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The Advisers

Kenneth Duberstein: Political adviser and fund-raiser. Prior to serving as chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan (1988-1989), Duberstein had been appointed deputy undersecretary of labor and director of congressional and intergovernmental affairs at the U.S. General Services Administration.

Duberstein is the founding chairman of the Duberstein Group, one of the most powerful lobbying shops in Washington. He was registered to lobby for the following companies in 1999: American Council of Life Insurance, American Gaming Association, COMSAT Corporation, Comcast Corp., Dow Corning Corp., FannieMae, General Motors Corp., Goldman Sachs & Co., American Association of Health Plans, Pharmacia & Upjohn Co., American Waterworks Co., American Apparel Manufacturers Assoc., Business Roundtable, Direct Marketing Association, CSX, United Airlines, Transportation Institute, Time Warner, Inc., National Cable TV Association, and Healthcare Leadership Council.

Duberstein also serves as a director for a number of corporate boards, including: Boeing; Global Vacation Group, Inc.; The St. Paul Companies; Cinergy Corporation; and Fannie Mae (for whom he is also a lobbyist). He is also on the boards of governors for both the American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, and on the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center. Boeing is John McCain's #5 career patron, having given the senator more than $60,000 during his career.

Also see Advisers, Special Interests and High Roller. Duberstein did not return repeated calls from the Center.

Vin Weber: Political adviser. Former Rep. Vin Weber (R-Minn.) is the vice chairman and co-founder of the conservative think-tank Empower America and was an unpaid adviser and national co-chair in the Robert Dole presidential campaign of 1996. The former congressman (1981-1993) is a partner at Clark & Weinstock, where he is registered with Congress to lobby for the following companies: AT&T, Edison Electric Institute, Federal Home Mortgage Corp., Northern States Power Company, the National Center for Tobacco Free Kids, Microsoft Corp., New York Life Insurance Company, the American Association of Health Plans, the National Center for Tobacco Free Kids Action Fund, CapCURE, SLM Holding Corp. (Sallie Mae), Emergency Coalition for U.S. Financial Support of the U.N., Air Transportation of America, Choicepoint, Inc., Lockheed-Martin, Schering-Plough, Mobil Corp., Visa USA, Inc.

In 1997, Weber brought Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates to see McCain at a time when the Justice Department was investigating the software giant for possible anti-competitive practices. Several of the companies Weber lobbies for have had major mergers before federal regulators in recent years, including AT&T (Tele-Communications, Inc., and MediaOne, Inc.), Lockheed-Martin (McDonnell Douglas and COMSAT), and Mobil (Exxon).

Weber is also a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and codirector of the Institute's Policy Forum. He is a director of ITT Educational Services, Inc., Department 56, Inc., Mark Centers Trust, Inc., TCF Financial Corporation, and OneLink Communications, Inc. OneLink, a company that transforms telecommunications data into useful charts and graphs for business managers, counts U S West as one of its major customers.

Also see Advisers, Special Interests. Weber did not return repeated calls from the Center.

Jeff Groscost: Political adviser. Groscost is a senior political adviser to the campaign and is speaker of the Arizona House. He is also co-chair of McCain's Arizona campaign. Before being elected to the Arizona legislature in 1992, Groscost helped run legislative campaigns. Like Marc Spitzer (see below), Groscost was criticized in Arizona for feelers he sent out to other legislators on delaying the Arizona presidential primary, for fear McCain might lose it. This wasn't the first time Groscost's motives were questioned; he has come under fire for holding consulting contracts with a natural-gas firm and a plumbing trade association while pushing legislation beneficial to those groups. 

Timothy McKone: Fund-raiser. Tim McKone is one of the campaign's primary fund-raisers who served as congressional liaison on Robert Dole's presidential campaign and for the Republican National Convention in 1996. After just two years as a senior lobbyist for Davis, Manafort & Freedman in Alexandria, Va., McKone returned to his old employer, SBC Communications, as its vice president for congressional affairs.

His first order of business was to pressure members of Congress to support the pending SBC-Ameritech deal. McCain wrote a letter to the Federal Communications Commission imploring its commissioners to expedite the review process for the merger. The FCC had already taken more than a year to review the proposal and was admonished by McCain in the press for dragging its feet. The mega-merger was approved in October 1999, giving SBC and Ameritech nearly one-third of the nation's local telephone connections. Before returning to SBC, McKone was also paid by COMSAT to lobby alongside Duberstein and Weber for the Lockheed-COMSAT merger. See Advisers, Special Interests.

