DNC Washington D.C. Superdelegates

HuffPost's OffTheBus members produced these superdelegate profiles as part of its Superdelegate Investigation. You can find all profiles here.

Marilyn Tyler Brown
Anna Burger
Yolanda Caraway
Adrian M. Fenty
Hartina "Tina" Flournoy
Harold Ickes
Ben Johnson
Gerald W. McEntee
Carol Pensky
Jerome Wiley Segovia
Dr. James Zogby

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Marilyn Tyler Brown

Current Occupation:
*DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DNC Committee Member
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/campaign08/primaries/2008_superdelegates.html
*Retired
Source: http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=Brown&fname=Marilyn

Involvement in Democratic Party
*Washington DC for Hillary Steering Committee Member
Source: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=4027
*2004: Candidate National Committeewoman DNC
Source: http://vote.nist.gov/ballots/DC%2085X14Speci%20Sept2004.pdf
*2003: Tyler Brown was a member of the Hon Anthony A Williams (DC Mayor) Inaugural Committee 2003, and donated $100.00 to the inaugural party.
Source: http://www.dcwatch.com/mayor/030107.htm

Political Interests & Issues
*Tyler Brown Supports the District of Columbia Fair and Equal Voting Rights Act
Source: https://www.democrats.org/a/2007/02/in_support_of_t.php

Endorsement Status
*Marilyn Tyler Brown has endorsed Hillary Clinton.
*Speaking about her endorsement, and the effect voters would have on her decision to support Hillary Clinton, Tyler Brown told WLS TV "I feel permanently bound. Yes, I do. Your word is your bond. You make a commitment, that's it."
*Tyler Brown said if voters choose Obama, that won't likely influence her, "I'll factor it, but I have every confidence that Hillary can represent the constituency and the District of Columbia as well as, if not better than, Barack Obama," she said.
Source: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/politics&id=5950850

Campaign Contributions
*Marilyn Tyler Brown has donated $1,060.00 to Hillary Clinton.
Source: http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=Brown&fname=Marilyn

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Anna Burger

*Ms. Burger is secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union.
*At first there was some uncertainty about her identity, as the superdelegate list published by the Washington Post lists her not as a delegate from DC but from Pennsylvania.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/campaign08/primaries/2008_superdelegates.html)
*The explanation is that she had been living in PA but has recently changed her residence and voting registration to DC.
(http://www.superdelegates.org/Anna_Burger)
*That she is now a DC delegate was further confirmed by the contact I was able to make with her office at the SIEU.
*The list on Wikipedia also shows her as representing DC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2008_United_States_Democratic_Party_Superdelegates#Seated_superdelegates)
*This list indicates that she is committed to endorsing Barack Obama.
*A Web search leads to numerous references to Ms. Burger on the Internet.
*She was one of the founding members and is presently chair of the ChangeToWin organization, a coalition of the SIEU and six other unions.
(http://www.changetowin.org/about-us/leadership-and-affiliated-unions/anna-burger.html)
*When the SIEU recently endorsed Obama, their press release quoted Ms.Burger:
"This is one of the most important presidential elections workers have faced. Families are struggling, we're fighting two wars, and a majority of
Americans are now worried that their children will be worse off than they are. Obama is the right person at the right time to lead the change we so
desperately need in our country."
(http://www.seiu.org/media/pressreleases.cfm?pr_id=1596)
*It would appear to be safe to presume that Ms. Burger's personal support as a superdelegate will go to Mr. Obama.
*Ms. Burger has been author of blogs appearing on HuffPost, e.g. at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-burger
Retrieved from "http://superdelegates.org/Anna_Burger"

