Dal LaMagna

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name = Dal LaMagna


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website = [http://lamagnaforpresident.com/ Official campaign site]

Dal LaMagna is a liberal political activist and was a candidate running for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2008 Presidential election. He is on the board of directors of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute and "YES! Magazine". He is a founding partner of and a blogger at The Huffington Post and serves on the Dean’s Council for the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. [ [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dal-lamagna/ Dal LaMagna - Politics on The Huffington Post ] ]

He lives in Poulsbo, Washington and maintains a second home in Washington, D.C. He has two children: a daughter, 26, and a son, 18. [ [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dal-lamagna/ Dal LaMagna - Politics on The Huffington Post ] ]

Activism

LaMagna was the executive producer of three feature length documentaries: "The Ground Truth", "The War Tapes", and "Iraq For Sale". [ [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dal-lamagna/ Dal LaMagna - Politics on The Huffington Post ] ]

LaMagna founded the Progressive Government Institute (PGI), dedicated to ensuring accountability in the Executive Branch. [ [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dal-lamagna/ Dal LaMagna - Politics on The Huffington Post ] ]

In August 2006, LaMagna was part of a sixteen-person peace delegation that met with the Council of Representatives of Iraq, sheiks, and torture survivors. LaMagna also accompanied Congressman Jim McDermott on a similar peace mission. And in March 2008, LaMagna produced a live video conference between members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq and members of the United States Congress. [ [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dal-lamagna/ Dal LaMagna - Politics on The Huffington Post ] ]

Political career

LaMagna ran for the U.S. House twice in New York's 3rd congressional district in 1996 as the Democratic and Independence candidate [http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1996/96Stat.htm#32] , and in 2000 as the Democratic, Green Party and Working Families Party candidate [http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/2000/2000Stat.htm#32] . During the , LaMagna became a co-chairman of Senator Maria Cantwell’s (D-WA) re-election campaign after initially considering challenging her in the primary. [ [http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/archives/2006/07/the_man_behind_the_cantwellwilson_partnership.html The Seattle Times: Postman on Politics ] ]

On July 18, 2007, LaMagna announced that he was seeking the Democratic Party nomination in the 2008 Presidential election. LaMagna planned to run a one-state (New Hampshire) and one-issue (withdrawal from the Iraq War) campaign. [ [http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20070719&Category=REPOSITORY&ArtNo=707190327&Template=printart Concord Monitor - Tweezerman founder sets his sights on presidency ] ] After struggling to find any traction, LaMagna withdrew from the race in October 2007. [ [http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007710080360 Concord Monitor - Alas, Tweezerman campaign calls it quits ] ]

LaMagna finished the New Hampshire Democratic primary, 2008 with eight votes. [ [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2008/by_state/NH_Page_0108.html?SITE=NHCONELN&SECTION=POLITICS Concord Monitor Online - 2008 Elections ] ] He was tied for the twenty-seventh place with Duncan Hunter, a Republican candidate.

Business

LaMagna founded Tweezerman in 1980. He built it into a multi-national tool brand, but in so doing tried to practice responsible capitalism. He sold the company in 2004. [ [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dal-lamagna/ Dal LaMagna - Politics on The Huffington Post ] ]

Education

In his youth he attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn, the Cathedral Preparatory Seminary, and Saint Clare’s in the Rosedale section of Queens.

In 1971 he received his MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2002 he earned a Masters in public administration and received a Littauer Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. [ [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dal-lamagna/ Dal LaMagna - Politics on The Huffington Post ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.lamagnaforpresident.com LaMagna Campaign site]