Andrew Zucker comes to Wellstone Action! from a campaign background, recently having taken eighteen months leave from school at Ohio University to work on Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Andrew began as an assistant to the National Field Director in Chicago, IL and after a long primary campaign that included stints in Arizona, Iowa, Texas, and Colorado where he was Youth Vote Director, worked on the Minnesota campaign as the state's Youth Vote Director for the general election. In 2008, Minnesota lead the nation in youth voter turnout.
Before his campaign employment and leave of absence from OU, Andrew was the Ohio State Director of Students for Barack Obama, the official student wing of the Obama for America campaign. Before attending college, Andrew worked at Medical Mutual in Ohio as a sales and marketing intern.
Andrew is currently a senior at Ohio University, pursuing his BA in Political Science with a specialization in American Politics and a minor in Political Communication. He is an active member of Ohio College Democrats where he has volunteered on numerous electoral campaigns at every level, and the Publicity Manager for the acclaimed Singing Men of Ohio, the first glee club in the state of Ohio.
POSTS BY ANDREW ZUCKER
Anti-reformers are riling up a small but vocal group that could dismantle health care legislation.
This past week, Jeff Blodgett, our Executive Director and former State Campaign Director in Minnesota for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, was in Australia speaking to the Australian Labor Party about why the Obama campaign was so successful and how others can duplicate its success.
"Laws are like sausages." No one wants to see them being made. As we watch pundits and politicians zero in on health care reform, it's obvious, now, why. That's why we're seeing an unprecedented effort by grassroots organizations to take the conversation out of Washington.
CHOICE USA is a group that mobilizes and empowers young people to lobby for reproductive choice.
One of the biggest challenges we face as we continue through the current recession is how to retool our economy to not just preserve jobs, but create new jobs that stand the test of time. One answer is to invest in and expand the number and quality "green-collar" jobs. The Blue Green Alliance is dedicated to doing exactly that.
This week, the House and Senate took two huge steps toward finally achieving comprehensive health care reform. But we aren't there yet...
Last week, following Sarah Palin's announcement that she was resigning as Governor of Alaska, we jokingly asked whether she was resigning to become a community organizer and started a petition in support of community organizers everywhere.
Read what YOU had to say when asked why you support community organizers, and come sign our petition!
WASILLA, AK--Sarah Palin announced today that she will be taking on a new, higher calling: community organizing... Well, we all know that's not really the case, but it sure does sound like Sarah Palin's had a change of heart doesn't it?
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