CAMPAIGN AND REFERENDA EXPERIENCE

 

If you represent an individual considering a candidacy for public office or need strategic direction for influencing public opinion on a referendum,  you will need good advice from seasoned professionals in a variety of areas before during and after the campaign.

 

Grandone Public Relations provides confidential strategic counsel to candidates and community leaders that will help their campaign prevail.

 

The following list represents select matters in which the principals of Grandone Public Relations and its associates have led or participated in at the local, state and national levels.

 

1976        Carter-Mondale Campaign – staff assigned to southern Illinois headquarters (WON)

1980    Democratic National Convention – volunteer assigned to assist presidential staff (WON NOMINATION)

1982    Stephens for Congress, Illinois 18th Congressional District – primary election     campaign manager (WON NOMINATION)

1982        Stephens for Congress – general election – press secretary (LOST TO CONGRESSMAN BOB MICHEL)

1984    Roy Blunt for Secretary of State, Coro Fellow assigned to campaign (WON)   

1985    Coalition for the Incorporation of Chesterfield, Mo. – campaign manager  (WON)

1986    Hayner Public Library Tax Referendum – Alton, Ill. –campaign manager (WON)

1995    Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission – Assisted Leadership Council Southwestern Illinois in the defense of Scott Air Force Base and the Army’s Charles Melvin Price Support Center (WON)

1996    McHenry County, Ill., Fox River Bridge referendum (WON)

1998    Proposition M (Madison County Illinois) campaign manager (LOST)

 

 “There’s no such thing as a campaign you can’t lose. And there’s very few you can’t win.”

Former U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton 2005

 

Jim Grandone

Grandone Public Relations

grandone@charter.net

(618) 692-1892