OFA Veterans Notice: Veterans Campaign
Veterans Campaign is the first ever non-partisan, non-ideological training program aimed exclusively at preparing veterans to run for public office. The goal is to demystify the process of campaigning for elected office and to encourage more veterans to continue their legacy of public service by running. Participants will learn the skills necessary to campaign for office at all levels of government. Topics covered will include organizing a campaign, issue development, fundraising, public and media relations, getting out the vote, and much more. Veterans Campaign will host its inaugural training on the weekend of September 12 and 13, 2009 in Princeton, NJ.
If you are a veteran of the United States Armed Forces and are interested in running for elected office, we hope you will consider attending our training. Thanks to a generous donation from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, we are pleased to offer this seminar free of charge to fifty participants. Travel, meals, and lodging are participants’ only financial obligations and assistance packages can be provided in exceptional circumstances. If you know veterans who would make great elected officials, we hope you will tell them about Veterans Campaign.
If you have questions, please contact Seth Lynn at seth@veteranscampaign.org.
Who We Are
At Veterans Campaign we believe that our country’s veterans are a valuable yet untapped resource of potential elected leadership. Veterans possess many qualities our country needs in its public officials. They have outstanding leadership experience, are capable of succeeding in the face of adversity, and intimately understand the human consequences of Washington’s foreign policy decisions. Most importantly, they have demonstrated their willingness to put America and its citizens before their own well-being. Today more than ever, our country needs more veterans in public office.
Veterans Campaign was initiated by a group of graduate students at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, with the support of two visiting faculty members who had formerly been members of Congress. Some of the members have military experience, while others have staffed and managed political campaigns. Members hold different ideological and partisan beliefs, but all share the conviction that having more veterans in public office will benefit the United States. To that end, Veterans Campaign is committed to training veterans to seek, campaign for, and win positions in elected office.