tsai3904
07-18-2013, 10:44 PM
Doug Stafford stepped down as Rand Paul’s Senate chief of staff in May to focus full time on positioning the Kentucky senator for a likely 2016 presidential campaign.
As executive director of Rand PAC, the 41-year-old is building out a bare-bones political operation, managing strategic endorsements, plotting early state travel, cultivating major donors and the like.
The growing committee, which has a small office in a townhouse on Capitol Hill, is looking for more space.
Stafford did not meet Paul until late in the summer of 2009. He had risen from a junior writer to vice president of the National Right to Work Committee, the pro-business lobbying group that opposes forced unionization.
An old boss there was John Tate, who was helping Ron Paul’s son — an ophthalmologist in Bowling Green, Ky. — plan a long-shot challenge to the establishment favorite in the next year’s GOP primary.
More:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/50-politicos-to-watch-doug-stafford-94181.html
As executive director of Rand PAC, the 41-year-old is building out a bare-bones political operation, managing strategic endorsements, plotting early state travel, cultivating major donors and the like.
The growing committee, which has a small office in a townhouse on Capitol Hill, is looking for more space.
Stafford did not meet Paul until late in the summer of 2009. He had risen from a junior writer to vice president of the National Right to Work Committee, the pro-business lobbying group that opposes forced unionization.
An old boss there was John Tate, who was helping Ron Paul’s son — an ophthalmologist in Bowling Green, Ky. — plan a long-shot challenge to the establishment favorite in the next year’s GOP primary.
More:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/50-politicos-to-watch-doug-stafford-94181.html