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Yolanda Caraway

Basic bio
*From her website:
"President and CEO of The Caraway Group,Yolanda H. Caraway is a nationally recognized public relations strategist who is renowned for her almost twenty years of policy-making, political management and public relations work in government to nonprofits to the private sector.
Yolanda founded The Caraway Group, Inc, in 1987 and has since counseled numerous Fortune 50 companies, organizations, agencies and high-profile individuals in every aspect of communications strategy.
She has worked with major U.S. companies such as Microsoft, MGM Mirage, Bristol Myers Squibb, MCI, Mitsubishi and Texaco. She has also counseled government and nonprofit agencies such as the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Center for American Progress, NATO 50th Anniversary Summit, and Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Foundation Project.
Often sought to coordinate major undertakings for the Democratic Party, as well as private organizations, her list of professional achievements showcase her years of organizational ability and management expertise. She is often the senior level executive called upon to coordinate many diverse party efforts. Some of her major undertakings include: Deputy Assistant Political Director for the Mondale/Ferraro '84 General Election; Director of the DNC's Fairness Commission (1985); Chief of Staff of the National Rainbow Coalition, 1988 Jesse Jackson for President Campaign, and Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee under Chairman Paul G. Kirk.
Yolanda played a pivotal role in the historic election of the late Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown to Chair the Democratic National Committee in 1989. Because of her political expertise and institutional knowledge of the DNC, Chairman Brown selected her to serve as his Senior Advisor at Party Headquarters. She assumed many responsibilities during her tenure; chief among them was management of the site selection process for the 1992 Democratic National Convention.
In 1990, Yolanda served as the National Coordinator for the first Mayor's Urban Summit. Hosted by then-mayor David N. Dinkins of New York City, the Summit was deemed a resounding success and has served as a model for subsequent mayoral summits.
In November of 1992, after one of the most successful Democratic Conventions in history and the subsequent election of President Bill Clinton, then-Chairman Ron Brown once again called upon Yolanda to serve as his Deputy for the President Inaugural Committee.
In 1998, Yolanda was appointed Vice Chair of the 2000 Site Advisory Committee and later served as executive producer of Democracy Live! 2000, a series of live, "talk-show" type broadcasts designed to reach cable and Internet audiences during the 2000 Democratic National Convention."
http://www.thecarawaygroup.com/tcgteam/ycaraway.html

*After 9/11, her PR. Firm represented the U.S. Army's recruiting command.
http://groups.google.com/group/us.military.army/browse_thread/thread/62359c8ab279cd9b/616292d0240484c5?hl=en&lnk=st&q=yolanda+caraway%22#616292d0240484c5

Involvement in the Democratic Party
*See her bio above.
*Yolanda Caraway -- of Washington, D.C. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 2000, 2004; member of Democratic National Committee from District of Columbia, 2004. http://www.politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/female.A-C.html

Political interests and issues
*Racism: "Is this (ad) for real? I don't understand the point," said Yolanda Caraway, founder, The Caraway Group, in Los Angeles. She went on to express her fatigue with seeing negative depictions of race becoming mainstreamed as entertainment. "Then again - since the Pimp song won the Academy Award (for Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures), I'm not sure about anything anymore."
http://www.diversityinbusiness.com/dib2006/dib20603/Adv_pmBrand.htm

Involvement in 2008 Election
*11/2/2007, Clinton Campaign Announces Washington DC for Hillary Steering Committee and Caraway is a member of committee. http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=4027

Contributions
*Caraway has a long history of donating to Democratic presidential candidates going back to Jesse Jackson's bid in 1988. She has donated the maximum amount to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and also donated to Barack Obama's senatorial bid, but not his presidential bid. http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=WASHINGTON&st=DC&last=CARAWAY&first=YOLANDA

Previous Campaigns
*See her bio above and article interviewing her below.
*Wesley Clark Welcomes Yolanda Caraway To National Steering Committee
*Little Rock - Former Secretary of Commerce and United States Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, who chairs General Wesley Clark's National Steering Committee, announced today that Democratic National Committeewoman Yolanda Caraway has joined the National Steering Committee. "Yolanda brings her extensive political experience and incisive and penetrating mind to our campaign. We are thrilled to have her on board," said Kantor. http://www.clark04.com/press/release/203/

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Adrian M. Fenty
Mayor of the District of Columbia

