Priorities USA Action - Organization

Priorities USA Action
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(page updated May 16, 2014)

Super PAC filed with the FEC on April 29, 2011.

apart from the announcements in January, Priorities USA Action has appeared quiescent in 2014...

Board of Directors

announced Jan. 23, 2014

Co-Chair Jim Messina

Co-Chair Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm
Charles A. Baker III
Allida Black
David Brock
Maria Echaveste
Justin Gray
William P. Hite
Harold Ickes
Stephanie Schriock
Marva Smalls
Joe Solomonese
Greg Speed
Randi Weingarten

Executive Director Buffy Wicks

(announced Jan. 10, 2014) Operation Vote Director on the Obama for America 2012 campaign. Vice president for political affairs at AKPD Media. Deputy director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Wicks worked on Obama's 2007-08 campaign starting as the campaign's Western region field director in Chicago, then as field director in California, deputy field director in Texas, director of the campaign's national volunteer program ("Obama Organizing Fellows"), and in the fall state director for Missouri. Political director for Wake Up Wal-Mart. Organizer in the 'Anti-War in Iraq' campaign in San Francisco, CA. Co-founded Hoi-Polloi, "a people’s organization created by a small group of conscientious thinkers striving for world peace." Campaign manager on Jay Fetcher's 2004 state Senate campaign in Colorado. Des Moines organizer on Howard Dean's Iowa caucus campaign. Graduate of the University of Washington, 1998. twitter

Finance Director Diana Rogalle

(announced Jan. 23, 2014) Founder and principal at The Ashmead Group; Rogalle has been a Democratic political fundraiser and operative for close to twenty years. Led the fundraising efforts for Victory Campaign 2004 – the joint fundraising committee of America Coming Together and The Media Fund. National finance director for the Wes Clark for President campaign. Finance director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (started in May 2001 after serving as DSCC director of campaign services. B.A. in political science and communications from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1990.

Senior Advisor for Finance Jonathan Mantz

(announced Jan. 10, 2014) Principal of BGR Government Affairs. National finance director on Hillary Clinton for President, 2007-08. Finance chair for Gov. Jon Corzine, 2006. Principal at PodestaMattoon, 2003-05. Deputy executive director and finance director for the DSCC, started in early 2004. Finance director for the DCCC in the 2002 and 2000 election cycles. Finance director for the National Jewish Democratic Council. B.A. in history from Ithaca College, 1991. Philadelphia native.

Senior Advisor/Principal Paul Begala

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