- Harold Ford Jr.
Harold Eugene Ford, Jr. (born May 11, 1970) is the current chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee. Ford represented the state's, centered on Memphis, from 1997 to 2007. Ford did not seek reelection to his House seat in 2006 when he unsuccessfully sought the Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Bill Frist.
- Al From
Al From (born May 31, 1943, in South Bend, Indiana) is the primary founder and current CEO of the Democratic Leadership Council. Before founding the DLC, From was executive director of the House Democratic Caucus from 1981 to 1985, chaired by Representative Gillis Long (D-LA). For two years -- 1979 and 1980 -- he was deputy advisor on inflation to President Jimmy Carter and from 1971 to 1979, he directed the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, …
- Marshall Wittmann
Marshall Wittmann is an American pundit, author, and sometime political activist. On November 22, 2006, he was hired to be the communications director and spokesman for Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT). Wittman is a former senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council.
- Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel (born November 29 1959) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing (map), which covers much of the North Side of Chicago and parts of suburban Cook County. Emanuel was chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for the 2006 elections. After the Democratic Party regained control of the House, he was elected as the next chairman of the Democratic Caucus, …
- Roy Romer
Roy R. Romer (born October 31, 1928 in Garden City, Kansas, United States) was the 39th governor of Colorado and served as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2001 to 2006. Romer was first elected in 1986, re-elected in 1990 and 1994; he was the last Colorado governor to serve three terms. He was Colorado State Treasurer from 1977-1987, and a member of the governor's cabinet.
- Austan Goolsbee
Austan D. Goolsbee studies the Internet, the new economy, government policy, and taxes. Goolsbee explains, "I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it." His research has earned him much professional recognition. In 2003, he was given a grant from the National Science Foundation.
- Paul Weinstein
Paul Weinstein Jr . Chief Operating Officer, DLC/PPI; PPI Senior Fellow Paul Weinstein Jr . is chief operating officer of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), where he is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of both organizations.
- Fred Siegel
Fred Siegel is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute-a center-left think tank closely affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council-who focuses on urban policy and politics. He also serves as a professor of history and the humanities at Cooper Union and is a contributor to numerous publications, including The New York Post-where he has a weekly column-The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, Commonwealth and Tikkun.
- Ben Chandler
Albert Benjamin "Ben" Chandler III (born September 12 1959) is an American politician from Kentucky. He is the member of the House of Representatives for and was first elected in 2004. Chandler was born in Versailles, Kentucky. He received a BA and a J.D. from the University of Kentucky at Lexington, Ky., and became a private practice lawyer. He was State Auditor from 1991 to 1995 before he became the Attorney General of Kentucky from 1995 until 2003, …
- Bruce Babbitt
Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27, 1938), a Democrat, served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as Governor of Arizona.
- Dave McCurdy
David Keith McCurdy (born March 30, 1950) is a lawyer, politician, Centrist Democrat, and a former Congressman from Oklahoma's 4th Congressional district.
- Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords (born June 8, 1970) is a Democratic politician from Tucson, Arizona. She is congresswoman for. Giffords is the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Arizona Senate, where she served from 2003 to 2005. On November 7, 2006 Giffords was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She took office January 4, 2007.
- Ken Cheuvront
Kenneth D. Cheuvront is an American politician from Arizona, currently serving in the Arizona State Senate. A Democrat, he represents the state's 15th legislative district, centering on Phoenix. He was elected to represent the 15th district in the State House of Representatives in 1994 and held the seat until he was termed out in 2002. He was the Democratic Leader in that chamber in the 2001-2 session. In 2002, he was elected to represent the district in the State Senate, …
- Stephen J. Solarz
Stephen Joshua Solarz is a former United States Congressional Representative from New York. Solarz was both an outspoken critic of President Ronald Reagan's deployment of Marines to Lebanon in 1982 and a co-sponsor of the 1991 Gulf War Authorization Act during the Presidency of George H. W. Bush. Born in New York City, September 12, 1940, Solarz attended public schools in New York City and later received a B.A. from Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
- Phil Keisling
Phil Keisling (born 1955) is a Portland, Oregon business executive and political activist who served as Oregon Secretary of State from 1991 to 1999. Prior to seeking public office, he pursued an earlier career in journalism, including six years as a reporter and correspondent in Portland and Washington, and two years as editor of Washington Monthly. He is a Democrat, and a member of the Democratic Leadership Council.
- Tom Vilsack
Tom Vilsack understands the importance of NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) programs that help producers protect our natural resources and provide stewardship of the land we all depend upon for our food production," Hoffman said. "As governor, he was very supportive of ISA environmental and conservation initiatives, and saw the value of biotechnology and its importance in meeting future demands while protecting our natural resources.
- Evan Bayh
Evan Bayh is a heartland Democrat with a history of advancing progressive values in a traditionally Republican state. First elected Indiana governor at age 32-America's youngest governor at the time-he served two terms as Indiana's chief executive and is now in his second term in the United States Senate. Throughout his career in public service, Evan Bayh has been a common-sense pragmatist who focuses on innovative solutions to help tackle our toughest challenges at home and abroad.
- Jason D. Newman
Jason D. Newman is the State and Local Policy Director at the Democratic Leadership Council, where he is responsible for identifying state and local public policy best practices, working with elected officials on innovative policy solutions, developing policy and message products for elected officials, and planning public policy forums for elected officials.
- Aron Benjamin
FIGURE IT OUT!!!
- Jonathan Zucker
Lawyer, but rarely practice (I went to law school because I like to know the rules, needed a few years to grow out my hair, and wanted to get my ear pierced). Straight, but spent more than a decade in and around the queer rights movement. Despise partisan politics, but find myself doing.