Basic bio
*A DC native, Fenty grew up in the city's Mount Pleasant neighborhood. http://www.dc.gov/mayor/bios/fenty.shtm
*He earned a Bachelor of Arts (English and Economics) from Oberlin College and holds a Juris Doctorate from Howard University School of Law. http://www.dc.gov/mayor/bios/fenty.shtmhttp://www.citymayors.com/mayors/washington_mayor.html
*Before his election, Fenty served as Councilmember from Ward 4 for six years. He also worked on the staff of the Committee on Education for the DC Council and served as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner. http://www.dc.gov/mayor/bios/fenty.shtm
*Fenty's parents own Fleet Feet, an athletic shoe store in the D.C. neighborhood of Adams Morgan. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083003248_3.html
*Fenty is biracial.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/23/AR2006082301969_2.html
*He met his wife at Howard Law School. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083003248_5.html
*He briefly practiced as an attorney. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083003248_4.html
*He has twin sons, Matthew and Andrew. http://www.fenty06.com/about_adrian.htm
*He lives in the Crestwood neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C. http://www.fenty06.com/about_adrian.htm

Involvement in the Democratic Party
*But he interned for three members of Congress and volunteered for the campaigns of the late Council Chairman David A. Clarke.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083003248_5.html
*won a seat of his own on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in Ward 4.
*Ward 4 Representative, Council of the District of Columbia 2001 - 2007
*He also worked on the staff of the Committee on Education for the DC Council. http://dc.gov/mayor/bios/fenty.shtm
*At 35, he's the youngest mayor on record for the city (DC). http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6479556
*He took office as Mayor of DC on January 2, 2007.
http://dc.gov/mayor/bios/fenty.shtm

Political interests and issues
*He is a member of Mayors against Illegal Guns. http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/about/members.shtml
*In his first year in office, Fenty reformed the governance structure of the District of Columbia Public Schools by placing them under the authority of the Mayor. http://dc.gov/mayor/bios/fenty.shtm
*In 2003, Fenty was one of two original introducers of legislation to ban smoking in nearly all indoor workplaces, including bars and restaurants.
http://www.fenty06.com/about_adrian.htm

Involvement in 2008 Election
*Mayor Adrian M. Fenty endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) July 17, 2007 for the Democratic presidential nomination. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701227.html
*Fenty (D) expressed hearty support for Obama during a midday news conference at a recreation center in Southwest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701227.html
*He appeared at the Eastern Market Metro last week with Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama outside Sharpe Health School later. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022001206.htmlhttp://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/02/12/obama_celebrates_trio_of_wins/http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080212/METRO/836410465/1004
*Obama and Washington Mayor Adrian M. Fenty today dropped in on a donut shop on Capitol Hill, greeting customers and urging them to vote. http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/02/obama_to_latino.html
*So impressed was Obama with Fenty's leadership that he put the mayor at the helm of his D.C. campaign. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=34535
*For Super Tuesday, Fenty headed to Newark, N.J., where he did what he does as well as anyone: knocked on doors. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=34535
*http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/two-mayors-join-forces-to-support-obama/
*Fenty was in attendance at arguably the best-covered and most momentous Obama rally to date that took place in the District, at American University, but that centered around the endorsement of Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=34535
*Appeared in Ward 6 to open the presidential candidate's (Obama's) local offices. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/02/08/fenty-stumps-for-obama/
*DC Mayor Adrian Fenty has also been robocalling Washington voters on Obama's behalf. http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/02/michelle_obama_3.html
*At the Madison Hotel, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty shows his support for Sen. Barack Obama's victory in the Potomac Primary. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021303817.html

Who have they made political contributions to? (You can use www.huffingtonpost.com/fundrace to see whether they donated to presidential candidates)
*A key Fenty adviser, Jim Hudson, organized a District-based fundraiser that collected $600,000 for Obama. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701227.html
*His dad contributed $500 to the campaign of ROSSITER, CALEB S for Congress. http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/qind/

Do they come from a political family?
*No, Fenty's parents own Fleet Feet, an athletic shoe store in the D.C. neighborhood of Adams Morgan. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083003248_3.html

Have they worked on previous campaigns? Were they a Kerry operative? A Clinton '92 staffer?
*He volunteered for the campaigns of the late Council Chairman David A. Clarke.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083003248_5.html

What prominent state individuals have they worked for? For example, a Gray Davis operative or a Cuomo hand?
*He worked 'on the hill' in the congressional offices of a number of Democratic politicians, including Eleanor Holmes-Norton, the district's current non-voting Delegate to the House of Representatives. http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/washington_mayor.html

