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  Donna Brazile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Donna Brazile (born December 15, 1959) is an American author, educator, and political activist and strategist affiliated with the Democratic Party.
Brazile was born in New Orleans to Lionel and Jean Brazile, the third of nine children.
Brazile is also founder and managing director of Brazile and Associates (www.brazileassociates.com) and a contributor to NPR's Political Corner and ABC News.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donna_Brazile   (531 words)

  
 Academy of Leadership | Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile, a senior fellow at the Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland, was recently appointed as national chair of the Voting Rights Institute, the Democratic Party's major initiative to promote and protect the right to vote.
Brazile has served as chief of staff to Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia's delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, and as host/producer of "A View From the Hill" on Radio One News in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland.
Brazile is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the prestigious Congressional Black Caucus Youth Award, and the National Women's Student Leadership Award.
www.academy.umd.edu /aboutus/staff/DBrazile.htm   (326 words)

  
 Donna L. Brazile
Donna Brazile is Chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute (VRI) and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Donna Brazile fought her first political fight at age nine -- campaigning (successfully) for a city council candidate who promised a playground in her neighborhood.
Donna's witty style and innovative political strategies have garnered her the respect and admiration of colleagues and adversaries alike -- she is as comfortable trading quips with J. Watts as she is with her Democratic colleagues.
authors.aalbc.com /donnabrazile.htm   (749 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics by Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile fought her first political fight at age nine — campaigning (successfully) for a city council candidate who promised a playground in her neighborhood.
Donna grew up one of nine children in a working-poor family in New Orleans, a place where talking politics comes as naturally as stirring a pot of seafood gumbo — and where the two often go hand in hand.
Donna's witty style and innovative political strategies have garnered her the respect and admiration of colleagues and adversaries alike — she is as comfortable trading quips with J. Watts as she is with her Democratic colleagues.
www.powells.com /biblio?partner_id=28488&cgi=product&isbn=0743253981   (566 words)

  
 Gale Schools - Women's History Month - Biographies - Donna Brazile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Donna Brazile made political history in 2000 as the first fl woman to manage a major contender's presidential campaign.
Brazile was born near New Orleans, Louisiana in 1959, the third of nine children born to Lionel and Jean Brazile, who worked as a janitor and a maid, respectively.
Donna Brazile has devoted decades to public service in a variety of areas, from the civil rights movement to political campaigns, from teaching to public speaking.
www.galeschools.com /womens_history/bio/brazile_d.htm   (1477 words)

  
 Donna Brazile - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau
Brazile is also the author of Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics, a memoir about her life in the political arena, and co-author of What We Do Now, which was published by Melville House in 2004.
Brazile, a veteran Democratic political strategist, is the former Campaign Manager for Gore-Lieberman 2000 - the first African American to lead a major presidential campaign.
Donna Brazile is a weekly contributor and political commentator on CNN's Inside Politics and American Morning.
www.leadingauthorities.com /18767/Donna_Brazile.htm   (405 words)

  
 ::: Brazile & Associates :::
Donna Brazile is Founder and Managing Director of Brazile and Associates, LLC.
Brazile, Chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute (VRI) and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, is a senior political strategist and former Campaign Manager for Gore-Lieberman 2000 - the first African American to lead a major presidential campaign.
Brazile is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including Washingtonian Magazine's 100 Most Powerful Women in Washington, D.C. and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Award for Political Achievement.
www.brazileassociates.com /page.cfm?id=2   (620 words)

  
 DONNA BRAZILE / Stirring it up Brazile keeps faith in politics / Al Gore's former campaign manager is a sassy, savvy ...
Donna Brazile, Al Gore's campaign manager during the 2000 presidential campaign, showed some signs of cooling down on a recent hot Friday afternoon in San Francisco as she stretched her legs out on a bright red velour couch in the lobby of the Hotel Monaco.
Brazile paused and leaned her elbow on the podium before quipping, "I live to be on Bill Clinton's coattails." She said she envisioned bookstore appearances with "the first fl president (as Clinton has been metaphorically called)...
Brazile jokes now that the negative forces in 2000 started with the sharks in Florida "that kept coming out of the water biting people," and ended with Gore winning the popular vote (meaning Brazile had done her job) though he ultimately lost the election.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/04/LVGI87DNI61.DTL   (2028 words)

  
 Donna Brazile and the Politics of Personal Destruction - January 2000
Donna Brazile, Al Gore's presidential campaign manager, recently sought to breathe new life into the foundering campaign by playing the race card.
Brazile's actions were an example of the politics of personal destruction, made famous during President Clinton's impeachment when Democrats staged their media-friendly rally for Clinton in the White House Rose Garden just after his impeachment.
Brazile further stated that fls, women and others have made all types of gains during the Clinton and Gore Administration.
www.nationalcenter.org /NVMartinBrazile100.html   (791 words)

