…is very familiar with the US Senate campaign. He is Jordan Kaplan. His title is National Finance Director. In a press release issued today from the campaign of the Illinois Democratic nominee…Kaplan’s resume is listed this way:<\/p>\n
“Kaplan, a Joliet, Illinois native, joins Alexi for Illinois from the New Partners Consulting firm. Kaplan played a pivotal role on President Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign, continued to work for him through his national PAC Hopefund <\/em>and went on to serve as the Illinois Finance Director at Obama for America in 2008.”<\/em><\/p>\n Not mentioned in the release is that this is a return engagement for Kaplan . Campaign advisor Kathleen Strand confirms Kaplan worked for Giannoulias’ campaign early on…after he announced an exploratory committee for a possible senate bid.<\/p>\n With Kaplan’s assistance…Giannoulias raised a $1.1-million dollars in just the first 28-days.<\/p>\n Kaplan and the Giannoulias campaign have to play a bit of campaign-cash-catch-up. According to the Center of Responsive Politics…as of January 13th…Giannoulias had $963,000 cash on-hand. His Republican opponent…Mark Kirk…had over three-times as much…with nearly $3.2-million in ready cash. …is very familiar with the US Senate campaign. He is Jordan Kaplan. His title is National Finance Director. In a press release issued today from the campaign of the Illinois Democratic nominee…Kaplan’s resume is listed this way: “Kaplan, a Joliet, Illinois native, joins Alexi for Illinois from the New Partners Consulting firm. Kaplan played a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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