Solomon D. Trujillo: National finance co-chair; fund-raiser. Sol Trujillo is chairman, president, and CEO of U S West (McCain's largest career patron) and is a national finance co-chair (along with Herb Allison) of McCain 2000. He is on the boards of Target Corporation and BankAmerica. Also see Advisers, Special Interests.

Herb Allison: National finance co-chair; fund-raiser. Herb Allison is the national finance co-chairman. He is the former president and chief operating officer of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., one of the nation's largest investment companies. Allison, a U.S. Navy veteran who also served in Vietnam, told the Financial Times newspaper last September that McCain �will provide the leadership we need to make America strong and prosperous.� Though Allison met McCain only one month prior to becoming one of his top finance advisers, he has turned down offers from other investment firms and is �focusing on getting John McCain elected.�

Georgette Mosbacher: National co-chair; fund-raiser. Mosbacher is an entrepreneur (La Prairie Cosmetics), author, and Washington insider. Mosbacher, who is close to the Bush family, recently contributed $1,000 to McCain's chief political rival, George W. Bush. �Why burn those bridges if you don�t have to? These are two pragmatic, experienced politicians who understand that at some point they�re going to need each other as assets,� Mosbacher told the New York Times in December. Last September, Mosbacher, along with Dr. Henry Kissinger and Michael Bloomberg, hosted a fund-raiser/book release party for McCain at the Manhattan headquarters of Bloomberg L.P., the financial news service. Mosbacher, who recently touted Tipper Gore's commitment to the mental health of children at an awards ceremony at New York University, is one of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's biggest supporters in his race against Hillary Clinton for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Warren B. Rudman: National co-chair; political adviser. Ex-Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., is a national co-chairman and regards McCain as �one of my closest friends in the Senate.� He was an unpaid adviser to the Dole campaign in 1996. �I�ve never been paid for anything I�ve done in political life and I don�t lobby,� Rudman told the Center, adding that he was �advising [McCain] in great detail on the New Hampshire campaign.�

The former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (1981-1993) is a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, which is registered with the Department of Justice to represent foreign entities. Its clients have included MCI, Viacom, the Embassy of [South] Korea, and Korea Telecom. In December 1986, Rudman was appointed to serve as vice chairman of the Senate committee investigating arms transfers to Iran. He also served on the Ethics Committee and presided over numerous investigations, including that of the Keating Five, in which McCain was reprimanded for meeting with federal regulators on behalf of savings and loan operator Charles Keating. Said Rudman: �John [McCain], I think, came out of that whole thing with a whole different attitude about special interests . . . [the Keating investigation] has strengthened my perception of him.� 

Rudman is on the board of trustees of the liberal think tank the Brookings Institution. He is on the boards of Allied Waste Industries, Inc. (the nation's number two trash company), Collins & Aikman Corp. (an automobile interior systems manufacturer), the Chubb Corporation (property/casualty insurance), Raytheon Co. (the country's number three aerospace and defense firm), and Prime Succession, Inc. (a chain of elderly homes and cemeteries). He was recently elected to the board of Boston Scientific Corp. (a medical device manufacturer). Rudman is also chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, is co-chairman of the Concord Coalition (started in 1992 by Sens. Rudman and Tsongas to promote deficit reduction), and serves on the Senior Advisory Board of the Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Up until last year, Rudman was a registered lobbyist for the Coalition of Utility Companies Seeking PUHCA Repeal (see Advisers, Special Interests).

  
Policy Advisers

General Policy:

Marshall Wittman: General policy adviser. Wittman has worked with McCain's office for more than 10 years and has known McCain for two years. Wittman told the Center that he supports McCain over Bush and other Republican candidates because �he is the one with the most integrity and experience to be president based on his years in the Senate and life experiences.� Wittman is the former director of legislative affairs for the Christian Coalition and currently serves the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., as director of congressional relations with the U.S. Senate. He served as deputy assistant secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services from 1992 to 1993 and as a legislative representative with the National Association of Retired Federal Employees.
 

Foreign Policy:

Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick: Foreign policy adviser. Kirkpatrick was chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations (1981-1985). Kirkpatrick was a national co-chairwoman for Robert Dole's presidential campaign in 1996. She currently serves as the director of foreign policy and defense studies at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Kirkpatrick is a founding member of Empower America.

