Reply #19: OK... we need to make a list of who to contact about this...

[tommcintyre]

- Carter (Carter Center): [email protected]

- Congressional Black Caucus (do you have contact info for them?)

- Dr. Robert A. Pastor, CDEM Director - Executive Director of the Commission: [email protected] [phone]
See my post below:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x351775#351946

- Doug Chapin, Director of electionline.org (Research Director for the Commission): [email protected]
1101 30th Street NW, Suite 210
Washington, DC 20007
202.338.9860
202.338.1720 (fax)

- Shouldn't Barbara Boxer, Rev. Jesse Jackson be informed too?
EDIT: So add Nader too (then Cobb also).

- Contact Person for the commission: Todd Sedmak - [email protected] [phone]

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Here's a list of the commission members (ANYONE - please fill in with contact info - at least for the "friendlies":

Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform

Members Biographies


Co-Chairs:

President Jimmy Carter

President Carter was the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and 83rd Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. In 1982 he founded the Carter Center as a forum for mediating conflicts and promoting democracy, health care, and human rights. He co-chaired with former President Gerald Ford the National Commission on Election Reform.

The Honorable James A. Baker, III

James A. Baker, III has served in senior government positions under three United States Presidents. He served as Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, and White House Chief of Staff. Mr. Baker is presently a senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts and Honorary Chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.

Executive Director:

Dr. Robert Pastor

Dr. Robert Pastor is the Director of the Center for Democracy and Election Management and Vice President of International Affairs at American University. Before coming to AU in 2002, Pastor was Professor at Emory University and Founding Director of The Carter Center’s Latin American and Democracy Programs, where he organized the monitoring of elections all over the world. He was Senior Advisor to the National Commission on Election Reform.

Other Members:

Ms. Betty Castor

Betty Castor was the 2004 Democratic Party nominee for the US Senate from Florida. Castor served as Florida Commissioner of Education from 1986-93. She served three terms as a state senator from the west coast of Florida, becoming the first female to hold the position of President Pro Tempore (1985-86).

Hon. Tom Daschle

Tom Daschle was elected and served as a U.S. Congressman (1978-86) and U.S. Senator from South Dakota (1986-2004). From 1994-2004, he was the Senate Minority Leader. In 2005, Senator Daschle joined the Legislative and Public Policy Group of the law firm Alston & Bird, LLP.

Ms. Rita DiMartino

Rita DiMartino was the Vice President of Congressional Relations for AT&T where she assisted in AT&T's relations with the administration, with Congress, and with state governments. DiMartino was appointed in February 2002 as the Principal U.S. Delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women and also the Principal Representative to the Inter-American Children's Institute.

Hon. Lee Hamilton

Lee Hamilton is president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Prior to becoming director of the Woodrow Wilson Center in 1999, Hamilton served for 34 years in Congress representing Indiana's Ninth District. During his tenure, he served as Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He was Vice Chair of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States and co-chair with Senator Howard Baker of the Commission to Investigate Certain Security Issues at Los Alamos.

Ms. Kay Coles James

Kay Coles James was the Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from 2001 to 2005. James served as a Senior Fellow and Director of The Citizenship Project at the Heritage Foundation. Under President George H. W. Bush, James was an Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services.

Dr. Benjamin Ladner

Benjamin Ladner is the President of American University in Washington, D.C. As President since 1994, Dr. Ladner has led the transformation of AU into a distinctive, global university with a reputation as "a private university with a public responsibility." Dr. Ladner serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Consortium of fourteen Universities in the Washington Metropolitan area. Before coming to AU, he was President of the National Faculty, an association of university professors founded by Phi Beta Kappa.

Mr. David Leebron

David Leebron was appointed president of Rice University in Houston, Texas in 2004. Leebron joined Rice from Columbia University School of Law, where he was Dean since 1996 and a faculty member since 1989. Prior to that, he was a professor of law at New York University and director of NYU’s International Legal Studies Program.

Dr. Nelson Lund

Nelson Lund is the Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment at George Mason University in Virginia. Professor Lund served in the White House as associate counsel to the president from 1989 to 1992. He served as a law clerk to Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

Dr. Shirley Malcom

Shirley Malcom is Head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is a trustee of the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Malcom served on the National Science Board, the governing board of the National Science Foundation from 1994-2001, and has served on the Boards of the Carnegie Corporation and the H. John Heinz III Center for Science.

Hon. Bob Michel

Bob Michel was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois from 1957 to 1993. He served as Minority Whip for the ninety-fourth through ninety-sixth Congresses and Minority Leader for the ninety seventh through one hundred third Congresses. He was Vice Chair of the Carter-Ford National Commission on Election Reform.

Hon. Susan Molinari

Susan Molinari is Chairman and CEO of the Washington Group, a government relations and lobbying firm, and the President of Ketchum Public Affairs. Molinari served in Congress from 1990 to 1997 representing Staten Island, NY. In 1994, she was elected to the Republican Majority Leadership, making her the highest ranking woman in Congress. Unanimously re-elected to the House Leadership in 1996, Molinari was also selected by GOP Presidential candidate Senator Robert Dole as Keynote Speaker at the Republican National Convention in San Diego.

Hon. Robert Mosbacher

Robert Mosbacher is chairman of Mosbacher Energy Company. He is the past chairman of the Republican National Committee and served as National Finance Chairman for the election campaigns of Presidents Ford and George H. W. Bush. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Bush from 1989 to 1992.

Hon. Ralph Munro

Ralph Munro was the Secretary of State for Washington State from 1980 to 2001. Under Mr. Munro’s leadership, Washington State saw significant advancement in the efficiency of state election services including absentee voting, voter registration, election reporting and voter information.

Mr. Jack Nelson

Jack Nelson, former Washington Bureau Chief of the Los Angeles Times, has been a journalist for more than 50 years. He covered the past six presidents and every presidential campaign from 1968 through 1996. Since retiring in December, 2001, he has taught as a visiting professor of the University of Southern California’s School of Journalism. In 2002 he was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He was presented the Drew Pearson Award for Investigative Reporting, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism, and was named a Fellow by the National Society of Journalists.

Mr. Spencer Overton

Spencer Overton is Associate Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School where his scholarly interests include voting rights, race, and campaign finance. Overton was Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow at Harvard Law School and serves as a director of the National Voting rights Institute and the Fannie Lou Hamer Project. He practiced law with Debevoise and Plimpton and is on the Board of Common Cause.

Hon. Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips was first appointed to the Texas Supreme Court in 1987, and was subsequently elected as Chief Justice and served until 2004. Justice Phillips worked as an attorney with Baker Botts from 1974-1981. From 1981-87, he was a district judge for Harris County. He was elected President of the National Conference of Chief Justices (1997-98), and was a member of the Committee on Federal-State Relations of the Judicial Conference of the United States.

Ms. Sharon Priest

Sharon Priest was the first woman elected Arkansas Secretary of State in 1994 and was President of the National Association of Secretaries of State. She has chaired the Arkansas State Election Improvement Study Commission, the State Board of Election Commissioners, and currently chairs the Capitol Arts and Grounds Commission. She has been elected to public office six times from 1986 to the present, including Little Rock Board of Directors (1986-90), Vice-Mayor of Little Rock (1989-90), and Mayor of Little Rock (1991-92).

Mr. Raul Yzaguirre

Raul Yzaguirre is presidential professor of practice in community development and civil rights at Arizona State University. From 1974 to 2004, Yzaguirre was president of the National Council of La Raza, the nation’s leading Hispanic advocacy organization and the largest constituency-based national Latino organization.
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