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List of John McCain 2008 presidential campaign staff members

Summary

John McCain was the Republican Party candidate for President of the United States in 2008. Rick Davis, his campaign manager, projected at one point[when?] that his staff would eventually increase to about 450. By early July 2008, it had opened 11 regional offices in key states and some 84 offices total across the country in a joint effort with the Republican National Committee.[1]

National leadership team edit

Persons listed on the John McCain for President website:[2]

Inner circle edit

According to New York Times reporter John M. Broder:[3]

Others joining later or listed in other sources include:

The Bush team edit

Policy advisers edit

Foreign policy advisers edit

In October 2007, the Washington Post listed the following as McCain's foreign policy advisers.[5]

Other advisers:

Economic policy advisers edit

From a July 12, 2007 press release:[9]

  • Grant Aldonas — Managing Director for Split Rock International; former Undersecretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce
  • Carlos Bonilla — Senior Vice President for The Washington Group; former Special Assistant To President George W. Bush; a lobbyist
  • Jeff Brown — Associate Professor of Finance at the College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Juan Buttari — Independent consultant and researcher In development economics
  • Kathleen Bell Cooper — Dean, College of Business, University of North Texas
  • Steve Davis — CRA International and University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
  • Richard Dekaser — Senior VP and Chief Economist, National City Corporation
  • John Diamond — Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Tax Policy, Baker Institute of Public Policy, Rice University
  • Emil Frankel — Transportation Consultant and Former Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, Department of Transportation
  • Luke Froeb — Professor, Vanderbilt University
  • Kevin Hassett — Resident Scholar and Director of Economic Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
  • Greg Jenner — former Executive Vice President, American Council of Life Insurers and Acting Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy), U.S. Treasury Department
  • David John — Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
  • Tim Kane — Director, Center for International Trade and Economics, The Heritage Foundation
  • Melissa Kearney — Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Anne Krueger — Professor at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Former First Deputy Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund
  • Adam Lerrick — Visiting Scholar for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Friends of Allan H. Meltzer Professor of Economics for Carnegie Mellon
  • Phil Levy — Resident Scholar for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Former Senior Economist for Trade on the President's Council of Economic Advisers
  • Will Melick — Gensemer Associate Professor of Economics, Kenyon College
  • Michael Owen Moore — Professor of Economics and International Affairs, George Washington University
  • Thomas P. Miller — Resident Fellow for American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
  • Tim Muris — Foundation Professor, George Mason University School of Law
  • Gerry Parsky — Senior Economic Adviser
  • Nancy Pfotenhauer — Former President, Independent Women's Forum
  • James Rill — Partner, Howrey LLP and Former Assistant Attorney General (Antitrust), U.S. Department of Justice
  • Kenneth Rogoff — Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
  • Harvey S. Rosen — Professor of Economics and Business Policy, Princeton University
  • John Silvia — Managing Director, Chief Economist, Wachovia Bank
  • Acquiles Suarez — Vice President for Government Affairs for National Association of Industrial and Office Properties and former Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
  • John Taylor — Professor of Economics at Stanford, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Former Under Secretary of Treasury
  • Anthony Villamil Chief Executive Officer, The Washington Economics Group and Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs
  • Joseph Wright — Chairman of the Board of Intelsat
  • Mark Zandi — Chief Economist for Moody's Analytics (formerly known as Moody's Economy.Com)
  • James Rill — Antitrust attorney at Howrey LLP; Former Assistant Attorney General in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division
  • Sean O'Keefe — former Secretary of the Navy, NASA Administrator, and Deputy Director of Office of Management and Budget, The White House
  • Matthew Lockwood — Director of Contributions Processed

National Campaign co-chairs edit

National Finance Committee co-chairs edit

Former members edit

  • Senator Phil Gramm – General Co-chair, resigned July 18 after remarks calling Americans "whiners"[11]
  • Robert Zoellick
  • Tom Loeffler[12]
  • Susan E. Nelson, "continued to collect payments from [the Loeffler Group] this year while she was on the McCain-campaign payroll as its fund-raising coordinator"[13] The Loeffler Group is a lobbying firm that has "received $990,000 in lobbying fees and another $3,000 in expenses from the Saudi government".[14][15]
  • Mark McKinnon, citing a pledge not to work against an Obama candidacy.[16]
  • Doug Davenport and Doug Goodyear of the DCI Group resigned on May 10, 2008, after revelation of DCI's ties to the military junta in Myanmar. Davenport, the regional campaign manager for the mid-Atlantic states, founded the DCI Group's lobbying practice and oversaw the contract with Myanmar in 2002. Goodyear was asked to become convention CEO after campaign manager Rick Davis's lobbying firm partner, Paul Manafort, was nixed because of his own close ties to foreign governments and controversial companies[17]
  • Carlos Bonilla, economic policy adviser. Left in May 2008 after the campaign imposed new rules restricting the involvement of lobbyists.
  • Michael P. Dennehy, national political director and founder of the political consulting and lobbying firm The Dennehy Group.[18] Left in May 2007 explaining that his family obligations conflicted with his arduous, 24/7 political job in Washington, D.C.[19]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Mooney, Brian C. (July 20, 2008). "Obama's paid staff dwarfing McCain's". Boston.com – via The Boston Globe.
  2. ^ "John McCain 2008 – John McCain for President". Archived from the original on 2008-06-19. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
  3. ^ Broder, John M. (August 21, 2006). "McCain Mines Elite of G.O.P. for 2008 Team". The New York Times. Retrieved May 8, 2010.
  4. ^ Balz, Dan; Shear, Michael D. (July 3, 2008). "McCain Puts New Strategist Atop Campaign". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 8, 2010.
  5. ^ The Washington Post
  6. ^ "Slugfest: Sizing up the Obama-Romney Debates - NationalJournal.com". Archived from the original on 2012-09-09. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
  7. ^ a b Mazzetti, Mark; Schmitt, Eric (October 31, 2008). "McCain and Obama advisers briefed on deteriorating Afghan war". The New York Times.
  8. ^ "US elections: Congressional Democrats attack John McCain on Iran sanctions". the Guardian. June 26, 2008.
  9. ^ Senator McCain Announces Economic Advisors, John McCain 2008 Press Release]
  10. ^ http://www.floridalobbyistdirectory.com/Lobbyist.aspx?id=74[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ Woellert, Lorraine (2008-07-18). "Gramm Steps Down as McCain Co-Chair After 'Whiners' Remark". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
  12. ^ The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-McCain-Lobbying.html. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) [dead link]
  13. ^ WSJ, "Democratic Group Tries to Keep Spotlight on McCain's Lobbyist Ties"
  14. ^ "The Loeffler Group: Supplemental-Statement-20080118" (PDF). FARA Unit. US Department of Justice.
  15. ^ "Contract but no Contacts: McCain Campaign Official's Firm Collects Millions from Saudis but no Meetings with Members of Congress". Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2008-08-16.
  16. ^ Rutenberg, Jim (May 21, 2008). "Keeping Vow on Obama, McCain Adviser Resigns". The New York Times. Retrieved May 8, 2010.
  17. ^ A Second McCain Aide Resigns, The Atlantic, May 11, 2008
  18. ^ Concord Monitor: Dennehy on the job for McCain. December 30, 2006.
  19. ^ "McCain's Political Director Steps Down". The Hotline. May 7, 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-09-05.

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