  
 National Press Club -- Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile, Democrat Al Gore’s campaign manager during his run for the presidency last year, is charismatic, ruthless, politically savvy, a veteran grassroots organizer, a loose cannon or a tenacious attack dog, depending on whether you talk to her fans or her critics.
The first African-American woman to head a major presidential campaign, Brazile has been enmeshed in politics since the age of nine, when she biked from door to door campaigning for a city council candidate who promised to build a playground in her Kenner, Louisiana, neighborhood.
Brazile, the founder and first executive director of the National Political Congress of Black Women, was born on December 15, 1959.
www.npr.org /programs/npc/2001/010502.dbrazile.html   (415 words)

  
 Students and Leaders: Donna Brazile
Brazile, who also served as Gore's National Political Director, was the Vice President's chief liaison to the nation's Democratic elected officials, party leaders, and grassroots advocacy organizations.
Brazile is a veteran campaign strategist and grassroots political consultant.
Brazile was a delegate to the 1996 and 2000 Democratic presidential conventions.
www.studentsandleaders.org /dc/speakers/donna_brazile.asp   (334 words)

  
 kingcountyjournal.com - Campaign Veteran Donna Brazile to speak in Seattle; woman known for `pit bull' style headed ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Brazile's admirers note she managed to get a record number of democrats to the polls and that Gore won the popular vote, even if he lost in the Electoral College.
She was born poor and fl in the segregated south, the daughter of a janitor and a maid.
Brazile began early, and at age 9 campaigned for a city council candidate who promised to build a playground in her neighborhood.
www.kingcountyjournal.com /sited/story/html/166684   (384 words)

  
 Cooking With Grease   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Donna Brazile fought her first political fight at age nine-campaigning (successfully) for a city council candidate who promised a playground in her neighborhood.
Donna grew up one of nine children in a working poor family in New Orleans, a place where talking politics comes as naturally as stirring a pot of seafood gumbo --and where the two often go hand in hand.
Donna's witty style and innovative political strategies have garnered her the respect and admiration of colleagues and adversaries alike-she is as comfortable trading quips with J.C. Watts as she is with her Democratic colleagues.
www.imdiversity.com /villages/african/arts_culture_media/cooking_grease0629.asp   (1055 words)

  
 SacObserver.com [GOVERNMENT] Brazile Says 'No' To Democratic Post   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Donna Brazile, a political strategist who ran Al Gore's presidential campaign in 2000, said she isn't interested in becoming the Democratic National Committee Chairman.
She started Brazile and Associates, a consulting firm whose mission is to empower grassroots advocates and train citizens to participate in the political process.
Born poor in New Orleans, Brazile became interested in politics at the age of 16, though she faced numerous incidents of racism and sexism even as she climbed the ranks of Democratic Party politics.
www.sacobserver.com /government/112204/brazile_no_dnc_chairman.shtml   (573 words)

  
 KSL News: Donna Brazile Speaks on Utah, National Politics
Donna Brazile, the first African American to lead a presidential campaign - the Gore-Lieberman race - and now a CNN commentator was the keynote speaker at a state Democratic luncheon today.
Brazile touched on every hot political topic in the country but she began by telling her audience that this was her first trip to the Beehive State.
Donna Brazile, Democratic National Committee: "The senators will ask questions about the administration's environmental policy, exactly what we're doin' now to protect the environment and in light of the flout last week, he may be asked some questions on our energy policy as well and what's happenin' out west."
tv.ksl.com /index.php?nid=5&sid=43755   (438 words)

  
 index magazine interview
DONNA: The good news is that Al Gore cured me. Imagine being on a roller coaster for twenty years, working on campaigns in more than thirty-two states, organizing and mobilizing people to vote and get involved in the political process.
DONNA: When you start at the bottom of American life, when you grow up poor and fl and female in the Deep South and you're able to work your way up from poverty and gain a voice in the political process, you should be able to say what it felt like to do it.
DONNA: I've chosen to be a Democrat because I believe that over the last twenty years the Democratic Party has stood up for the inclusion of every American in political life.
www.indexmagazine.com /interviews/donna_brazile.shtml   (1863 words)