Kirkpatrick is on the board of Chris-Craft Industries, Inc., a company that owns the UPN television network in conjunction with Viacom. It also manufactures plastic film products and water-soluble laundry bags for the chemical and healthcare industries. Kirkpatrick also serves on Commodore Applied Technologies, Inc.'s board of directors. Commodore specializes in the disposal of hazardous waste and chemical weapons.

Kirkpatrick also teaches at Georgetown University, where she is a chaired professor in the government department.

Dr. Henry Kissinger: Foreign policy adviser. Kissinger is the founding chairman of Kissinger & Associates, an international consulting firm based in New York City. Kissinger was the United States' 56th secretary of state (1973-1977), and served as assistant to the president for national security affairs from 1969 to 1975. In 1983, President Reagan appointed Kissinger to chair the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America. He served as a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1984 to 1990. Kissinger has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

�I met [McCain] because when I left Hanoi the Vietnamese offered [to let] me take McCain with me and I refused to take him on the grounds that I wanted people to go out in the order in which the agreement provided. And I didn�t do any special favors for any of them,� Kissinger told the Center. �When [McCain] came out a few months later, he called me and thanked me for saving his honor. I�ve had high regard for him ever since. I always thought he would make a good president.�

Kissinger said that he has been speaking with McCain on foreign policy matters since McCain became a senator and considers him �a good friend of mine.� He says he has met with McCain several times recently, and they speak by phone once or twice a month at McCain's request. He declined to say what specific issues they discuss.

Kissinger is on the boards of Continental Grain Company, Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold, Inc., Hollinger International, Inc., Revlon, Inc., and Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. He serves as a counselor to the Chase Manhattan Bank, as an adviser to the board of American Express, and as a trustee for the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Richard Burt: Foreign policy adviser. From 1989 to 1991, Burt served as chief negotiator in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with the former Soviet Union. He was the U.S. ambassador to West Germany from 1985 to 1989. Burt was the assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian affairs from 1983 to 1985, and served as director of politico-military affairs from 1981 to 1983. In 1996, Burt was an adviser to Phil Gramm's presidential campaign.

Burt is a founder and the chairman of IEP Advisors, Inc., which his biographical statement describes as a Washington, D.C. "consulting and merchant banking firm." The firm is also registered to lobby for Bell Helicopter Textron, a subsidiary of Textron, Inc., which makes Cessna airplanes and Bell helicopters. Burt is also a member of Textron Corporation's International Advisory Board. FEC disbursement records show that McCain 2000 has chartered air travel from Cessna Aircraft Corp. at a cost of more than $3,500. Candidates frequently charter flights from campaign supporters, who charge the campaigns much less than what it would cost to purchase equivalent commercial charters.

From 1991 to 1994, Burt was a partner in McKinsey & Co., a worldwide management consulting firm. He also serves as the chairman of the board of Weirton Steel, Inc., a tin-plate manufacturer, and serves on the boards of directors of Paine Webber Mutual Funds, Hollinger International, and Archer Daniels Midland. In addition, Burt is a member of the Bank of Montreal's International Advisory Board. He is also vice chairman of Anchor Gaming. See High Roller.

  
Economics, Tax Policy, and Social Security:

Dr. Kevin Hassett: Economic policy coordinator. Hassett is the focal point for McCain's economic, tax and social security advisers. He has direct access to John Raidt, McCain 2000's policy coordinator, and is the adviser in charge of corralling the rest of the economic/social security team. He was the principal organizer of McCain's tax plan, which was released in December 1999.

Hassett is currently a resident scholar at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, where his papers have focused on tax policy and reform. He is author of the 1999 book Dow 36,000, which explores ways to make money from the current high-flying stock market. Prior to coming to American Enterprise, Hassett was a senior economist for the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at the Columbia University School of Business.

Marc Spitzer: Tax adviser. Spitzer, a state senator in Arizona for eight years, was involved in developing McCain's tax proposal. When not serving in the Arizona Senate, Spitzer is a tax attorney for KPMG/Peat Marwick. Spitzer supported moving Arizona's primary later in the season, which was seen by some observers as a blatant attempt to help McCain avoid a potentially embarrassing loss.

