Richardson: The Who's Who Of The Campaign
The Richardson campaign released a list of key staff and advisers:
Among the key staff:
- Dave Contarino, who ran Richardson's first GOV campaign and was his CoS. He'll be overseeing the campaign.
- Amanda Cooper, who ran the the NM GOV re-elect and also served as the campaign's fundraising dir. She also oversaw Richardson's efforts to raise money for the DGA.
- Pahl Shipley, was most recently the Comm. Dir. and chief spokesperson in the GOV office. Before politics, Shipley worked in Albuquerque local TV news.
- Colleen Turrentine was the national fundraising director for the DLC and in '04 worked for Joe Lieberman's '04 campaign.
Among those the campaign classifies as "senior advisers":
- Steve Murphy, the DC-based media consultant who ran Dick Gephardt's '04 campaign.
- Mike Stratton, who has worked on numerous nat'l campaigns but also has had particular success in CO campaigns.
- Mark Putnam is Murphy's partner in the media biz, serving as a media adviser for over 20 years.
- Jeff Eller is the CEO of Public Strategies and is a veteran of the Clinton '92 campaign.
- Jennifer Yocham Poersch, was the dep. finance dir, for Lieberman '04 and will work with Cooper on fundraising.
- Joe Velasquez: is the candidate's political dir. and adviser on labor issues; he was a dep. political dir. in the Clinton WH.
- Calvin Humphrey is one of Richardson's key foreign policy advisers, traveling with the GOV on some of his many int'l negotiation missions.
- Andre Pineda is a CA-based pollster who, before starting his own firm, worked for Garin-Hart-Yang and Stan Greenberg.
- Suzanne Cole Nowers is CEO of Nexus Direct, a top direct marketing firm that specializes in direct mail fundraising.