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One of the three chairs of the Democratic Convention Credentials Committee, which will decide whether Michigan and Florida pledged delegates should count at the DNC. Worked in the administration of Bill Clinton as Secretary of Labor. (reference: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/clinton-campa-2.html)
Allen Boyd was sworn into office on January 7, 1997, as a Democratic member of the 105th Congress representing Florida's 2nd Congressional District. The District spans 16 counties, from South Walton County, through Tallahassee, almost reaching Jacksonville, making up the largest geographic Congressional district in the state. This area of North Florida is distinctly rural yet surprisingly diverse. The regional economy is as reliant on small fishing villages and rural farming operations as it is the higher education and state government communities of Tallahassee.
Congressman Boyd is a leader of Congress' Blue Dog Coalition, a group of 38 Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives who advocate fiscal responsibility in the Federal budgeting process. They are centrist legislators working to build consensus between the two parties in Congress to find workable solutions for the most pressing budget issues. The Blue Dogs have been called upon to lead the House to a comprehensive fiscal policy anchored in federal debt reduction for America and tax relief for all citizens. Boyd was instrumental in the successful efforts by Congress to reach the historic 1997 Balanced Budget Agreement. He has been a leader of the coalition since his election to Congress in 1996. During his first term, Boyd led the charge to reform our federal campaign finance laws by serving as a member of the Freshman Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Task Force. The hard work of Boyd and his colleagues finally came to fruition in March of 2002 when President Bush signed sweeping reform of the campaign finance system, the result of several years of bipartisan cooperation. (From http://www.boydforcongress.com/getinformed/biography.cfm)
Senator Art Torres (Ret.) was elected Chairman of the California Democratic Party in 1996. He was appointed to finish the term vacated by Bill Press in 1995. He ran unopposed in 2001 and was elected by unanimous approval of the body.
Senator Torres served twenty years in the California State Legislature, eight as an Assembly member and twelve as a State Senator. As Chairman of the Insurance Committee, he fostered a balance between industry and consumer concerns. During his legislative tenure he was also Chairman of the Assembly Health Committee, Senate Joint Committee on Science and Technology and Senate Committee on the Entertainment Industry.
Mulholland has been active in Democratic Party politics for more than 30 years, managing and advising countless candidates. He once worked as a consultant to the British Labour Party, and has appeared as a guest on such TV shows as "48 Hours," "The Today Show" "Larry King" and "Crossfire."
Mulholland is a Vietnam veteran and served with the 101st Airborne and was wounded in the Tet Offensive. source
Democrat Carole Migden represents the 3rd District in the California State Senate, which includes parts of San Francisco, Sonoma County, and Marin County.[1] She was previously a member of the California State Assembly (1996-2002) and Chairwoman of the California Board of Equalization (2002-2004), the nation's only publicly-elected tax commission. She also served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1991-1996). She also chaired the San Francisco Democratic Party for eight years and is a member of the Democratic National Committee.
Carole Migden is the Chairperson of California Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee and the Chairperson of the Senate Majority Caucus. She was previously the Senate Appropriations Committee Chair. She is the only Lesbian state official in Northern California and one of just ten woman Senators.
Edward Smith, Midwest Regional Manager of the Laborers' International Union of North America, is a Superdelegate from the state of Illinois. As a DNC Member-at-Large, Smith has been a delegate to the 2000 and 2004 conventions.
One of the three chairs of the Democratic Convention Credentials Committee, which will decide whether Michigan and Florida pledged delegates should count at the DNC. Worked in the administration of Bill Clinton as White House travel consultant. (reference: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/clinton-campa-2.html)
Former Sen. George Mitchell of Maine, who served as the Democratic Party's leader in the Senate from 1989 to to 1994, has not endorsed a presidential candidate yet.
One of the three chairs of the Democratic Convention Credentials Committee, which will decide whether Michigan and Florida pledged delegates should count at the DNC. Worked in the administration of Bill Clinton as Social Security Administration associate commissioner. (reference: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/clinton-campa-2.html)
James Creel "Jim" Marshall (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, and has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing the 8th District (formerly numbered as the 3rd District) of Georgia (map). The district is based in Macon and includes much of rural Middle Georgia.
The son and grandson of army generals, Marshall was born in Ithaca, New York, but moved frequently during his childhood and graduated from high school in Mobile, Alabama. He entered Princeton University in 1966, but left college in 1968 to enlist in the United States Army. He served in Vietnam as an Airborne Ranger reconnaissance platoon sergeant and earned two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. (Marshall was recently inducted into the Army Ranger Hall of Fame.) He returned to Princeton in 1970 and graduated in 1972. Marshall worked various jobs for two years before entering law school at Boston University, where he earned his J.D. in 1977. He practiced law, taught at Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law in Macon, and from 1995 to 1999 served as mayor of Macon before running for Congress.
