List of John McCain 2008 presidential campaign staff members

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John McCain was the Republican Party candidate for President of the United States in 2008. Rick Davis, his campaign manager, projected at one point[when?] that his staff would eventually increase to about 450. By early July 2008, it had opened 11 regional offices in key states and some 84 offices total across the country in a joint effort with the Republican National Committee.[1]

National leadership team[]

Persons listed on the John McCain for President website:[2]

Inner circle[]

According to New York Times reporter John M. Broder:[3]

Others joining later or listed in other sources include:

  • Charles R. Black, Jr., senior political adviser
  • Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard

The Bush team[]

  • Wayne L. Berman, lobbyist and Bush fund-raiser
  • Mark McKinnon, Bush's media consultant
  • , Bush's political director 2004 campaign
  • Gerald L. Parsky, California chairman, Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaigns
  • Nicolle Wallace, née Nicolle Devenish, White House communications director
  • Ron Weiser, Ambassador to Slovakia and Bush fund-raiser

Policy advisers[]

Foreign policy advisers[]

In October 2007, the Washington Post listed the following as McCain's foreign policy advisers.[5]

  • Randy Scheunemann, national security aide to then-Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Trent Lott and now a lobbyist, defense and foreign policy coordinator (for this cycle and 2000)"
  • Richard L. Armitage, "President George W. Bush’s deputy secretary of state and an international business consultant and lobbyist, informal foreign policy adviser"; [24] deputy to former secretary of state Colin Powell
  • Bernard Aronson, former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs; currently managing partner of private equity investment company ACON Investments
  • William L. Ball III, Secretary of the Navy during President Reagan’s administration, and managing director of lobbying firm the Loeffler Group
  • Stephen E. Biegun, Aspen Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Council of the Americas, former national security aide to then-Sen. Bill Frist, currently VP international affairs, Ford Motors
  • , speechwriter [6]
  • Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations, former Wall Street Journal editor
  • Brig. Gen.
  • Lorne W. Craner
  • Lawrence Eagleburger, Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush, now a senior public policy adviser with law firm Baker Donelson
  • Brig. Gen.
  • Maj. Gen.
  • Niall Ferguson, Harvard historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow
  • Michael J. Green, former Asia adviser to President George W. Bush and now Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
  • Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Secretary of State under Reagan
  • Maj. Gen.
  • Robert Kagan, senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Brig. Gen. Robert Michael Kimmitt, current deputy Treasury secretary
  • Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State under Richard Nixon
  • Col. Andrew F. Krepinevich, President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
  • William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard
  • Adm. Charles Larson
  • Robert McFarlane, National Security Adviser under Ronald Reagan
  • Brig. Gen.
  • Brig. Gen.
  • Maj. Gen.
  • Maj. Ralph Peters
  • Brig. Gen.
  • Gen. Colin Powell, Secretary of State (2001–2005)
  • Kori Schake Research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution[7][8]
  • James R. Schlesinger, "President Nixon and President Ford’s secretary of defense, energy and national security adviser"[24]
  • Gary Schmitt, former staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee, currently American Enterprise Institute scholar
  • Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to Presidents Ford and George H. W. Bush and founder of business consultancy the
  • George P. Shultz, Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan
  • Brig. Gen.
  • Maj. Gen.
  • R. James Woolsey, former CIA director, now a VP at Booz Allen Hamilton

Other advisers:

Economic policy advisers[]

From a July 12, 2007 press release:[9]

  • — Managing Director for Split Rock International; former Undersecretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce
  • Carlos Bonilla — Senior Vice President for ; former Special Assistant To President George W. Bush; a lobbyist
  • — Associate Professor of Finance at the College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • — Independent consultant and researcher In development economics
  • — Dean, College of Business, University of North Texas
  • Steve Davis — CRA International and University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
  • — Senior VP and Chief Economist, National City Corporation
  • — Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Tax Policy, Baker Institute of Public Policy, Rice University
  • — Transportation Consultant and Former Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, Department of Transportation
  • — Professor, Vanderbilt University
  • Kevin Hassett — Resident Scholar and Director of Economic Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
  • Greg Jenner — former Executive Vice President, American Council of Life Insurers and Acting Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy), U.S. Treasury Department
  • David John — Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation
  • Tim Kane — Director, Center for International Trade and Economics, Heritage Foundation
  • Melissa Kearney — Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Anne Krueger — Professor at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Former First Deputy Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund
  • Adam Lerrick — Visiting Scholar for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Friends of Allan H. Meltzer Professor of Economics for Carnegie Mellon
  • — Resident Scholar for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Former Senior Economist for Trade on the President's Council of Economic Advisers
  • — Gensemer Associate Professor of Economics, Kenyon College
  • — Professor of Economics and International Affairs, George Washington University
  • — Resident Fellow for American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
  • Tim Muris — Foundation Professor, George Mason University School of Law
  • Gerry Parsky — Senior Economic Adviser
  • Nancy Pfotenhauer — Former President, Independent Women's Forum
  • — Partner, Howrey LLP and Former Assistant Attorney General (Antitrust), U.S. Department of Justice
  • Kenneth Rogoff — Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
  • Harvey S. Rosen — Professor of Economics and Business Policy, Princeton University
  • — Managing Director, Chief Economist, Wachovia Bank
  • — Vice President for Government Affairs for National Association of Industrial and Office Properties and former Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
  • John Taylor — Professor of Economics at Stanford, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Former Under Secretary of Treasury
  • Chief Executive Officer, and Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs
  • — Chairman of the Board of Intelsat
  • Mark Zandi — Chief Economist for Moody's Analytics (formerly known as Moody's )
  • — Antitrust attorney at Howrey LLP; Former Assistant Attorney General in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division
  • Sean O'Keefe — former Secretary of the Navy, NASA Administrator, and Deputy Director of Office of Management and Budget, The White House
  • Matthew Lockwood — Director of Contributions Processed

