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NH Primary Source: Sanders NH campaign makes new round of senior staff hires
May 30, 2019
John DiStaso
Political Reporter
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire campaign is growing its staff with the hiring of a political director and five outreach and field coordinators and directors.
Will Bateson is the campaign’s political director. A nine-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps reserve, Bateson was most recently a constituent services coordinator in Sen. Maggie Hassan’s Nashua Senate office and previously worked as an assistant to Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess. He also managed Dan Week’s Executive Council campaign in 2016.
Veteran Sanders supporter and progressive activist Mo Baxley has been named political outreach coordinator. A leader in the LGBT and progressive communities for many years, Baxley was one of the leaders of the successful effort to bring marriage equality to New Hampshire. The 10th anniversary of marriage equality in the Granite State is Monday, by the way. A former state legislator, Baxley was recently Second Vice Chair of the state Democratic Party.
Also named to a political outreach coordinator post was Suraj Budathoki, a co-founder and former executive director of Building Community in New Hampshire, a nonprofit serving refugee and immigrant populations. A former refugee from Bhutan, where he founded the International Campaign for Human Rights in that nation, he is a member of the Conduct Board for the city of Manchester and New Hampshire delegate for the U.S. Refugee Congress.
Sean Ward, the campaign’s field director, has organized elective and union campaigns in seven states and was the Sanders 2016 campaign regional field director in New Hampshire’s North Country. Caty Wagner, deputy field director, was a regional organizing director in California for the grassroots group NextGen America. She focused on immigrant rights and environmental issues. A former social worker, Wagner previously worked in Haiti, Uganda and Colombia on issues of poverty, trafficking and human rights, the campaign said.
Michael Ortiz, deputy field director, was in leadership roles on campaigns Cook County, Illinois and in 2016 was a field organizerin Iowa and a regional field director in Illinois for the Sanders campaign.
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