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Hartina "Tina" Flournoy

Basic bio
*Currently is assistant to the president of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, 555 New Jersey Ave. N.W.Washington, DC 20001
202/879-4400 and is reported as earning $167,133 in 2006.
http://www.unionfacts.com/unions/unionOfficersDetail.cfm?ID=12&OID=1387250&fname=HARTINA&lname=FLOURNOY
*Former Director, Corporate Affairs Policy & Administration, Philip Morris Management Corp. http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/glossaries/pm_gloss_f.jsp;jsessionid=

Involvement in the Democratic Party
*Worked in Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1984 campaign for president and credits Jackson's campaign for developing leaders within the African-American community. "Right now, African-Americans may form the largest single bloc of at-large DNC members," said Flournoy.
*After Ron Brown won the race for the national committee's chairmanship in 1989, he hired Flournoy as legal counsel for the party's 1992 national convention.
*When Howard Dean became DNC chair in 2005, he called on Flournoy to run the transition team.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=68063759-3048-5C12-00639DA56D033C37
*She told Joe Lieberman, "You think Bill Clinton won only because of his ideas. Well, his ideas did drive people to this obscure governor out of Arkansas. But he got the vote because he got the turnout and he got the turnout because he had people like Harold Ickes on his team, people who had a lifelong connection to labor and a strong level of comfort with minority groups."
From An Amazing Adventure by Joseph Lieberman, page 213.
*Head of transition, Tina Flournoy has been actively involved in Democratic Party politics for nearly 20 years. She is Assistant to the President of the American Federation of Teachers, focusing on public policy. Flournoy was the finance director for the Gore for President Campaign, political director for Vice Presidential nominee Joe Lieberman, and deputy campaign manager for the 1996 Clinton/Gore re-election campaign. She was counsel to the DNC and general counsel for the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Flournoy has also served as staff director and co-chair of the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee, and now serves as a member of the Committee. She has been a DNC member since 1996. http://www.iowapresidentialwatch.com/dailyArchive/FEB2005/02-15-05.htm

Political interests and issues
*Flournoy signs a resolution adopted by the DNC Resolutions Committee at its meeting on February 1, 2007, in conjunction with the meetings of the Democratic National Committee, February 1-3, 2007, in honor of Black History Month. http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/02/in_honor_of_bla.php
*Even if they have not publicly declared their support for a candidate, how have they been involved in the 2008 election? Have they appeared at events?
*August, 24, 2007, Tina Flournoy and Donna Brazile, who worked on Gore's campaign and serve on the Rules and Bylaws Committee, said Florida has the chance to have its votes counted if it follows the rules. The DNC tried to persuade the party to hold a separate contest Feb. 5 or later, perhaps by mail, to determine which candidates would get the delegates. "Disenfranchisement is not just an abstract term," Flournoy said. "It shouldn't be tossed around for political gain." http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/20428245/
*11/2/2007, Clinton Campaign Announces Washington DC for Hillary Steering Committee and Flournoy is a member of the committee. http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=4027
*On February 10, 2008, PBS reports that Flournoy has committed her superdelegate vote to Senator Clinton. Clinton campaign releases announcement they have support of 25 superdelegates in Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. including Flournoy.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/superdelegates/search.php
http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/48742647_maryland-virginia-and-dc-superdelegates-endorse-hi

Contributions
*Using both Hartina Flournoy and Tina Flournoy in HuffPost's Fundrace, has made numerous contributions to Democrats' campaigns, but never contributed to Barack Obama. http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=Washington&st=DC&last=Flournoy

