Robby Mook

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Robby Mook in the election campaign (2016)

Robert E. "Robby" Mook (born December 3, 1979 in Sharon , Vermont ) is an American political advisor and strategist for the Democratic Party . He was Hillary Clinton's campaign manager in the 2016 US presidential election . Before that, he worked for various Democratic campaigns since the 1990s, first in Vermont - sponsored by Howard Dean among others -, then in other states and at the federal level. In his strategy for voter mobilization, Mook combines Dean's grassroots approach with sophisticated data technology such as that used by Barack Obama in his presidential campaigns. Within the operational team, Mook attaches great importance to the development of a culture of unconditional will to win, disciplined work and course content.

Family and education

Robby Mook grew up in the small town of Norwich in the US state of Vermont near the border with the neighboring state of New Hampshire . His father, Delo Emerson Mook, is a former physics professor at Dartmouth College , Hanover, New Hampshire , and his mother, Kathryn H. Mook, is a hospital manager at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire . Mook attended high school in Hanover, where he met Matt Dunne , who led the theater group as a teacher, was also a member of the Vermont House of Representatives and promoted Mook's path into campaign management. Mook completed his academic education in 2002 at Columbia University in New York with a Bachelor of Arts in classical studies . After graduating, he was a "Page" in the United States Senate , that is, a temporary office worker as part of a youth development program.

Organization of political election campaigns

Mook began campaigning during high school. As a 14-year-old volunteer, he was involved in the 1994 election campaign for his teacher Matt Dunne for the Vermont House of Representatives. In the 1996 presidential election , he and friends organized phone calls for Bill Clinton's re-election . First paid, he was involved in the 1998 canvassing for Howard Dean's re-election as governor of Vermont. During Mook's summer break in the summer of 2000, Matt Dunne hired him as a paid campaign assistant for the Democratic Group in the Vermont House of Representatives; Mook organized some MPs' first ever fundraiser . His commitment to the student organization of the Democrats at Columbia University set standards, as he was the first to electronically record the data of local voters and volunteers. After graduating and serving as a Senate "Page", he returned to Vermont.

Starts at regional level from 2002 to 2006

Robby Mook campaigning (2006)

In his home state, he supported the state Democrats in various election campaigns, including before the general election in 2002 as field director of the integrated election campaign of the Democrats in the state, responsible for coordinating volunteers on site. Mook meanwhile worked for the New York City Councilor Eva Markowitz and from April 2003 for the US presidential campaign 2004 of the former Democratic governor of Vermont, Howard Dean, as deputy field director in Wisconsin and New Hampshire . At the same time, Mook was involved in coordinating the online fundraising , a groundbreaking innovation that was used for the first time in this campaign, and learned about the importance of information technology for elections, which he used from now on. After Dean lost his lead in the primary and John Kerry was nominated for the Democrats, he began to work for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the organization of the federal party - sponsored by the interim federal party leader Howard Dean. For the DNC, he was responsible for mobilizing voters in Wisconsin (Get out the vote) in Kerry's main presidential election campaign against Republican incumbent George W. Bush . Mook sees Dean's defeat as an important experience that has taught him that political moods can change quickly and that it is therefore important to immediately consolidate voters' support once they have reached. During the campaign in which Mook became a central figure for Dean, the New Hampshire team began applying the ideas of political scientist and activist Marshall Ganz . Grassroots organization and the use of volunteers in the street election campaign instead of paid, scripted employees were then tested on a large scale for the first time and became the basis for Barack Obama's successful presidential candidacy in 2008 . Some of the colleagues from New Hampshire at the time rose, like Mook, to become key figures in later democratic election campaigns.

Get-out-the-vote slip of Mooks for the 2006 gubernatorial election in Maryland

In 2005, Mook was a member of the David W. Marsdens campaign team in Virginia , who was running for the first time for political office against a Republican incumbent in the Virginia House of Delegates . Mook had consciously chosen this career station, which looked like a step back, in order to be able to put together a campaign from the ground up and manage it as a whole. Marsden received, Mother Jones said, a miniature presidential campaign with five full-time employees scouring the tiny constituency, almost voter by voter; Mook organized a fundraising event on Capitol Hill in Washington, where he played to his already well-established connections. In a constituency that was considered to be equally divided between supporters of both major parties, Marsden won by 20 percent. In 2006 Mook moved to Maryland . There he worked in the coordinated joint campaign for Martin O'Malley , who defeated Republican incumbent Bob Ehrlich in the gubernatorial election, and for Ben Cardin , who beat Michael Steele in the 2006 US Senate election . Mook then worked in the Middle East for the National Democratic Institute , where he heard so much appreciation for Bill Clinton's work there that he soon decided to return to the United States and work for his politically active wife, Hillary Clinton.

