Adrianne knows that winning is about collaborating with a team to design a comprehensive campaign plan and developing strategic, creative media programs that move voters. With that approach, Adrianne has proven that she knows how to win – from a big city Mayor to a Mountain state governor, from a midwestern top-tier federal race to picking up east coast state legislative seats, from special elections to primaries, from candidates of color to veterans, and farmers to Harvard lawyers. And, even more so, Adrianne knows what to take away from heartbreaking losses.
Twenty-five years ago, before Linden was the booming metropolis of 3,895 people it is today, when there was just one stop light at the intersection of Broad and Main Streets, a high school teacher showed Adrianne that politics impacts everything around us.
The lesson: elections matter. The outcomes control legislative majorities, policy agendas, opportunities afforded to individuals, and even the air we breathe, with global implications, far beyond Linden’s Main Street.
This lesson fueled Adrianne’s work as an on-the-ground campaign operative where, initially as a flame-throwing press flak, Adrianne helped win races from city council to President.
These experiences resulted in Adrianne helping win the majority in the U.S. Senate in 2006 and, having managed the 34-person communications operation in 2008 as President Obama’s Florida spokeswoman, helped win the White House in 2008.
Two years later, as Deputy Manager in Colorado in 2010, she was part of a team that delivered a win for U.S. Senator Michael Bennet by less than 18,000 votes. And, in 2012, Adrianne managed U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill’s last successful run for Senate, re-electing “the most vulnerable member of the U.S. Senate” by a 16-point margin with an historically innovative strategy of helping the most favorable Republican win the nomination.
Fast forward nearly ten years, Adrianne has been a political consultant in the fields of public relations, mail and then television and digital advertising, working with candidates in states in every corner of the country, including Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Texas.
Adrianne knows that winning is about collaborating with a team to design a comprehensive campaign plan and developing strategic, creative media programs that move voters. With that approach, Adrianne has proven that she knows how to win – from a big city Mayor to a Mountain state governor, from a midwestern top-tier federal race to picking up east coast state legislative seats, from special elections to primaries, from candidates of color to veterans, and farmers to Harvard lawyers. And, even more so, Adrianne knows what to take away from heartbreaking losses.
As Adrianne and her husband, Paul Dunn, raise their two young daughters, with climate change top of mind, as they talk to their parents about retirement and health, as they talk to their friends and about the future of education, and as they take a hard look at the reality and future of equitable opportunities in our country, they are reminded: elections matter more than ever.