Previous Campaigns
*"Dean was discovering that he needed to find some Washington insiders to trust, after all -- and he found them in what seemed an unlikely quarter. In his primary campaign in 2003, Dean struck up a friendship with Tina Flournoy, a well-respected operative who worked with Al Gore and Joe Lieberman during the 2000 presidential race and who now held a senior position at the American Federation of Teachers, one of the party's most influential unions. Flournoy was also a charter member of an informal dinner clique whose members referred to themselves, good-naturedly, as the Colored Girls. The core group included several African-American women who had reached the highest echelons of Democratic politics. Donna Brazile, the veteran organizer who managed Gore's presidential campaign, was a regular; so were Minyon Moore, a consultant who worked in the Clinton White House; Yolanda Caraway, a public-relations specialist; and Leah Daughtry, who was McAuliffe's chief of staff (and who was retained in that job by Dean). Guest speakers at their dinners frequently included probable presidential candidates and top members of Congress. During the race for chairman, Flournoy brought Dean in as well, and he quickly clicked with the group."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/magazine/01dean.html?pagewanted=3&ei=5090&en=551f820dec6af495&ex=1317355200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
*Flournoy was Gore's finance director on his presidential campaign in 1999 and was considered problematic to some people because of her ties to tobacco interests.
http://diversityjobmarket.com/library/politics/camp/082999wh-gore-bush.html
*Flournoy's relationship with Clinton and Gore administration may have begun in 1995 while she was general counsel for Philip Morris. At this time the Justice Department investigated whether the DNC was knowingly recycling soft money into ads for the Clinton/Gore re-election campaign.
(From Al Gore: A User's Manual, By Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, p240)

Miscellaneous:
*While serving as General Counsel for the Philip Morris Companies, Flournoy was named as a member of the Kennedy Center Advisory Committee by President Clinton, January 19, 1995.
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/legacy/011995-president-names-fourty-two-to-kennedy-center-advisory-committee.htm
*In 1978, Flournoy wrote a Master's Thesis at Georgetown University: "The Portrayal of Women in the Comic Strips Blondie and Brenda Starr: The Mary and Eve Motifs"
http://www1.georgetown.edu/departments/american_studies/research/thesisdirectory/

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Harold Ickes
Washington, D.C.

Basic Bio
*During the 2004 presidential race, Democrat strategist Howard Wolfson told New York magazine that -- outside of the John Kerry campaign -- Ickes was "the most important person in the Democratic Party today."
*Long-time labor lawyer and Democratic activist, Ickes served as campaign manager of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign in New York. In 1994, at the President's urging, he joined the Clinton White House as Deputy Chief of Staff. In that position, Ickes served as the primary White House liaison with the Democratic National Committee during the 1996 campaign. Ickes left his White House post on January 20, 1997 to return to private life.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/scandal/interviews/ickes.html

Basic bio
*Harold McEwen Ickes (born September 4, 1939).
*He is the son of Harold L. Ickes, who was Secretary of the Interior under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
*Ickes chaired Clinton's presidential campaign in New York in 1992.
*Before that, he was a senior advisor to David Dinkins' successful mayoral election in 1989.
*In 2000, he was a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign.
*He now heads the Media Fund, a 527 committee.
*Following the 2004 elections, he was a contender against Howard Dean for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
*As a member of the DNC's Rules committee he was a proponent of adding other states besides Iowa and New Hampshire early on in the Presidential nominating calendar. He was unsuccessful in his promotion of Alabama as the second primary state, after New Hampshire, which lost to South Carolina.
*Since 2005 Ickes has been associated with a progressive data collection and voter file organization called "Data Warehouse" (now Catalist, with Laura Quinn, CEO). He currently serves as Catalist's President [1].
*Ickes is a political strategist working on Hillary Clinton's campaign in the 2008 presidential election.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_M._Ickes
*Sought chairmanship of the Democratic Party in February 2005
*Ran Hillary Clinton's successful Senate campaign in 1999-2000
Full Bio available here: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1624

Family's involvement in politics, Democratic Party
*Ickes hails from a prominent political family. His father Harold LeClair Ickes served as Secretary of the Interior from 1933 to 1946, under Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

Previous Campaign Work
*Before that, he was a senior advisor to David Dinkins' successful mayoral election in 1989.
*In 2000, he was a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign.
*He now heads the Media Fund, a 527 committee.
*Following the 2004 elections, he was a contender against Howard Dean for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

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Ben Johnson

Basic bio
*Johnson had the distinction of being one of the longest-serving African-Americans in White House history. He served two years under President Jimmy Carter and was one of the 30 staff members to serve the entire eight years with President Bill Clinton.
*1993 - 1999 Johnson served Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Office of Public Liaison. He has served in the Office of Public Liaison since 1993.
*In 1999 President Clinton appointed of Robert B. (Ben) Johnson as Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office on the President's Initiative for One America, an office the president is created to follow up on the work of his initiative on race.
*2003 - The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has named former White House advisor Ben Johnson as its new Deputy Chair.

