August 30, 2019: The Democratic National Committee will reject Iowa’s and Nevada’s virtual caucus plans. Shirley Shawe spent $500,000 on an ad against Joe Biden.
Noland Chambliss is an independent consultant with experience in organizational identity development and strategic communications. He graduated from Vassar College in 2006 with a degree in political science.
Previous campaign work:
2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign, field organizer and deputy field director
Other experience:
2016 - present: Independent consultant
2015 - present: The Dream Corps, board member
2016-2018: SYPartners, strategist
2012-2015: Change.org, strategic communications team and director of external affairs
“I don’t think the fact that [Kirsten Gillibrand] was talking about equal pay, sexual assaults in the military, or reproductive rights turned off any Democratic voters. I just think no candidate can only be focused on one gender.”
– Patti Solis Doyle, 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign manager
“She could never get enough oxygen. None of the candidates, outside just a few, really can. She just never got a look — a real look — from anybody outside the people she personally met. But the DNC qualifications squeezed the amount of time any of these candidates can actually do that.”
– Jeff Link, Democratic consultant
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The Democratic National Committee will reject Iowa’s and Nevada’s virtual caucus plans because of security concerns. The states will need to find an alternative solution to be in compliance with new party rules on expanding access to voting.
Michael Bennet will campaign in Iowa Sunday with stops at Cedar Rapids and Waterloo.
Shirley Shawe, whose son’s business was hurt following a dispute in the Delaware Chancery Court system, spent $500,000 on an ad criticizing Joe Biden for defending the bankruptcy court system. It will begin airing this week in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Delaware.
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