Rachael Leman
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| Location: | Washington, D.C. | ||
| Expertise: | International and public policy | ||
| Affiliation: | Republican | ||
| Education: | Grove City College | ||
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Rachael Leman is a Republican policy consultant and founder of Leman Strategies. She was the policy director for Lindsey Graham's 2016 presidential campaign.[1] Previously, Leman worked as the deputy staff director for the House Rules Committee and as a legislative assistant and policy director for former Rep. David Dreier (R-Calif.).[2] Leman has also worked as a senior policy advisor for the Annenberg-Dreyer Commission at Sunnylands, a Los Angeles-based retreat that hosts events "to improve the functioning of democratic institutions."[3]
Career
Leman gained much of her policy experience as a staffer for the House Rules Committee. Leman worked under former California Rep. David Dreier (R), who was the House Rules Committee chair, as Dreier's policy director, policy coordinator and legislative assistant. Leman and Dreier both worked "to make the panel a more transparent, open body."[2] As a staff member for Dreier and the Rules Committee, Leman gained international policy experirence through travels to Morocco, Nigeria and Egypt.[2]
In 2013, Leman founded Leman Strategies, a policy consulting firm that provided "political analysis and strategic messaging services for clients in the East Asia Region, with a particular focus on the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership talks."[4] The firm was originally based in Okinawa, Japan, where Leman's husband, Brig. Gen. Paul Kennedy, was deployed with the U.S. Marines.[4] According to Politico, one of the company's clients was the Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands, chaired by David Dreier. The commission's stated goals are to "drive innovative thought and action that strengthens the free flow of goods, services, capital, information, ideas, and people throughout the greater Pacific; and leverages that flow to promote broad-based economic opportunity."[5]
Lindsey Graham presidential campaign, 2016
On January 29, 2015, Lindsey Graham formed Security Through Strength, a "testing the waters" committee that could underwrite his activities while gauging interest in a presidential run.[6] Rachael Leman joined the committee in April 2015 as the director of policy.[7] Graham announced his presidential campaign on June 1, 2015, and Leman transitioned from Security Through Strength to the same role in Graham's campaign.[1][8] Graham withdrew from the race on December 21, 2015, after finding it difficult to win a significant level of support. On the day he dropped out, Real Clear Politics listed Graham with a national polling average of 0.5 percent.[9]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 P2016, "Lindsey Graham 2016," accessed June 9, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Struglinski, S. & Young, S. (2013). The Almanac of the Unelected, 2013: Staff of the U.S. Congress. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press. (page 267)
- ↑ Sunnylands, "About," accessed June 9, 2015
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Politico, "Scooplet ... Leman exiting Rules to launch firm - Cairncross joins fellow former RNC chief counsels - Tech startups launch immigration campaign - Kasowitz hires Riddle, opens D.C. lobby shop," June 12, 2013
- ↑ Sunnylands, "Dreier Commission," accessed June 9, 2015
- ↑ USA Today, "Lindsey Graham takes step toward presidential campaign," January 29, 2015
- ↑ Pushback.us, "Florida's Family Feud," April 20, 2015
- ↑ Time, "Watch Lindsey Graham Announce His Presidential Bid," June 1, 2015
- ↑ Real Clear Politics, "Polls: 2016 Republican Presidential Nomination," accessed December 21, 2015