  
 Office of the Governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, State of Louisiana - DONNA BRAZILE
She is currently the founder and managing director of Brazile and Associates, LLC, a political consulting and grassroots advocacy firm based in the District of Columbia.
Brazile is also the author of "Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics," a memoir about her life in the political arena.
Brazile, a veteran Democratic political strategist, was the first African-American to lead a major presidential campaign, serving as the campaign manager for Gore-Lieberman 2000.
www.gov.state.la.us /index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&cpid=91   (193 words)

  
 Election 2004: Both Sides (washingtonpost.com)
Brazile is a senior fellow at the Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
Donna Brazile: This is from the new Bernstein biography of Thomas Jefferson.
Donna Brazile: Peggy is a good nature soul who allows other to talk and she sit back and listens before responding.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A13834-2004Oct31.html   (8089 words)

  
 From the Charles / Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile: The Diva Is In IOP Fellow 2001 Donna Brazile welcomes students into her office with the sign “The Diva Is In.” Passion is what drives Brazile, a 20-year veteran of political campaigns, who during last year’s presidential election was Al Gore’s campaign manager.
Brazile now wants to focus her energies on the themes that have carried her through her life: voter participation, voter education, trying to make the system better, and letting people vote without harassment.
According to Brazile, she’s going to be “cooking with grease.” And for those who don’t know what that means, she says, with a twinkle in her eye, “Republicans cook with butter.” —AC
www.ksg.harvard.edu /ksgpress/bulletin/autumn2001/charles_profile.html   (653 words)

  
 The Conscience of Donna Brazile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This has been a springtime of discontent and of epiphany for Brazile, now chairwoman of the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute and the African-American overseer appointed by her DNC white masters to keep fl voters chained down on the Democratic Party’s plantation.
But as Brazile bit her lip to keep from saying, McAuliffe had lost House seats and failed to hold the Senate for Democrats in 2002, reversing the long-established historic pattern for "out party" gains when a Republican sits in the Oval Office.
Blacks put themselves back in chains, Brazile must at times have dimly recognized, when they abandoned the party of the Great Emancipator and returned to the party that continues to this day to be run by the slaveowners.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=8134   (1725 words)

  
 Salon News | Down in the trenches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Donna Brazile, the new manager of Al Gore's presidential campaign, has a reputation as a tenacious political attack dog.
Gore speaks in cautious and measured tones; Brazile is driven and brash, given to speaking in a slew of four-letter words that do not stop in the presence of the press.
Brazile said she has no problems reporting to Coehlo, and chastised members of the press corps for pushing the issue of the Gore campaign organizational chart.
www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/10/11/brazile   (650 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Brazile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Donna Brazile, campaign manager for former vice president Al Gore in 2000, said she welcomed the fact that fl officials are making multiple endorsements...
Donna Brazile, an African American who ran Al Gore's 2000 campaign, said that it is "absolutely legitimate" for Sharpton to raise concerns about Dean's record.
Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said Dean’s record is fair play for rivals who are mad about his rise, but she thinks Sharpton’s attacks caught him off...
www.nametraq.org /Jan04/B/Brazile.shtml   (1958 words)

  
 Donna Brazile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Brazile, a CNN political contributor and the former manager of the 2000 Gore-Lieberman campaign, spoke to CNN by phone shortly after the rescue.
By Donna Brazile Roll Call Contributing Writer September 20, 2005 One of the most difficult conversations I have endured in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is the discussion about race and poverty.
Donna Hanson, 65, a Catholic lay leader from Spokane, Wash., who once advised Pope John Paul II to reach out to women, minorities, homosexuals and divorced people, died of cancer Friday in Spokane.
www.boarc.com /Politics/Donna+Brazile.html   (720 words)

  
 American Conservative Union Foundation
Donna Brazile is also skilled, it seems, in the application of common sense and of the values that make America great--values that so many of her cohorts on the left too often discount, if not forget completely.
Brazile wrote a compact yet passionate essay for the Washington Post recently that spoke to the highest virtues of humanity, and eschewed the partisan politics the beltway all to often exhibits even in the face of national disaster.
Brazile, who claims New Orleans as her hometown, said this regarding President George Bush’s speech: “On Thursday night, after watching him [Bush] speak from the heart, I could not have been prouder of the president and the plan he outlined to empower those who lost everything and to rebuild the Gulf Coast.”
www.acuf.org /issues/issue44/050924pol.asp   (697 words)

  
 African American Registry: Donna Brazile, a southern political voice . . .
*Donna Brazile was born on this date in 1959.
Brazile was born in New Orleans, LA to Lionele and Jean Brazile, the third of nine children.
In the 1990s, Brazile served as Chief of Staff and Press Secretary to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton where she helped guide the District's budget and local legislation on Capitol Hill.
www.aaregistry.com /detail.php3?id=2757   (410 words)

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