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Coffey Campaign Shake-Up, Expansion
By Elizabeth Benjamin
NY Daily News, March 4, 2010
Democratic AG hopeful Sean Coffey announced some changes and additions to his campaign team today.
The biggest change: Coffey is bringing in veteran consultant Van Parish to be his campaign manager, replacing Dan Krupnick, who will remain on in a "senior advisor" capacity.
Parish has been in the business for more than three decades and has a long list of past clients and campaigns all over the country, including SEIU/1199 and New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker.
He's a native Californian and got his start as political director of the state's Democratic Party in 1985 - the youngest person and first African-American every to hold the post.
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Virginia Expects 'Swamped' Voting Venues
By Simon Hooper
cnn.com/world, November 3, 2008
Virginia was braced for record turnout and long queues at voting stations as the key swing state prepared to go to the polls in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election.
The traditionally Republican-leaning state has been the scene of a fierce campaign ground war with Democrats seeking to capitalize on surging voter registrations to turn Virginia blue for the first time since 1964.
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Playing Hardball - A Reaction to Negative Advertising
By Campaign Insiders
Published by Campaigns & Elections, April 5, 2007
When you invite a lawyer for the Swift Boat vets, a Democratic consultant and an academic to talk about negative advertising, you’d better believe there will be a bit of hardball on display. Fortunately, the panelists at C&E’s April lunch seminar, “The Ethics of Hardball Politics: How Far is Too Far” all agreed on two things: The Web is making negative campaigning easier, and the ethics are just getting fuzzier. “It used to be that you would put a bomb in a room and run away,” said Van Parish, principal of The Parish Group, a Democratic consulting firm. “Now you have to manage the reaction. It’s no longer just the dirty tricks guy or gal, there’s a whole new division in politics that tries to manage reaction to negative ads.”
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Democratic Leaders Reject Idea of Draft
By Charles Babington and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers, November 21, 2006
The new Democratic-controlled Congress will not seriously consider reinstating the draft, even if concerns about the military's strength and resiliency grow, party leaders said yesterday. Key Democrats, including the incoming House speaker, House majority leader and chairmen of the House and Senate armed services committees, said they do not support a resumption of the draft. They predicted that the idea will gather little momentum in the 110th Congress, which convenes in January. Pentagon officials also restated their opposition to a draft.
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