Mike Huckabee organization, Pre-Campaign, to May 5, 2015

Mike Huckabee Organization—Pre-Campaign
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(page updated May 4, 2015)

Prosperity for All Fund
527 organization formed March 18, 2015.

Chip Saltsman

General consultant on Chuck Fleischmann's 2010 and 2012 campaigns for Congress in TN-03. Candidate for RNC chair in late 2008, but withdrew in early 2009. Campaign manager on Huckabee's 2007-08 campaign (announced Feb. 1, 2007) Senior political advisor for former Sen. Bill Frist's leadership PAC, VOLPAC. Development director for Frist at the NRSC in the 2002 cycle. Chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party at age 30 in 1998 and through the 2000 cycle. Administrative assistant to Gov. Don Sundquist (R-TN), 1994-98. Graduate of Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN, 1990. Saltsman also has experience in IT consulting, banking, private equity and real estate, having served as a director at Harpeth Capital Investment Banking in Nashville and as founder and president of S&S Strategies. twitter

Strategist Bob Wickers

President and CEO of The Wickers Group from Jan. 2013. Founder and CEO at Dresner, Wickers & Associates, LLC from Jan. 1993-Dec. 2012; the firm was the media consultant for Huckabee's 2007-08 campaign. B.A. in political science from San Francisco State University, 1984. twitter

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Vice president (from Jan. 2014) and earlier director of strategic initiatives at Tsamoutales Strategies, a Tallahassee-based management consulting, business development and lobbying firm; joined the firm in 2011. National campaign manager for The ONE Campaign. Senior political advisor on Tim Pawlenty's Iowa Straw Poll effort in summer 2011. Campaign manager on Rep. John Boozman's successful 2010 U.S. Senate campaign in Arkansas. Headed HUCK PAC from its founding in April 2008. National field director on Huckabee's 2007-08 presidential campaign. Worked for about two years as a regional liaison for congressional affairs at the Department of Education in Washington, DC. Field coordinator for President Bush’s re-election campaign in Ohio in 2004, A field coordinator for Gov. Huckabee’s 2002 re-election campaign. Graduate of Ouachita Baptist University, 2004. [Husband is Bryan Sanders who manages Little Rock office of The Wickers Group]. twitter

Communications Director Alice Stewart

Radio host "The Alice Stewart Show." Surrogate for Mitt Romney in the Fall 2012 campaign; national press secretary on Rick Santorum for President from mid-Feb. 2012; press secretary/spokeswoman on Bachmann for President from June 2011. Deputy Secretary of State in Arkansas, 2011. Worked on communications for the NRSC and the NRCC in the 2010 midterm elections. Managed state Sen. Gilbert Baker's 2010 campaign for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Arkansas. Press secretary on Huckabee's 2007-08 presidential campaign; previously press secretary to Huckabee in the Governor's Office starting in September 2005. A weekend anchor and reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock; joined the station in 1998. Started at a television station in Dothan, AL, and later worked at stations in Atlanta, GA and Savannah, GA. Graduate of the Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia in Athens, 1988. Atlanta native. twitter

Senior Communications Advisor Hogan Gidley

Senior communications advisor at BrabenderCox from Aug. 2011; senior comunications advisor on Rick Santorum for President, announced July 2011. Executive director of HUCK PAC (announced Feb. 2010). Gidley served as communications director for Sen. Elizabeth Dole (NC)'s re-election campaign in 2008. Executive director of the South Carolina Republican party in 2006-07. Worked for Richard Quinn and Associates, where he served as campaign adviser and spokesperson to South Carolina Gov. David Beasley. From 2000-04, Gidley worked in a variety of roles for Gov. Mike Huckabee, including director of media operations. B.A. in journalism from University of Mississippi. twitter

Contact Person Cale Turner

Partner at Thomas & Thomas LLP (certified public accountants) in Little Rock, AR.

SOUTH CAROLINA

State Director Hope Walker

(announced May 4, 2015) State director of the South Carolina Republican Party from Jan. 2015. RNC South Carolina state director, Sept. 2013-Dec. 2014. Political director (Jan.-Sept. 2013), member services director (Feb. 2012-Jan. 2013), finance assistant (May 2011-Jan. 2012) and intern (Dec. 2008-May 2009) for the South Carolina Republican Party. Assistant in the office of Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, Aug. 2010-Jan. 2011. Political fundraiser/event coordinator for Black Label Strategy, 2009-10. B.A. in political science from Newberry College, 2011 and served as student body president, 2010-11. From Irmo, SC.

America Takes Action
501(c)(4) organization formed 2014. americatakesaction.com

Chip Saltsman

Strategist Bob Wickers

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Communications Director Alice Stewart

Senior Communications Advisor Hogan Gidley

HUCK PAC
...filed with the FEC on April 8, 2008.

Chad Gallagher

Principal, president and founder of Legacy Consulting from Feb. 2007. Political director/intergovernmental affairs for Gov. Mike Huckabee, Jan. 2003-Jan. 2007. Mayor of the City of De Queen, Jan. 1999-Jan. 2003. B.A. in political science and government from Ouachita Baptist University, 1996.

Pursuing America's Greatness
...pro-Huckabee super PAC filed with the FEC on Mar. 11, 2015.

President Nick Ryan

(reported by the New York Times Maggie Haberman on April 2, 2015) President of Concordia Group LLC in Des Moines from Aug. 2007; founder of American Future Fund, a 501(c)(4) multi-state advocacy group, from Aug. 2007; and founder and chairman of Global Intermediate LLC, a national mail and political communications firm, from Oct. 2011. In 2011 Ryan founded Red, White & Blue Fund, the pro-Santorum super PAC. Advisor, strategist and manager to U.S. Rep. Jim Nussle, March 2000-Nov. 2006. J.D. from Drake University Law School; B.A. in political science from University of Iowa. mtryan.com, twitter

Jill Latham

A principal at Concordia Group LLC. Deputy campaign manager (from Jan. 2012) and earlier Iowa senior advisor (from Jan. 2011) on Rick Santorum for President. Political director on Mitt Romney's 2007-08 Iowa caucus campaign. Political director for the Republican Party of Wisconsin in the 2006 cycle. Field staffer on Bush-Cheney '04 in Wisconsin. Staff assistant, then legislative clerk for the U.S. House Energy and Commerce committee, June 2001-May 2004. From Alexander, Iowa; daughter of Rep. Tom Latham (R-IA). B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, 2001.

See:
Tom Hamburger and Robert Costa. "Mike Huckabee rebuilds political team with eye on another presidential run." Washington Post. Nov. 12, 2014.