Sentences with phrase «obama campaign adviser»

Grumet, a former 2008 Obama campaign adviser, will launch a new energy program in the spring under the banner of the Bipartisan Policy Center, another group he runs.

His words drew immediate pushback from Republicans, conservative bloggers and even former Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod, who said the Vermont senator had been «a little tin - eared» (ClimateWire, Nov. 16).

(CNN)- A senior Obama campaign adviser said Mitt Romney has a leg up on President Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential debates.

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Jim Messina, President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign manager and an adviser to David Cameron's EU referendum campaign, wrote in 2015 that Jagger was «one of the savviest political observers.»

Mr Bryan, a former adviser to Bill Clinton who helped raise funds for Mr Obama's re-election campaign, has owed the money to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) since 2006, according to court filings obtained by The Daily Telegraph from Texas.

«Barack Obama believes in options: «Maintain my options,» «said Jeh C. Johnson, a campaign adviser and now general counsel of the Defense Department.

We still don't know (but presumably Mueller does) why Mike Flynn, Trump's chief foreign policy adviser during the campaign and his short - lived national security adviser, was talking during the transition to the Russian ambassador about lifting sanctions Obama had imposed in retaliation against Russia's meddling in the election.

Michael Pyle, a former economic aide in the Obama administration who works at BlackRock, is an unpaid adviser to the campaign on finance policy.

He met Mark Zuckerberg his freshman year at Harvard, co-founded Facebook and later became a digital adviser to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

Earlier Tuesday, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, David Axelrod, signaled that the president might be open to compromise on the issue.

«For Catholic outreach, a defining moment in this campaign has been (Mitt) Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate,» said Broderick Johnson, a senior adviser with Barack Obama's campaign who spearheads Catholic outreach efforts.

As U.S. Sen. Obama's adviser on faith issues on Capitol Hill, as candidate Obama's religious affairs director on his 2008 campaign, and as President Obama's director of the White House faith - based initiative, I have had the honor of seeing firsthand the life and heart of a president who cares deeply about his country, his family and his God, in times of prayer, conversation and diligent work.

The campaign initiative is being headed by Michael Wear, the Obama campaign's National Faith Vote Coordinator, Derrick Harkins, Director of Faith Outreach for the Democratic National Committee, the Rev. Regena Thomas, pastor of Allen A.M.E. Church in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Katherine Archuleta, a political director for the campaign, and Broderick Johnson, a campaign adviser who focuses on Catholic outreach.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said he believes former President Obama's foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes was aware of a dossier about Trump that circulated during the 2016 presidential campaign.

President - elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE dismissed talk of sanctioning Russia as some lawmakers and President Obama push for the U.S. to act in light of Russian interference in the election.

Newsweek's current story on the Obama campaign's internal dynamics contains this warning (via Mike Allen) for anyone who values civility and honesty in politics: Another McCain adviser, who asked for anonymity discussing internal campaign strategy, bluntly warned: «It's...

«If Secretary Clinton runs, she'll be the nominee — the first female nominee of either party,» said Stephanie Cutter, a former top adviser to the Obama White House and campaign.

Last month, President Obama spoke at a Murphy fund - raiser in Miami — one of many high - dollar events that Murphy advisers believe will allow them to spend as much as $ 8 million in his primary campaign against Grayson.

«For politicians like Kathy Hochul — who have never created a job anywhere and have been in the hip pocket of Barack Obama — lies and distortions are the only weapon they have left,» Collins campaign adviser Chris Grant said in a statement.

One of the major reasons Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign could not compete with the Obama - Biden Internet team was the high - tech community's enthusiasm for the Democratic nominee, advisers to the McCain campaign said Saturday.

The change in direction is being supported by two US advisers recently hired by the Tories, both veterans of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

A top adviser to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a former Iowa governor, is leaving the Obama administration to manage Clinton's likely presidential campaign in Iowa, four Democrats familiar with the move said.

President - elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unsuccessfully pressured the Obama administration to block the resolution before votes were cast.