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Gerald W. McEntee
Basic Bio:
*Born in Philadelhia, PA.
*Holds a bachelor's degree in economics from LaSalle University in Philadelphia.
*McEntee and his wife Barbara live in Washington, D.C.
Source: www.afscme.org/about/740.cfm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-mcentee/#blogger_bio

Early Career:
*McEntee began career as a labor leader in Pennsylvania in 1958. As a union organizer in Philadelphia, he led the drive to unionize more than 75,000 Pennsylvania public service employees, which at that time was the largest union mobilization in history.
*Elected Executive Director at the founding convention of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 13 in Pennsylvania in 1973.
*Named International Vice President of AFSCME in 1974.
Source: www.afscme.org/about/740.cfm

Current Occupation:
*President of the 1.4 million member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
*McEntee was first elected AFSCME President in 1981 and was re-elected in June 2004 to another four-year term.
*One of the most aggressive and politically active organizing unions in the AFL-CIO. Since 1998, nearly 250,000 public service workers have joined AFSCME through organizing campaigns.
*As a Vice President of the AFL-CIO, a member of its Executive Council and chair of the Political Education Committee, McEntee is a key leader of the labor movement and its political program. Under McEntee's leadership, the federation created its highly successful and much imitated voter education campaigns, which helped increase the number of union household voters to a record 26 percent of the electorate in 2000 (up from 19 percent in 1992).
Source: http://www.afscme.org/about/740.cfm

Organizations:
*McEntee is a co-founder and chairman of the board of the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute, the preeminent voice for working Americans on the economy. He has led efforts to strengthen and improve such workplace standards as the minimum wage, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Source: http://www.afscme.org/about/740.cfm

Involvement in Democratic Party
*President Clinton named McEntee to serve on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Quality and Consumer Protection in the Health Care Industry in 1997.
Source: http://www.afscme.org/about/740.cfm

Political Interests & Issues
*He has led efforts to strengthen and improve such workplace standards as the minimum wage, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Source: http://www.afscme.org/about/740.cfm

Health Care
*"There has been extensive coverage in the mainstream media and blogosphere about the health care proposals of Senators Clinton and Obama. This issue is important to me because I am a passionate advocate of health care for all and because the way the candidates deal with it points to a major reason I'm supporting Hillary Clinton for President: She'll get results."
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-mcentee/clinton-or-obama-on-he_b_85144.html

Affirmative Action
Source: http://www.vpcomm.umich.edu/admissions/statements/ruling/afscme.html

Endorsement Status
*On 10/31/07 the Clinton campaign issued a press release announcing the endorsement of the McEntee-led AFSCME.
Source: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=3987
*McEntee said after 10 months of polling and interviewing members and scrutinizing candidates' records, Clinton stood out from the pack.
*"As our President, Hillary Clinton will help rebuild America's middle class and make sure that everyone shares in our country's prosperity. She has a record of leadership, of bringing people together for more than 30 years. Hillary Clinton inspires our members. She sparks the flame we need to win," said AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee.
AFSCME said it would activate a 40,000-member volunteer army to mobilize its members, and launch an unprecedented GOTV effort in Iowa, where it represents 30,000 workers.
*"We had the most talented and diverse field of Presidential candidates we've seen in years. But when all was said and done, among our members Hillary Clinton clearly emerged as the best candidate to take back the White House for America's working families," McEntee said.
Source: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=3987

Campaign Contributions
*Wife, Barbara: $2,750 to Hillary Clinton.
Sources: http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=Mcentee&fname=Barbara
www.fec.gov
*No personal donations found for Gerald McEntee according to Huff Post Fund Race and FEC.gov.

Previous Endorements
*McEntee's AFSCME Supported Dr. Howard Dean in 2004 before McEntee determined Dean was "Nuts," withdrew support, and requested that Dean drop out of the race.
Source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DB113DF933A15751C0A9629C8B63

Honors
*For his efforts to improve the lives of working families, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights presented McEntee with its prestigious Hubert H. Humphrey Award in 2004.
Source: http://www.afscme.org/about/740.cfm

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Carol Pensky

Basic Bio/Occupation
*Carol Pensky is a self-described Philanthropist, Activist and Homemaker (http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=HERNDON&st=VA&last=PENSKY&first=Carol) and the wife of the Britches of Georgetown clothing chain co-founder David Pensky.

