Adam Parkhomenko

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Adam Julian Parkhomenko
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Born (1985-10-22) October 22, 1985 (age 38)
Arlington, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation(s)Former National Field Director, Democratic National Committee
Known forFounder of Ready for Hillary
Political party Democratic Party (United States)
PartnerAlly Sammarco (2021-present) [1]
ChildrenCameron Julian Parkhomenko [2] Paxton John Parkhomenko [3]

Adam Julian Parkhomenko (born October 22, 1985) is an American political strategist and organizer who served in 2016 as the national field director for the Democratic National Committee. [4] He was the co-founder and executive director of Ready for Hillary, a super PAC established to persuade Hillary Clinton to run for the presidency of the United States in 2016. [5] [6] [7] In the 2017 party election, Parkhomenko was a candidate for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. [8]

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Career

As a 17-year-old student in 2003 at Northern Virginia Community College, Parkhomenko set up VoteHillary.org, an independent website that urged voters to vote for Hillary Clinton during the 2004 Democratic presidential primary. [9] [10] [11] [12] He later ran Draft Hillary for President 2004, which was founded in 2003 and shut down in 2004. [13]

HillPAC, Clinton's political action committee, hired Parkhomenko as a staffer while he was leading Draft Hillary for President 2004. [13] [14] [15] [16] He worked in various capacities for Clinton, including a stint as assistant to Clinton's campaign manager during the 2008 Democratic primary. [17] [18] He left the Clinton presidential campaign in March 2008. [15]

Shortly after leaving the Clinton campaign, Parkhomenko launched Vote Both with Sam Arora. [17] [19] [20] Vote Both was an independent expenditure committee dedicated to persuading then-Senator Barack Obama -- at the time the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee -- to pick Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate. [17] [19] [20] Vote Both ceased operations in late July 2008, when it became clear to Parkhomenko and Arora that Obama would not select Clinton as his running mate. [20]

At the age of 23, Parkhomenko ran for the Democratic nomination for the 47th district in the Virginia House of Delegates during the 2009 Virginia state primary elections. [21] [22] His candidacy was endorsed by Bill Clinton, Wesley Clark and Patsy Ticer. [23] [24] [25] Parkhomenko finished third among five candidates in the Democratic primary to replace Al Eisenberg. [26]

In January 2013, Parkhomenko and Allida Black, a George Washington University historian and professor, launched Ready for Hillary, a super PAC that aimed to persuade Hillary Clinton to run for the presidency of the United States in 2016. [5] [27] [28] Parkhomenko served as executive director of the PAC. [5] Most of the other staff members from Ready for Hillary were not offered positions on the campaign, causing some hostility [29]

In early April 2015, Parkhomenko left Ready for Hillary to join Clinton's official campaign as its director of grassroots engagement. [30] He also served as the state director for the Maryland and District of Columbia primaries, which Clinton won by 30 and 58 points, respectively. [31] [32] [33] [34]

In September 2016, Parkhomenko was named the national field director for the Democratic National Committee. [4]

Immediately following the 2016 presidential election, Parkhomenko announced his run for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. [35] His campaign was unsuccessful.

Parkhomenko co-founded Party Majority PAC, a super PAC focused on grassroots organizing and electing Democrats. [36]

In 2020 Politico named Parkhomenko's prediction that Jaime Harrison would win the U.S. Senate election in South Carolina one of "the most audacious, confident and spectacularly incorrect prognostications about the year." [37]

Personal life

Parkhomenko was born in Washington, DC and raised in Arlington, Virginia. [38] He is a graduate of Washington-Lee High School, Northern Virginia Community College and George Mason University. [38] Parkhomenko founded Ready for Hillary while attending George Mason. He also served as a reserve police officer during this period. [39] He lives with his fiancée and his sons, Cameron Julian Parkhomenko and Paxton John Parkhomenko, in Arlington. [40]

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