2007 Joint Campaign Chairs Appointed

Thursday, February 1, 2007

(Arlington County Democratic Committee)

ACDC Chair Peter Rousselot appoints Ed Fendley, Karla Hagan, and Amanda Brino as Co-Chairs of the 2007 Joint Campaign

I am very pleased to announce that we have appointed our Joint Campaign Co-Chairs for the 2007 General Election Campaign!

The Arlington Democratic Joint Campaign is formed every election cycle in order to elect all Democrats on the ticket from the school house to the White House. The Joint Campaign officially begins the day after the full Democratic ticket is set for the general election, and is run by three co-chairs appointed by the ACDC Chair.

Traditionally, one of the co-chairs is an Arlington County Elected Official. The Joint Campaign works simultaneously with Precinct Operations and with individual candidate campaigns on Voter ID, Outreach and Visibility, Direct Mail, Targeting, and Get-Out-The-Vote efforts (GOTV). The Joint Campaign serves all Democrats whose names will appear on the general election ballot in Arlington .

For 2007, I have appointed the following three Joint Campaign co-chairs: Arlington School Board member, Ed Fendley; ACDC Treasurer, Karla Hagan, and ACDC Precinct Captain and Area Chair, Amanda Brino.

A brief summary of their backgrounds follows:

Ed Fendley

Ed Fendley's Democratic activism is fueled by the trauma of growing up in the Illinois district of arch-conservative Phil Crane. An ACDC activist since 1998, Ed was elected to the Arlington School Board with the support of Arlington Democrats in 2005. Ed was a co-recipient of ACDC's 2001 Campaigner of the Year for his work on Tim Kaine's campaign for Lieutenant Governor. Ed served as campaign manager for Chris Zimmerman's 2002 re-election, Walter Tejada's historic first County Board campaign, and Walter Tejada and Paul Ferguson's 2003 combined County Board campaign.

In 2004, he served as a state delegate for the John Edwards presidential campaign. A Ballston precinct resident, Ed continues to volunteer in his neighborhood and to advise local Democratic candidates. Ed works professionally in the environmental affairs bureau of the U.S. Department of State. He and his wife Joyce have four children.

Karla Hagen

Karla traces her political activism to her time in grad school where she did physics research, which is about as far apart from politics as you can get. In 1993 she came to Capitol Hill with a delegation from the University of Virginia to lobby Virginia's Representatives to save the Superconducting Super Collider. Trying to get politically apathetic physicists back in her department to follow up with letters and calls was a lesson in volunteer management, and seeing the Super Collider get dis-appropriated by Congress later that year was a lesson in representative democracy.

After moving to Arlington in 1999 and starting a family, she took an interest in neighborhood and schools issues, and availed herself of some of the many volunteer civic opportunities that Arlington offers. She became the treasurer of Ed Fendley's successful school board campaign in 2005 and the campaign manager for Sally Baird's successful school board campaign in 2006. She is currently the Treasurer of ACDC.

Amanda Brino

Amanda is a lifelong Democrat, beginning with her vote for Mondale against Reagan in her elementary school's mock election in 1984. She began her political volunteerism in high school by working on local Long Island school board and town supervisor campaigns. She fell in love with the DC metro area after participating in the Cornell-in-Washington program during college, and decided to move to Arlington when she graduated from law school in 2002. Amanda was excited to return to her Democratic roots when she left her job as an attorney at a DC law firm and traded billable hours for lit drops and phone banking.

An active member of the Arlington Young Democrats (AYD), Amanda also is the ACDC precinct captain in Monroe Precinct and the ACDC Area Chair for the RB-II area. In 2006, she was metro flyering coordinator for the 2006 Arlington Democratic Joint Campaign, and also was events coordinator for Chris Zimmerman's successful re-election campaign for the Arlington County Board.

Please join me in congratulating this great team!

Peter