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Run Warren Run Effort Announces New Iowa Field Team, Opening of Des Moines Campaign Office
National Campaign
Professionals
and Obama Alums Also Join Effort Encouraging Elizabeth Warren to Run
for President
DES MOINES, IOWA — In
an expansion of the Run Warren Run effort in Iowa, MoveOn.org Political
Action is announcing the hiring of Blair Lawton as the campaign’s Iowa
field director and the hiring of four other field organizers. The group
also announced the opening of a campaign office in Des Moines.
The announcement comes less than one month after more than 100 Iowans
met in Des Moines to kick off the Run Warren Run effort in the state.
Nationwide, more than 240,000 Americans have signed on to support the
growing campaign, which is being run by MoveOn and Democracy for
America.
Blair Lawton, who will lead Run Warren Run
on-the-ground organizing efforts in Iowa, is a native of Western Iowa
and a graduate of Morningside College in Sioux City. Lawton served as
2014 get-out-the-vote director for the Alaska Democratic Coordinated
Campaign and as a regional field director for President Barack Obama’s
2012 re-election campaign in Iowa.
“As a native Iowan, I know first-hand how critical a role the Hawkeye
State plays in shaping our presidential contests, and I’m excited to
join hundreds of thousands of Americans who are energized by Sen.
Warren’s progressive economic vision,” Lawton said.
Lawton will work out of MoveOn’s new Run Warren Run campaign office,
which will open before the end of the month at 419 SW 8th St in Des
Moines.
“Blair is a disciplined organizer and manager with a strong record of
commitment to developing volunteer leadership and running successful
grassroots campaigns,” explained Ilya Sheyman, executive director of
MoveOn.org Political Action. “With a year until the Iowa Caucuses,
we’re ready to show Sen. Warren that she has the grassroots support
necessary to mount a successful campaign, and thousands of Iowans are
ready for her vision of giving everyone a fighting chance.”
MoveOn has also hired four Iowa-based regional field directors to
support the Run Warren Run effort:
- Adam Beaves, an Ankeny, Iowa native who recently worked on the Pat Murphy for Congress campaign and has worked in the Iowa House of Representatives and for the campaign of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and President Obama’s re-election;
- Susana Cervantes, who has worked for the White House, Organizing for America, the United Farm Workers, and the Nevada Coordinated Campaign;
- Beth Farvour, who recently organized with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and the Mary Burke for Governor campaign;
- and Margaret
Jarosz, a Milwaukee native who worked on the Wendy Davis for
Governor campaign and as a campaign manager for a Wisconsin State
Assembly candidate, and who volunteered with the campaign to recall
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and with President Obama’s re-election
campaign.
At the national level, MoveOn has also brought on experienced
progressive campaign professionals Tom Swan and Adam
Ruben to serve as senior advisors
to the campaign. Swan managed Ned Lamont’s successful campaign to beat
Sen. Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Democratic Senate primary in
Connecticut; he is currently the executive director of the Connecticut
Citizen Action Group. Ruben, a consultant to progressive organizations,
is the former Political and Field Director for MoveOn and ran MoveOn's
massive field campaigns to elect Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. He was
previously national field director for U.S. Public Interest Research
Group.
Additionally, MoveOn has retained the services of Revolution
Messaging, FitzGibbon Media
Inc., and Art
Not
War to
assist in the Run Warren Run effort.
Scott Goodstein, who was External Online Director for
President Obama’s 2008 campaign, founded Revolution Messaging in 2009.
Revolution Messaging is providing digital strategy, video and design
support for Run Warren Run; their team includes Arun
Chaudhary,
who
served as the first White House Videographer and as the New Media
Road Director on President Obama’s 2008 campaign, and Tim
Tagaris,
who
served as Digital Director on Sen. Chris Dodd’s presidential
campaign in 2007 and created the Service Employees International
Union’s new media department. Revolution Messaging’s Shauna
Daly,
who
served as deputy research director for President Obama’s 2008
campaign, and Walker
Hamilton, site architect for Obama for America in 2008, are
also advising on strategy for Run Warren Run.
FitzGibbon Media, whose founder and President, Trevor
FitzGibbon,
served
as Communications Director for President Obama’s 2008 campaign
in New Hampshire and whose Managing Director, Doug
Gordon,
has
worked on Presidential, House and Senate campaigns, will be serving
as the lead communications firm for the Run Warren Run campaign.
Art Not War, led by former MoveOn National Creative
Director Laura
Dawn and
co-founders Daron
Murphy and David
Ambrose,
will
organize artists, produce cultural events, and create video
content for Run Warren Run.
In December, more than 81 percent of voting MoveOn members opted to
launch this effort to encourage Elizabeth Warren to run for president,
citing her continuous efforts to fix a rigged political and economic
system that is failing America’s families. Democracy for America
members voted to join the effort shortly after MoveOn’s announcement.
On
Saturday, MoveOn and Democracy for America members will
hold an event launching the
Run Warren Run
campaign in New Hampshire, where Run Warren Run will also assemble
an on-the-ground operation.
The Run Warren Run campaign website and launch video at
RunWarrenRun.org focus on telling the story of the Massachusetts
Senator, who has become known as a tireless, passionate advocate for
giving all Americans a fighting chance in an economy rigged in favor of
big banks and corporate interests. MoveOn and Democracy for America
have pledged to invest at least $1.25 million into the effort.
WATCH THE LAUNCH VIDEO HERE: https://moveon.org/rwr/?v=1#
CHECK OUT THE CAMPAIGN WEBSITE HERE: www.RunWarrenRun.org
For more information, or for interviews with a MoveOn.org
representative, please contact press@moveon.org.
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