March 06, 2008
Fiorina, Donatelli To Join RNC, Raise Cash For McCain
As the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain revs up, the Republican National Committee is poised to announce two key additions to help bolster the nominee and other candidates this fall: Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard and Frank Donatelli, a lobbyist and ex White House political director under President Ronald Reagan, will join the RNC Victory fund and work closely with the McCain campaign.
Fiorina will oversee the RNC Victory fund, the entity that historically has raised money to do voter turnout and party building activities to support the party’s presidential nominee and other GOP candidates nationwide. Sources say that Fiorina, who has appeared at various events with McCain’s top advisors in recent weeks, will focus on fundraising and surrogate work in her new role.
Fiorina’s tenure at Hewlett Packard ended abruptly in early 2005 when she was ousted in the wake of the controversial takeover of Compaq Computer in 2001 which she helped engineer. Meanwhile, Donatelli who is now a lobbyist with McGuire Woods, will be getting a big job in the political arena with the RNC Victory fund, where he also will serve as a liaison with the McCain campaign.
(National Journal's Peter Stone)
Posted at 11:43 PM
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