- Mike Huckabee « Press Release from Huckabee for President
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 7, 2015 |
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Gov. Huckabee announces national campaign team
Team brings wealth of experience at senior levels of the top Republican presidential campaigns and party committees over the last two decades
Little Rock, Ark. - Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee announced his national campaign team today. The group includes over 25 individuals who bring a wealth of experience at senior levels of the top Republican presidential campaigns of the last two decades, including the Bush, Romney, Huckabee and Santorum campaigns and major party committees. The national campaign team will be based out of Huckabee for President headquarters in Little Rock, Ark.
Senior Team - Strategy, Political and Communications
Sarah
Huckabee
Sanders - Campaign
Manager:
Sarah is a campaign and government relations expert. TIME Magazine
named Sarah one of its Top 40 under 40 political stars in America.
Sarah served as senior advisor to Tom Cotton's U.S. Senate campaign and
was campaign manager for John Boozman for U.S. Senate. Sarah led
Boozman's campaign to a record-breaking victory - the largest margin of
victory for a challenger over any U.S. Senate incumbent in more than 25
years. Sarah has served as the national campaign manager for The ONE
Campaign and senior advisor to Gov. Tim Pawlenty's campaign for
president. In 2008, Sarah was the national political director for
Huckabee for president, directing Gov. Huckabee's Iowa campaign to a
landslide upset victory in the Iowa caucuses.
Chip Saltsman - Senior
Advisor:
Chip was campaign manager for Governor Mike Huckabee's presidential
campaign in 2008. Before managing Governor Huckabee's campaign,
Saltsman was senior political advisor to Senate Majority Leader Bill
Frist at VOLPAC, and served as Development Director for Senator Frist
at the NRSC. Saltsman has also served as Chairman of the Tennessee GOP,
and has worked closely with Tennessee Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob
Corker, and Congressman Chuck Fleischmann.
Bob Wickers - Pollster and
Media Strategist:
Bob is a veteran Republican media consultant and pollster. In 2012 he
served as senior advisor and media consultant to Mitt Romney's primary
and general election campaigns for president. Four years earlier he
served as strategist, media consultant and pollster for Mike Huckabee's
presidential campaign and was widely recognized for creating some of
the most innovative advertising that helped Gov. Huckabee win the Iowa
caucuses and seven other states. His current and past clients include
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Congressman
French Hill, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, former Nebraska
Gov. Mike Johanns and former U.S. Senator Norm Coleman.
Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin -
Senior Policy Advisor:
Tim was elected to Congress in 2010 and served on the powerful House
Ways and Means Committee and as a Deputy Majority Whip. Tim was Special
Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Political Affairs for
President George W. Bush and served as Research Director and Deputy
Communications Director for the RNC during the 2004 presidential
campaign. Tim previously served as General Counsel and Managing
Director of Mercury Public Affairs, and is currently a senior advisor
to Purple Strategies. Griffin is serving in his 18th year with the U.S.
Army Reserve, was deployed to Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division
(Air Assault) and holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Jim Terry - Political
Director:
Jim is longtime veteran of Capitol Hill. Jim has served as campaign
manager, political director and advisor on some of the most high
profile races in the nation and at the NRCC. He served as chief of
staff to Congressman John Campbell (R-CA), and was executive director
of the Free Enterprise Fund. Jim cut his political teeth running
targeted legislative races in California and went on to serve in the
California Legislature as Deputy Chief of Staff to then Minority
Leader, now U.S. House Maj. Leader Kevin McCarthy.
Alice Stewart -
Communications Director:
Alice served as press secretary on the Huckabee 2008 presidential
campaign, communications director for the presidential campaigns of
Michele Bachmann in 2012, and deputy communications director for Rick
Santorum in 2012. Stewart worked as communications director for
Governor Mike Huckabee's administration, served as deputy Secretary of
State for Arkansas, and worked as a communications consultant for the
RNC, NRSC, NRCC and Concerned Women for America. Stewart is a former
Emmy-award winning news reporter and anchor and talk radio show host.
J. Hogan
Gidley - Senior Communications Advisor:
Hogan was most recently senior communications strategist for
BrabenderCox. Hogan also served as the Director of Communications for
then-Governor Mike Huckabee and the Executive Director of HuckPAC. In
addition, Hogan has worked as the Executive Director of the South
Carolina Republican Party. Other posts include National Communications
Director for the 2012 Santorum for President Campaign and
Communications Director for the 2008 U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole's
re-election campaign.
