Posted on June 17, 2015
The Annenberg Working Group on Presidential Campaign Debate Reform – a bipartisan group of top officials from past presidential campaigns – released its recommendations to help democratize the presidential general election debate process ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
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The 16-person group came together at the suggestion of Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, and was co-chaired by Anita Dunn, a former White House communications director for President Obama and senior advisor to his campaign, and Beth Myers, senior advisor to Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign and campaign manager for his 2008 presidential race.
In addition to Myers, Dunn and Jamieson, the Working Group includes Robert Barnett; Robert Bauer; Joel Benenson; Charles Black; Rick Davis; Ben Ginsberg; Ron Klain; Zac Moffatt; Neil Newhouse; Jim Perry; Joe Rospars; Michael Sheehan; and Stuart Stevens.
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The Working Group also: discussed the history and value of presidential debates with Newton Minow, who played an indispensable role in the institutionalization of presidential debates. met with broadcast and cable network representatives as well as with the director of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), Janet Brown, and separately with CPD co-chairs Mike McCurry and Frank Fahrenkopf. convened a group of debate scholars to assist the Working Group in evaluating debate formats.
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https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/8/2/iop-fall-2014-fellowa/
Former Governor, Biden’s Sister Among Fall IOP Fellows
August 7, 2014
Former Washington Governor Christine Gregoire and Valerie Biden Owens, the sister and campaign strategist of Vice President Joe Biden, are among the class of six fall semester fellows announced Wednesday by the Institute of Politics.
The fellows, who will lead study groups for undergraduates and community members, and attend other events on campus, also include two members of the media, Kristen Soltis Anderson, a columnist at The Daily Beast, and Phil Kent, the former CEO of Turner Broadcasting Systems.Frank Fahrenkopf, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Anton J. Gunn, a health care consultant who managed public affairs for President Obama’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act, round out the rest of this fall’s class.
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TranscriptAugust 1, 2016 | Lou Dobbs Tonight [Fox Business] (USA)
Author: Lou Dobbs, Howard Kurtz, Ed Rollins, Michael Goodwin, Laura Ingraham, Stephen Hayes, K.T. McFarland | LOU DOBBS TONIGHT
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ROLLINS: It’s time to abolish the commission. I basically helped set the commission up in 1984 when I threw out the League of Women Voters because they didn’t let the campaigns have anything to do with it.
The premise was you’re going to have the RNC chairman and the DNC chairman, the same chairman who was there, my friend Frank Fahrenkopf, who’s been there since 1984, (INAUDIBLE) the late Paul Kirk.
They haven’t changed it. It should be tied to the campaigns. These are vehicles for the campaigns. And they’re not anymore. They’re basically self-sustaining things. And the idea that you’re basically not going to let the campaigns say, We want to do this, we don’t want to do that is absurd.
DOBBS: One of the most ridiculous statements in a season of ridiculous was the response from the commission saying, Oh, well, it’s been in place since September 2015! Oh, that makes...