Sptizer told the Center he sees his value to McCain as being able to bridge the gap between politics and esoteric tax law. Much of his work on the McCain tax plan involved identifying corporate tax loopholes (exemptions that give corporations a break on paying taxes) that McCain wants to close, and he cited as an example capital write-offs for oil and gas drilling. Loopholes are Spitzer's specialty, and he has been in contact with McCain over the years about bad tax loopholes coming out of the Congress.

Spitzer first met McCain when McCain ran for Congress in '81 in Spitzer's district. Spitzer campaigned for McCain then, and has remained in contact since. His primary contact at the campaign is Kevin Hassett. Spitzer described Hassett as "a really smart guy." All of his advising was done over the telephone, mainly with Hassett, with some teleconferences. Because of his experience in practicing tax law, Spitzer told the Center that he can take McCain's proposals and turn them into vivid hypothetical situations.

Dr. Sylvester Schieber: Social security adviser. Scheiber works for Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a human resources consulting firm. He's been there 17 years, and "has done a lot of work on social security." Scheiber is a noted authority on the subject, and told the Center that he has spoken with many politicians in the past about it, including Sens. Bill Bradley, D-N.J.; Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.; Bill Roth, R-Del.; Daniel Patrick Moynihan D-N.Y.; and in the House Charles Stenholm, D-Texas. He has testified before the budget and tax committees in both houses of Congress.

His contact with McCain and the campaign has been recent and limited. He was contacted in late 1999, and after two or three phone calls with the campaign was invited to two meetings of about 15 to 20 people (including the senator) at campaign headquarters in Virginia.

Dr. Jeremy Siegel: Finance adviser. Siegel has never advised other politicians, and was brought into the McCain campaign by Hassett ("he's the head one"), whom he met in May at an academic conference. Siegel's role has been to review the economic aspects and consequences of the tax plan. He participated in conference calls in August, and in December was brought to D.C. to meet with McCain, other advisers and staff. He has traveled with McCain in Michigan and New Hampshire, when the candidate unveiled the tax plan. He teaches at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Charles Calomiris: Finance and economics adviser. Hassett, whose office is next to Calomiris' at the American Enterprise Institute, approached Calomiris to work for the campaign. Calomiris, a professor at Columbia, works at AEI once a week, and has been there for about three years. While at AEI, he founded a financial deregulation project that seeks to promote decreased regulation of the finance industry. Calomiris told the Center he has testified numerous times before congressional committees, has advised foreign governments, and has advised various federal agencies such as the Federal Reserve. This is his first time working in a political campaign.

His attraction to McCain was solidified after reading McCain's biography Faith of My Fathers, and says it's "fun" to work with the candidate. On McCain: "He listens [to advisers], then he decides." Calomiris has written some briefs for the campaign, and touches base with Hassett about once a week. He meets one-on-one with Hassett, participates in conference calls, and has met in larger groups with McCain and other advisers. He has not traveled with the campaign.

Dr. Doug Holtz-Eakin: Economics and tax adviser. Professor and chairman of the economics department at Syracuse University. Holtz-Eakin took his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1985 and currently researches topics such as economic growth, infrastructure and entrepreneurship. Holtz-Eakin was brought into the campaign by Hassett, whom he knew through academic circles. His advice was generally given by telephone and e-mail through Hassett. He participated in one or two large conference calls, and attended a large meeting in Washington with other advisers. This is Holtz-Eakin's first time advising a candidate. He was on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers. He told the Center that he sees his role as an adviser as primarily a good way to weed out particularly egregious proposals. 

Maya MacGuineas: Social security adviser. MacGuineas has worked at the Brookings Institution, the investment firm Paine Webber, and the Concord Coalition (started in '92 by Sens. Rudman and Tsongas to promote deficit reduction). She is now with Third Millennium, a project that describes itself as "a non-partisan, non-profit organization launched by young adults (Generation X and the Millennial Generation) to offer solutions to long-term problems (including Social Security reform and Medicare reform) facing the United States." She has a master's degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and is on the board of Common Cause, a non-profit organization that promotes better government. This is her first presidential foray, which she describes as "a blast!" She was attracted to McCain because of his stance on campaign finance reform and social security.

MacGuineas was initially approached by the campaign, which apparently was seeking someone with a long-term perspective on issues like social security. She briefed the campaign about six months ago. MacGuineas has participated in a combination of conference calls and, more recently, meetings leading up to the unveiling of the tax proposal. While Hassett, who pulled together the economic advisers, has remained in contact with her, she has worked most with John Raidt. She also traveled with the campaign in Michigan and New Hampshire for the unveiling of the tax plan.