Chris Maiorana - Digital
Strategist and Chief Technology Officer:
Chris is partner and co-founder of LCM Strategies, and served as
digital director for Huckabee for President in 2008. In 2011-2012, he
served as digital consultant to Senator Rick Santorum and Gov. John
Huntsman's presidential campaigns. He has also managed digital
operations for numerous U.S. Senate and congressional campaigns
throughout the country. Chris has also worked in various roles at the
RNC, NRSC, and Senators George Allen's and Bill Frist's senior campaign
staff.
Bryan Sanders - Media
Consultant:
Bryan is a partner at the Wickers Group, and has done polling, message
development, and produced award-winning television, video and radio
advertising for the firm's major clients, including Gov. Mike Huckabee
(AR), Gov. Robert Bentley (AL), Lt. Governor Dan Patrick (TX), Attorney
General Scott Pruitt (OK), State Treasurer Lynn Fitch (MS), Congressman
French Hill (R-AR), and Congressman Ted Yoho (R-FL). In 2011, Campaign
and Elections Magazine named Bryan one of its "Rising Stars of American
Politics," a distinction given to only 15 Republicans and 15 Democrats
in the country each year.
Carolyn Barber - Director
of Media Placement:
Carolyn is a partner at the Wickers Group and is one of the top
political media directors in America. She has over a decade of
political media planning and placement experience overseeing the
television, radio, print, outdoor and digital advertising campaigns.
Carolyn managed the media placement for Governor Mike Huckabee's 2008
campaign for President. In the 2014 cycle, she directed the statewide
placement for Texas Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick, Gov. Robert Bentley of
Alabama, Congressman French Hill and numerous additional Wickers Group
clients.
Jim Ferguson - Media
Creative Director & Advisor:
Jim
has been an adman for over 30 years, having worked on the Bush-Cheney
2000 presidential campaign and the Romney-Ryan 2012 presidential
campaign. Jim was the President/Chief Creative Officer of Young &
Rubicam/New York, Vice-Chairman/Chief Creative Officer of DDB/Dallas
and Chicago, and Senior Vice-President/Creative Director of Leo
Burnett/Chicago. During his career, Ferguson has garnered over 250
national and international creative awards, for clients such as
McDonald's, Hallmark, The Beef Industry Council, Tabasco, Nationwide
Insurance, Sony, and the National Football League. His McDonald's
commercial "Nothing But Net", featuring Michael Jordan and Larry Bird,
was named the best Super Bowl ad over the last 25 years by USAToday. He
is also credited with writing the feature film, Little Giants, for
Stephen Spielberg's Amblin Production.
Miles Hargrove -
Director/Filmmaker:
Miles is a director, cinematographer, and editor at Kilometric Files.
He has worked on three "Harry Potter" films, "Fast and the Furious",
and most recently directed "The Starck Club." Born in Abilene and
raised in the Philippines, Miles and his family moved to Colombia when
he was in his teens and soon after his father was kidnapped for ransom
by leftist rebels, whose story formed the basis of the movie "Proof of
Life," starring Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan. Miles has worked
extensively in Sierra Leone to shoot and edit the documentary film
"Forgotten Diamonds" and short film "Road to Change."
Chadwick Gallagher - Senior
Leadership Director:
Chad is the founder and senior consultant with Legacy Consulting, and
started working with Gov. Huckabee in 1992. Since 2012 he has overseen
and ran the Governor's leadership PAC. Prior to opening his own firm,
Gallagher worked in Huckabee's 2008 bid for the White House and served
as his political director during his last term as Arkansas' governor.
In this capacity Gallagher handled appointments, city, county and local
affairs and the liaison the Governor's relationship with the White
House, Bush campaign, RNC, RGA, NGA, the state GOP, and candidates.
Jordan Powell - Deputy
Campaign Manager:
Jordan served as founder and president of RedRight Strategies and
provided strategic advice and digital consulting services to campaigns
for governor, congress, and the state house. Before starting his
consulting firm, he served as senior advisor, campaign manager, and
spokesman for Congressman Chuck Fleischmann's 2010 and 2012 campaigns,
as well as his Capitol Hill office. He also served on the staff of Gov.
Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign.