Marshall lives in Macon with his wife Camille Hope, the daughter of National Hurricane Center meteorologist John Hope. The couple has two children, Mary and Robert.
Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He is a member of the Democratic Party and the incumbent senior U.S. Senator from Delaware. Biden is currently serving his sixth term and is sixth-longest serving among current Senators (fourth among Democrats) and Delaware's longest-serving Senator. He is the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in the 110th Congress. Biden has served in that position in the past, and he has served as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. He was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2008 presidential election, but dropped out after a poor performance in the Iowa caucus on January 3, 2008.
John F. Tierney (born September 18, 1951), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing the 6th District of Massachusetts.
Tierney was born in Salem, Massachusetts and was educated at Salem State College and Suffolk University Law School. He worked as a trial lawyer until successfully running for Congress.
Tierney considers himself a strong voice for the middle class. The representative is a member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and has introduced legislation that would make college more affordable. He is also pushing for a bill that would prohibit companies from curtailing retirement benefits that were promised to tenured employees. Tierney is considered to be a strong supporter of labor. He is also interested in protecting the environment.
Most recently, Tierney has received attention for introducing H.R. 3099 on June 25, 2005, a Congressional bill that would introduce Clean Elections to national elections. The bill, though supported by 40 members of his own caucus, was tabled in committee.
Leila Medley, 71, is the political director of the Missouri National Education Association.
Medley expects to remain neutral until former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., endorses one of his former rivals.
Medley had privately supported Edwards and says she has yet to hear Obama or Clinton adequately embrace Edwards' approach on economic and work force issues. [1]
Lincoln Davis (born September 13, 1943 in Pall Mall, Tennessee) is a U.S. Representative from Tennessee, currently representing the state's 4th congressional district. He is a Democrat. He is planning to run for Governor of Tennessee in 2010.
Davis, a 1966 Tennessee Technological University agriculture graduate who was raised in rural Fentress County, has been serving Tennesseans since being elected as mayor of Byrdstown in 1978. Davis served two terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives, 1980–1984, and was later elected to two terms in the Tennessee State Senate, 1996–2002, resigning from that body midway through his second term when he was elected to represent the state’s Fourth Congressional District in November 2002, narrowly defeating Tullahoma Alderman Janice Bowling. He was handily reelected in a 2004 rematch against Bowling.
The current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Before becoming Speaker in the 110th Congress, she was the House Minority Leader from 2002 to 2007, holding the post during the 107th, 108th, and 109th Congresses.
Since 1987, she has represented the 8th Congressional District of California, which consists of four-fifths of the City and County of San Francisco. The district was numbered as the 5th during Pelosi's first three terms in the House.
With her election as Speaker, she is the first woman, the first Californian, and the first Italian-American to hold the Speakership. She is the second Speaker from a state west of the Rocky Mountains, with the first being Washington's Tom Foley, who was the last Democrat to hold the post before Pelosi. As Speaker of the House, Pelosi ranks second in the line of presidential succession, following Vice President Dick Cheney.
Congressman Steny H. Hoyer represents Maryland’s Fifth Congressional District, which includes Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s counties and portions of Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties. A resident of Mechanicsville serving his 14th term in Congress, Congressman Hoyer became the longest-serving Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland in history on June 4, 2007.
In November 2006, Congressman Hoyer was elected by his colleagues in the Democratic Caucus to serve as House Majority Leader in the 110th Congress. His election as Majority Leader – which is the second-highest position in the House – makes him the highest-ranking Member of Congress from Maryland in history.
Congressman Hoyer's experience, know-how and strong work ethic have led to increasing responsibilities within the House Democratic leadership. Prior to serving as the Whip in the 108th and 109th Congresses, he served as Chair of the Democratic Caucus - the fourth-ranking position among House Democrat - from 1989 to 1995. He is the former Co-Chair (and a current member) of the Democratic Steering Committee, and served as the chief candidate recruiter for House Democrats from 1995 to 2000. He also served as Deputy Majority Whip from 1987 to 1989.
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore previously served in the U. S. House of Representatives (1977–85) and the U. S. Senate (1985–93), representing Tennessee. In the 2000 presidential election he ran for president after winning the Democratic nomination but lost to George W. Bush in a controversial decision.
A prominent environmental activist, he shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
On June 16, Former Vice President Al Gore endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for President of the United States in Detroit, Michigan.
Alan B. Mollohan was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, on May 14, 1943, to Robert H. and Helen Holt Mollohan. A graduate of Greenbrier Military School, the College of William and Mary, and West Virginia University's College of Law, he began his legal career in 1970 with a Fairmont firm.
In 1976 he married Glenville native Barbara Whiting, who was working as a speech therapist in the Ohio County schools system. They are the parents of four sons and one daughter.
Mollohan was sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives[1] in 1983, and has served in each successive Congress.