- Simon B. Rosenberg
Simon B. Rosenberg , President and Founder of the NDN ( New Democrat Network ), a non-profit 501(c)(4) issue advocacy organization and a national network of citizens using modern means to advance a 21st century progressive vision for America. Contact: (202) 842-7217; srosenberg@ndn.org
- J. Kenneth Menges Jr
Mr. Menges was one of 80 lawyers in the nation named to the BTI National Client All Star Team in 2002. He is a frequent speaker on corporate governance topics. He is involved in a number of civic, charitable and professional organizations.
- Eric Burns
I am a pretty easy going guy who likes to have a lot of fun. I am very social and enjoy meeting a lot of different people. I love talking about sports or politics...but will talk about and find something interesting in any conversation. And you should know that Bill Clinton is my hero and I am a huge Clinton Apologist...just thought I should make that clear.
- Will Marshall
Will Marshall is president and founder of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), a center for policy innovation in Washington, D.C. Established in 1989, PPI's mission is to modernize progressive politics and government for the 21 st century.
- Liz Adams
I was born in good ol' Milwaukee, Wisconsin and lived there for a few years. Then my parents moved us down to the awesome city of Chicago and I lived there for almost 10 years. Because of that I am a huge Cubs fan and it is hard to watch the NBA now because I grew up on Michael Jordan. At the age of 12 we up and moved to lovely Boulder, CO where I spent 5 years before headin to DC for school.
- Matt Wright
My life is pretty simple. I get up in the morning, go to work, leave for the gym and come home around 9:00. I do the same thing, weekday after weekday. It's sort of like Peter Gibbons from "Office Space," although fortunately I'm not nearly as pathetic nor desperate. Fortunately I enjoy what I do and where I am in my life right now.
- William D. Budinger
William D. Budinger Bill Budinger, inventor, holder of over three dozen patents, founded and served for 33 years as CEO and Chairman of Rodel, Inc. Rodel built plants in Delaware, Arizona, North Carolina, Germany, Japan, and Malaysia to manufacture products for the electronics industry. It was privately held until it joined Rohm and Haas' Shipley Electronics Group in 1997 - 2001.
- Pro Consul
finds strength through desolation and gains knowledge when in defeat.
- Kasia Witkowski
- Mark S. Irion
Mark S. Irion As chief executive officer, Mark Irion leads the executive management team in building out the vision to create the first truly integrated global public policy strategy and management firm. Drawing on years of experience in public and private life, he has led the team of managing principals at Dutko since 1996, affecting and positively contributing to public policy making around the world.
- Harry P. Pachon
Dr. Pachon is a founding board member and past executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund. While at NALEO, he initiated a nationally acclaimed U.S. citizenship project that has been replicated on a multi-ethnic basis across the country and initiated the National Directory of Latino Elected Officials, which is now in its seventeenth year of publication.
- Jeff Lemieux
Jeff Lemieux is the Senior Vice President directing AHIP's new Center for Policy and Research. Prior to joining AHIP, Lemieux was Executive Director of Centrists.Org, a small think tank dedicated to pursuing bipartisan policy solutions. Before founding Centrists.Org in 2003, Lemieux worked as a senior economist for the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI).
- Senator Gilda Z. Jacobs
Senator Gilda Z. Jacobs (D-Huntington Woods) was elected to the Senate in 2002 after serving two terms in the Michigan House of Representatives, where she made history as the first woman floor leader in either house of the Legislature. Senator Jacobs is the Democratic vice-chair of two committees—Economic Development, Small Business & Regulatory Reform; Families and Human Services—and also serves on Government Operations and Health Policy.
- Senator Joseph Lieberman
Senator Joseph Lieberman represents Connecticut in the U.S. Senate. He is currently in his second term and became the Ranking Democratic Member of the Governmental Affairs Committee in January 1999. He is a member of the Armed Services Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, and the Small Business Committee. Since 1995, he has been Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. From 1982 to 1988, he served as Connecticut's 21st Attorney General.
- Timothy J. Penny
Timothy Penny Mr. Penny is senior fellow and co-director of the Humphrey Institute Policy Forum. He served in Congress from 1982 to 1994 representing Southeastern Minnesota’s First Congressional District. He served on the U.S. House agricultural and veterans affairs committees and the Select Committee on Hunger, and he chaired the foreign agriculture and hunger subcommittee.
- U.S. Representative Allyson Y. Schwartz
U.S. Representative Allyson Y. Schwartz U.S. Representative Allyson Schwartz is a tough, skillful, and accomplished legislator with 30 years of experience in public service. On January 2nd, 2005, Schwartz was sworn in to the United States House of Representatives to serve the residents of the 13th Congressional District of Pennsylvania. The district comprises both Northeast Philadelphia and Montgomery County.
- Doug Gansler
Doug Gansler is serving his second term as Montgomery County State's Attorney. Mr. Gansler is the chief law enforcement official in the largest jurisdiction in Maryland, with a population of almost one million people and an area covering more than 500 square miles. Mr. Gansler was raised in Montgomery County, and attended Yale University, where he graduated cum laude and was an All-American lacrosse player.
- Matt Compton
Matt Compton Matt Compton was born and raised on a farm in Cedar Grove, NC, where he is a member of Walnut Grove United Methodist Church. Currently, he is an assistant editor for the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) and Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). PPI is a nonpartisan think tank, devoted to crafting national policy for public innovation, and the DLC is an organization working to modernize progressive politics in America.
- Michael McShane
Michael McShane is the Vice President, Government Relations (GR) for SmithBucklin. In that capacity he is responsible for the strategic management, marketing, communications and business development for the GR business unit. Michael has over thirty years experience in Washington as a Government Relations executive.
- Kasia