BOP2008 | Interviews

Scott Harshbarger

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:32:01 -0700

Scott Harshbarger is a senior council at Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm. He was the president and CEO of Common Cause, a pro-reform 501(c)(4) organization from 1999 to 2002. Prior, he was a two-term attorney general of Massachusetts.

Bob Kerrey

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:19:00 -0700

Bob Kerrey, a Democrat, was a U.S. senator from Nebraska from 1989 to 2001. He was a candidate for his party’s presidential nomination in the 1992 election. Prior, Kerrey was governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987. Since 2001, he has been the president of The New School, a university in New York City.

Thad Hall

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:53:00 -0700

Thad Hall is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Utah and a research fellow at its Institute of Public and International Affairs. With R. Michael Alvarez, Hall wrote Electronic Elections: The Perils and Promises of Digital Democracy and runs a blog on election reform.

Richard Moe

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:19:01 -0700

Richard Moe is the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving historic places. Prior, he was the chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farm-Labor Party, administrative assistant to Senator Walter Mondale, and Mondale’s vice presidential chief of staff.

John Anderson

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:43:01 -0700

John B. Anderson, a 10-term Republican U.S. representative from Illinois, was a Republican presidential candidate in 1980. He received more than 6 million votes in that year’s general election as the National Unity Party nominee. Anderson is now a distinguished visiting professor of law at Nova Southeastern University.

Justin Levitt

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:46:00 -0700

Justin Levitt is a counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, a nonpartisan public policy and law institute that describes itself as focusing on “fundamental issues of democracy and justice.”

Bob Dornan

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:59:00 -0700

Robert K. Dornan, a Republican, was a U.S. representative from California from 1977 to 1983 and from 1985 to 1997. In 1996, he was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Dornan is currently a congressional liaison for the American Life League, a 501(c)(3) organization working to oppose abortion, contraception, and euthanasia.

Chuck Baldwin

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:55:00 -0700

Chuck Baldwin is the 2008 Constitution Party presidential nominee. Prior, he was the party’s 2004 vice presidential nominee and was state chairman of Florida Moral Majority. He is the founder and pastor of the Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida, and hosts a daily radio show Chuck Baldwin Live.

John McCain (2003 Interview)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:15:00 -0700

John McCain is a Republican U.S. senator from Arizona and the 2008 Republican presidential nominee-apparent. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination.

Mike Gravel

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:08:01 -0700

Mike Gravel was a 2008 candidate for the Democratic and, later, the Libertarian presidential nominations. Prior, he was a Democratic U.S. senator from Alaska from 1969 to 1981 and the speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1965 to 1966.