia-based company, has been awarded an event photography contract by the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign.(Campaign Movements)
September 1, 2003... Reflections Photography, a Northern Virginia-based company, has been awarded an event photography contract by the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign. Company partners Joanne and Steve Amos will handle much of the Bush-Cheney account personally; most of...

Andrea Pringle joined the presidential campaign of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) as deputy campaign manager.(Campaign Movements)
September 1, 2003... Andrea Pringle joined the presidential campaign of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) as deputy campaign manager. Until recently she worked for the presidential campaign of former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (DIll.). Pringle also worked on Jesse...

Sen. Bob Graham's (D-Fla.) presidential campaign hired veteran Democratic operative Mo Elleithee as national press secretary.(Campaign Movements)
September 1, 2003... Sen. Bob Graham's (D-Fla.) presidential campaign hired veteran Democratic operative Mo Elleithee as national press secretary. She will be based in the campaign's Miami Lakes headquarters when not traveling on the campaign trail. Elleithic...

Campaign consultant/client sign-ups.
September 1, 2003... Baker & Associates/R-general and Internet communications Ellen Feld, FL, Broward County Court Judge '03 Julie Lucas (in), VA, Prince William School Board '03 Blaemire Communications/D--direct mail, voter lists and computer services Ronnie...

Play Political Trivia.
September 1, 2003... Answers available online at www.campaignline.com Click "Political Trivia" 1. Upon being informed that his party nominated him for vice president, which future president replied, "I suppose I'll have to take it"? 2. Who was the only...

Political calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
September 1, 2003... SEPTEMBER 4 Democratic presidential candidates' debate, Albuquerque, N.M. 9 Democratic presidential candidates' debate, Baltimore 6 Republican Party of Minnesota state convention, St. Cloud, Mn. 12-13 Pennsylvania Democratic...

California gubernatorial recall candidates.(Career paths: how they got where they are)
September 1, 2003... Below are profiles of four of the more prominent candidates seeking to replace Gov. Gray Davis (D) in the upcoming recall election. At least 135 people have registered. Although there are no party, primaries in the recall election, those listed...

Washington Representatives 2003, Columbia Books Inc.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Washington Representatives 2003, Columbia Books Inc., 1,834 pages. Features the names and contact information for more than 17,000 lobbyists, government affairs and policy professionals, 12,000 clients and 800 political action committees...

Political Polling: Strategic Information in Campaign.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Political Polling: Strategic Information in Campaign, by Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Rowman & Littlefield, 168 pages. Examines polling in political campaigns and explains how questionnaires are designed, samples are selected, calling scripts are...

George Washington's False Teeth: an Unconcentrational Guide to the 18th Century.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the 18th Century, by, Robert Darnton, Norton, 208 pages. Looks at the Enlightenment, tries to give it a human scale as a movement and reform campaign, and debunks the notion that...

The Winning Message: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse and Democracy.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... The Winning Message: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse and Democracy, by Adam E Simon. Cambridge University, Press, 181 pages. Investigates candidate behavior in U.S. politics and tries to develop ways to improve campaigning. Uses the...

President, Landslide Group Inc., a Chicago-based Republican general and strategic consulting firm.(Movers & Shakers)
September 1, 2003... Career Background "I started out as a kid delivering literature door to door for our local precinct captain. After volunteering on several campaigns, I became a local organizer for Citizens Against Government Waste. Launched my...

Founder and co-director of campaign for America's future, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group (since 1993).(Movers & Shakers)
September 1, 2003... Career Background Adjunct professor, American University Washington School of Law, 1997 to present; founder and director, Campaign for New Priorities, 1990 to 1995; issues advisor, Jesse Jackson for president 1988, U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone...

Sluggish economy, good political job market.(News Feed)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Despite high unemployment rates nationally, the market for political jobs is looking bright heading into campaign season. That's the assessment of a seasoned political job placer, Chris Jones, president of Poli Temps, a legislative, government...

Beating the odds: how the right candidate with the right message pulled two upsets in one year.(Case Study)
September 1, 2003... Introduction: An Entrenched and Popular Incumbent For more than a decade, Democrats had targeted Republican Congresswoman Connie Morella in Maryland's 8th District. Despite her district's Democratic leanings, Morella's moderate profile and...

Candidate debate inclusion: a way out of the Morass?(Political Adviser)
September 1, 2003... There is no more vexing problem in sponsoring political candidate debates than whether to include third-party candidates during general election campaigns and nun-major candidates during primary campaigns. Candidate exclusion is a difficult...

Public opinion polling: answering common criticisms.(Political Adviser)
September 1, 2003... As campaign teams gear up for next year's electoral battles, one component of any strategy should be public opinion polling. But some candidates and groups resist this extremely helpful tool. Leadership The strongest resistance to...

Part-e politics: investigating the online presence of major parties in the United States.(Political Adviser)
September 1, 2003... "Whichever party can figure out how to most effectively and efficiently communicate through the Internet will be the party that will dominate the future." --Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Joe Andrew Since Andrew made...

Election reforms mean more than replacing machines.(Political Professional)
September 1, 2003... The 2000 post Election Day dispute in Florida left many believing there must be better ways to manage the electoral process. Congress responded with the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), which authorized $3 billion to help states meet new...

I couldn't recall.(Initiative & Referendum)
September 1, 2003... When talk began about the possibility of a recall petition being circulated in California, I couldn't recall the last time that a sitting governor was actually recalled. So I had to pull out the history books. It took me a while, but I finally...

California gubernatorial recall candidate Web site.(Clicks & Picks)
September 1, 2003... How do you get yourself noticed in a field of more than 100 candidates? That's the quandary in which many candidates in California's upcoming gubernatorial recall election find themselves. A handful have been mentioned as plausible winners in...

When Strother's watch goes wireless.(The Online Campaigner)
September 1, 2003... "Politics," writes Ray Strother in his rollicking autobiography "Falling Up: How A Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting" (LSU Press, 2003), "is a giant ticking clock that can't be slowed or changed." His watch "is the stainless steel...

Opposition research: consultant and expert Q&A.
September 1, 2003... C&E: What kind of opposition research should a campaign conduct on its own candidate to pre-empt charges that may come from the opposition? KINGSLEY: Winning candidates prepare fully for their opposition even when that means a pretty tough...

Using online polls, good books on political consulting. what progress has been made in improving voting machines since 2000?(Campaign Doctor)
September 1, 2003... What's the history on campaigns doing online polls through their Web sites? Are they good for developing original content on how our constituents feel about issues? There's not much history, but here's the pitch: Tech-friendly candidates...

Off the record.
September 1, 2003... "Well it's official; Gray Davis has become the first governor in California history to face a recall election. Do you know how the recall works? On Oct. 7, 15 bachelors will move into the governor's mansion, and each week Trista will eliminate...