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***Patrick is a political and public relations consultant with Calypso Communications and New Media Strategics. At various times he may blog about a subject that is relevent to a client of either of those two companies. The reason for this is because he blogs about a lot of subjects, not because he blogs on behalf of these clients. | ***Patrick is a political and public relations consultant with Calypso Communications and New Media Strategics. At various times he may blog about a subject that is relevent to a client of either of those two companies. The reason for this is because he blogs about a lot of subjects, not because he blogs on behalf of these clients. | ||
***[http://granitegrok.com/blog/2008/10/meet_the_new_press_radio_a_little_sanity.html Hynes as guest on blog radio,âMeet the New Pressâ] | ***[http://granitegrok.com/blog/2008/10/meet_the_new_press_radio_a_little_sanity.html Hynes as guest on blog radio,âMeet the New Pressâ] | ||
***[http://tks.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmVjN2Y1YzEzMDdmZjcwY2I0ZGNhZDEyMzVlMGQ0MmY= National Journal on Hynes flogging] | |||
Revision as of 15:36, 15 October 2008
- Rick Davis, Campaign Manager
- part owner of internet firm, 3eDC, a veteran of the Reagan administration, Davis ran McCain's presidential bid six years ago. He also founded a lobbying firm -- Davis, Manafort Inc. -- which has made at least $2.8 million lobbying Congress since 1998.
- Christian Ferry, Deputy Campaign Manager
- Before becoming Deputy Campaign Manager, Ferry served as the National eCampaign Director for the McCain campaign. Before joining McCain 2008, Ferry worked as a strategic consultant at Davis Manafort, Inc.
- Brett O'Donnell, Director of Messaging
- Debate coach from Falwellâs Liberty University, O'Donnell helped prep Bush for the '04 debates.
- Becki Donatelli, Consultant
- Chairman of Campaign Solutions, Donatelli Avella and a partner in Connell Donatelli, Inc. She was the lead Internet consultant to the McCain for President campaign in 2000, and as such directed the successful fundraising campaign that brought the Internet into the forefront of political consulting. The first political consulting firm to raise political donations online, the firm has represented clients from all levels of government, including John McCain 2008. Donatelli began her political career with the national staff of the original Citizens for Reagan in 1976.
- Mark SooHoo, Deputy eCampaign Director
- Mark SooHoo serves as Senior Vice President of Campaign Solutions, a leading Republican online consulting firm. He is currently Deputy eCampaign Director for John McCain 2008 and recently managed the online campaigns for several statewide candidates during the 2006 election cycle, including the winner of the 2007 Golden Dot Award for Best Website (Federal Candidate). SooHoo served as co-director of the award-winning 2004 Republican National Convention website.
- Patrick Hynes, Consultant
- Been decribed as McCain's "web outreach guy" and is founder/contributor to Ankle Biting Pundits blog, which was formerly known as Crush Kerry. A long time Republican operative and consultant, Patrick has helped hundreds of Republicans win public office. National Journal described Patrick as âa hack with a pretty good record of electing Republicans.â He is a regular contributor to the American Spectator, Town Hall, TCS Daily, and others. Patrick also blogs at the Channel Changer.
- Patrick is a political and public relations consultant with Calypso Communications and New Media Strategics. At various times he may blog about a subject that is relevent to a client of either of those two companies. The reason for this is because he blogs about a lot of subjects, not because he blogs on behalf of these clients.
- Hynes as guest on blog radio,âMeet the New Pressâ
- National Journal on Hynes flogging
- Been decribed as McCain's "web outreach guy" and is founder/contributor to Ankle Biting Pundits blog, which was formerly known as Crush Kerry. A long time Republican operative and consultant, Patrick has helped hundreds of Republicans win public office. National Journal described Patrick as âa hack with a pretty good record of electing Republicans.â He is a regular contributor to the American Spectator, Town Hall, TCS Daily, and others. Patrick also blogs at the Channel Changer.
- Justin Germany, eCampaign videographer
- Before coming to Campaign Solutions as an account executive, he served as the videographer and editor for the Bush-Cheney eCampaign. His work served as a nexus between digital documentary and political message that showcased the President on the campaign trail. That work resulted in over twenty videos seen by more than a million people on the Bush-Cheneyâ04 website.
- Michael Palmer, eCampaign Director
- Frequent poster to McCain's blog, part of the Campaign Solutions team. Worked in the eCampaign division of Bush-Cheney '04, where he helped maintain both the internal and external websites, and worked closely with the campaign's political department to develop web applications for the 72Hour volunteer program and for tracking Election Day voting activities. Prior to the campaign, Michael worked in the web industry designing and implementing project management, eCommerce and eProcurement solutions for corporate and government clients.
- Ben Olson, eCampaign Assistant and Director of Social Networking Outreach
- Previously a general and research assistant at DMP Inc.
- Matt Lira
- Frequent poster to McCain's blog, formerly online eGuru to Congressman Eric Cantor and is now McCain's "Webmaster," devising and implementing online strategies to better promote McCain online. Prior to his service with Cantor, Lira served under Patrick Ruffini at the RNC as the Deputy Director of eCampaign for eCommunication.