Kane Miller
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Kane Miller, a former Obama campaign field director, was the general election Iowa state director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.[1]
Career
Barack Obama staffer
While still a student at North Georgia College, Miller worked as a field organizer for Barack Obama's (D) 2008 presidential campaign.[2][3] After the election, and after graduating in 2009, Miller began working as a field organizer with Organizing for America, the 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that advocated for many of Obama's national policies. Miller was part of the field office in North Carolina.[4]
During the 2012 election cycle, Miller again worked for Obama. He was the deputy field director for the state of North Carolina.[5]
Dan Maffei 2014 U.S. House
During the 2014 election cycle, Miller directed the campaign of U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei (D-N.Y.). Miller was the subject of a lawsuit filed by Onondaga County Republican Party Chairman Tom Dadey. Dadey claimed that Miller, who had registered to vote in New York and had collected signatures to get Maffei onto the third party line for the Working Families Party.[6] After the Onondaga County Board of Elections ruled that Miller was legally registered to vote in New York, Dadey filed a second lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court.[7][8] The state Supreme Court also ruled in favor of Miller, declaring him legally registered to vote.[9] Maffei was defeated by Republican John Katko.[10]
Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016
Miller initially worked in Clinton's campaign as the Polk County, Iowa, regional organizing director ahead of the Iowa caucuses. After Clinton won the caucuses by a narrow margin, Miller went on to direct her efforts in caucuses in Nebraska and Utah later in the 2016 primary election season.[1] For the Iowa caucuses, Miller told the Los Angeles Times, the Clinton campaign aimed to speak with any interested voters. He told the paper, "If they were willing to sit down and talk with us, we talked. ... There’s no shortcuts in the Iowa caucus. You can’t just come in late and throw a lot of hot sauce and hope it works."[11]
During the Nebraska caucuses, he told the Lincoln Journal Star of Clinton's strategy in the caucuses. Miller said, "And if you want to talk to people about politics, Facebook and Twitter are the places for political conversations. That's acceptable political space for young people. And we want to meet people where they are."[2]
On May 18, 2016, Clinton announced that Miller would serve as the Iowa state director for her general election campaign.[1]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Des Moines Register, "Clinton announces Iowa general election leadership," May 18, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lincoln Journal Star, "Clinton targets Nebraska caucus," February 13, 2016
- ↑ Democracy In Action, "Obama 2012 General Election Campaign Organization, North Carolina," accessed July 28, 2016
- ↑ Google Groups, "Charlotte Regional Field Director - OFA North Carolina," accessed July 28, 2016
- ↑ Bloomberg, "Clinton’s Plan to Win Iowa: Do the Opposite of 2008," January 29, 2016
- ↑ Syracuse Post-Standard, "GOP tries to remove Rep. Dan Maffei from Working Families Party ballot line," April 17, 2014
- ↑ Syracuse Post-Standard, "Maffei wins first round of battle for Working Families Party ballot line," April 28, 2016
- ↑ Syracuse Post-Standard, "Republicans ask judge to boot Maffei from Working Families Party ballot line, no immediate ruling," May 6, 2014
- ↑ Syracuse Post-Standard, "Judge: Maffei's petitions are valid for Working Families Party ballot line," May 9, 2014
- ↑ Associated Press, "New York - Summary Vote Results," accessed June 24, 2014
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Democrats embrace the personal as well as the political to woo Iowa voters," November 20, 2015