Organizations:
*Pensky and her husband are philanthropists who have given to a variety of non-profit and charitable organizations, both as individuals and under the auspices of the Pensky Family Foundation. She serves as an advisor to the Museum of Yachting(http://www.moy.org/information.htm); the Tuft's University Dutko Public Policy Fellowship(http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/downloads/DutkoApplication.pdf) ; and Emerge America , a training program for Democratic women who want to run for public office (http://www.emergeamerica.org/template.php?page=board_and_staff).

Involvement in the Democratic Party
*In Washington parlance, Pensky could best be described as a lady who power lunches.
*She seems to have risen to positions of power and prominence during the Clinton years.
*Pensky has been a very active Democratic Party volunteer and both she and her husband have been prolific donors to various candidates and causes at least since the early 1990s, when requirements for public disclosure of financial contributions to political groups began.
*From 1997-99, Pensky served as the Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee.
*She is currently an at-large member of the DNC , the Co-Chair of the DNC's Women's Leadership Forum, and serves on the Credentials Committee of the convention which will decide whether or not (and if so, under what restrictions, if any) to seat the Michigan and Florida delegates to the 2008 Democratic Convention(http://www.demconvention.com/assets/mainassets/standingcommittees.pdf). In addition, she served as a member of the 1997 Clinton Inauguration planning committee (http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/1997/01/update.html). Pensky was on a list of 25 Superdelegates who support Hillary Clinton released by the Clinton campaign on February 10, 2008 (http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=5888).

Political Contributions
*Carol Pensky is a prolific donor.
*She was number 236 on Mother Jones Mother Jones 400 top political contributors from the March/April 1996 issue(http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/1997/01/update.html).
*She is listed as having made $30,000 in total contributions.
*The FEC website lists at total of $32,000 in soft money contributions between 1997-2002 and approximately 100 separate contributions to Democratic candidates for statewide offices around the country and to organizations such as Tom Daschle's "New Leadership for America" PAC($2000).
*She donated to $1250 to Howard Dean and $1000 to John Kerry in the 2003 primary campaign and $100 to John Kerry's 2004 run for the presidency. (www.fec.gov.)
*She and her husband each gave the federal maximum of $4600 to the Hillary Clinton campaign on January 2007 and is one of 223 "bundlers" (known as "Hillraisers") who funneled at least $100,000 in contributions to Clinton's campaign. (http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles/2007/bundling_power_presidential.php, http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/HillRaisers/)
*In 2007 she gave $1000 to the 527 group "New Democratic Network" (http://www.campaignmoney.com/finance.asp?type=fc&cycle=&criteria=Pensky).
*In addition, her husband David gave $10,000 in soft money contributions, $97.750 to political committees and $6000 in Joint Fundraising Contributions.

Previous campaigns:
*In 2000 Pensky chaired Women for Gore (http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/01/president.2000/gore/) .

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Jerome Wiley Segovia

*Segovia was born in Washington, DC, and raised inAsunción, Paraguay. He is a certified technology engineer.
*He currently lives in Arlington, Virginia.
*He graduated with an Economics major from Hanover University in Hanover, Indiana.
*His father was a US AID representative to Paraguay (appointed by John F. Kennedy), and his grandfather was Harvey Wiley, a founder of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jeromewiley
*He is a partner at Public Relations Strategy Group.
http://www.pr-sg.com/whatwedo
*He worked for Electronic Data Systems.
*He belongs to Arlington County Biodiesel Micro Refinery.
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/diesel

