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Task Force on Presidential Nomination Financing

Jeffrey Bell, a principal at Capital City Partners, has held key roles in the campaigns of Presidents Nixon and Reagan, as well as the candidacies of Jack Kemp and Gary Bauer. Mr. Bell has served as president of the Manhattan Institute, and as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He was a candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 1978 and 1982, and serves on the board of directors of the American Conservative Union. [*] J. Kenneth Blackwell is Secretary of State of Ohio. As such, he is Ohio’s chief elections officer and responsible for the State’s campaign finance disclosure system. Previously, he was Mayor of Cincinnati, undersecretary of Housing and Urban Development during George H.W. Bush’s Administration, Ohio’s Treasurer, and co-chair of the U.S. Census Monitoring Board. He served as the National Chairman of Steve Forbes’ presidential campaign in 2000. Currently, Mr. Blackwell is a member of the Advisory Panel of the Federal Election Commission, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Taxpayers Union. With Anthony Corrado, he is also co-chair of the Campaign Finance Institute’s Board of Trustees. [*] William E. Brock is founder and chairman of Intellectual Development Systems/ Bridges Learning Systems, Inc., which provides educational programs for schools. He previously served as U.S. Secretary of Labor (1985-87) in the Reagan Administration, as U.S. Trade Representative (1981-85) and Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1977-80). He also represented the people of Tennessee as a U.S. Senator (1971-76) and a Member of Congress (1963-70). Becky Cain is the president and CEO of The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation in Charleston, West Virginia. Ms. Cain was President of the League of Women Voters of the United States from 1992 through 1998. She is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Advisory Committee on Election Law to the American Bar Association, and the West Virginia Election Commission. [*] Anthony Corrado is a Professor of Government at Colby College and one of the nation’s leading experts on political finance. He is the author or co-author of numerous studies in this field, including Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook; Paying for Presidents: Public Financing in National Elections; Financing the 1992 Election; and The Elections of 1996: Reports and Interpretations. He previously held senior positions in the Mondale, Dukakis and Kerrey presidential campaigns. With Kenneth Blackwell, he is also co-chair of the Campaign Finance Institute’s Board of Trustees. [*]

119 Carol Darr is the director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet at the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University. Ms. Darr served as acting general counsel to the U.S. Department of Commerce under President Clinton and was general counsel to the Democratic National Committee in 1992. She was also chief counsel to the 1988 Dukakis/ Bentsen Presidential Committee, and as the deputy counsel to the 1980 Carter/ Mondale Presidential Committee. Richard Davis is a Managing Partner of Davis Manafort, specializing in international and national political affairs. Mr. Davis was National Campaign Manager for Senator John S. McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign and currently serves as Chairman of Senator McCain’s political action committee, Straight Talk America. He was recently a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also served as Deputy Convention Manager for the 1996 National Republican Convention and Deputy Campaign Manager for the 1996 Presidential Campaign of Senator Bob Dole. Mr. Davis was the National Convention Director for the Reagan/Bush Re-Election Campaign in 1984, and the 1988 Presidential Debate Coordinator for the Bush/ Quayle 1988 Presidential Campaign. Donald J. Foley is a principal at Prism Public Affairs, a firm that specializes in public affairs and communications. He previously served as Representative Richard A. Gephardt’s press secretary for twelve years, with an extended leave to serve as Walter F. Mondale’s deputy press secretary in the 1984 presidential campaign. Mr. Foley was Executive Director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In 1996, he served as Convention Manager for the Democratic Party in Chicago and as a communications consultant to the Clinton/ Gore campaign. Ruth S. Jones, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Arizona State University, is one of the leading political scientists in the area of campaign financing at the state level. She has also been a Commissioner and Chair of the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission. [*] Michael J. Malbin, the Campaign Finance Institute’s Executive Director, also is a Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Before going to SUNY in 1990, he was a reporter for National Journal, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and worked for Richard B. Cheney on the Iran-Contra Committee, in the House Republican leadership and in the Pentagon. His books include Life After Reform: What Happens When the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Meets Politics (editor and co-author); The Day After Reform: Sobering Campaign Finance Lessons from the American States; (with T. Gais) and Vital Statistics on Congress, (with N. Ornstein and T. Mann). [*]

120 Charles T. Manatt is the founder of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, a law firm specializing in government services and strategies, international and corporate law. Mr. Manatt was the U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic from 1999 to March 2001. He is a former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and was Co-Chairman of the 1992 Clinton/Gore campaign. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The George Washington University. Ross Clayton Mulford is a partner of the Texas based law firm Hughes & Luce, specializing in securities law and complex corporate transactions. Mr. Mulford was general counsel and campaign manager of Ross Perot’s 1992 presidential campaign, and in 1996 was general counsel to the Reform Party and Perot ’96. He has served on the American Bar Association National Advisory Commission on Election Law (1993-1995, 1999-2001), and the ABA Standing Committee on Election Law (1995- 1999). He has also served as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics, Harvard University and resident lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government. Phil Noble, is founder of Phil Noble and Associates, an international political and public affairs consulting firm, and President of PoliticsOnline. PoliticsOnline, founded in 1996, is a company that provides fundraising and Internet tools for politics as well as publications that cover Internet politics. Noble was named International Political Consultant of the Year in 1997 by the American Association of Political Consultants, and in 2001 was a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. [*]

Research Director John C. Green is Professor of Political Science and director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron, a research and teaching institute dedicated to the “nuts and bolts” of practical politics. He is editor of the Citizens’ Research Foundation’s book, Financing the 1996 Election, and co- author of The State of Parties, which is now in its fourth edition.

* Member of the CFI Board of Trustees.

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