• Robert Aiken Robert Aiken is vice president of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, an Arizona-based energy company that provides most of the state's electricity through its subsidiary Arizona Public Service. Read More »
• Brian Ballard Brian Ballard, the national finance co-chair and Florida co-chair for Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) presidential campaign, as well as a top McCain bundler, is one of Florida's best-known lobbyists, having represented such local institutions as the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team and Florida Power & Light. Read More »
• Wayne Berman Wayne Berman, managing director of lobbying firm Ogilvy Government Relations, was a Pioneer for Bush in 2000 and a Ranger in 2004. A former assistant secretary in the Commerce Department during the Reagan administration, Berman managed Jack Kemp's vice presidential campaign in 1996. Read More »
• Charlie Black Charlie Black of BKSH & Associates, a Bush Pioneer in 2004, is perhaps the most experienced and respected Republican lobbyist in Washington, D.C. He is a close friend of former president George H.W. Bush and has served as an adviser to presidents Reagan and George W. Bush, as well as working as official spokesman for the Republican National Committee. Read More »
• Judy Black Judy Black, a Bush Pioneer in 2004, is a lobbyist with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. The wife of lobbyist Charlie Black and sister of former Colorado Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, Black served as special assistant for intergovernmental affairs in the Reagan administration. Read More »
• Kirk Blalock Kirk Blalock, a Pioneer for Bush in 2004, is a lobbyist with Fierce Isakowitz & Blalock and the national chairman for Young Professionals for McCain, a group of people age 45 and under who agree to raise $50,000 for McCain's campaign. Read More »
• Eric Burgeson Eric Robert Burgeson is a vice president at lobbying firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers. He served previously in the Bush administration as special assistant to the president, associate director for presidential personnel at the White House, and chief of staff for Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham. Read More »
• Kirsten Chadwick Kirsten Chadwick, a partner with lobbying firm Fierce Isakowitz & Blalock, is a former congressional liaison for President Bush well known for her vote-counting abilities on trade issues. Read More »
• John Clerici John Clerici is a former Air Force JAG lawyer now working as a lobbyist for McKenna Long. He specializes in homeland security issues, in particular those related to bioterrorism, and much of his work has been dedicated to trying to convince Congress to grant immunity to vaccine manufacturers working on anthrax and smallpox inoculations. Read More »
• James Courter James Courter, a Pioneer for President Bush in 2004, is CEO of telecommunications giant IDT and a former congressman (R-NJ) (1979-1991). He also served as chairman of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, having been appointed by President George H.W. Bush. Read More »
• David Crane David Crane, founder of lobbying firm Quadripoint Strategies, served under a number of prominent Republican politicians before joining the private sector. He has served as Senior Policy Advisor to both Sen. Tent Lott (R-MS) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), legislative director for Sen. Daniel Coats (R-IN), and opposition researcher for the National Republican Senatorial Committee under Chairman Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX) Read More »
• Doug Davenport Doug Davenport, a partner in the lobbying firm DCI Group, previously worked as director of government relations by lottery system supplier GTECH. As one of McCain's regional managers focusing on the mid-Atlantic region, he made headlines recently when it was reported that his lobbying firm, the DCI Group, had been hired in 2002 to represent the interests of the Burmese junta. Read More »
• Rick Davis Rick Davis, a partner in the lobbying firm Davis Manafort, currently serves as Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) campaign manager. (He managed McCain's 2000 campaign as well.) A former aide in the Reagan administration and the deputy manager of Sen. Bob Dole's (R-KS) 1996 campaign, Davis' dual role as a political operative and as a lobbyist has caused controversy. Read More »
• Missy Edwards Melissa "Missy" Edwards, a lobbyist with The Washington Group, previously served as a staffer for Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) and as director of Development for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Read More »
• Kevin Fay Kevin Fay is president of Alcade & Fay and executive director of the International Climate Change Partnership, an organization representing what Fay calls "the progressive cowering middle of industry." Read More »
• Christian Ferry Christian Ferry, currently Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) deputy campaign manager, has a long career in national Republican politics, beginning with service as a staffer for Sen. Bob Dole's (R-KS) 1996 presidential campaign. He then took positions working for Gov. James Gilmore (R-VA), first as a campaign staffer and then as a special assistant in Gilmore's administration. Read More »
• Laurance Gay Laurance Gay is a long-time lobbyist whose business affairs have often attracted the attention of the authorities. In 1992, while he was working as a lobbyist for Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, he admitted to Congress that he would routinely contact the executive secretary to the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in order to assist clients in winning lucrative contracts with the agency. Read More »
• Samuel Geduldig Samuel Geduldig, a partner in lobbying firm Clark Lytle & Geduldig, is a former staffer to Rep. Michael Oxley (R-OH), Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), and Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) - in the last role he was known as "Blunt's liaison to K Street." Read More »
