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...4. The PAC will be chaired by a pair of GOP heavy hitters - William Strong, a Morgan Stanley vice chairman who was a top donor to George W. Bush and John McCain, and former Minnesota Rep. Vin Weber, who advised Romney in 2008. But the...

In this article: Tim Pawlenty, Washington, GOP, Mitt Romney, Minnesota, Republican National Committee, Morgan Stanley, John McCain, and Vin Weber

...of RNC regional director James Tobin, who was convicted for his role in the case. Maddow went on to describe how Nelson then left the RNC to beoame a media consultant, hired an advisor to the Swiftboat Veterans, and was behind the...

In this article: Tim Pawlenty, Rachel Maddow, Terry Nelson, Harold Ford, Republican National Committee, and John Sununu

...group know whom to help? According to the indictment, a DeLay associate provided Terry Nelson, the Republican official who received the check, with a list of candidates to support and the amounts they were to receive. Why go to all this...

In this article: Tom DeLay, Texas Legislature, Zach Wamp, Texas, George W. Bush, Mike Castle, Hurricane Katrina, and Medicare

...former supporters. Pawlenty, who previously has had little political infrastructure, is now being advised by a trio of GOP consultants with presidential experience: Terry Nelson, Sara Taylor and Phil Musser. And in formally opening...

In this article: Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Minnesota, Vin Weber, John McCain, Terry Nelson, and White House

...is entirely different. "It is harder to inspire action on policy issues than it is in a campaign," said Terry Nelson, a senior GOP official who managed part of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign in 2007. "Generally, fewer people are...

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...should he decide to run again. "Having run before for president puts you in a better place to run to run again," said Terry Nelson, a top GOP strategist and for a time John McCain's 2008 campaign manager. "He doesn't have to build an...

In this article: Mitt Romney, GOP, John McCain, Ed Gillespie, Barack Obama, Washington, and Terry Nelson

...here, because he has been lagging in New Hampshire. "If Huckabee wins, the results will confuse the Republican nomination, rather than clarify it," said GOP strategist Terry Nelson. Both the Democratic and Republican races could go to...

In this article: Iowa, Mike Huckabee, Hillary Clinton, New Hampshire, Barack Obama, GOP, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and John McCain

...and state directors. The only hitch? Nelson was spending money faster than McCain--whose full-throated support for comprehensive immigration reform had enraged the Republican base--could raise it. By July of last year, the campaign had...

In this article: John McCain, John Weaver, Rick Davis, Terry Nelson, George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Harold Ford, and Barack Obama

"The Republican Party kind of stared death in the face and said if we don't figure out how to do better, we're going to lose," said Terry Nelson, the RNC's deputy chief of staff in 2002 and the Bush campaign's political director in 2004.

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