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Biden Campaign Announces Top Ohio Operatives
Special to The Truth
Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Friday
announced four key Ohio hires that it hopes will help it
wrest the state from Republican President Donald Trump in
November.
Toni Webb, Ohio State Director
Toni Webb has spent the past
decade fighting for working families across the country with
the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal
Employees. She is a graduate of Millikin University and
Saint Louis University School of Law and is a veteran of
dozens of political and issue campaigns.
She most recently led For Our Future Ohio, Ohio’s largest
permanent progressive field organization that runs issue and
independent expenditure programs. Webb is on the board of
LEAD Ohio, Ohio’s progressive candidate recruitment,
training, and support organization, because she is deeply
committed to developing and supporting new, diverse
political candidates and operatives.
Demeatrious St. John,
Ohio Strategic Advisor
Over the past 20-plus years,
St. John has been very instrumental as a Democratic
political operative in Ohio, serving as campaign advisor for
mayors and several council members and County Commissioners
in northeast Ohio and statewide, he served as Campaign
Director to former State Representative William J. Healy II
(52nd District) and advisor to current State Representative
Thomas West (49th District).
He has also served as African American Outreach Director for
the Ohio Democratic Party and the Obama Campaign for Change
in Ohio 2008, served as political director to Ohio State
Treasurer Kevin Boyce in 2010 and Political Advisor to
Congressman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan (MI 14) from
2009-2011. Currently, St. John serves as Statewide Political
Outreach Advisor to Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (OH 11).
Alan Bannister, Ohio
Political Director
Alan brings 23 years of
political experience to the campaign. Alan supervised
constituent affairs for eight counties in northwest Ohio in
Governor Ted Strickland’s Office, and managed projects for
Faith-Based & Community Initiatives. Bannister was also a
special projects manager for the City of Toledo for the past
five mayors. He was the state political director for
Clinton in 2016 and was part of the political teams in 2008
and 2012 presidential campaigns.
Meredith Tucker, Ohio
Deputy State Director
Meredith Tucker brings more
than a decade of experience working in Ohio government and
statewide and presidential elections, with an extensive
background in political advising and strategic
communications. Since President Obama's 2008 campaign, she
has worked for the Ohio Democratic Party, the Ohio
Legislature, the labor coalition We Are Ohio, and as a
political consultant for candidates and elected officials
throughout Ohio and across the country. |
Toni Webb
Demeatrious St. John
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Most recently, she has been
serving as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and
Communications for Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein. Tucker
is a Lakewood, Ohio native, and an Ohio
University alumna.”
Democrats say they’re
optimistic they can win Ohio this year, even though Trump
won the state by eight percentage points in 2016.
“In Ohio, we have millions
of voters that have voted for Democrats in the past,” said
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Cleveland. “They voted for
Strickland, they voted for Obama twice, they voted for me,
they voted for (former Ohio Gov. Dick) Celeste, they voted
for Clinton twice. So, we have a lot of voters. We just need
to return them to the voting patterns that they’ve been used
to.”
“Winning the Buckeye State
means speaking directly to voters who have been hurt by
Trump’s broken promises and failed policies,” added Jenn
Ridder, Biden’s national states director. "Joe Biden keeps
his promises. That’s how he brought the auto industry
roaring back to life, and it’s why our campaign has hired a
tested team that will take back the battleground state of
Ohio.”
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