• Source: List of John McCain 2008 presidential campaign staff members

John McCain was the Republican Party candidate for President of the United States in 2008. Rick Davis, his campaign manager, projected at one point that his staff would eventually increase to about 450. By early July 2008, it had opened 11 regional offices in key states and some 84 offices total across the country in a joint effort with the Republican National Committee.




National leadership team


Persons listed on the John McCain for President website:

Former Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher – Chairman
Frederic V. Malek – Finance Director
Jill Hazelbaker – Spokeswoman




Inner circle


According to New York Times reporter John M. Broder:

Steve Schmidt, head of campaign from July 2, 2008, veteran campaign manager
Rick Davis, ran McCain's 2000 campaign
Bill McInturff, chief pollster
Mark Salter, McCain's Senate chief of staff
John Weaver, chief political analyst (left campaign in 2007)
Trevor Potter, chief counsel
Others joining later or listed in other sources include:

Charles R. Black, Jr., senior political adviser
Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard




The Bush team


Wayne L. Berman, lobbyist and Bush fund-raiser
Mark McKinnon, Bush's media consultant
Terry Nelson, Bush's political director 2004 campaign
Gerald L. Parsky, California chairman, Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaigns
Nicolle Wallace, née Nicolle Devenish, White House communications director
Ron Weiser, Ambassador to Slovakia and Bush fund-raiser




Policy advisers


Dan L. Crippen, director, Congressional Budget Office 1999–2003
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, director, Congressional Budget Office 2003–2005
Kevin Hassett, economist, American Enterprise Institute
Lisa Graham Keegan, Arizona education official
John Thain, CEO, Merrill Lynch




Foreign policy advisers


In October 2007, the Washington Post listed the following as McCain's foreign policy advisers.

Randy Scheunemann, national security aide to then-Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Trent Lott and now a lobbyist, defense and foreign policy coordinator (for this cycle and 2000)"
Richard L. Armitage, "President George W. Bush's deputy secretary of state and an international business consultant and lobbyist, informal foreign policy adviser"; [24] deputy to former secretary of state Colin Powell
Bernard Aronson, former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs; currently managing partner of private equity investment company ACON Investments
William L. Ball III, Secretary of the Navy during President Reagan's administration, and managing director of lobbying firm the Loeffler Group
Stephen E. Biegun, Aspen Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Council of the Americas, former national security aide to then-Sen. Bill Frist, currently VP international affairs, Ford Motors
Steven Bogden, speechwriter
Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations, former Wall Street Journal editor
Brig. Gen. Tom Bruner
Lorne W. Craner
Lawrence Eagleburger, Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush, now a senior public policy adviser with law firm Baker Donelson
Brig. Gen. Russ Eggers
Maj. Gen. Merrill Evans
Niall Ferguson, Harvard historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow
Michael J. Green, former Asia adviser to President George W. Bush and now Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Secretary of State under Reagan
Maj. Gen. Evan "Curly" Hultman
Robert Kagan, senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Brig. Gen. Robert Michael Kimmitt, current deputy Treasury secretary
Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State under Richard Nixon
Col. Andrew F. Krepinevich, President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard
Adm. Charles Larson
Robert McFarlane, National Security Adviser under Ronald Reagan
Brig. Gen. Warren "Bud" Nelson
Brig. Gen. Eddie Newman
Maj. Gen. John Peppers
Maj. Ralph Peters
Brig. Gen. Maurice Phillips
Gen. Colin Powell, Secretary of State (2001–2005)
Kori Schake Research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
James R. Schlesinger, "President Nixon and President Ford's secretary of defense, energy and national security adviser"[24]
Gary Schmitt, former staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee, currently American Enterprise Institute scholar
Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to Presidents Ford and George H. W. Bush and founder of business consultancy the Scowcroft Group
George P. Shultz, Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan
Brig. Gen. W.L. "Bill" Wallace
Maj. Gen. Gary Wattnem
R. James Woolsey, former CIA director, now a VP at Booz Allen Hamilton
Other advisers:

Lisa Curtis




Economic policy advisers


From a July 12, 2007 press release:

Grant Aldonas — Managing Director for Split Rock International; former Undersecretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce
Carlos Bonilla — Senior Vice President for The Washington Group; former Special Assistant To President George W. Bush; a lobbyist
Jeff Brown — Associate Professor of Finance at the College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Juan Buttari — Independent consultant and researcher In development economics
Kathleen Bell Cooper — Dean, College of Business, University of North Texas
Steve Davis — CRA International and University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Richard Dekaser — Senior VP and Chief Economist, National City Corporation
John Diamond — Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Tax Policy, Baker Institute of Public Policy, Rice University
Emil Frankel — Transportation Consultant and Former Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, Department of Transportation
Luke Froeb — Professor, Vanderbilt University
Kevin Hassett — Resident Scholar and Director of Economic Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Greg Jenner — former Executive Vice President, American Council of Life Insurers and Acting Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy), U.S. Treasury Department
David John — Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
Tim Kane — Director, Center for International Trade and Economics, The Heritage Foundation
Melissa Kearney — Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
Anne Krueger — Professor at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Former First Deputy Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund
Adam Lerrick — Visiting Scholar for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Friends of Allan H. Meltzer Professor of Economics for Carnegie Mellon
Phil Levy — Resident Scholar for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Former Senior Economist for Trade on the President's Council of Economic Advisers
Will Melick — Gensemer Associate Professor of Economics, Kenyon College
Michael Owen Moore — Professor of Economics and International Affairs, George Washington University
Thomas P. Miller — Resident Fellow for American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Tim Muris — Foundation Professor, George Mason University School of Law
Gerry Parsky — Senior Economic Adviser
Nancy Pfotenhauer — Former President, Independent Women's Forum
James Rill — Partner, Howrey LLP and Former Assistant Attorney General (Antitrust), U.S. Department of Justice
Kenneth Rogoff — Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
Harvey S. Rosen — Professor of Economics and Business Policy, Princeton University
John Silvia — Managing Director, Chief Economist, Wachovia Bank
Acquiles Suarez — Vice President for Government Affairs for National Association of Industrial and Office Properties and former Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
John Taylor — Professor of Economics at Stanford, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Former Under Secretary of Treasury
Anthony Villamil Chief Executive Officer, The Washington Economics Group and Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs
Joseph Wright — Chairman of the Board of Intelsat
Mark Zandi — Chief Economist for Moody's Analytics (formerly known as Moody's Economy.Com)
James Rill — Antitrust attorney at Howrey LLP; Former Assistant Attorney General in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division
Sean O'Keefe — former Secretary of the Navy, NASA Administrator, and Deputy Director of Office of Management and Budget, The White House
Matthew Lockwood — Director of Contributions Processed




National Campaign co-chairs


John Chambers, California
Gov. Jon Huntsman, Utah
Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota
Former Gov. Tom Ridge, Pennsylvania
Former Senator Warren Rudman, New Hampshire
Frederick W. Smith, Tennessee
Charlie Condon, South Carolina




National Finance Committee co-chairs


Former Rep. George Argyros, California
Michael Ashner, New York
Brian Ballard, Florida (lobbyist)
Lawrence E. Bathgate II, New Jersey
Wayne Berman, Washington, D.C.
Donald L. Bren, California
John Chambers, California
James A. Courter, New Jersey
Donald R. Diamond, Arizona
Ray Dalio, Connecticut
Lewis M. Eisenberg, New Jersey
Jon Hammes, Wisconsin
James B. Lee, Jr., New York
John A. Moran, Florida
Carter Pate, Virginia
A. Jerrold Perenchio, California
Fred Smith, Tennessee
J. Gary Shansby, California
John Thain of Merrill Lynch; New York
Ronald Weiser, Michigan




Former members


Senator Phil Gramm – General Co-chair, resigned July 18 after remarks calling Americans "whiners"
Robert Zoellick
Tom Loeffler
Susan E. Nelson, "continued to collect payments from [the Loeffler Group] this year while she was on the McCain-campaign payroll as its fund-raising coordinator" The Loeffler Group is a lobbying firm that has "received $990,000 in lobbying fees and another $3,000 in expenses from the Saudi government".
Mark McKinnon, citing a pledge not to work against an Obama candidacy.
Doug Davenport and Doug Goodyear of the DCI Group resigned on May 10, 2008, after revelation of DCI's ties to the military junta in Myanmar. Davenport, the regional campaign manager for the mid-Atlantic states, founded the DCI Group's lobbying practice and oversaw the contract with Myanmar in 2002. Goodyear was asked to become convention CEO after campaign manager Rick Davis's lobbying firm partner, Paul Manafort, was nixed because of his own close ties to foreign governments and controversial companies
Carlos Bonilla, economic policy adviser. Left in May 2008 after the campaign imposed new rules restricting the involvement of lobbyists.
Michael P. Dennehy, national political director and founder of the political consulting and lobbying firm The Dennehy Group. Left in May 2007 explaining that his family obligations conflicted with his arduous, 24/7 political job in Washington, D.C.




See also


List of Barack Obama presidential campaign staff members, 2008




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