Obama Begins To Appoint State Directors

Barack Obama is making public the first of its campaign state director hires.

Mitch Stewart will be the Virginia State Director. He ran the coordinated campaign for the DFL in MN in '06 and was Sen. Tom Daschle's re-election field director in '04.

Buffy Wicks will be the Missouri State Director. She helped to put together the campaign's winning primary field teams and served as field director in California and deputy field director in Texas. Before that, she worked as an organizer for the UFCW union and cut her teeth on Howard Dean's presidential campaign.

Today is Ray Rivera's first day as Colorado State Director. He was Obama's CO state director for the Feb 5 caucuses and worked as a political director and organizer for AFSCME.

As Chris Cillizza notes, the team bears the imprint of Sen. Tom Daschle's extended universe. That's because Steve Hilderband, Obama's deputy campaign manager and field general -- he's the Tommy Franks in this metaphor -- ok, the Schwarzkopf? The Wes Clark? -- is one of Daschle's closest advisers.

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A nugget of information missing about the Virginia Hire

The campaign says that they're sending Mitch Stewart, one of Obama's star organizers, into the state to serve as Virginia's state director. This is no small thing. Stewart served as Obama's Iowa caucus director, where he was in charge of the whole field effort, pulling off a major coup and helping deliver the victory that essentially put Obama on track to victory.

Posted by kubla000 | June 13, 2008 12:25 PM

The length of the front will overpower McCain, wich has less people and less money then Barack.

Posted by maz hess | June 13, 2008 2:15 PM

The length of the front will overpower McCain, which has less people and less money then Barack.

Posted by maz hess | June 13, 2008 2:16 PM

The length of the front will overpower McCain, who has less people and less money then Barack.

Posted by maz hess | June 13, 2008 2:17 PM

The Obama campaign team has organizers and directors that have multiple state election campaign experience. They have demonstrated a high level of no-drama competence that will be nice to see in DC next January. That's Change you can believe in!

Posted by thebob.bob | June 13, 2008 2:50 PM

My decision to vote McCain is mainly the treatment by the DNC to Hillary, the press and pundits who need new jobs and many other reasons. No, I am not a biggot. There are so many reasons I didn't like Barack Hussein Obama from the beginning and none were due to his racial background.'

Obama and his friends are hate-mongers, and I won't vote for hate and racism. I would have loved to vote for a Black democrat, I have always been a democrat. But I am switching to John McCain.

Barack Obama has raised the issue of his religious history by starting a web site to deny his origins. Obama will not be allowed to lie any longer. The undisputed facts reveal Obama was a Muslim.

I am a registered democrat, but I will never in a million years vote for Barack Hussein Obama.

Oy Vay Zmeer!,

--- Leland Milton Goldblatt

http://drgoldblatt.blogspot.com/

The latest polls say Americans now dislike Bush more than any other president including even Tricky Dick. It only took the public five and half year to see through him.

Posted by Leland Milton Goldblatt | June 14, 2008 8:05 AM

My decision to vote McCain is mainly the treatment by the DNC to Hillary, the press and pundits who need new jobs and many other reasons. No, I am not a biggot. There are so many reasons I didn't like Barack Hussein Obama from the beginning and none were due to his racial background.'

Obama and his friends are hate-mongers, and I won't vote for hate and racism. I would have loved to vote for a Black democrat, I have always been a democrat. But I am switching to John McCain.

Barack Obama has raised the issue of his religious history by starting a web site to deny his origins. Obama will not be allowed to lie any longer. The undisputed facts reveal Obama was a Muslim.

I am a registered democrat, but I will never in a million years vote for Barack Hussein Obama.

Oy Vay Zmeer!,

--- Leland Milton Goldblatt

http://drgoldblatt.blogspot.com/

The latest polls say Americans now dislike Bush more than any other president including even Tricky Dick. It only took the public five and half year to see through him.

Posted by Leland Milton Goldblatt | June 14, 2008 8:09 AM