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Jorge Neri
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Jorge Neri, who has a background in Latino voter engagement and immigration policy, was the Nevada state director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.[1]
Career
Early career
Neri worked as an organizer for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and for the United Food and Commercial Workers union in Chicago. For the UFCW, Neri was tasked with increasing Latino membership in the union throughout Chicago and the state of Ohio. From 2008 to 2011, he worked as an organizer with the Center for Community Change, managing campaigns for the organization's Fair Immigration Reform Movement project.[2]
Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign
During the 2012 election cycle, Neri worked with Emmy Ruiz in Nevada to organize for President Barack Obama's (D) re-election. Obama won the state, receiving "70% support from Latino voters in the state, part of a Latino outreach effort many Democrats have been privately and publicly pining for since," according to Buzzfeed.[3]
White House Office of Public Engagement
After working briefly at the Alliance for Citizenship, a nonprofit organization focused on immigration policy, Neri joined the Obama administration as the associate director of public engagement, where he worked as "the White House’s primary liaison to the Latino community and on immigration related issues."[2] In this role, Neri would issue public statements to the Latino community, including Spanish-language videos.[4]
Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016
Caucus activity
In April 2015, Buzzfeed reported that Neri was leaving his position in the White House to work as the organizing director for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in Nevada. Neri joined Emmy Ruiz, who was the Nevada state director during the primary election season, and was tasked with "setting infrastructure for the general election."[3] Early in the campaign, according to Buzzfeed, Neri and Ruiz spent time with voters across the state. The site reported, "And before [Democratic candidate Bernie] Sanders had a staffer in the state, Ruiz and Neri headed on a summer bus listening tour ... that crisscrossed the state to visit with Native Americans, Asian-American and Pacific Islander and LGBT groups, rural Nevadans, and residents of an actual ghost town."[5] Clinton won the Nevada Democratic caucuses with 52.7 percent of the vote. Bernie Sanders received 47.2 percent.[6]
General election activity
Neri was named the general election state director for Nevada in May 2016.[1] When the Clinton campaign made Nevada one of the states in its June 2016 battleground state advertising buy, Neri said, "I think folks are realizing that we're in a general election and it's a much different race and Donald Trump is not the type of person to represent our country in the highest office."[7]
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Buzzfeed, "Clinton To Name Key Nevada Caucus Operative State Director For General Election," May 2, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The White House, "Jorge Neri," accessed August 10, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Buzzfeed, "Hillary Clinton Reunites Obama’s Latino Team In Nevada With Second Hire," April 9, 2015
- ↑ The White House YouTube Channel, "Mensaje De La Casa Blanca," May 3, 2014
- ↑ Buzzfeed, "How Clinton’s Obama Veterans In Nevada Postponed A Political Revolution," February 22, 2016
- ↑ CNN Politics, "Hillary Clinton takes Nevada in victory over Bernie Sanders," February 20, 2016
- ↑ News 3 Las Vegas, "Nevada part of Clinton's battleground ad blitz," June 16, 2016
