James Perry 2010 - Mayor for a City that Works

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DATE:  October 20, 2009

James Perry Assembles Formidable Campaign Team

NEW ORLEANS – Today, James Perry for Mayor announced the final piece to his already formidable campaign team with the hiring of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research who will serve as pollster.

“The upcoming Mayoral election is without a doubt the most important election in our lifetime and one that won’t be as much about the ‘what’ as it will be about the ‘who’”, said Alex Morgan, Campaign Director for James Perry for Mayor.  “Everyone agrees we must make our city safer, more livable and prosperous, but the question will be who can move our city forward and actually deliver the fundamental change we are promised year after year, candidate after candidate and campaign after campaign.  We will run an aggressive cutting edge and issue-based campaign.  We will be successful because this campaign will be about whose ideas, experience and background demonstrate they can do more than promise change but deliver it,” said Morgan. “James Perry represents the future of the New Orleans, not its past.”

Perry  Campaign Team
Alex Morgan, Campaign Manager. Alex Morgan will manage James Perry’s campaign for Mayor.  He recently managed a $5 million dollar statewide campaign in 2008.  Taking over a ballot initiative campaign that was polling in the low 40’s, Morgan assembled a broad statewide coalition that delivered a margin of victory of almost 20 points after the issue had been narrowly defeated twenty-two straight times.  Prior to that victory Morgan managed one of the biggest upsets in New Orleans political history in 2006 when he took a first-time Democratic candidate, Shelley Midura,  to victory over a well funded Republican incumbent in a district that had been held by a Republican for almost thirty years.  In 2003 and 2004 Morgan worked on the Presidential primary campaign of Gen. Wes Clark as a statewide field director and for Democratic Presidential nominee Senator John Kerry as a LCV regional field director as well as Deputy Campaign Manager for one of the top tier Congressional campaigns of the 2004 cycle.

Michael Beychok, General Consultant and Direct Mail. Beychok is the senior partner at Ourso Beychok Johnson, a Louisiana based political consulting and direct mail firm. In business for nearly 15 years, OBJ has served as a direct mail firm and strategic consultant for municipal, legislative and federal campaigns throughout the country.  Most recently, they worked for the winning campaigns for Congressmen Charlie Melancon (LA 03), Bobby Bright (AL 03), Heath Shuler (NC 11), Mike Michaud (ME 02) Don Cazayoux (LA 06) and Travis Childers (MS 01) as well as legislative caucuses in Maine and North Carolina. They may be remembered in New Orleans for advising Councilmember Shelly Midura in her upset victory over Jay Batt in 2006.  Michael Beychok is the senior partner in the firm and has been working on campaigns for over 30 years.

John Rowley, Media Consultant. Rowley is President of Fletcher Rowley Riddle.  His firm has won campaigns in 40 states including a number of statewide, congressional and local races in Louisiana. The firm has also won a number of upset races in statewide, congressional and local races.  Rowley’s work has been featured on almost every national media outlet including CNN, NPR, USA Today, PBS, and MSNBC and in print in the New York Times, the Washington Post and in Politics magazine.  His firm has won 22 Pollie Awards for creativity and use of humor in political commercials.  The firm has offices in Nashville, TN and Washington DC.

Michael Bocian, Pollster. Bocian is a Principal at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, whose partners and analysts have more than 25 years of experience advising U.S. political candidates and elected officials around the world. They have advised a broad range of political candidates and elected officials, including President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and South African President Nelson Mandela. GQR, who has a successful track record with first-time candidates, has clients including Mayor Richard Daley (Chicago); former mayor Anthony Williams (Washington, DC), U.S. Senator Tom Udall (NM); U.S. Congresswoman Betty Sutton (OH-13), Congressmen Bart Stupak (MI-1), Mike Arcuri (NY-24), Martin Heinrich (NM-1), Ben Ray Lujan (NM-3) and Paul Kanjorski (PA-11); Lt. Gov. Diane Denish (NM); and State Treasurers Alexi Giannoulias (IL) and Frank Capra (RI). The firm is has worked locally for both U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu as well as Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu and is based out of Washington, DC with offices in Seattle, London and Buenos Aires.

James Perry has the executive experience to navigate city hall and the courage to fix what needs to be fixed. He has a record of building coalitions, building organizations, and making a real difference in people’s lives, whether it’s helping homeowners, fighting discrimination or standing up to politicians and exposing corruption.