Who did a 2017 candidate for Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee found a super PAC with?
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Ready PAC Ready PAC, formerly Ready for Hillary, was a super PAC created to draft Hillary Clinton for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Ready for Hillary focused on grassroots organizing and did not engage in television advertising. The PAC was founded by Adam Parkhomenko and Allida Black.
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Adam Parkhomenko Adam Parkhomenko is a Democratic political strategist and organizer who served as National Field Director for the Democratic National Committee in 2016. He was the co-founder and executive director of Ready for Hillary, a super PAC established to persuade Hillary Clinton to run for the presidency of the United States in 2016. In the 2017 party election, Parkhomenko was a candidate for Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee.
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Right to Rise Right to Rise is a political action committee (PAC) created to support Jeb Bush in the 2016 presidential election. A Super PAC, Right to Rise is permitted to raise and spend unlimited amounts of corporate, union, and individual campaign contributions under the terms of the "Citizens United" Supreme Court decision.
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Katrina Pierson Katrina Lanette Pierson (née Shaddix; born (1976--) 20, 1976 ) is an American Tea Party activist and communications consultant. Since November 2015, she has been the national spokesperson for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign, and a regular CNN contributor.
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Mimi Soltysik Emidio "Mimi" Soltysik (born October 30, 1974) is an American political activist for the Socialist Party USA. He was the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
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Dennis Cheng Dennis Cheng is an American development executive. He served as the chief development officer of the Clinton Foundation from 2011 to 2015. He serves as the national finance director of the 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
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Raymond Buckley Raymond "Ray" Buckley (born 1959) is an American politician from the state of New Hampshire who currently serves as chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, President of the Association of State Democratic Chairs, and as a Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee. On December 21, 2016 he announced his candidacy to be Chair of the DNC in its chairmanship election. He withdrew his candidacy February 18.
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Bernie Sanders Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician who has been the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007. Sanders is the longest serving independent in U.S. congressional history. Since his election to the House of Representatives in 1990, he has caucused with the Democratic Party, which has entitled him to congressional committee assignments and at times given Democrats a majority. Sanders became the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee in January 2015; he had previously been chair of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee for two years.
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Jerry Meek Jerry Meek (born 1970) is a North Carolina business and tax litigation attorney and Democratic Party activist who was the chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party from 2005 through 2009.
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Marcia Fudge Marcia Louise Fudge (born October 29, 1952) is the U.S. Representative for Ohio 's 11th congressional district , serving since 2008. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes most of the black-majority areas between Cleveland and Akron. Fudge was Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus in the 113th Congress. Fudge was chosen to replace Debbie Wasserman Schultz as chair of the 2016 Democratic National Convention after a leak of internal documents released by Wikileaks.
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Amy Dacey Amy Dacey is an American Democratic politician. She was the CEO of the Democratic National Committee from January 2014 until her resignation in August 2016.
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Jason Rae Jason Rae (born November 25, 1986) is a Democratic National Committee (DNC) member from the state of Wisconsin. Rae is the youngest person ever elected to the DNC. On February 25, 2017, he was elected to serve as secretary of the DNC.
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Alyson Kennedy Alyson Kennedy (born June 11, 1950) is an American activist, a member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 United States presidential election. She was the party's candidate for Vice President in the 2008 United States presidential election. The ticket campaigned for young voters especially. At the head of the ticket were two different candidates, Roger Calero and James Harris; Harris was an alternate in some states because Calero was Constitutionally ineligible because he is a lawful permanent resident of the United States (holding a green card), and not a US Citizen. They were the first pair to qualify for the ballot in Louisiana Calero/Kennedy won 5,127 votes and Harris/Kennedy 2,424.
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American Bridge 21st Century American Bridge 21st Century is a liberal American Super PAC that supports Democratic candidates and opposes Republican candidates. It was founded by David Brock in 2010 and is associated with Media Matters for America. It is an opposition research hub for the Democratic Party. The group physically tracks and monitors Republican candidates and officials and uses social media to deploy its findings.
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Hari Sevugan Hari Sevugan (born 1974) is the former national press secretary for the Democratic National Committee. He served as the senior spokesman for the Barack Obama presidential campaign. According to one report "Sevugan's sound bytes were often pithy, biting and memorable." Another report is more direct, noting during the 2008 campaign Sevugan always gave out "the press office's harshest lines." He is currently one of the Principals at Chicago-based advocacy firm 270 Strategies.
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Sean Patrick Maloney Sean Patrick Maloney (born July 30, 1966) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has served as the U.S. Representative for New York 's 18 congressional district since 2013. Born in the Canadian province of Quebec, and raised in nearby Hanover, New Hampshire, he earned his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia. He entered politics as a volunteer for Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns, and later served as his senior West Wing adviser and White House Staff Secretary. After the Clinton Administration, he served as the First Deputy Secretary to New York Governors Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson.
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Cynthia Dunbar Cynthia Noland Dunbar (born June 1964) is the Republican national committeewoman for the U.S. state of Virginia. She was the state-co-chair for Ted Cruz in the 2016 presidential primary race, before she campaigning for the nominee, Donald Trump.
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Vote Climate U.S. PAC Vote Climate U.S. PAC is an American super PAC founded in 2013 and directed by American political activist Karyn Strickler. Its mission is "to elect candidates to get off fossil fuels, transition to clean, renewable energy and put a price on carbon, in order to slow global warming and related weather extremes." Strickler has named the implementation of a carbon tax as a principal goal. As a super PAC (a type of political action committee), the organization cannot contribute to candidates but can make independent expenditures on their behalf.
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Andre Barnett Andre Nigel Barnett (born June 2, 1976) is an American politician and entrepreneur. He was a candidate for President of the United States as the 2012 nominee of the Reform Party of the United States of America. He is the founder of the information technology (IT) company WiseDome Inc.
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Dan Backer Dan Backer is the founding attorney of political.law PLLC (formerly DB Capitol Strategies PLLC), a campaign finance and political law firm in Alexandria, Virginia. He has served as counsel to more than 100 campaigns, candidates, PACs, and political organizations. Backer is the general counsel for the pro-Donald Trump Great America PAC, Committee to Defend the President PAC, and Great America Alliance 501(c)(4) organization. He is a staunch advocate of free speech and associational rights.
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Mo Elleithee Mo Elleithee (c. 1972) is an American political campaign strategist. A Democrat, he has served as spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton, and other Democratic elected officials and organizations. He is currently executive director of the Institute of Politics and Public Service at Georgetown University. In 2016, he became a Fox News political contributor.
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Paula Jean Swearengin Paula Jean Swearengin is an American social and environmental activist and politician from West Virginia. She is a member of the Democratic Party and is associated with the progressive organization Justice Democrats and the post-partisan campaign group Brand New Congress. In 2017, she announced her challenge against incumbent U.S. Senator Joe Manchin in the 2018 Democratic primary, alleging Manchin is not progressive, and prioritizes reinstating a dying industrial job market - specifically coal related - over alleged safety concerns and the diversification of West Virginia's sources of capital.