Posted on 04/22/2005 8:34:16 PM PDT by doug from upland
David Rosen President and CEO Competence Group Inc. AGE: 35
The 10 summers David Rosen spent ringing doorbells to sell books turned out to be good preparation for raising tens of millions of dollars for the Gore-Lieberman ticket, Hillary Clinton's Senate race and other prominent Democratic candidates.
At Southwestern Co., a Nashville, Tenn.-based direct sales firm that has trained thousands of college students during its 132-year history, Mr. Rosen got to the point where he made sales at five of every six households he called on. He still holds the record for first-year sales, according to Dan Moore, Southwestern's marketing vice-president. The firm's alumni include two current governors, a senator and former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr.
"He's the most dedicated, hard-working, organized person I've met in a long time," say Chicago lawyer Myron "Mike" Cherry, a veteran Democratic fund-raiser and general counsel for the gubernatorial campaign of Rep. Rod Blagojevich, D-Chicago, for which Mr. Rosen has helped raise about $1 million outside Illinois. "And he's got a Rolodex that would rival (former President) Clinton's," Mr. Cherry says.
What sets Mr. Rosen and his Chicago-based company, Competence Group Inc., apart is his application of business discipline, training and sales techniques to the art of fund raising.
"I can't talk someone into giving money," says Mr. Rosen. "You just have to call a tremendous amount of people and find those who are interested."
He caught the political bug while taking a political science course taught by David Wilhelm, a longtime Chicago-based political consultant who chairs the Blagojevich campaign.
Mr. Rosen credits his success to Southwestern's rigorous training.
"You can use it whether you're selling airplanes, insurance or politicians," he says.
PAUL MERRION
Southwestern alumnus bump.
I don't know if there is such a man, unless he is sniveling, whining sycophant dressed in leather tights with a big rubber ball jammed into his mouth.
SamAdams, it appears you've been partaking of too many Samuel Adams brewskis. Time to sober up...
I'm starting to think that the finger planted in the Wendy's chili belongs to a former Hillary enemy.
Well, at least you're a funny drunk! (just kidding)
Um. I have to go now.
Wish it were more- I did a web-wide search using a couple of different engines, but mostly I found dozens of links back to about five different variations of the same story. The left-leaning sites and blogs, in their usual bizzaro-world fashion, seem to think these tales somehow work a slander on President Bush. My head hurt from trying to follow their convoluted "thought" precesses.
Fock Snooze reports that David Rosen has died of suffocation while hidden in Sandy Berger's underwear. Berger has denied that he was trying to smuggle Rosen out of the country. More snooze as it becomes available !!! ;-))
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