News Item: : Obama-Biden Transistion Team member MIKE LUX will be our April 28 speaker
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Posted by Matt92116
Saturday 18 April 2009 - 04:53:59
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(Category: Club News)
Posted by Matt92116
Saturday 18 April 2009 - 04:53:59
Please Join the Uptown Democrats, San Diego County Democratic Party, and San Diego Democracy for America club in welcoming Mike Lux as our guest Tuesday, April 28th, 7:00 pm at the Joyce Beers Community Center, 1220 Cleveland Avenue.
Mike Lux, Author of "The Progressive Revolution" is our guest speaker. Mike Lux may be familiar to some of you as a founding partner at OpenLeft.com or as a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. He is the co-founder and CEO of Progressive Strategies, LLC, a political consulting firm focused on strategic political consulting for non-profits, labor unions, PACs, and progressive donors. In November of 2008 Mike became a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Team. In that role, he served as an advisor to the Public Liaison on dealing with the progressive community and has helped shape the office of Public Liaison based on his past experience working on the Clinton-Gore Transition, as well as in the White House.
Mr. Lux has also held the position of Senior Vice President for Political Action at People For the American Way (PFAW), and the PFAW Foundation. While at Progressive Strategies, Lux has founded, and currently chairs a number of new organizations and projects, including American Family Voices, the Progressive Donor Network, and BushRecall.org. Lux serves on the boards of several other organizations including the Arca Foundation, Americans United for Change, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, Center for Progressive Leadership, Democratic Strategist, Grassroots Democrats, Progressive Majority and Women’s Voices/Women Vote.
The Joyce Beers Community Center is located at 1220 Cleveland Ave. The entrance is just off University Avenue on Vermont Street just east (across the street) from Trader Joe’s next to the Terra restaurant in Hillcrest.
Mike Lux, Author of "The Progressive Revolution" is our guest speaker. Mike Lux may be familiar to some of you as a founding partner at OpenLeft.com or as a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. He is the co-founder and CEO of Progressive Strategies, LLC, a political consulting firm focused on strategic political consulting for non-profits, labor unions, PACs, and progressive donors. In November of 2008 Mike became a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Team. In that role, he served as an advisor to the Public Liaison on dealing with the progressive community and has helped shape the office of Public Liaison based on his past experience working on the Clinton-Gore Transition, as well as in the White House.
Mr. Lux has also held the position of Senior Vice President for Political Action at People For the American Way (PFAW), and the PFAW Foundation. While at Progressive Strategies, Lux has founded, and currently chairs a number of new organizations and projects, including American Family Voices, the Progressive Donor Network, and BushRecall.org. Lux serves on the boards of several other organizations including the Arca Foundation, Americans United for Change, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, Center for Progressive Leadership, Democratic Strategist, Grassroots Democrats, Progressive Majority and Women’s Voices/Women Vote.
The Joyce Beers Community Center is located at 1220 Cleveland Ave. The entrance is just off University Avenue on Vermont Street just east (across the street) from Trader Joe’s next to the Terra restaurant in Hillcrest.
This news item is from Uptown Democratic Club
( http://www.uptowndemocrats.org/news.php?extend.27 )