The Staff

About the DraftWesleyClark.com Leadership

John Hlinko 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 grassoots  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
 

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

 

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

David 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. David 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.

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

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