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Democrats, facing the ban they supported on unregulated "soft" campaign money, have formed a fledgling "donor network" to take advantage of a loophole in the new law.

The Progressive Donor Network held its inaugural strategy meeting in Washington two weeks ago. Its president and co-founder is political consultant Michael Lux, who was a top fund-raising official for the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign and served as an aide in the Clinton White House.

MICHAEL LUX

Michael Lux is the co-founder and President of Progressive Strategies, L.L.C., a political consulting firm focused on strategic consulting for non-profits, pacs, and progressive donors.

Prior to founding Progressive Strategies, Lux was Senior Vice President for Political Action at People For the American Way (PFAW) PFAW Foundation, and the PFAW Voters Alliance, he oversaw lobbying and legal advocacy, field operations, state and regional offices, voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts, and educational activities. He also was responsible for coalition building with other organizations and interest groups. He was also treasurer and CEO of PFAW Voters Alliance, a state and federal PAC launched earlier this year.

While at PFAW, Lux was a leader in the effort to found a progressive response to rightwing domination of the ballot initiative process. Started as a PFAW project, the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center has become an important coalition, providing progressives a forum to strategize, research, train, and target on major ballot initiative fights. Lux is the chair of its board.

Before coming to People For the American Way, Lux served at the White House 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, health care providers, trial lawyers, consumer groups and agricultural interests.

Since leaving the White House in April 1995, Lux has become a significant fundraiser for progressive causes and candidates. He was a 1996 Clinton-Gore Finance Committee Vice Chair, and served in the 1996 cycle as a Democratic National Business Council Vice Chair. He has raised money for numerous charitable causes and political candidates over the last three years. 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 a senior staffer 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 co-founder, with former DNC Chair David Wilhelm, 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 contributed an essay to the book, 250 Ways to Make America Better, which was compiled and published by the editors of George magazine. (excerpt here)

Lux has appeared on Fox News, ABC News, and has also been a frequent guest on a wide variety of radio shows all across the country.

Lux is a native of Lincoln, Nebraska.

Thomas F. Sheridan

Tom brings more than fifteen years experience in national politics to The Sheridan Group. Serving on the staff of Vice President Walter Mondale’s 1984 presidential campaign, Tom Sheridan campaigned in nine states on behalf of the Vice President.

Mr. Sheridan is recognized as an expert and leader on domestic policy issues through his work for the National Association of Social Workers, the Child Welfare League of America, and the AIDS Action Council. He was the leading national HIV/AIDS lobbyist during the period in which AIDS groups realized their greatest political and policy successes. Mr. Sheridan established a coalition of more than 100 national organizations to lobby Congress on AIDS issues, and served as the principal lobbyist for the Ryan White CARE Act of 1990 (now providing more than $1 billion in services to people with HIV and AIDS).

Mr. Sheridan chaired the lobbying efforts that successfully passed the historic Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. His firm continues to represent many of the nation’s most compelling domestic issues including tobacco control, housing and women’s health.

He has a B.A. from Dominican College and has a Master’s degree in Social Work from The Catholic University of America.

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