One day after Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said the president is running a positive campaign, the re-election operation launched another negative spot on Mitt Romney, attacking his record as Governor of Massachusetts.

A top adviser to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a former Iowa governor, is leaving the Obama administration to manage Hillary Rodham Clinton's likely presidential campaign in Iowa, four Democrats familiar with the move said Wednesday.

Vice President Joe Biden, White House senior adviser David Axelrod and Obama 2008 campaign manager and Democratic strategist David Plouffe have also campaigned for Giannoulias.

«Conservatives raised more than twice as much money as Labour in the final quarter of 2009 Main Cameron recruits leading Obama advisers to rejuvenate final weeks of campaign»

Williams» donor list indicates support, in spots, from the upper echelons of Clinton and Obama worlds: His contributors include Pete Rouse, a senior adviser to Obama, and Maggie Williams, a longtime Clinton aide who helped run the 2008 presidential campaign after the initial leadership was ousted.

Aides on Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE's 2008 presidential campaign kept a detailed list of party colleagues who staffers believed had betrayed her during the long and bitter primary battle with President Obama, a new book reveals.

Cutter, now chief spokesperson for the Obama transition, had been a senior adviser on the campaign and Michelle Obama's chief of staff.

The executive director, Jason Grumet, was a top energy adviser to President Obama's campaign.

President Barack Obama's directive today to his science adviser to «restore scientific integrity to government decision - making» is a culmination of a long campaign by science advocacy groups against the policies of the Bush Administration.

A top adviser to the Obama campaign and international expert on energy and climate, Holdren would bolster Obama's team in those areas.

Online petitioners are urging President - elect Barack Obama to appoint Linda Darling - Hammond, a Stanford University education professor and an adviser to the Obama presidential campaign, as secretary of education.

Education policy advisers from the Obama and Romney campaigns will join AEI's Frederick M. Hess to discuss the best ways to allocate limited resources, improve teacher quality, increase accountability and maximize student achievement during the next presidential term.

A former teacher, Darling - Hammond has testified often before Congress and was an adviser to Barack Obama during his 2008 campaign and transition to the presidency.

This flood of legislation, along with new rules in many states allowing for more charter schools, pioneering union contracts in several cities and a state - led effort to rewrite the nation's academic standards, have made this spring a watershed period, said Jon Schnur, an education adviser to the Obama campaign who helped design Race to the Top.

He also held senior positions in five presidential campaigns: policy director for Michael Dukakis (1988); and then senior policy adviser for Al Gore (2000), Howard Dean (2004), Barack Obama (2008), and Hillary Clinton (2016).

Melvoin, an attorney and former middle - school teacher, campaigned last year for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton; Gonez, a seventh - grade science teacher, worked for two years as an education policy adviser for the Obama administration.

Those against will be Daniel M. Kammen, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, focused on renewable and «appropriate» energy technology and a senior energy adviser to the Obama campaign; Oliver Tickell, an environmental writer / campaigner in search of what he calls Kyoto2, a framework for controlling greenhouse gases that is effective, efficient and equitable; and Adam Werbach, who gained fame as the youngest president of the Sierra Club (elected at 23), but now is focused on «blue» marketing for business growth framed around sustainability, as the head of Saatchi & Saatchi S. I'll have to ask him about how that works.

He had been an adviser to the Obama campaign and was a member of the presidential science and technology advisory committee during the Clinton administration.

ELPC's founder, incorporator, president & assistant treasurer, Howard A. Learner, was not only a senior energy and environmental adviser to the 2008 Obama for President Campaign, but is also now vice chair of the National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Gina McCarthy.

During the presidential campaign, an Obama adviser indicated that the administration would allow about 18 months for Congress to act on the issue first.

In October 2011, Obama's reelection campaign hired Broderick Johnson, who had previously lobbied in favor of Keystone, as a senior adviser.

Plouffe, the top campaign policy adviser for President Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012, says efforts to improve the federal government's financial picture don't have to come at the expense of home ownership.