National Campaign co-chairs[]

National Finance Committee co-chairs[]

Former members[]

  • Senator Phil Gramm – General Co-chair, resigned July 18 after remarks calling Americans "whiners"[11]
  • Robert Zoellick
  • Tom Loeffler[12]
  • , "continued to collect payments from [the Loeffler Group] this year while she was on the McCain-campaign payroll as its fund-raising coordinator"[13] The Loeffler Group is a lobbying firm that has "received $990,000 in lobbying fees and another $3,000 in expenses from the Saudi government".[14][15]
  • Mark McKinnon, citing a pledge not to work against an Obama candidacy.[16]
  • and Doug Goodyear of the DCI Group resigned on May 10, 2008, after revelation of DCI's ties to the military junta in Myanmar. Davenport, the regional campaign manager for the mid-Atlantic states, founded the DCI Group's lobbying practice and oversaw the contract with Myanmar in 2002. Goodyear was asked to become convention CEO after campaign manager Rick Davis's lobbying firm partner, Paul Manafort, was nixed because of his own close ties to foreign governments and controversial companies[17]
  • Carlos Bonilla, economic policy adviser. Left in May 2008 after the campaign imposed new rules restricting the involvement of lobbyists.
  • , national political director and founder of the political consulting and lobbying firm The Dennehy Group.[18] Left in May 2007 explaining that his family obligations conflicted with his arduous, 24/7 political job in Washington, D.C.[19]

See also[]

  • List of Barack Obama presidential campaign staff members, 2008

References[]

  1. ^ Mooney, Brian C. (July 20, 2008). "Obama's paid staff dwarfing McCain's" – via The Boston Globe.
  2. ^ "John McCain 2008 – John McCain for President". Archived from the original on 2008-06-19. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
  3. ^ Broder, John M. (August 21, 2006). "McCain Mines Elite of G.O.P. for 2008 Team". The New York Times. Retrieved May 8, 2010.
  4. ^ Balz, Dan; Shear, Michael D. (July 3, 2008). "McCain Puts New Strategist Atop Campaign". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 8, 2010.
  5. ^ The Washington Post
  6. ^ [1][bare URL]
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Mazzetti, Mark; Schmitt, Eric (October 31, 2008). "McCain and Obama advisers briefed on deteriorating Afghan war" – via NYTimes.com.
  8. ^ "US elections: Congressional Democrats attack John McCain on Iran sanctions". the Guardian. June 26, 2008.
  9. ^ Senator McCain Announces Economic Advisors, John McCain 2008 Press Release]
  10. ^ http://www.floridalobbyistdirectory.com/Lobbyist.aspx?id=74[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ Woellert, Lorraine (2008-07-18). "Gramm Steps Down as McCain Co-Chair After 'Whiners' Remark". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
  12. ^ The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-McCain-Lobbying.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)[dead link]
  13. ^ WSJ, "Democratic Group Tries to Keep Spotlight on McCain's Lobbyist Ties"
  14. ^ http://www.fara.gov/docs/5432-Supplemental-Statement-20080118-6.pdf[bare URL]
  15. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2008-08-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. ^ Rutenberg, Jim (May 21, 2008). "Keeping Vow on Obama, McCain Adviser Resigns". The New York Times. Retrieved May 8, 2010.
  17. ^ A Second McCain Aide Resigns, The Atlantic, May 11, 2008
  18. ^ Concord Monitor: Dennehy on the job for McCain. December 30, 2006.
  19. ^ url = http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/05/mccains_politic.html Archived 2008-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
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