December 20, 2006

Nancy Jacobson Joins Team HRC

The architect of Sen. Evan Bayh’s presidential finance team, Nancy Jacobson, has found another buyer.

She’s joining the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton as a senior adviser and will work hand-in-hand with Clinton’s nat’l finance director, Jonathan Mantz. Jacobson’s deputy for Bayh, Stefanie Freeman, will become Clinton’s deputy finance director.

Jacobson is one the Democratic Party’s top fundraisers and relationship cultivators. She is a former finance director of the DNC. Two years ago, Bayh tasked her with building a self-sustaining fundraising organization that would allow him to opt-out of the federal public financing system.

She focused on finding new, upper middle class Democrats who became active in the party after the Clintons had left office. She recruited young entrepreneurs who appreciated Bayh’s tax-cutting resume as an Indiana governor.

Jacobson is married to Mark Penn, Clinton’s chief pollster. For years, there had been an informal firewall between the couple's private and professional lives. No longer.

The next big recruit from Bayh's world is Kory Mitchell, who handled the day-to-day affairs of Bayh's finance team. [MARC AMBINDER]

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