Jan 24, 2014 - Democrats, outside groups and Democratic campaigns to shape the party's ... including GOP primary debates
Brad Woodhouse Brad Woodhouse, a longtime national Democratic strategist, is President of Americans United for Change, one of the nation’s leading progressive issue advocacy organizations. Woodhouse returns to this position after a successful run as a senior strategist for the Obama campaign and Communications Director for the Democratic National Committee (DNC). As Communications Director at the DNC, Woodhouse worked with the White House, Congressional Democrats, outside groups and Democratic campaigns to shape the party’s message and political strategy. Woodhouse built a premier rapid response operation, overseeing a coordinated research and communications effort that harnessed every possible resource to advance the President’s agenda and the Democratic Party in the press and on the ground. Woodhouse served as a senior member of the President’s reelection team and as a strategist for Obama for America in 2012. Woodhouse coordinated the rapid response and bracketing operation between OFA, the DNC, state parties and Democratic advocacy groups throughout the primaries and general election. He also served as a regular surrogate for the campaign on television and radio and at key events during the election including GOP primary debates, the Democratic National Convention and the general election debates. Woodhouse previously served as a DNC Senior Adviser and surrogate for the Obama for America campaign during the 2008 general election. In his previous term at the helm of Americans United for Change, the organization worked on key initiatives including protecting Social Security from efforts to privatize the program, increasing the minimum wage, reforming the Medicare prescription drug program, reauthorizing and expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, improving the ability of workers to form unions, pushing for a safe and responsible end to the war in Iraq and passing President Obama’s economic recovery plan, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act . Before serving as President of that organization, Woodhouse served as Communications Director for Americans United and the national campaign that defeated President Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security in 2005. Woodhouse also served as an adviser to and spokesperson for then-U.S. Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ), and prior to that, he was Communications Director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee during the 2004 election cycle. Woodhouse has worked for a host of other elected officials, candidates and causes including former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles’ (D-NC) 2002 bid for U.S. Senate, former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt and former U.S. Representative Bob Etheridge (D-NC). He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, CBS News, CNBC, C-SPAN, National Public Radio, CBS radio, AP Radio and in the Washington Post, USA Today, the New York Times, Newsweek, the New York Times Magazine and numerous other newspapers, news magazines and radio and television news outlets. Woodhouse is based in Washington, D.C.
