Contributors

Contributors Polly Armstrong is part of the third generation of community-involved women in her family. Her grandmother was a suffragette; her mother was a life-long League of Women Voters devotee; and Armstrong spent sixteen years involved in Berkeley city government. While raising two daughters with the help of her husband John, Armstrong led Camp- fire Girl troops; presided over PTAs; attained her Certified Financial Planning degree and started a consulting service to help women control their finances; did a stint as a “puller” on a salmon fishing boat; became a certified SCUBA diver; earned her private pilot’s license; and became a breast cancer survivor. Now in retirement, Armstrong consults with a local developer, flies around the country with her husband, and finds total joy in her new granddaughter Lucy Rose. Katie Burke is originally from Three Rivers, California, and now lives in Washington, D.C., where she works as a congressional aide for Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut, 3rd). In 2003, Burke graduated with highest honors from the University of California, Berke- ley, where she majored in political science. While at UC Berkeley, Burke worked for Loni Hancock’s state assembly campaign, Tom Bates’s may- oral campaign, and spent a semester in Washington as an intern for the research department of EMILY’s List, a political action committee that supports the campaigns of pro-choice Democratic women. Joanne Davis has spent the last twenty years working with top elected officials, state political parties, public opinion leaders, and corporate executives in both California and nationwide. In 2002, Davis served as Statewide Finance Director for the 2002 Bill Simon for Governor Campaign, overseeing fundraising efforts that raised over $21 million for the general election cycle. She served in the same position for the pri- mary election campaign of Richard Riordan for Governor. In 1994 Davis served as campaign manager for the re-election of Attorney General Dan Lungren, coordinating the efforts that resulted in a landslide victory over the challenger. In 1998, she designed and implemented a comprehensive fundraising program that raised over $32 million for Lungren’s guber- natorial race. As president of The Davis Group, Davis has led the fund- 179 180 Win the Right Way raising efforts for many other political and nonprofit clients, including Bush for President, Victory 2000; the Assembly Republican PAC; Keith Olberg for Secretary of State; the Los Angeles World Affairs Council; the Republican National Committee; and the California Republican Party. Mitchell Englander is Chief of Staff to Los Angeles City Council- man Greig Smith. He is also the founding principal of Issue Strategies, Inc., a public affairs, government relations, and political consulting firm in Los Angeles that services numerous political campaigns and corporate clients on government and community relations. Englander has success- fully managed scores of local, state, and federal election contests, and he is a leading expert in the use of computer technology for public affairs programs, marketing strategies, coalition building, and outreach campaigns. Englander is the president and cofounder of the California chapter of the American Association of Political Consultants. He has been honored with numerous “Pollie” awards from the national chapter of the AAPC as well as awards from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), and the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). He lives in Glendale, California, with his wife of ten years, Jayne Englander, and their two daughters, Lindsey and Lauren. Karen Getman is of counsel to Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, one of the leading political, constitutional and policy law firms in California. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, she was appointed chairman of the California Fair Political Practices Commission by Gov- ernor Gray Davis in March 1999, and served in that capacity until April 2003. She has extensive experience in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies, and represents a variety of clients in public policy and constitutional litigation. She also advises public officials, candidates, committees, and public agencies on all aspects of the electoral and political process, including compliance with the state Political Reform Act and the federal Bi-Partisan Campaign Reform Act. During the 2003- 2004 academic year, she served as the first Executive in Residence at the Center on Politics at the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, where she continues as a visiting scholar. She is also adjunct professor at Boalt Hall School of Law, where she co-teaches a course on regulating public integrity. Christine Trost & Matt Grossmann 181 Matt Grossmann is a researcher at the Center for Campaign Leader- ship and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley. He has researched political campaigns for the California Commission on Internet Political Practices, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Center for Voting and Democracy, and the Institute of Governmental Studies. He helped organize campaigns for local initia- tives, in the British Parliament, and for U.S. legislative and municipal offices. He has worked as a volunteer organizer, a political party operative, a legislative staff member, a news reporter, and a grassroots activist. As a volunteer and staff member, Grossmann has walked precincts, served on political party boards, raised money, and organized events. Jarryd Gonzales is the executive director of Victory 2004 for the California Republican Party. As executive director, Gonzales, on behalf of the state party, is responsible for overseeing the statewide coordinated political effort that includes the presidential, U.S. Senate and congressional campaigns. Additionally, Jarryd serves as the political director of the California Republican Party. Prior to his work at the California Republi- can Party, he served as a campaign manager, political director, and chief spokesperson on numerous legislative and statewide contests. In 2003, Gonzales served as an international political trainer for the International Republican Institute in Venezuela, where he trained party leaders on how to develop and execute a campaign plan. He also serves as an instructor for the Republican National Committee’s 72 Hour Task Force. Gonzales is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in international relations. Mary Hughes has provided strategic guidance to candidates for president, Congress, and state offices for over twenty years. She is a cofounder and president of Staton & Hughes, a strategic communications and political consulting firm in San Francisco, California. During the 1990s, Staton & Hughes helped convert four Republican-held Califor- nia congressional seats for Democrats—Anna Eshoo, Mike Thompson, Ellen Tauscher, and Susan Davis. The firm has also directed successful campaigns for California Assembly and State Senate candidates. Hughes also directed campaigns resulting in a number of successful “firsts” in California and national politics: the first woman superintendent of schools, Delaine Eastin; the first open lesbian judge in the nation, Donna 182 Win the Right Way Hitchens; and the first Latino mayor of San Jose, Ron Gonzalez. Hughes is a senior advisor to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi with whom she worked on the leadership races. She received her law degree from the University of Virginia and her undergraduate degree from Mount Holy- oke College. Valerie Hyman has thirty years of experience working as a television reporter, newsroom manager, and corporate news executive. She was the founding director of the Program for Broadcast Journalists at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, a nonprofit, educational organization, where she spent a decade leading seminars and conferences in management, reporting, writing, and enterprise thinking. As a reporter, Hyman was awarded the DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Peabody Award, two National Headliner Awards, the Sigma Delta Chi Distin- guished Service Medal, and Tennessee Broadcaster of the Year. She spent a year at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow, followed by nearly two years as director of news development for the Gillett Group of network-affiliated television stations. Now president of The Management Coach, Hyman provides coaching and consultation for networks, station groups, and their news directors; strategic planning; and workshops on writing and reporting, enterprise thinking, ethics, and newsroom management. Shaun R. Lumachi is a dedicated leader who serves his community through advocacy and the development of relationships. Lumachi is president of Chamber Advocacy, a professional advocacy consulting firm that builds advocacy programs, which empower chamber of commerce members to leverage their voices and increase their relevance in public policy discussions and decision making. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from California State University, Sacramento. He is a resident of Long Beach, California. Michelle Maravich is one of California’s leading political fundrais- ers. She has designed and managed fundraising efforts for more than twenty-five candidates for public office over the past fourteen years. For the past five statewide campaign cycles, she has led the fundraising efforts for the California Democratic Party and the California Coordinated Campaign,

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