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Tom Matzzie
From SourceWatch
Tom Matzzie is a political consultant and the leader of Accountable America. He formerly served as the Washington Director of MoveOn.org and was the Campaign Manager of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI). He also previously ran the Campaign to Defend America and Progressive Media USA.
As the leader of Accountable America, Matzzie has led efforts to confront right-wing groups. For example, in 2008, he spearheaded an effort "to confront donors to conservative groups, hoping to create a chilling effect that will dry up contributions." He described the effort a "going for the jugular." The letter warned "donors who might be considering giving to right-wing groups [of] legal trouble, public exposure and watchdog groups digging through their lives."
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Matzzie Biography
Prior to this role, Matzzie served as the Washington Director for MoveOn.org. In that position he oversaw "legislative advocacy on a range of issues including Social Security, the Courts, the Environment, budget and tax issues, the war in Iraq and other issues important to MoveOn’s 3.3 million members.
Prior to joining MoveOn Tom was Director of Online Organizing for the Kerry-Edwards campaign — managing an organizing program for the campaign’s 2.8 million person e-mail list.
From 2000 to 2004 he was Online Mobilization Director at the AFL-CIO building the union movement’s Internet program — including the 3.2 million e-mail activists on the lists of the unions of the AFL-CIO.
From 1998 to 2000, he organized a coalition opposing Social Security privatization at the Campaign for America's Future.
He has appeared on TV shows and syndicated radio, and he has been quoted The New York Times, the Associated Press, The Washington Post and other major daily publications.
"Tom has worked in progressive politics for more than a decade - with MoveOn.org, the AFL-CIO, Campaign for America's Future and campaigns at the presidential and statewide level. At MoveOn, he created ground-breaking campaigns on corruption and the war in Iraq that set the stage for the 2006 Democratic takeover. The MoveOn 2006 election program successfully targeted for defeat 29 out of 36 Republicans." [1]
Matzzie holds a degree in Economics and International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame." [2]
He has also served on the Board of Directors of Progressive Majority and on the Advisory Board of the Rocky Mountain Leadership Institute. [3]
"The Politico wrote that the intensity of his 2007 Iraq campaign, "rattled the entire Republican caucus." The New York Times Magazine said of the Iraq campaign that they are to progressives, "…what the NRA is to the Right." [4] "Tom was named one of the "Forty Under Forty to Watch" by Washingtonian Magazine for his role as a leader in the emerging Internet-powered politics." [5]
Resources
See also
- Americans Against Escalation in Iraq
- Campaign to Defend America
- MoveOn
- The Fund for America
- Townhouse
- troop surge in Iraq
References
- ↑ [1], Progressive Majority, accessed June 7, 2010.
- ↑ MoveOn.org Principal Staff, MoveOn.org, accessed July 16, 2007.
- ↑ People, Rocky Mountain Leadership Institute, accessed July 16, 2007.
- ↑ [2], Progressive Majority, accessed June 7, 2010.
- ↑ Id.
External links
- Tim Starks, The Anti-War Movement's Aggressive New Battle Plan, CQ Weekly, April 16, 2007.
- Michael Luo, Antiwar Groups Use New Clout to Influence Democrats on Iraq, New York Times, May 6, 2007.
- Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, 'The Other K Street', In the Concrete Canyon of the Business Lobby, a Pocket of Liberal Activists Settles In, Washington Post, May 7, 2007.
- John Stauber, "Iraq: The 'Gift' That Keeps on Bleeding," PRWatch.org, August 20, 2007.
- Michael Crowley, "Can Lobbyists Stop the War?" New York Times, September 9, 2007.
- Will Evans, Peter Overby The Money Behind the Anti-McCain Ad, Center for Investigative Reporting, March 6, 2008.
- Tom Matzzie, Tom Matzzie: How John McCain Can Rescue the Republican Party, Huffington Post online, May 12, 2008
