Campaign movements - People & Organizations - Brief Article

Carter Hendrin, chief of staff for Illinois Senate President Pate Philip (R), took a leave of absence to become manager of the gubernatorial campaign of state Attorney General Jim Ryan (R). Hendrin's deputy in the campaign is Glen Hodas, also a Philip staff member. He previously worked on the GOP primary campaign of Lieutenant Gov. Corinne Wood, one of Ryan's former opponents.

Former DFL Minneapolis City Council member and 2001 Minneapolis mayoral candidate Lisa McDonald became the chief fundraiser for former US. Rep. Tim Penny's Independent gubernatorial bid in Minnesota.

Attorney Stan Thompson (R), running for the Iowa's 3rd Congressional District seat against Leonard L. Boswell (D), hired as co-chairs of his campaign Joe Gunderson, who served as George W. Bush's 2000 Iowa presidential campaign chair, and veteran state Republican political operative Craig Schoenfeld.

State Rep. Fran Wendelboe, one of eight candidates seeking the Republican nomination for New Hampshire's open 1st Congressional District seat, hired Samm Pimm as campaign manager. Pimm is founder of the New Jersey Conservative Network. Pimm worked in the state in 1980 as Ronald Reagan's New Hampshire field director.

Patrick Adams quit as campaign manager for New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate Bev Hollingworth (D), the state Senate minority leader.

Amid criticism that her Maryland gubernatorial campaign against Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) was sputtering because of a lack of professional campaign staff, Lieutenant Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (D) hired Karen White to direct the state party's coordinated campaign, turning out voters for Democrats up and down the ticket. White was an architect of Gov. Parris Glendening's (D) 1998 re-election campaign while serving as a top staff member. She will work with campaign chair Alan Fleischmann.

Vivian Santora, the chief campaign fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (DNY), was hired as finance director for the New York gubernatorial campaign of Comptroller Carl McCall (D).

Mark Fernald (D) hired Tom Curtin as labor coordinator of his New Hampshire gubernatorial campaign. Curtin is a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Human Rights Commission Executive Board. Fernald also hired as field coordinators Tim McCoy, a recent graduate of Vassar College and Jason Reilly, a student at Merrimack College.

The campaign of California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon (R) shrunk and continued to shuffle. Facing well-funded Gov. Gray Davis (D), Simon asked 34 employees to work for free through election day on Nov. 5. Among those given the options of working for free were communications director James Fisfis and political director James Camp, but both decided to leave. Simon aides said the layoffs would free up money for an intensified TV ad campaign in a state where television commercials dominate political campaign strategies. The moves help create room for the hiring of consultants Ed Rollins and Larry McCarthy. Through the end of the campaign finance reporting period ending in late June, Davis had $31.6 million in cash on-hand to $5 million for Simon.

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