This last Thursday, June 7th, Governor Romney appeared with 350 people from the 40 and under crowd... the kickoff event for Young Professionals for Mitt. The idea is classic Team Romney: match the fundraising incentives to the target group. For this crew the keyword is "networking". Most of these folks couldn't afford the $1000 ticket to the Mitt Romney luncheon earlier in the day at the American Gas Association but they could definitely throw down $50 - 100 on a great party with Mitt at the keynote speaker!
The kickoff was held the Sewall House adjacent the Hart Senate Office Building. Numerous hill staffers were in attendance along with local MD, DC and VA folks who were ready to mix it up with like-minded politicos.
Here are two videos with the entire speech that Mitt gave to the crowd of over 350 supporters:
What fantastic videos! Thank you for sharing! This kind of thing makes me really wish I lived in Boston or DC or something. I would have gladly paid $50 to see Mitt. :-) But the video was a close second, and I almost felt like I was there. ;-)
Today, Romney for President announced the D.C. Chapter of Young Professionals for Mitt – the first chapter of Governor Romney's efforts to involve young professionals in his 2008 presidential campaign. Serving as Co-Chairs of the D.C. Chapter will be Alex Annett of Patton Boggs and Drew Maloney of Ogilvy Government Relations.
In case you missed it... here's the video from the first meeting:
The Young Professionals For Mitt D.C. Chapter:
- Jason Abend, National Law Enforcement Recruiters Assn. - Alexander Annett, Patton Boggs - Dean Armandroff, American Medical Association - Lindsey Arms, Public Affairs Consultant - Blake Ashbee, Direct Impact - Annabel Atherton, Friedman Billings Ramsey - Brian Baker, Boies Schiller & Flexner - Michael Bell, Hogan & Hartson - Dan and Aimee Berger - Elliot Berke, Barbour Griffith Rogers LLC - Andrew Bird, Organizational Staff - Tomas Bilbao - Scott Blakeslee, Deloitte & Touche - Jodi Hanson Bond, Motorola - Kevin Book, Oil & Gas Analyst - Jill Bratina, Public Strategies - Eric Brown, Patton Boggs LLP - Brad Card, Dutko Worldwide - Stephanie Cathcart, Public Affairs Consultant - Chaz Cirame, Consultant - Roy Coffee, Locke Liddell Strategies - Craig Cookson, Convio - Cesar Conda, Navigators - Jim Cox, B&L Group - Christina Culver, Dutko Worldwide - Drew Cutler, Consultant - Makan Delrahim, Brownstein, Hyatt & Farber - Vincent De Vito, Pepper Hamilton LLP - David Distefano, Locke Liddell Strategies - Troy Dow, The Walt Disney Company - Ryan P. Duffy, Speechwriter - Ellen Barker Dunagan, Traverse Solutions - John Dunagan, Public Affairs Consultant - Andrew Ehrlich, B&D Consulting - Reed Farnsworth, Financial Consultant - Amy Flachbart, K&L Gates - Tucker Foote, Mastercard - Wesley Fricks, Public Affairs Consultant - Shawn Friesen, Government Affairs Consultant - Kimberly Fritts, The Podesta Group - Nate Gatten, Larson Stewart Myrick & Link - Colleen Gerald, Public Affairs Consultant - Chris Goode, Hyjek & Fix - Aron Griffin, Carmen Group - Taylor Gross, Herald Group - Erik Gustafson, Mortgage Bankers Association - Justin Hart, COMSYS - Robert Hayk, Smith Barney - Darrell Henry, Public Affairs Consultant - Patrick Holley, Citigroup - Mark Isakowitz, Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock - Rene Isles, B&D Consulting - Michael Isom, National Security Consultant - Todd Johnston, National Mining Association - Ed Kaleta, Government Affairs Consultant - John Kelly, Wal-Mart - Anna Kimsey, Dutko Worldwide - Dan Klenck - Stephanie Lester, Retail Industry Leaders Association - Drew Maloney, Ogilvy Government Relations - Jeff McWaters, Amerigroup - Frank Micciche, Sallie Mae - Eric Miller, Sales Analyst - Phil Musser, New Frontier Strategy - Darryl Nirenberg, Patton Boggs LLP - Sarah Obenour, Haute on the Hill - Nels Olson, Korn/Ferry International - Josh Overbay, U.S. Chamber of Commerce - Anita Peduzzi, PAC Director - Julie Philp, Government Affairs Consultant - Paul Poteet, Biotechnology Industry Organization - Rick Powell, Quinn Gillespie - Sara Graves Raak, Public Affairs Consultant - Sujit Raman, Hogan & Hartson - Brian Reardon, Venn Strategies - Michael Robinson, Government Relations - HL Rogers, Attorney - Marc Ross, American Chemistry Council - Shalla Ross, Barbour Griffith Rogers LLC - Andy Rubert, Smith Barney - Iggy Sanchez, DLA Piper - Rumu Sarkar, CALIBRE Systems - Gene Schaerr, Winston & Strawn - Kristin Schrader, Public Affairs Consultant - Tyler Schwab, ADT - Travis Seegmiller, Patton Boggs - Kristin Seitz, Public Policy Manager - John Spitaleri Shaw - Brett Shogren, The Washington Group - Jonathan Simons, U.S. Chamber of Commerce - Matt Spencer, Illumen - Tim Stewart, Larson Stewart Myrick & Link - Mari Stull, Club BV - David Tamasi, Ogilvy Public Relations - Bob Tompkins, Patton Boggs LLP - Martin Whitmer, Whitmer & Worrall - Anita Winsor, Consultant - Darren Wilcox, Dutko Worlwide - Tom Worrall, Whitmer & Worrall - Adrian Yeoh, Sprint
Between the Bonham newborn and a client BAFO due later tonight we have put on hold our Radio show that was to have debuted tonight. We'll reschedule shortly....
BUT... in the meantime. I will be attending the Young Professionals for Mitt (YP4MITT) kick-off in DC tonight. Look for a press release from the campaign soon on this effort.
I'll have details, videos, pics and more coming soon!
If you are in the DC area and you are interested in becoming part of an exclusive group of Young Professionals supporting Governor Romney, email me at justin@mymanmitt.com. Act now as our first meeting is next week!
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