When this summer’s contest for the chairmanship of the state Democratic party was at its height, much was said by all candidates about the need to conduct a national search for an executive director to head up the 2014 effort in Georgia.
But as with many such searches, the hometown candidate won out. Chairman DuBose Porter has settled on Rebecca DeHart, a longtime state Capitol presence who ran Rob Teilhet’s unsuccessful Democratic bid for attorney general in 2012.
Since then, she has had her own public affairs firm, Steel Cut Strategies.
Officially, DeHart is now the party’s acting executive director. During a telephone meeting scheduled for Tuesday evening, the state executive committee will be asked to ratify Porter’s decision – after which DeHart would assume the full title, and day-to-day operations of the party.
From DeHart's official bio:
Prior to founding her firm and working as a national Democratic consultant, Rebecca worked as a Lobbyist and as the Director of Communications for the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, as the Executive Director of the Georgia Commission on Family Violence and as a Regional Campaign Director for the Democratic Party of Georgia.
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