I received this lovely note from Julia Alexander. Come attend (and be sure to RSVP) this Sunday. Everyone on the planet needs to meet Mike Signer. Everyone in Virginia should surely vote for him for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
Dear friends,
I hope you are doing well and savoring the first days of spring!
I would love for you to join me this Sunday for a fundraising brunch with my friend Mike Signer, the most exciting new candidate running for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia this year. I’m thrilled that Mike has transformed his next-generation, people-powered campaign into a two-person battle for the Democratic primary. Mike has already garnered national attention and is surging in the polls. Virginia is one of only two states holding elections this year, and this contest will be seen as an important referendum on Obama’s leadership.
I have been a friend of Mike’s since our days on the Tom Perriello campaign and have advised his campaign on economic policy. I would love to share my excitement with all of you and introduce you to Mike. This should be an engaging, intimate group with plenty of opportunity for questions and interaction.
Please join us:
An Afternoon with Mike Signer
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of VirginiaSunday, April 19th
12:00PM – 2:00PMHome of Stephen Bailey
3551 10th Street NW
Washington, DC 20010*Please RSVP to me: juliafa@gmail.com
*Guests are welcome. Please provide name of guest.
*Cocktails and refreshments provided
*Contribution Request: $125
*Contribution can be made via website: https://services.myngp.com/NGPOnlineServices/contribution.aspx?X=2a4IkPqxNiC/X5VrURM+515P1VL37qfaHere’s more about Mike:
http://mikesigner.comMike Signer, age 35, is former Deputy Counselor to Governor Mark Warner, a longtime Virginia Democratic strategist and operative, and a national security consultant. He also served as senior strategist in 2008 for Congressman Tom Perriello’s upset victory over Republican Congressman Virgil Goode in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. After he graduated from college, Mike interned at the Democratic National Committee, where the Democratic Party of Virginia first asked him to return to Virginia to help salvage a foundering get-out-the-vote program in Norfolk. Over the next decade, Mike went on to work in the trenches of Virginia Democratic politics throughout the Commonwealth—in Franklin, Charlottesville, Vienna, and Richmond, among others. Governor Mark Warner later appointed Mike Deputy Counselor in his Richmond office, where he worked on matters including capital punishment clemency appeals, National Guard and Reserve policy, and homeland security policy.
After Governor Warner’s term ended, Mike returned to Arlington and to private practice at WilmerHale. Along with his work and service in Virginia, Mike has been active in working to make our nation stronger and more secure. He served as Senator John Edwards’ foreign policy adviser on his 2008 presidential campaign and was later a national security consultant at the Center for American Progress. Mike is currently National Security Policy Fellow at the think tank Third Way and is a Principal of the Truman National Security Project. Mike’s first book, Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies, is about democracy and constitutionalism, and was published in February 2009.
Mike holds a Ph.D. in political science from U.C.-Berkeley; a J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was president of the UVA Law Democrats and co-founder and co-president of the American Constitution Society; and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Princeton University.
