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Working Again PAC

(page updated July 1, 2015)

...pro-Santorum super PAC ...filed with the FEC on July 1, 2015 (+)

Executive Director and Treasurer  Nadine Maenza

(reported June 9, 2015 by Politico)  Previously on the finance team of Patriot Voices PAC and executive director of Patriot Voices;  has worked with Santorum in various capacities since he was considering his first run for the U.S. Senate in 1993.  Served as national finance director on Rick Santorum for President.  Worked for four years with U.S. Sen. John Heinz on Capitol Hill, then as controller and as finance director on his campaign committee.  Experience also includes finance director for the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee.  Started out in politics as a grassroots coordinator on races in Oregon and Arkansas.  Resident of Chester County, PA.  twitter


Communications Director  Virginia Davis

(reported June 9, 2015 by Politico)  Communications director for Santorum's Patriot Voices.  Principal at Virginia Davis Partners, LLC of Havertown, PA.  Senior communications advisor and spokeswoman on the Rick Santorum for President campaign; communications advisor to Santorum's America's Foundation PAC, 2007-11.  Press secretary on Santorum's 2006 re-election campaign.  Press secretary and earlier deputy press secretary to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), 2002-05.  Deputy press secretary on Rep. John Thune (R-SD)'s 2002 U.S. Senate campaign.  A press assistant to Sen. Santorum, 2000-02; interned in Santorum's office in 1999.  Graduate of George Mason University.  Pennsylvania native; lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia.  twitter


Senior Advisor  Mark Rodgers

(reported June 9, 2015 by Politico)  Principal/owner of The Clapham Group, "a company that seeks to influence culture upstream of the political arena," since Jan. 2007.  A senior advisor on Santorum's 2011-12 campaign.  Worked on Capitol Hill for a total of 16 years.  Chief of staff to the Senate Republican Conference (Santorum was chair), 2000-06.  Chief of staff to Santorum for 10 years, six in the Senate and four in the House.  Started Election Consultants Incorporated in 1996.  In the 1980's, Rodgers worked at the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation.  Deputy campaign manager in a U.S. House race in Texas in 1984.  Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from Penn State, and attended Trinity Episcopal School for ministry.


Digital and Media Strategy Consultant  Rob Aho

(reported June 9, 2015 by Politico)  Partner at BrabenderCox; with the firm since 2003.  Account manager at FSC Marketing Communications, 2000-03.  Manager, political at WJG&A, 1998-2000.  Worked for Santorum in the Senate, 1995-98.  M.B.A. in marketing from University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business; B.A. in political science from Grove City College, 1996.  twitter


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Key Financial Backer  Foster Freiss

Wyoming billionaire and philanthropist.  With wife Lynn launched Friess Associates in 1974.  Degree in business administration from University of Wyoming.  fosterfriess.com


See: Kyle Cheney.  "Rick Santorum super PAC to be launched."  Politico, June 9, 2015.


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