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