Jack Sisson - Director of
Research and Rapid Response:
Jack has a mix of Capitol Hill and campaign experience. For four years,
he worked for Senator John Boozman (R-AR), covering a range of domestic
issues in the U.S. Senate as a Legislative Assistant, including health
care, entitlements, labor and telecommunications. For the past
year,
he served as campaign manager for newly-elected Congressman French Hill
(AR-2). His professional career began under Senator Sam Brownback
(R-KS) where he held various positions in a campaign and official
capacity.
Pratik Chougule - Policy Coordinator: Pratik served as a George W. Bush appointee at the State Department in the Office of the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security. He has helped a number of fmr. government officials with the writing and research of their memoirs. Chougule holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, from Brown University.
Aaron Chang - Director of
Advance:
Aaron brings over twenty years of experience in event planning and
production. Aaron's government and political experience includes
serving as an Advance Representative for President George W. Bush,
Managing Director of Credentialing for the first post-9/11 presidential
inauguration, Deputy Director of Credentialing for the G8 Summit hosted
by the United States in 2004, and Director of Advance for Speaker of
the U.S. House of Representatives, J. Dennis Hastert. Aaron also
facilitated the start-up operation of the Washington Nationals after a
34-year absence of Major League Baseball from the nation's
capital. As
Event Services Manager, Aaron was responsible for game day operations
of the 46,000 seat RFK Stadium, serving over 2 million fans a year.
Steele Shippy - Personal
Aide, Gov. Mike Huckabee:
Steele has worked for Oklahoma U.S. Senator James Lankford and for
Victory Enterprises, a Missouri-based GOP political consulting firm. He
has done advance and staffing work for candidates and 501c4
organizations around the country. Steele was 2007 Missouri State
Wrestling Champion.
David John - Chief of
Staff, First Lady Janet Huckabee:
David served in Gov. Huckabee's administration and worked on his
campaign for president in 2008, and later was political director at
HuckPAC. Since 2012, he has worked in the Arkansas Secretary of State's
office as Director of Creative Services.
Senior Team - Finance
Alice Tadlock - National
Finance Coordinator: Alice
is Senior Vice President at Capital Campaigns and has more than decade
of experience in campaign fundraising. In 2007, Alice served as the
California finance director for Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign.
Alice has also performed work for political clients including the RNC,
Mitt Romney's Commonwealth PAC, Congresswoman Mimi Walters, Congressman
Ken Calvert, former Congressman Connie Mack, former Congresswoman Mary
Bono, and several US Senators.
Linus Catignani - Senior
Digital and Finance Advisor:
Linus is partner and co-founder of LCM Strategies, and has worked as a
political fundraising and online marketing consultant for a number of
federal office holders including Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist, U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander and U.S. Senator John Thune,
among others. During the 2002 election cycle, he served as Director of
Finance and Administration of the NRSC, where he managed a historically
successful $120 million fundraising operation.
Stacy DeJarnette - Senior
Finance Advisor:
Stacy has worked in politics for over 20 years and was Arkansas state
finance director for the presidential campaigns of Senator John McCain
and Governor Mitt Romney. She was national finance director for
Governor Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential Campaign. She has also held
the position of finance director of the Republican Party of Arkansas
and was most recently finance director for Gov. Asa Hutchinson's
campaign for Governor of Arkansas.
Katy Faulk - Director of
Major Donors and Bundlers: Katy
has provided fundraising and event management services for over 13
years. She founded her firm, KLF & Company, in August of
2007,
which serves a variety of clients including political candidates and
organizations, as well as nonprofits. Her most recent projects include
serving as lead fundraiser for Congressman Rick Crawford, Congressman
Bruce Westerman, and Senator John Boozman. She has also served as
a
regional field finance director for the RNC during the 2014 cycle and
as fundraiser for several judicial, state senate, and statewide races
including Asa Hutchinson's gubernatorial race in 2006.
Cathy Lanier - Regional
Finance Director:
Cathy has worked as a fundraising consultant on various campaigns at
both the state and national level, most recently serving as finance
director for Congressman French Hill's successful bid for US
Congress.
Past campaigns include Arkansas Lt. Governor Tim Griffin's
congressional race and Governor Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
Jenna Recker - Regional
Finance Director: Jenna has both
state and federal fundraising experience.
As
a
native
of
Nebraska, she has worked for Governor Dave Heineman, was
deputy finance director for Attorney General Jon Bruning's campaign for
US Senate, and finance director for the Nebraska Republican Party. Most
recently, Jenna served at deputy finance director for Gov. Asa
Hutchinson's campaign and finance director for his Inauguration.