Participated in Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign

Starting in spring 2007, Mook was involved in Hillary Clinton's election campaign for the 2008 US presidential election and, as state director, was responsible for the election campaigns in the states of Nevada , Indiana and Ohio during the internal party primaries , in which Clinton received the most votes in these states. Overall, however, had to admit defeat to the later President Barack Obama . Obama's campaign manager at the time, David Plouffe , acknowledged in 2014 that Mook did the best job on Clinton's team; "His footprint was on our back". Before the caucus in Nevada, Hillary Clinton had already wanted to give up the vote and move on to other states, but was persuaded by Mook in a meeting to invest resources. Clinton won the caucus, which ensured that the previous top-down campaign took over Clinton's elements from Dean's grassroots organization. Mook then managed the successful election of Jeanne Shaheen , a Clinton confidante, to the US Senate in November 2008 in New Hampshire . As one of ten members of the well-resourced core team, he coordinated the 100 paid employees and thousands of volunteers and partially integrated this campaign completely with that of Obama's for the presidency of this state. While working on Clinton's campaign, Mook formed a group of loyal employees called the “Mook Mafia,” who often became part of Mook's later teams.

Work for the federal party from 2009 to 2012

After he had turned down a post at the State Department under the newly sworn-in Secretary Hillary Clinton in early 2009, but had apparently been involved in her personnel selection there, Mook began for the nationwide election campaign organization of the Democrats in the US House of Representatives , the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), to work. At that time he was considered a “rising star” among party employees. First political director , entrusted with political content, he became independent expenditure director in May 2010 , that is, responsible for supporting individual politicians without consulting them, with a budget of 65 million US dollars. After losing the democratic majority in the House of Representatives in the election in November 2010 , he became executive director in December, i.e. responsible for all operational business. The then DCCC chairman Steve Israel convinced Mook with his suggestion and insistence to use a lot of resources in the extraordinary by-election 2011 in the 26th congressional electoral district, which is considered hardly winnable; then Kathy Hochul won the seat for the Democrats for the first time in four decades. In this role, Mook was also instrumental in controlling and coordinating democratic applications in individual congressional electoral districts before the November 2012 election , in which the party was able to gain eight seats to the Republicans, the self-set goal of becoming the strongest parliamentary group in the House of Representatives again (which 25 seats), but missed. Some political observers have ascribed Mook's commitment to the expansion of the Congress faction. He himself described the work of the DCCC metaphorically as a “ booster ” (auxiliary rocket): Without being able to intervene on site or to change the individual design of the respective campaign, this organization structurally helped the very different candidates to get them across the finish line.

Manager of the 2013 gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe

2013 changed Mook as a campaign manager for the victorious campaign of the Democratic candidate for the governorship of Virginia , Terry McAuliffe , who is a close political comrade of Clinton family. The election campaign against Republican Ken Cuccinelli was considered one of the toughest in American politics and a test run for the federal Democrats in this important swing state . Even then, he was traded by Politico and the New York Times as a possible election campaign manager for Clinton in 2016. While his data technology could not keep up with Obama's team during the 2008 campaign, in 2013 he pushed innovation in this area. So he brought this area together with McAuliffe's extraordinary fundraising capacities and Dean's grassroots organization and relied on a mix of his own “Mook Mafia” with employees from Obama's election campaigns. Mook contacted the Clinton community frequently during the campaign, but never let the drama there dissuade him from his clear course, which earned him the Clintons' trust. He advised the Democratic Governors Association and gave a course at New York University in 2014 . The existence of the network "Mook Mafia" of presumably over 150 people, who are connected through annual meetings, a mailing list and a humorous-aggressive style of language, revealed ABC News with reference to a member of the Mook network in November 2014. However, this worried not for the difficulties that the informant expected for Mook, but according to Mother Jones made it clear to those around Clinton that internal trench warfare and piercing had to be stopped - which was considered Mook's strength and thus consolidated his position. However, this publication interrupted the publicly visible cohesion; In 2015 there was no annual meeting for the first time, the mailing list and the blog were removed from the Internet.

