Stan Greenberg
Stan Greenberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | Stanley Bernard Greenberg May 10, 1945 |
| Alma mater | Miami University Harvard University |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Rosa DeLauro |
| Children | 3 |
Stanley Bernard Greenberg (born May 10, 1945) is an American Democratic pollster and political strategist. He is a founding partner at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (GQR), a Washington D.C. headquartered political research and campaign company, that is closely affiliated with the Democratic Party. Stan Greenberg advised Presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore candidate president from Democratic party, as well as hundreds of other candidates and organizations in the United States, Latin America, Europe and around the world, including Gerhard Schröder, the former Chancellor of Germany and Tony Blair, the former British prime minister.[1][2]
Life and career
Greenberg was brought up in Washington D.C. and has a Jewish background.[3] A political scientist who received his bachelor's degree from Miami University and his Ph.D. from Harvard, Greenberg spent a decade teaching at Yale University before becoming a political consultant.[1] His 1985 study of Reagan Democrats in Macomb County, Michigan became a classic of progressive political strategy, and the basis for his continuing argument that Democrats must actively work to present themselves as populists advocating the expansion of opportunity for the middle class.[1] As the pollster for Clinton in 1992, Greenberg was a major figure in the famed campaign "war room" (and hence the documentary film of the same name).[4]
He is the CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, a polling and consulting firm,[5] and co-founder (with James Carville and Bob Shrum) of Democracy Corps, a non-profit organization which produces left-leaning political strategy.[6]
Greenberg's current and former corporate clients include British Petroleum, British Airways, Monsanto Company and General Motors.[7]
Controversies
During his work for the Austrian SPÖ in 2001, Greenberg was criticized by FPÖ leader Jörg Haider because of his negative campaigning.[8]
In May 2010 Greenberg was linked to a controversy involving White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. As a House member, Emanuel had lived for five years in a rent-free D.C. apartment jointly owned by Greenberg's wife, Democratic House member Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, and Greenberg. During this time, Emanuel served as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which awarded large polling contracts to Greenberg's firm.[9]
Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Greenberg's work for BP became controversial. Greenberg's firm has been called a "prime architect" of BP's effort to rebrand itself as a green petroleum company.[9] As early as 2002, critics had deemed that effort "greenwashing".[10]
Personal life
Greenberg is married to Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, who currently represents Connecticut's 3rd congressional district. Financial disclosures filed in Congress indicate that DeLauro is a multimillionaire.[11]
Books
- Politics and Poverty: Modernization and Response in Five Poor Neighborhoods (1974)
- Race and State in Capitalist Development: South Africa in Comparative Perspective (1980).
- Legitimating the Illegitimate: State, Markets, and Resistance in South Africa (1987)
- Middle Class Dreams: The Politics and Power of the New American Majority (1995)
- The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It (2004) ISBN 0-312-31838-3
- Dispatches From The War Room: In The Trenches With Five Extraordinary Leaders (2009) ISBN 0-312-35152-6
- America Ascendant: A Revolutionary Nation's Path to Addressing Its Deepest Problems and Leading the 21st Century (2015)
- RIP GOP: How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans (2019) ISBN 978-125-0-31175-7
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References
- ^ a b c "Stanley Greenberg Oral History (2005)". Miller Center, University of Virginia. January 27, 2005. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
- ^ "Stanley Greenberg Oral History (2007)". Miller Center, University of Virginia. October 11, 2007. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
- ^ Round, Simon (12 March 2009). "Interview: Stan Greenberg". Jewish Chronicle.
- ^ "The War Room Drill". Newsweek. October 31, 1992.
- ^ "Stanley B. Greenberg, Ph.D." Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ "About the Founders". Democracy Corps. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research client list Archived 2010-08-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cohen, Roger (March 12, 2001). "Haider the Rightist Is Firing Up Vienna's Election With Slurs". The New York Times. p. A8.
- ^ a b Malcolm, Andrew (June 7, 2010). "The ties that bind. Remember Rahm Emanuel's rent-free D.C. apartment? The owner: A BP adviser". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- ^ Stauber, John (December 7, 2002). "BP Oil's $200 Million Greenwashing Campaign". Center for Media and Democracy. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
- ^ Beaulieu, Scott (2011-08-23). "Sen. Blumenthal Is One of 10 Richest in Congress". NBC Connecticut. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
External links
- Stanley B. Greenberg, Ph.D., Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research
- Democracy Corps
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Miller Center Oral History (2005)
- Miller Center Oral History (2007)
- 1945 births
- Businesspeople from Philadelphia
- American male non-fiction writers
- American political consultants
- American political writers
- BP people
- Harvard University alumni
- Living people
- Miami University alumni
- Pollsters
- Spouses of Connecticut politicians
- Yale University faculty
- Jewish American writers
- Connecticut Democrats
- Businesspeople from Connecticut
- 20th-century American male writers
- Businesspeople from Washington, D.C.
- 21st-century American male writers
- Writers from Philadelphia
- Writers from Connecticut
- American chief executives