His top priority is economic development in the First District. He works to defend its traditional industries against unfair attacks and to diversify its base through high-tech, aerospace and government-service activities.
Alan Solomont is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and political activist. For many years, he was a leading provider of eldercare in New England. As founder and CEO of the AoDoS Group, he helped to build a broad and innovative network of post-acute, eldercare services. In 1996, the AoDoS Group was sold to the Multicare Companies, which is now a part of Genesis Health Ventures. Today, Mr. Solomont is Chairman and CEO of Solomont Bailis Ventures, whose mission is to launch new and innovative health and eldercare ventures. He also serves as a Director of the Boston Private Bank & Trust Company and as a Managing Member of Angel Healthcare Investors, LLC.
Active for many years in the Democratic Party, Mr. Solomont was chosen by President Clinton and Vice President Gore to serve as National Finance Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 1997. Under his leadership, the DNC raised over $40 million. Mr. Solomont has held many other volunteer positions in the Democratic Party including delegate to the 1996 and 2000 Democratic National Conventions, National Chairman of the Democratic Business Council, Treasurer of the Massachusetts Democratic Party and Chairman of the DNC's Leadership 2000 Board. Mr. Solomont is currently involved with Senator John Kerry's Presidential campaign.
On January 26, 2007, the Boston Globe[1] reported:
Born in Mexico City, Alex has traveled far and accomplished many things. Her family moved to the United States when she was young and settled in Southern California. Her father's restaurant, Pedro's, was a magnet for local politicians and businessmen in Huntington Beach. She attended Magnolia High School and continued her education at Cyprus College.
Upon graduation, she went to work for Pacific Bell and joined the Communications Workers of America, Local #9400. This is where she became active in the labor movement, her life's work. During her 18 years with the union, Alex worked her way from shop steward to area steward. Her incredible dedication to her fellow employees paid off and she was elected to the Executive Board of CWA #9400.
Alex personally understands the hardships many working people experience. She is a single mother and became a naturalized American in 1990. Her sensitivity to the needs of immigrants and working women has added to her leadership qualities.
She was elected Second Vice-Chair in 1997 and First Vice-Chair in 2001. source
Amy Klobuchar is a U.S. Senator from Minnesota. She won her seat in 2006 by defeating Representative Mark Kennedy. Prior to her time in the Senate, Klobuchar served as the County Attorney for Hennepin County, as a legal advisor to former Vice President Walter Mondale, and as a partner in two law firms.[1]
According to the Associated Press [1],
"Anna Burger, secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union, has switched her voter registration from Pennsylvania to the District of Columbia"
Anna Burger, SEIU’s Secretary-Treasurer, said, "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."
Awais Khaleel is the Vice President of the College Democrats of America, and as such is one of two super delegates representing the organization. He is the former State Chair of the College Democrats of Wisconsin. He has previously served on the staffs of the Kerry-Edwards campaign in Wisconsin and the re-election campaign of Governor Jim Doyle.
He is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he endorsed Barack Obama May 13. 2008.
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois claimed the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, projected based on its tally of convention delegates. By doing so, he shattered a barrier more than two centuries old to become the first black candidate ever nominated by a major political party for the nation’s highest office.
On June 3, 2008, Barack Obama became the Presumptive Nominee of the Democratic Party.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee was first elected to represent California's ninth Congressional District in 1998, in a special election to fill the seat of retiring Congressman Ron Dellums.
After serving on the International Relations and Financial Services Committees, in 2007 she joined the House Appropriations Committee, which controls the federal purse strings and is widely viewed as one of the most powerful committees in Congress. She serves on the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Subcommittee, the Foreign Operations Subcommittee and the Legislative Branch Subcommittee.
She is the Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, First Vice-Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and a Senior Democratic Whip. She also serves as Co-Chair of the CBC Outreach Task Force.
On February 16th, in a forum with constituents, Congressman Hill compared Barack Obama to Bobby Kennedy and stated that he "generates an energy and an enthusiasm that transcends normal politics." He said that he is personally in favor of him as the nominee, though he does not officially endorse him. Finally, he said that he will in all likelihood yield either to the vote of his district or the total vote of the pledged delegates, come convention time.
This statement will appear on WFHB Community Radio's Daily Local News for Monday, Feb. 18th. The audio from this segment will be posted online at http://news.wfhb.org/news/audio/DLN20080218.mp3 in the next few days. It's in the last third of the newscast.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama today saying he was confident that U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Governor Martin O'Malley, who both threw their support to Hillary Clinton, would also rally around Obama's candidacy.
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Brian Melendez was elected as State Chair of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party on May 21, 2005. Melendez has been active in politics for almost two decades. Before his election, Melendez chaired both the Minneapolis DFL Party (1999–2005) and DFL Congressional District 5 (2004–05).
