Chad Thompson Email & Phone Number

Washington d.c. Metro Area

Serve as Senior Political Strategist at Five Corners Strategies. Design, manage and execute grassroots public affairs campaigns that navigate complex federal, state and local legislative, regulatory, land-use and ballot campaign issues.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

OVERVIEWThompson Public Strategies is a boutique, grassroots-political consulting firm that specializes in designing and implementing winning campaign strategies. With over nineteen years of political experience, working for the nation’s top political strategists and management consulting firms, Chad Thompson has successfully managed multiple corporate.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• OVERVIEWUsed an integrated approach to develop successful community outreach programs for clients to secure and expedite the entitlement process, build their respective projects and protect critical market share..
• Respected leader of the team serving the company as a Senior Project Manager.
• Developed and launched integrated, multi-faceted grassroots community outreach and external communications for multimillion-dollar companies.
• Wrote over Seventy-Five (75) site-specific Scope Reports and Political Threat Assessments for clients across multiple industries, each with unique political and land use challenges.
• Assumed a lead role in pitch team meetings’ presenting the scope, findings and campaign plans for client specific threats, which helped secure new accounts.
• Created concept and copy for newspaper ads, direct mail campaigns and collateral materials for diverse clients and projects.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• OVERVIEWDeveloped a strategic fundraising and campaign plan for six (6) contested Democratic State Senate campaigns in the 2002 election cycle and three (3) targeted campaigns in 1998. Supervised, hired and managed.
• Maintained 18 – 15 Democratic Majority in both 1998, 2002 and 2003.
• Organized a successful write-in campaign state senatorial candidate in last three weeks of election. Managed successful special election campaign for state senate candidate on tax day.
• Directed and implemented the state senate legislative redistricting project using geo-political targeting and GIS software to map and draw legislative districts.
• Served as Fundraising Consultant to Joint House/Senate Democratic Caucus fundraiser. Raised $350,000 - the most ever raised at this annual event. Exceeded fundraising targets by 20 percent

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• OVERVIEWActed as political liaison to the Gore campaign on all activities in several states. Advanced political events and rallies, prepared political briefings for Vice President Gore and Mrs. Gore’s official visits..
• Served as West Texas, North Carolina and East Tennessee Field Director.
• Served as assistant to Deputy Delegate Director. Coordinated twenty (20) convention watch parties.
• Organized 50,000 volunteer phone calls. Coordinated constituency group outreach conference calls with principals.
• Prepared demographic summaries on each states’ delegation to the Democratic National Convention for the National Field Director, Campaign Manager and Campaign Chairman.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Served as a direct assistant to Principal James Carville and the international political consulting firms of GGC/NOP-London and GCS-Israel.
• Helped with the management of several international political campaigns in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Honduras and Israel.
• Assumed a lead role and liaison between outside offices such as The White House, US Congress, and Cabinet Departments. Conducted opposition research. Scheduled media appearances with producers from major national and.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

OVERVIEWDeveloped a strategic fundraising and campaign plan for three (3) contested Democratic State Senate campaigns in the 1998 election cycle. Maintained 18-15 majority and won each contested race. Supervised, hired and managed research, mail, phone, polling and media consultants. Handled all media inquiries and communications. Worked with legal counsel.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• OVERVIEW Acted as spokesperson for the Congressman to local and national media. Coordinated all media inquiries. Wrote press releases, op-eds and newsletters. Coordinated paid print media for Town Hall meetings..
• Served as liaison to local police agencies helping them secure Grants from the Department of Justice.
• Tracked legislation, developed constituent response letters and assisted in casework.
• Implemented a media tracking and monitoring system that was utilized by entire legislative staff.
• Maintained a database of local, state and national and industry specific media outlets and contacts.

Crisis Management

Masters Of Political Management

Certificate Of Political Management, Graduate School Of Political Managemenr--Summer Scholars

Public Administration

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Political Science And Government