Political Activity
*He was appointed to the DNC in November, 2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jeromewiley
*He is on the Executive Board of the CasaBlanca Project, an official project sponsored by the DNC Hispanic Caucus that is "dedicated to facilitating the entry process for Latinos into the field of American presidential politics."
http://www.casablancaproject.com/2007_10_01_archive.html
*Its goal is to register 1000 Hispanic volunteers and select state volunteer coordinators for each Democratic presidential candidate. (Wikipedia says its goal is to enlist 25,000 volunteers. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jeromewiley)
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=2a1ed40ec7c002baf5ecd11a626b3ae9
http://www.dnc.org/page/dashboard/public/gGBqZs
*He has written on behalf of immigrant issues.
http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/6674
*He founded and worked for Latinos for [Howard] Dean in 2004.
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:NkQmO-7duw4J:www.winningbackamerica.com/weblog/reviews/index.html+jerome+wiley+segovia&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=12&gl=us & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jeromewiley

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Dr. James Zogby

Basic bio

http://www.aaiusa.org/dr-zogby/36/biography
*Dr. James J. Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, D.C.-based organization which serves as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community. Since 1985, Dr. Zogby and AAI have led Arab American efforts to secure political empowerment in the U.S. Through voter registration, education and mobilization, AAI has moved Arab Americans into the political mainstream.

*For the past three decades, Dr. Zogby has been involved in a full range of Arab American issues.

*A co-founder and chairman of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign in the late 1970s, he later co-founded and served as the Executive Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. In 1982, he co-founded Save Lebanon, Inc., a private non-profit, humanitarian and non-sectarian relief organization which funds health care for Palestinian and Lebanese victims of war, and other social welfare projects in Lebanon. In 1985, Zogby founded AAI.

*In 1993, following the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord in Washington, he was asked by Vice President Al Gore to lead Builders for Peace, a private sector committee to promote U.S. business investment in the West Bank and Gaza. In his capacity as co-president of Builders, Zogby frequently traveled to the Middle East with delegations led by Vice President Gore and late Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown. In 1994, with former U.S. Congressman Mel Levine, his colleague as co-president of Builders, Zogby led a U.S. delegation to the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian agreement in Cairo. Zogby also chaired a forum on the Palestinian economy at the Casablanca Economic Summit in 1994. After 1994, through Builders, Zogby worked with a number of US agencies to promote and support Palestinian economic development, including AID, OPIC, USTDA, and the Departments of State and Commerce.

*Dr. Zogby has also been personally active in U.S. politics for many years. Most recently, Zogby was elected a co-convener of the National Democratic Ethnic Coordinating Committee (NDECC), an umbrella organization of Democratic Party leaders of European and Mediterranean descent. On September 24, 1999, the NDECC elected Dr. James Zogby as its representative to the Democratic National Committee's Executive Committee. In 2005 he was appointed as chair of the DNC's Resolutions Committee.

*A lecturer and scholar on Middle East issues, U.S.-Arab relations, and the history of the Arab American community, Dr. Zogby appears frequently on television and radio. He has appeared as a regular guest on all the major network news programs. After hosting the popular "A Capital View" on the Arab Network of America for several years, he now hosts "Viewpoint with James Zogby" on Abu Dhabi Television, LinkTV, Dish Network, and DirecTV [broadcast schedule].

*Since 1992, Dr. Zogby has also written a weekly column on U.S. politics for the major newspapers of the Arab world. The column, Washington Watch, is currently published in 14 Arab countries. He has authored a number of books including two recent publications, "What Ethnic Americans Really Think" and "What Arabs Think: Values, Beliefs and Concerns."

*Dr. Zogby has testified before U.S. House and Senate committees, has been guest speaker on a number of occasions in the Secretary's Open Forum at the U.S. Department of State, and has addressed the United Nations and other international forums. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Public Service Award from the U.S. Department of State "in recognition of outstanding contributions to national and international affairs."

*Dr. Zogby is also active professionally beyond his involvement with the Arab American community. He currently serves on the national advisory board of the American Civil Liberties Union, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, he is a Senior Analyst for the polling firm Zogby International.

*In 1975, Dr. Zogby received his doctorate from Temple University's Department of Religion, where he studied under the Islamic scholar Dr. Ismail al-Faruqi. He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University in 1976, and on several occasions was awarded grants for research and writing by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Defense Education Act, and the Mellon Foundation. Dr. Zogby received a Bachelor of Arts from Le Moyne College. In 1995, Le Moyne awarded Zogby an honorary doctoral of laws degree, and in 1997 named him the college's outstanding alumnus.

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