David Barnhart has joined the presidential campaign of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as Iowa caucus director. As a part of his duties, Barnhart will devise and implement the campaign’s get-out-the-caucus strategy.
“I am honored to be joining Senator Clinton’s Iowa campaign,” Barnhart said in a prepared statement. “She understand the change Iowans and Americans across the country need and she has the strength and experience to deliver.”
Barnhart has worked in politics for the past seven years. He served as the get-out-the-vote director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, leading the Democrats in gaining 31 new seats in the U.S. House in 2006. He was the field director for Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign in Missouri and, prior to that, was a regional field director for Kerry’s caucus campaign in Iowa. Barnhart is a princple at Dewey Square Group.
“I am thrilled to add David Barnhart to our team,” said Clinton. “David has had great success in Iowa in the past and he brings tremendous leadership and experience to our campaign.”
The position of caucus director for the Clinton campaign became open earlier this month when Angelique Pirozzi vacated the post. To date, neither the Clinton campaign nor Pirozzi has discussed exactly what transpired.
Pirozzi was announced as part of the staff on Feb. 15. She had worked on the Clinton/Gore campaign in New Hampshire in 1996 and served as deputy caucus director for Iowans for Gore. During the fall of 2000, she was tapped to direct the Democrats’ coordinated campaign in Wisconsin. She worked first as Sen. John Kerry’s caucus manager in Iowa and then as Get-Out-The-Vote director.
