Doug Bailey

Doug Bailey is an American political consultant and founder of The Hotline, a bipartisan, daily, online briefing on American politics.^[1]

From 1968 to 1987, Bailey was President of Bailey Deardourff and Associates, among the first national political consulting firms. He worked for Republican candidates for Governor, Senate and president including: President Gerald Ford; senators Edward Brooke, Kit Bond, John Danforth, Charles Percy, Richard Schweiker, John Chafee, Richard Lugar, Robert Stafford, Howard Baker; governors Thomas Kean, William Milliken, Jim Rhodes, Otis R. Bowen, James R. Thompson, Lamar Alexander, Kit Bond, Richard Snelling, William T. Cahill, Richard Thornburgh, Jim Rhodes, Robert Ray, Al Quie, Pete DuPont.^{[citation needed]}

Since he left day-to-day operations at The Hotline, which he began in 1987, Bailey has been involved in numerous philanthropic activities. Most recently, he was one of the four co-founders of the political reform movement Unity08. He was seeking to start a new centrist party for the 2008 presidential election to try to unite the country. He appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his cause. He founded Freedom's Answer, a non-partisan voter turnout effort, with former Clinton Press Secretary Mike McCurry. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

In 1994, Bailey joined Jeffrey Pollack in a venture to start a daily briefing for the sports world called the Sports Business Daily. This venture originally occupied three rooms in the same building as The Hotline, and was sold in 1996.^[2]

In January 2008, Bailey and fellow Unity08 co-founder Gerald Rafshoon left that organization to launch a national effort to draft New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for president as an independent candidate.^[3]

Bailey has an A.B. Colgate University, 1954 and a M.A., M.A.L.D., Ph.D, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts 1957-1962.

References

1. ^ "On Transparency In Political Consulting". http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/02/on_transparency.html. Retrieved 2006-12-20. 
2. ^ "From The Founder: Pollack Talks About The Early Days Of The Daily". Interview with Jeffrey Pollack. SportsBusinessDaily. 2004-09-13. http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/article/88125. Retrieved 2009-05-26. 
3. ^ Benjamin, Elizabeth (2008-01-10). "Unity08 Scales Back, Co-Founders Split For Draft Bloomberg Committee". NYDailyNews.com. http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2008/01/unity08-scales-back-cofounders.html. Retrieved 2008-01-12. 

External links

• An interview with Bailey on the subject of Ralph Reed and the consulting business
• "What I've Learned: Doug Bailey" "A political guru on the problem with campaign consultants, why people are getting fed up with both parties, and why big changes are on the way" by Ken Adelman, The Washingtonian, November 1, 2006.
• A profile in the Atlantic on Bailey's involvement in Unity08
• Washington Post interview with Bailey

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