Mitch Stewart
Mitch Stewart is an American political campaign organizer.
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[edit] Early life and education
Stewart grew up in Vermillion, South Dakota. He worked as a research assistant and staff assistant in Senator Tim Johnson's (D-SD) Senate office.
[edit] Campaign work
[edit] 2002 Cycle
Stewart was a regional field director for the Louisiana Democratic Party during Senator Mary Landrieu's 2002 run-off campaign. He had the same job as a regional field director for the South Dakota Democratic Party during Senator Tim Johnson's 2002 re-election campaign. [1] This led him to meet many of the people he would later work with on Barack Obama's presidential campaign in 2008.
[edit] 2004 Cycle
Stewart worked on the 2004 John Edwards for President campaign in the Iowa caucuses where he served as a regional field director for Eastern Iowa. In the same year, he worked as field director for Senator Tom Daschle in Daschle's unsuccessful bid for re-election.
[edit] 2008 presidential campaign
For the Obama for America campaign, Stewart was the director of field operations in the Iowa caucuses,[2] where the candidate's first place win established him as a serious challenger to then front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton. He served as state director for Obama's primary campaign in Texas and Indiana.[3]
He later headed the campaign's Virginia operation in the general election.[4] Obama's victory there marked the first time since 1964 that Virginia's electoral votes went to a Democratic presidential candidate.
[edit] Organizing for America
On January 23, 2009, it was announced that Mitch Stewart would serve as the first Director of Organizing for America.[5]
Organizing for America was formed out of President Obama's national campaign organization after the inauguration. It will be housed at Democratic National Committee headquarters.[4] The organization's mission is to mobilize Obama supporters to elect other candidates and lobby for the president's agenda.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/edwards/edworgia.html
- ^ "Former DFL official tapped to run ‘Obama 2.0′". http://minnesotaindependent.com/24315/former-dfl-official-tapped-to-run-obama-20. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
- ^ Rutenberg, Jim; Nagourney, Adam (2009-01-26). "Melding Obama's Web to a YouTube Presidency". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/us/politics/26grassroots.html?pagewanted=2&th&emc=th. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
- ^ a b c url=http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--dnc-stewart0123jan23,0,6898719.story
- ^ [1]
[edit] External links
Announcement of launch of Organizing for America [2]
