Paul Bennecke, a Republican operative from Atlanta and once a member of Sonny Perdue’s team of 20-something strategists, has been named the next executive director of the Republican Governors Association – one of the most influential repositories of campaign cash in Washington.
Bennecke was 24 when, in 2002, he helped Perdue become the first Republican governor in modern Georgia history.
This last election season, Bennecke served as chief strategist for Republican David Perdue, the former governor’s cousin and now a U.S. senator-elect. In 2012, Bennecke also served as a consultant in the not-so-successful T-SPLOST campaign.
Bennecke has previous experience with the RGA, having previously served as both political director and deputy executive director.
He will succeed Phil Cox, who has served as executive director since 2011. Under Cox, the RGA increased its total to 31 Republican governors, the most for either party in 16 years, and it raised more than $250 million.
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