draftwesleyclark

Who We Are

Since it launched, DraftWesleyClark.com has spurred tens of thousands of letters to General Clark, urging him to run for president. It has gained national and international media coverage on TV (CBS, NBC, CNN), in print, online, and on radio. And it has helped to launch local Clark chapters ("MeetUps") in over 100 cities across America. As hard as we have worked, however, we believe the real credit for the explosion of this movement belongs to General Clark himself -- who has shown himself to be a powerfully compelling alternative to the current roster of candidates.

We are not affiliated with Wesley Clark -- we are just impressed by his solid record of leadership and achievement. Former supreme commander of NATO. First in his class at West Point. Vietnam combat veteran. A Rhodes Scholar. A necessary voice of common sense and moderation on the foreign policy front. We like what we see -- and we want to see more.

About the DraftWesleyClark.com Leadership

John Hlinko is president of the political consulting firm Extreme Campaigns, and a veteran of a range of grassroots efforts. Throughout his career, Hlinko has been particularly active on the grassroots marketing front, and has been covered by CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, Wired, Salon.com, and NPR, and quoted in the books "Power Public Relations" and "Getting Your 15 Minutes of Fame and More." In 1998, he helped lead MoveOn.org, an anti-impeachment petition that generated over half a million signatures and several million dollars in donations. Hlinko has received awards for his work and been a judge for the "Pollie" Awards for political advertising. He has spoken extensively on the subject of grassroots campaigns, in front of audiences ranging from a small classroom to national TV.

Hlinko holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MA in public policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Josh Margulies has been involved in government and politics for more than a dozen years, serving as the Senior Investigator to a prominent New York State Senator’s Committee on Investigations, Taxation and Government Operations, before leaving to become Executive Director of a not-for-profit company dedicated to revitalization of urban business districts. Margulies ran for Mayor of his hometown (Utica, NY) at the age of 24, and then created and ran a publishing company focused on New York State government and politics. He has been published in periodicals as disparate as New York Newsday and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, and has been the host of a daily public affairs radio show. He now lives with his wife, the former Elizabeth Hlinko, in New York City, where he practices law.

Margulies received his BA from Columbia University and his Master’s in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He also holds a law degree from Syracuse University, where he was named one of two “graduate scholars.”

David Wallace has spent more than a decade working in the trenches of Washington journalism and public affairs.

Wallace began his career with the MacNeil/Leher NewsHour, where he acted as field producer covering events at a range of venues, including Capitol Hill, the State Department, and the White House. Wallace has also worked with the Olympic News Agency, where he coordinated multiple news crews in coverage of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing. He has also headed media relations for one of the nation’s leading public-policy think tanks, the American Enterprise Institute.

Wallace holds a BA in international relations from Michigan State University.

Maya Israel has worked in media relations in a variety of capacities. At present, she serves as co- director of Locus Media, Inc.-- New York City’s vanguard art gallery and performance space—while working as an Account Executive for Quality Noise, Inc., a boutique public relations firm specializing in arts- related projects, through which she draws attention from television, radio and print outlets throughout the country for her clients. Ms. Israel has produced film and television programs for FistfulofPixels, Inc., a company she co-founded with her husband, and has worked as an actress on stage, television and film (appearing in productions at Lincoln Center, on television’s Law & Order and Third Watch, as well as in a number of independent films). Ms. Israel has also organized numerous charity-related events for organizations such as Gods Love We Deliver, The New York Foundling Hospital and for other matters of social conscience.

Georgia Sullivan brings over 15 years of nonprofit fundraising experience to the Draft Wesley Clark movement. She's worked on fundraising initiatives ranging from $75,000 to $1.5 billion. She was a major gifts officer at Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced
International Studies, and has been Director of Development at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and currently the National Cathedral School. She recieved her B.A. from Union College in political science, and is near completion of a M.A. at Johns Hopkins (if she could only find a few more hours in the day).

Eric Carbone is Executive Producer of the DraftWesleyClark.com website. He brings over 8 years of internet and entrepreneurial experience to the Draft Clark movement, having co-founded two internet start-ups.

As co-founder and Executive Producer of Real Fans Sports Network, Carbone built Real Fans into a sports destination site with a focus on "sports from the fans’ perspective." The award-winning company was acquired by America Online in 1997, where Carbone continued to work on interactive programming projects and new products such as AOLTV.

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