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MICHAEL LUX

Michael Lux is the co-founder and CEO of Progressive Strategies, L.L.C., a political consulting firm focused on strategic consulting for non-profits, PACs, and progressive donors. Since starting the company, Lux has launched a number of important new projects, including American Family Voices, an issue advocacy group working on pocketbook issues for American families, and the Progressive Donor Network, which works to coordinate a network of individual donors, issue advocacy groups, and top flight political consultants and strategists.

Lux's recent projects have garnered a great deal of media coverage and have been extremely effective. Frequent attacks by Rush Limbaugh and an expose by William Buckley's National Review magazine only offer validation to his cause.

In addition to those projects, Lux serves on the boards of several important organizations, including the Arca Foundation, the Proteus Fund, 21st Century Democrats, Progressive Majority, the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, and the Clinton-Gore alumni association.

In the late 1990's, Lux was Senior Vice President for Political Action at People For the American Way (PFAW), and the PFAW Foundation. He oversaw lobbying and legal advocacy, field operations, state and regional offices, voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts. He was also responsible for coalition building with other organizations and interest groups. He continues to serve as treasurer for PFAW Voters Alliance, a state and federal PAC launched in 1998.

Before joining People For the American Way, Lux served at the White House from January 1993 to mid-1995 as a Special Assistant to the President for Public Liaison, where his role on health care and budget issues involved working closely with a wide range of constituency groups including labor, seniors, churches, disability groups, businesses, health care providers, trial lawyers, consumer groups and farm groups.

Prior to his service at the White House, Lux was Constituency Director on both the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and the presidential transition. Lux was also on the senior staff for the Biden and Simon campaigns in the 1988 cycle.

Lux has a diverse background in the consulting, labor and consumer advocacy world. He was a partner and cofounder of the Chicago-based political consulting firm, Strategy Group. He was Executive Vice President, PAC director and chief lobbyist for the Iowa AFL-CIO in the early 1990s. During his tenure as Executive Director of the Iowa Citizen Action Network, Lux doubled the organization's annual budget from $500,000 in 1984 to almost $1 million in 1987 while raising the organization's membership from 30,000 to 75,000. His first organizing job was as a VISTA volunteer working with moderate income family farmers in southeast Nebraska.

Lux is a native of Lincoln, Nebraska.

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