Rennie Rags on Lieberman

Sean Smith (0.00 / 0)

I would still like more background on this character. Is he a hired gun "from away", as we say? I've never been a fan of hiring outside help for a political campaign. They treat all voters like a big numbers game and have no real knowledge of local issues. And apparently they make mistakes. Lots of them.

Ned scored a major coup getting Tom Swan on board early. Experienced, with a thorough knowledge of grassroots issues. Invaluable in a campaign such as this.

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by: Scarce @ Sun Apr 02, 2006 at 10:57:38 AM CDT

Yeah, Smith is West Coast based (0.00 / 0)

Most recently, he was Communications Director for the Kerry-Edwards campaign in Nevada.

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Smith has worked in politics for the past fourteen years.  He was a communications staffer on Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign in 1992.  He has managed the communications strategies for dozens of political campaigns in Oregon and California.  For the past two years he lived in San Diego where he taught courses on media and politics at the University of California San Diego.  He was also a political analyst for NBC 7/39 in San Diego.

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by: Matthew Gertz @ Sun Apr 02, 2006 at 11:26:46 AM CDT

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More googling... (0.00 / 0)

In 2000, he managed a campaign seeking to abolish the death penalty in Oregon.

The initiative failed to qualify for the ballot after almost 25% of the signatures the campaign gathered were invalidated.

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by: Matthew Gertz @ Sun Apr 02, 2006 at 11:42:09 AM CDT

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we should keep an eye on this (0.00 / 0)

for when Joe submits signatures to get on the ballot as an Independent

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by: spazeboy @ Sun Apr 02, 2006 at 11:48:58 AM CDT

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One reason why Ned wants 30,000 signatures too (0.00 / 0)

..instead of just 15,000.

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by: Scarce @ Sun Apr 02, 2006 at 11:51:21 AM CDT

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Thanks (0.00 / 0)

I noticed there was also a Sam Lieberman working on the Kerry campaign in Nevada. Lieberman is fairly common name but I wonder if he's related?

Sam Lieberman is a graduate of the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, and has been a Las Vegas resident since 1980.  He served on the staffs of Senator Harry Reid and Congresswoman Shelley Berkley.  Currently, Sam is an outreach specialist for the non-profit community and a grassroots political activist for the Democratic Party.  He serves as Vice President for Citizen Alert's Board of Directors.  He is also Chair of the Volunteer Center of Southern Nevada Board of Directors and Chair of the Alzheimer's Association Regional Leadership Council.

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by: Scarce @ Sun Apr 02, 2006 at 11:48:42 AM CDT

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