David C. John: Social security adviser. John is a senior policy analyst for social security at the conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation. He is Heritage's lead voice on social security reform. He has testified the House Budget Committee's Task Force on Social Security. Among his recent publications are papers supporting the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (S.900), a bill which would allow banks, insurance companies and investment companies to enter each other's markets, and papers condemning President Clinton's social security proposals that would privatize part of Social Security. Prior to coming to Heritage, John was a longtime Capitol Hill staffer, most recently as legislative director for Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C. Sanford is a member of McCain 2000's National Steering Committee.

John was originally approached by Raidt to advise on social security, and traveled with the campaign to New Hampshire for the unveiling of the proposal. He told the Center that his involvement consisted mainly of teleconferencing, with a few meetings in D.C. leading up to the economic proposal. This is his first time advising a presidential candidate, although he has advised congressional and state-level candidates.

  
Education:

Lisa Graham Keegan: Education adviser. Keegan is Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, and has focused her efforts on charter schools and school choice. She told the Center that she has advised McCain since his 1992 Senate race, when she was a representative in the Arizona legislature serving on the Education Committee. She does not consider herself to be the coordinator of McCain's educational advisers, but others familiar with the candidate's advisory team point to Keegan as the point person on education. Keegan said she participated in teleconferences and works almost exclusively with campaign policy coordinator John Raidt.

Keegan sees and meets with McCain frequently, as he is in Arizona often. She has also been in South Carolina with McCain's wife, Cindy. She has advised the rest of the Arizona congressional delegation, including Sen. John Kyl, a McCain co-chairman. She has also been mentioned as a possible secretary of education under either McCain or Bush. Keegan has been a frequent speaker at the Heritage Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Edward T. McMullen Jr.: Education adviser. McMullen is president of the South Carolina Policy Council, essentially a state-based affiliate of the Heritage Foundation. Prior to working at the Policy Council, McMullen was vice president for development at the Free Congress Foundation in Washington, D.C. That foundation is a conservative think tank devoted to fighting cultural issues and �political correctness.� Before that, McMullen was director of development research at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. 

McMullen has served on the South Carolina commission on higher education, has developed programs on technical schools in South Carolina, and has dealt with K-12 issues. He was asked by the campaign to put together a "federalist, state-focused [education] program," which he did. McCain's education plan was released this past September; one component of it is to create pilot charter schools through budget cuts in the Department of Education.

McMullen told the Center that he was the primary architect for McCain's education plan, and that he tapped his own experts in South Carolina to help him when needed. Once his work was finished, it was touched up and "fine tuned" by McCain's other advisers (possibly Keegan). He believes the campaign also worked with Heritage experts in D.C. He never participated in any sort of "comprehensive, sit-down meeting." He said he "operated in a vacuum in S.C." McMullen also worked on the tax plan, and participated in conference calls. His primary contacts in the campaign are policy coordinator John Raidt and political director John Weaver.

Prior to advising McCain, McMullen had been supporting former vice president Dan Quayle. After Quayle dropped out in September of 1999, McMullen switched to McCain. He describes McCain as "very wonkish," and has found McCain to be "very substantive." McMullen has been named to the McCain 2000 National Steering Committee.

McMullen's Policy Council recently led the fight to keep video gaming out of South Carolina (they argued against it on economic grounds, not moral ones). When asked by the Center what he thought of the involvement of Rick Davis, Ken Duberstein and Richard Burt in the gaming industry, McMullen responded, "It's unfortunate to see that they have been undermined by those industries [video gaming]."

Frank Riggs: Education and environmental policy adviser. Riggs is a former congressman from California who did not run for reelection in 1998 because of a self-imposed three-term limit. He lost California's Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat to Matt Fong that same year. Riggs kept a high profile during the Clinton impeachment proceedings, and called on the president to resign. In the 105th Congress, he was chairman of the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families under the Education and Workforce Committee, where he authored legislation that addressed special education, charter schools and vocational and technical educational programs.

Since leaving Congress in 1999, Riggs has been working as a visiting fellow in education studies at the Heritage Foundation. He also has been appointed to serve on the federal government's Twenty-first Century Workforce Commission. Riggs is a real estate executive, and was recently named president and chief executive officer of the Home Builders Institute, the education and training arm of the 200,000-member National Association of Home Builders.

