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Roger Lau
 Former campaign manager 2020 Warren presidential campaign 2020 presidential campaign staff | ||
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Roger Lau is the former campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) 2020 presidential campaign. Lau was the political director for Warren's 2012 Senate campaign, state director in her Senate office from 2013 until 2018, and campaign manager for her 2018 Senate campaign. He also worked on campaigns for Richard Neal (D-Mass.), Mike Capuano (D-Mass.), John Kerry (D-Mass.), Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), and Niki Tsongas (D-Mass.).
Career
Lau began his political career in 1998 as an intern in Sen. Kerry's office in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he later worked as press secretary until 2006. He was also a staffer on Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.[1][2] In 2006, Lau joined U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan's (D-Mass.) office as district director. He then managed Tsongas' 2007 special election campaign to fill the seat after Meehan's resignation.[2]
Lau was a state director for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. He managed Kerry's 2008 Senate campaign and became deputy state director in Kerry's office in 2009, a role he held at various times until 2012. Also in 2009, he served as chief of protocol for the U.S. Department of Commerce and managed Capuano's U.S. Senate primary campaign. In 2010, Lau managed Neal's congressional re-election campaign. He served as Neal's district director in 2012.[2]
In 2012, Lau joined Warren's U.S. Senate campaign as political director. After she was elected, he served as state director for her office. In 2018, he managed her re-election campaign.[2]
Lau graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a B.A. in political science in 2000.[2]
Elizabeth Warren 2020 presidential campaign
Campaign strategy
In a March 27, 2019, Medium post titled "How we’ll win," Lau stated the following:
| “ | We’re building a strong grassroots campaign grounded in organizing and person-to-person contact. ... We’re running the most tightly-integrated organizing, data, and technology operation at this stage of a primary, ever, and we have been since day one. In the early states, we already have more than 80 staffers on the ground building the field operation it will take to win. Elizabeth herself has already taken a dozen trips to the four early states, holding more than 30 public events. And she’s visited more of the Super Tuesday states than anyone else in the race. Her decision to forgo high-dollar events means she’s had the time to thank grassroots donors at pop-up events across the country and personally on the phone.[3][4] | ” |
Key staff members
The table below shows a sampling of the candidate's 2020 national campaign staff members, including the campaign manager and some senior advisors, political directors, communication directors, and field directors. It also includes each staff member's position in the campaign, previous work experience, and Twitter handle, where available.[5] For a larger list of national campaign staff, visit Democracy in Action.
| Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign national staff, 2020 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | Position | Prior experience | Twitter handle |
| Roger Lau | Campaign manager | Campaign manager, Elizabeth Warren for United States Senate, 2018 | @RogerLau |
| Tracey Lewis | Senior advisor for organizing | Deputy executive director and COO, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee | @lewtml |
| Hope Hall | Senior advisor for video and senior road videographer | Cinematographer, filmmaker, photographer | @hallhope |
| Jon Donenberg | Senior advisor and policy director | Chief counsel and legislative director, office of Elizabeth Warren | N/A |
| Kaaren Hinck | Senior advisor for planning | Scheduler, office of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse | N/A |
| Rebecca Pearcey | National political director | Campaign manager, Ted Strickland for United States Senate, 2016 | @itspearcey |
| Kristen Orthman | Communications director | Senior political advisor to Elizabeth Warren | @KristenOrthman |
| Gabrielle Farrell | Press secretary | Director of communications for the NHDP | @FarrellGabriell |
| Richard McDaniel | National organizing director | Field/political director, Doug Jones for United States Senate, 2017 | @MrRichMcDaniel |
Media
This section contains media coverage, interviews, and profiles of Lau.
Videos
Interviews and profiles
- CommonWealth Magazine, "The steady hand," January 1, 2019
- Sampan, "Roger Lau speaks up for all Americans as Sen. Warren’s chief of staff," May 27, 2016
See also
- Sample Ballot Lookup
- Elizabeth Warren
- Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign, 2020
- Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign staff, 2020
- Presidential candidates, 2020
- Presidential campaign managers, 2020
- Richard Neal
- Mike Capuano
- John Kerry
- Hillary Clinton
- Niki Tsongas
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ CNNPolitics, "Elizabeth Warren taps Roger Lau as campaign manager," February 13, 2019
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Democracy in Action, "Warren for President," accessed August 22, 2019
- ↑ Medium, "How we’ll win," March 27, 2019
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Democracy in Action, "Organization," accessed November 4, 2019
