Mayor Bill Purcell Mayor Bill Purcell served as the fifth mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, elected first in 1999 and reelected to a second term in 2003 with a record setting 84.8 percent of the vote. Purcell served un ...

Maralee Schwartz Maralee Schwartz has spent her entire professional career at The Washington Post, largely as a political reporter and political editor and more recently as a Financial Page editor. As national political editor, Schwartz led an award-winni ...

Jim Baker Jim Baker has worked on numerous national security matters during his career. A former federal prosecutor, he has worked on all aspects of national security investigations and prosecutions, including in particular the Foreign Intelligence Survei ...

Carl Cannon Carl Cannon is White House correspondent for National Journal, Washington's authoritative, non-partisan weekly journal on politics and government. Before joining the magazine in 1998, Cannon worked for six newspapers over a 20-year span. ...

Jim Flug Jim Flug who for the past three years served as Senator Edward Kennedy's Chief Counsel, was first exposed to politics as News Director of Harvard's radio station almost 50 years ago. Flug oversaw WHRB's 1958 Congressional election ...

Preeta Bransal Preeta Bansal is the former Solicitor General of the State of New York, a position she held during the first three years of Attorney General's Eliot Spitzer's administration. As Solicitor General, she helped supervise a staff of s ...

Theresa Amato Theresa Amato is the president of Citizen Works, a Washington, D.C.-based, Ralph Nader-founded, nonprofit organization that advances justice by strengthening public participation in power. Amato is also the founder and president of the Citiz ...

Sile De Valera Sile De Valera was the youngest member elected to the Irish Parliament in 1977, representing the Fianna Fáil party. In 1979, she was once again the youngest member to be elected to the European Parliament. During her time in Europe she was ...

Bella Abzug Bella S. Abzug A lawyer for more than thirty years, a member of the United States Congress for six years and a Presidential Advisor for two years, Bella S. Abzug was the first woman in history to run for the U.S. Senate from New York and the M ...

Bruce Adams Bruce Adams is currently the Director of Issue Development with Common Cause in Washington, D.C. Prior to becoming the director, Adams served as Associate Director of Issue Development from 1976-1977, State Issues Coordinator from 1975-1976 an ...