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The Messina Group
JIM MESSINA

Jim Messina – President and CEO

The mastermind behind President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, Jim Messina seized the reins on what Bloomberg Businessweek dubbed “the highest-wattage crash course in executive management ever undertaken”—and succeeded, earning the President another term in the White House. With the guidance of technology’s foremost leaders, Messina abandoned every step of a traditional presidential campaign and merged technology and politics in a way that was both unpredictable and unprecedented. Messina’s strategies established the modern presidential campaign—Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt called it “the best-run campaign ever.”

The American Association of Political Consultants later crowned him the Campaign Strategist of the Year.

In January 2013, the Obama administration announced the launch of Organizing for Action, a new advocacy organization that will promote President Obama’s policies, with Jim Messina as national chair. That same year, Messina became Co-Chair of Priorities USA, the Super Pac backing Hillary Clinton’s campaign for President.

In 2013, Messina also launched The Messina Group. In this role, Messina provides strategic consulting to political campaigns, advocacy organizations and businesses. In this capacity, Messina served as senior advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron’s surprising 2015 electoral victory, which handed him an unforeseen majority. The Messina Group has offices in Washington, DC, New York, London and San Francisco and advises numerous entities, including Uber and Airbnb.
Jim Messina served as Deputy Chief of Staff to President Barack H. Obama from 2009 to 2011, where he was integral to the passage of the landmark health care and economic stimulus bills, in addition to serving as the campaign manager for Obama’s successful 2012 re-election campaign. He previously served as Director of Personnel for the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition and as national chief of staff for Obama for America in 2008.

Messina joined the Obama campaign from the office of U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), where he was chief of staff. He previously held the same position for U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY).

He is a proud graduate of the University of Montana and sits on the boards of HyperLoop Technologies, LanzaTech, Vectra Networks, Privacy.com, and the United States Soccer Foundation. He also serves on the advisory boards of Beepi, Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects Group, Opower, and the Montana Land Reliance.
http://themessinagroup.com/team/jim-messina/
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2015 Bilderberg Conference in Austria
Topics for discussion this year include artificial intelligence, cyber security, Greece, Iran, and the US elections.

Attendees List:
http://www.businessinsider.com/list-of-ceos-and-politicians-invited-to-2015-bilderberg-conference-in-austria-2015-6?r=UK&IR=T

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The Democrats' would-be Karl Rove
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/meet-jim-messina-103829

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He’s grabbing clients around the world, some of whom seem at odds with one another. And he’s grabbing cash, in the form of speeches at roughly $50,000 a pop to corporate special interests like the American Petroleum Institute and foreign groups like the government of the United Arab Emirate of Sharjah whose positions don’t always jibe with liberal or democratic ideals.

Messina’s allies cast him as a reluctant participant in the new big-money political world and argue he’s taking a leadership role only because it’s important for someone with wide experience and respect to help prepare the party for a potentially tricky post-Obama transition.

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Pro-Clinton PAC moves in with Messina
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/priorities-usa-jim-messina-hillary-clinton-102804


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1. Panama Papers - Argentine President Mauricio Macri has hired expert Jim Messina,

Argentine President Hired Obama's Former Public Image Advisor

Buenos Aires, Apr 6 (Prensa Latina) In response to strong pressures for unpopular policies and hit by the effects of the recent Panama Papers, Argentine President Mauricio Macri has hired expert Jim Messina, President Barack Obama's former public image advisor.

Veinte y Tres magazine reports that Messina is a stranger in Argentina but has a successful career as a consultant, which includes leading Obama's political campaign in 2012 when he won the reelection.

One of the main cornerstones of the campaign was the use of social networks and information posted by users in different platforms to know the preferences of voters, the article reveals.

On Wednesday 30th, a representative of the Messina Group, vice-president Brennan Bilberry met with Chief of Staff Marcos Peña and Public Communication secretary Jorge Grecco, the article goes on.

Messina, who was the architect of Obama's reelection in 2012, is regarded as one of the greatest strategists in public and communications issues worldwide.

Currently, the Messina Group advises clients from several countries and a variety of fields that include energy, security, telecommunications, entertainment, health assistance and sports, and now will advise President Macri.

He comes at the right time, when President Macri is going through a difficult period after the revelations that he led a ghost company based in Bahamas and is the vice-president of another company in Panama.

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http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4763341&Itemid=1

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2. you got "that" right...

Watts up? Have ya seen any Black Energy? In the 60's we called IT BLACK POWER!

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3. Got what right? n/t

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4. What a shame a man/organization working for Pres. Obama has chosen to sell his talents to a fascist.

Doesn't speak well for Obama if he recommended his own PR advisor to someone like Mauricio Macri, who openly acknowledges he supports the people who operated the monstrous military dictatorship which tortured and murdered 30,000 suspected leftists.

No matter how many "mistakes" the US has committed in wartime, over the years, there really is no way to feel comfortable about a US-supported dictatorship which threw living people out of airplanes and helicopters as a way of hiding their bodies in the ocean or deep rivers.

Messina has taken a deeply unethical step in working for a fascist. Would have expected so much better from these people.

Thanks for finding this completely important information. We need to know.

P.S. Hope having the Messina group still won't save Macri's unworthy hide, in the end.

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5. Doesn't speak well of Hillary either

He's running her campaign now.

As for Obama, I find myself completely baffled and so disappointed by many of his choices.