July 18, 2007 06:39 PM UTC

Paccione Announces Campaign Team

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• by: Colorado Pols

According to a press release:

Angie Paccione’s 2008 congressional campaign has begun to take shape with the announcement that three key consulting firms have signed on.  Welchert & Britz, Inc will be the campaign’s general management consultants.  The Feldman Group has been hired for polling, research and strategy and Karen Petel of The Mack Crounse Group has agreed to craft the candidate’s direct mail.

Paccione seems to be doing a better job of organizing her campaign team this time around. Her 2006 campaign, led by Gary Chandler, didn’t have the kind of experience that Paccione probably needed.

Click below for the full press release…

Angie Paccione’s 2008 congressional campaign has begun to take shape with the announcement that three key consulting firms have signed on.  Welchert & Britz, Inc will be the campaign’s general management consultants.  The Feldman Group has been hired for polling, research and strategy and Karen Petel of The Mack Crounse Group has agreed to craft the candidate’s direct mail.

Angie Paccione declared these selections as, “my victory team.”  “In 2008 it’s not about running, it’s about winning and these people know how to win!” 

Steve Welchert and John Britz have had a successful Colorado based consulting firm since 1989.  They have worked for hundreds of candidates including Mike Feeley, Tom Strickland, Governor Roy Romer, Denver Mayor Federico Pena, Congressman Mark Udall and most recently Congressman Ed Perlmutter.  In addition to passing Amendment 37 for renewable energy, they also have substantial local connections having passed elections for school districts in Greeley, Lamar, Ault and Eaton as well as the Weld County Library District and the City of Evans among others.

Diane Feldman and The Feldman Group is a national political polling and strategic research firm.  Their work in Colorado includes polling for Congresswoman Diana DeGette, and helping to map a strategy to defeat Amendment 31 to preserve local control and parental choice in bilingual education.  Feldman also polled and conducted focus groups for the Kerry-Edwards campaign in Colorado in 2004.  In the 2006 election cycle, The Feldman Group helped elect four new Members of the House of Representatives and a new U.S. Senator and Governor in Ohio.  The company previously polled for Senator Paul Wellstone and also worked with Emily’s List in their efforts on behalf of Minnesota’s new Democratic Senator, and with the DSCC to help elect new Democratic Senators in Maryland, Montana and Rhode Island.

Karen Petel and the Mack-Crounse Group is credited with helping spearhead numerous Democratic congressional victories in 2006.  They were responsible for 40% of the Democratic pick-ups in 2006 and 60% of the National Journal’s top 20 House races including Heath Shuler in North Carolina, Jason Altmire in Pennsylvania and Harry Mitchell in Arizona.  In Colorado, they worked for the defeat of Amendment 39, helped elect Congressman Ed Perlmutter, and mobilized Members for the IAFF (Firefighters) and Colorado Communities for Quality Education.  Petel was formerly the Deputy National Political Director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and counts Emily’s List among her current clients.