Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman,politician,philanthropist,and author. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P.,and was its CEO from 2014 until 2023. He served as the mayor of New York City for three terms from 2002 to 2013 and was a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president of the United States. He has served as chair of the Defense Innovation Board,an independent advisory board that provides recommendations on artificial intelligence,software,data and digital modernization to the United States Department of Defense,since June 2022.
Nita Sue Lowey is an American politician who formerly served as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1989 until 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Lowey also served as co-Dean of the New York Congressional Delegation,along with former U.S. Representative Eliot Engel. Lowey's district was numbered as the 20th from 1989 to 1993,as the 18th from 1993 to 2013,and as the 17th beginning in 2013. The district includes many of New York City's inner northern suburbs,such as White Plains,Purchase,Tarrytown,Mount Kisco,and Armonk. She was succeeded by fellow Democrat Mondaire Jones.
Harold McEwen Ickes is the former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton. He was a leading figure in the Clinton administration's healthcare reform initiative.
Michael Whouley is an American Democratic Party political consultant who specializes in get out the vote operations. Whouley is President of the Dewey Square Group,a consulting firm that works for both political and corporate clients as lobbyists and campaign strategists.
In the United States Senate election held in the State of New York on November 7,2000,Hillary Rodham Clinton,then First Lady of the United States and the first First Lady to run for political office,defeated U.S. Representative Rick Lazio. The general election coincided with the U.S. presidential election.
The 2008 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton,then junior United States senator from New York,was announced on her website on January 20,2007. Hillary Clinton was previously the First Lady of the United States and First Lady of Arkansas prior to her election as U.S. Senator from New York. She is also the wife of former President Bill Clinton. Clinton was the source of much media speculation since having expressed interest in being a candidate in the 2008 presidential election since at least October 2002.
Jill Hazelbaker is a communications executive,political campaign spokesperson and campaign staff member primarily for candidates of the Republican Party in the United States. She was the national communications director for John McCain's presidential campaign. She has since worked for Google and is currently Senior Vice President of Marketing and Public Affairs at Uber. Fortune magazine included her in their 2020 '40 Under 40' listing under the technology category.
Mark J. Penn is an American businessman,pollster,political strategist,and author.
Geoff Garin is an American pollster,who served as co-chief strategist for the latter part of Senator Hillary Clinton's 2008 Presidential campaign. He was a pollster and strategist in 2011-2012 for Priorities USA Action,the superPAC that supported Barack Obama's reelection,and currently serves in those same roles for Priorities USA in support of Hillary Clinton's election as president.
Joel Benenson is an American pollster and consultant known for his role as a strategist for Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. He was the chief strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
Heather H. Howard is an American health policy expert and former Associate Director of the Domestic Policy Council during the Clinton administration. She is a councilwoman for Princeton,New Jersey municipality,and the program director for the State Health Reform Assistance Network,which is housed in Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She also serves as a lecturer in public affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs,and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Health and Wellbeing.
The Glover Park Group was an American communications consulting firm headquartered in Washington,D.C. The company was founded in 2001 by former White House and Democratic campaign officials Carter Eskew,Michael Feldman,Joe Lockhart and Chip Smith. In January 2021,the firm merged with Finsbury and Hering Schuppener to form Finsbury Glover Hering,which itself later merged in December 2021 with New York City-based Sard Verbinnen &Co to form FGS Global.
This article contains lists of candidates associated with the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries for the 2016 United States presidential election.
Jay Carson is an American screenwriter and producer. Carson worked in domestic and international politics for Bill Clinton,Hillary Clinton,Howard Dean,Bill Bradley,Chuck Schumer,Mike Bloomberg,and Tom Daschle before his career in film and television. He was Hillary Clinton's press secretary in her 2008 presidential campaign. He is the former Chief Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles,serving under Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Jeremy Bird is an American political strategist who has worked for the political campaigns of Barack Obama.
Robert E. Mook is an American former political strategist. He was the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
Seth Bringman is a political campaign strategist for the Democratic Party in the United States. He most recently served as spokesperson for Stacey Abrams.
Jess McIntosh is an American political strategist,commentator,and communication consultant.
Tara McGowan is an American political strategist and journalist. She was the co-founder and CEO of multiple organizations which have been noted for large expenditures on digital advertising in preparation for the 2020 United States presidential election,including the political organization Acronym,the company Lockwood Strategy,and the media company Courier Newsroom. She was the director of the advertising branch of Priorities USA Action,which was the primary super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign,and was a digital producer for the re-election campaign of Barack Obama. Previously,she was the press secretary for United States Senator Jack Reed. In 2021,she stepped down from Acronym to build media full-time as head of a new company,Good Information Inc.