In 1996, Riggs made the "dirty dozen" list compiled by the League of Conservation Voters for his votes cast in Washington. The Sierra Club took out TV ads opposing Riggs for his support of the use of pepper spray in the eyes of logging protesters. After leaving Washington, he became chairman of DriWater, a company that makes gel inserts for plants, dubbed Slime Balls. Slime Balls slowly release water to houseplants and crops.

Riggs is on McCain 2000's National Steering Committee, and is the chairman of the McCain California effort, which he has spent time organizing. He is also an education and environmental adviser. He worked a little bit with McCain when the two served in Congress, but it was Riggs' belief that McCain was "far and away the best candidate" that drew him to the senator's cause in 2000. He describes McCain as "the right man to restore character, respect and integrity to the land."

Riggs told the Center that John Raidt initially reached out to him, and the two met at campaign headquarters in Alexandria (where Riggs also lives). Raidt asked Riggs to put his thoughts down on paper; Riggs did, and prepared several pages on broad educational themes, such as quality improvement and educational reform. This is his first time advising a presidential candidate.

Riggs had not heard of Ed McMullen, and the only other adviser he had worked with was Lisa Graham Keegan.

  
Social issues:

Cyndi Mosteller: Conservative issues adviser. Mosteller is advising McCain on "family/cultural/right to life issues." She is the president of Trident County (S.C.) Citizens for Life. To her knowledge, she is the only one advising McCain on "Christian issues." She had met McCain several times when he came to South Carolina, spoke with him there, and their paths crossed at various GOP functions.

The campaign approached her to advise, and she began doing so this past summer. Mosteller began meeting frequently with McCain in South Carolina in late winter 1999, a few months before the start of the Republican primaries. When she meets with the senator, John Weaver, Rick Davis and Trey Walker often accompany him, and she also speaks with John Raidt. She says she likes that the meetings are only about her issues and are not mixed in with other advisers' topics. 

Mosteller has advised former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley, as well as presidential contender Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) in 1996. She chairs the South Carolina GOP platform committee, and has done so since 1996. She told the Center she has appeared on television's Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher several times over the last two years.

  
Environment:

See Frank Riggs in Education.

  
Paid campaign staff:

Rick Davis: Campaign manager (see Advisers, Special Interests and High Roller). 

William McInturff: Chief pollster. McInturff is the campaign's leading pollster, and served in the same capacity for the Dole campaign in 1996. He is a partner and co-founder of Public Opinion Strategies, a polling firm. He has various corporate and association clients including American Airlines, NBC, the National Basketball Association, the Health Insurance Association of America, the American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Health Systems.

Mike Murphy: Media adviser. Murphy is a paid strategic consultant and chief media adviser. He served in the same capacity in Lamar Alexander's 1996 GOP campaign. He is a senior partner at the political consulting firm Murphy Pintak Gautier Agency, Inc. He has been a media strategist for Senate candidate Jim Nicholson of Michigan, Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, and Iran-Contra figure Oliver North during his 1994 U.S. Senate bid in Virginia. Murphy served on the media teams of the Bush-Quayle presidential campaigns in 1988 and 1992.

Carla Eudy: Finance director. Eudy is McCain 2000's finance director, the same position she served in for the National Republican Senatorial Committee when Phil Gramm chaired it in 1996. Eudy is a partner at the fund-raising firm Eudy Nelson.

John Weaver: Political director. Weaver is the political director, and served as the field director during Gramm's 1996 presidential campaign.

John Raidt: Policy coordinator. Raidt is a longtime McCain aide who is charged with coordinating policy advisers for McCain 2000. He has served as an environmental aide and legislative director to the senator, and was staff director of the Senate Commerce Committee until McCain began running for president.

 
National Co-Chairs:

Sens. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio; John Kyl, R-Ariz.; Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.; and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. Former Sen. Rudman, R-N.H., and Georgette Mosbacher (for both see Political Advisers and Fund-raisers).

  
National Finance Co-Chairs:

Solomon Trujillo, Herb Allison (see Political Advisers and Fund-raisers)

  
National Steering Committee:

Sen. Hank Brown (R-Colo., and co-chairman of McCain2000), Ken Duberstein, Reps. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., and Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz.; and former Secretary of Labor Ann McLaughlin, Staten Island Borough President Guy V. Molinari, who is McCain2000 New York chairman; Reps. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., John Shadegg R-Ariz., and Mark Sanford, R-S.C.; Vin Weber, Frank Riggs and Ed McMullen.

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