• David Girard-diCarlo David Girard-diCarlo of the Blank Rome law firm is a long-time lobbyist and fundraiser for Republican causes. Read More »
• Juleanna Glover Weiss Juleanna Glover Weiss has worked for many leading conservative figures in national politics today. She began in politics as an intern for Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC), then worked for Phyllis Schlafly, Bill Kristol, Sen. John Ashcroft (R-MO), and for the 2000 presidential campaigns of Vice President Dan Quayle and Steve Forbes and for Rudy Giuliani's aborted 2000 race for the Senate. Read More »
• Phil Gramm Phil Gramm, a former Republican senator from Texas, currently serves as vice chairman of investment firm UBS Warburg. His role advising Sen. McCain on economic policy has recently been criticized for two reasons: he was largely responsible for the lax regulations that led to the Enron debacle, and his current employer has been embroiled in the subprime mortgage crisis. Read More »
• John Green John Green, managing director of Ogilvy Government Relations, is former deputy chief of staff to Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) and currently serves as the McCain campaign's liaison to congress. Read More »
• Richard Hohlt Before starting his own lobbying firm, Richard Hohlt spent the bulk of his career as vice president for government affairs at the U.S. League of Savings Institutions, the trade group for the savings and loan industry. Read More »
• Vicki Iseman Vicki Iseman, a lobbyist with Alcade & Fay, made headlines recently when The New York Times reported that Iseman had developed a close relationship with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and that McCain had taken frequent flights on a corporate jet owned by one of Iseman's clients. Read More »
• Aleix Jarvis Aleix Jarvis is a former legislative assistant to Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC) and legislative director to Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC). Read More »
• Steven Kuykendall Steven Kuykendall is a veteran of California politics, having served as city councilman and mayor of Rancho Palos Verdes (1991-1994), state assemblyman (1994-1998), and one-term congressman (1999-2001). Some say he owed his political career to special interest intervention. Read More »
• Bill Lesher Bill Lesher, a lobbyist and consultant with Lesher, Russell & Barron, previously served as a staffer for the Senate Agriculture Committee and as a staffer for Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) before being named as the assistant secretary for economics in the Department of Agriculture during the Reagan administration. Read More »
• Tom Loeffler Tom Loeffler is a former four-term congressman (R-TX) best known nowadays as a major Republican fundraiser and lobbyist. A close ally of then Gov. George W. Bush, he served as a Bush Pioneer in 2000 and a Ranger in 2004. Read More »
• Peter Madigan Peter Madigan of Johnson Madigan was a trade official in the George H.W. Bush administration and has served as executive director of the Electronic Payments Coalition (EPC) - a trade association representing payment card networks, financial services companies, and financial services trade associations particularly interested in preventing the imposition of limits on "interchange fees," the fees charged by credit card companies to the merchants for each credit transaction. Read More »
• Paul Manafort Paul Manafort, a founding partner with McCain campaign manager Rick Davis in the firm Davis Manafort, is a political consultant perhaps best known for his 1989 congressional testimony in which he described his role in the HUD scandal as "influence peddling."[ Read More »
• Timothy McKone As AT&T's chief lobbyist, Tim McKone focuses most of his energy on Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) Senate Commerce Committee. Read More »
• Alison McSlarrow Alison McSlarrow, the wife of lobbyist-bundler Kyle McSlarrow, was formerly deputy chief of staff to Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) and a staffer (like her husband) on former Vice President Dan Quayle's 2000 campaign for the GOP presidential nomination. Read More »
• Kyle McSlarrow The husband of Alison McSlarrow and a long-time Capitol Hill staffer, Kyle McSlarrow was chief of staff to the late Sen. Paul Coverdell (R-GA), was deputy chief of staff and chief counsel to Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole (R-KS) and Trent Lott (R-MS), and served as deputy secretary of Energy under Spencer Abraham. Read More »
• Jack Oliver Jack Oliver, a lobbyist with Bryan Cave Strategies, is one of the Republican Party's most successful fundraisers. Read More »
• Steven Phillips Steve Phillips, a lobbyist for DLA Piper, served for ten years as legislative director and general counsel for Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) before joining the private sector. Read More »
• James Pitts James L. Pitts of the lobbying firm DC Navigators has been involved with Republican politics since 1980, when he worked for consultant Lee Atwater on Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign. Read More »
• Timothy Powers Timothy Powers, a Bush Pioneer in 2004, was deputy director of the Republican National Committee's (RNC) congressional affairs and strategic planning operation before leaving to open the Artemis Strategies lobbying firm. Read More »
• Matthew Salmon Matt Salmon is a former congressman, state legislator, and state GOP chairman from Arizona. Read More »
• Randy Scheunemann Randy Scheunemann, a foreign policy advisor to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign who heads Scheunemann & Associates, has worked on behalf of numerous high profile clients, including the National Rifle Association, Lockheed Martin and BP. Read More »
• Don Sundquist Don Sundquist of lobbying firm Sundquist Anthony is a former Tennessee congressman (1983-1995) and governor (1995-2003). Read More »