Manager of 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton

From fall 2014, Mook worked for Hillary Clinton and organized her support for Democratic candidates in the November 2014 election . In January 2015, Clinton officially hired Mook as a strategic policy advisor (strategist) . When Clinton's use of a private e-mail server as Secretary of State threatened to turn into an affair in March 2015, Mook was unable to assert himself with his demand for hard and fast resistance, which was sometimes described as a generational conflict in the team. To get this under control, he mixed his own people from the “Mook Mafia” with McAuliffe and Obama's employees in the team that was to be built up. When Clinton announced in April 2015 that she was running for the presidential election within the Democratic primary , she introduced Mook as her campaign manager. Responsible for the operative business, he took second place in the team after the head of the team, John Podesta . He was the first openly gay manager of a promising US presidential candidate. Mook was presumably chosen because - despite his young age, he was part of the Clinton network and campaigning for many years, but not part of the core team from 2008 and thus able to draw clear boundaries, for example to the Clinton Foundation - as a generational bridge between the young Employees and old friends who had determined the 2008 election campaign. In Clinton's environment, it had previously been said that Mook's calling might repeat the 2008 mistake of again not hiring an entirely new face for the position.

Mook's approach was to avoid the mistakes of 2008: he enacted humility on the campaign as a counterpoint to the wasteful 2008 operation; so he obliged employees to use the cheapest bus connections and described himself as “really, really cheap”. In order to avoid internal quarrels, Mook stated that the aim was to bring the heterogeneous groups and individuals involved together as a “united family”. In January 2016, he told Time magazine : "We stick together, each of us, every day". After Mook had organized a previously chaotic team at McAuliffe and established calm through discipline and restraint, he did the same with Clinton with difficulty. According to the New York Times , Mook won over many Clinton advisors by being “always available” for them and taking time for their concerns and recommendations; the Clintons would appreciate his exceptional ability "to ensnare and integrate the abundant counselors without being too intrusive" or being diverted from his course. Mook's way of working and strategy received praise from most political observers during the campaign. Whenever criticism arose, it was mostly about the clique-like atmosphere of the inner circle, which, according to some observers, Mook had restored and thus kept other voices away. After the narrow victory against Bernie Sanders in the first vote in internal party nomination process, the caucus of Iowa on February 2, 2016 wrote some Clinton confidante and donors, the unexpectedly weak result Mook to and pushed (in vain) on his replacement. Instead, Clinton expanded Mook's field of responsibility, especially since his data-driven voter mobilization operation in Iowa was widely recognized as an outstanding achievement. After Clinton won the nomination in a lengthy, tough argument against Sanders in June 2016, Mook was one of the key figures in getting Sanders and his team to cooperate and support Clinton in the main election campaign, not least because of their common Vermont origins. After Clinton's defeat by Donald Trump in the election on November 8, 2016, which was surprising to almost all observers, Mook's strategy also came under fire. While Trump managed to win many votes from poorly educated whites from the Rust Belt working class , Clinton failed to make up for those losses among other populations. Mook's technical, data-driven approach has been criticized for not even attempting to win back the white workers who used to be reliable Democrats.

After the lost election, Mook campaigned through public appearances and visits from election campaigners, including in Germany, to take serious impairments from outside influences - such as fake news and leaks - and to take action against them. To the end, he worked with the campaign manager Mitt Romney of 2012 , Matt Rhoades , together.

Personality and way of working

Mook is seen as calm, serious and reserved and as someone who does not seek the public; so he avoids TV appearances and has no Facebook profile. Mook is popular among employees, according to Vice.com , for building personal relationships and allowing others to surpass him. Employees mention his infectious enthusiasm, which in inspiring speeches arouses a willingness to deprive himself. Mook's ideas also grew out of a preoccupation with Peter M. Senge's suggestion of continuous individual self-development. According to Fortune , his “no-drama” style and unobtrusive determination contributed to the “Mook Mafia” forming around him. US Senator Jeanne Shaheen praises Mook's unerring political instinct and tireless work ethic; DCCC Chairman Steve Israel emphasizes that Mook motivates people to take actions that they would not have believed themselves capable of, as he succeeds in thinking on a strategic as well as an operational level. His sponsor Howard Dean judges that Mook is "pretty steadfast" and that he has the right personality to get results, as he does not focus on himself but on his work. Actually, Dean couldn't imagine someone so young with such great responsibility, but Mook was "very, very smart, and people will work hard for him". Through discipline and organization, he is able to deal with the oversized egos of politicians and to create loyalty. He was, Politico , successful continuous team building is to be achieved, attention to detail and the lack of any rigid dogma, like a victory. Congressman Peter Welch's chief of staff considers Mook “nothing less than a rock star” who has managed to remain “decent and popular” in cynical politics.

Because of his focus on data and statistics, he's been referred to as a "headlight-shy geek " and a "data-obsessed nerd ". The New York Times reported that he was happiest in the office with his computers and data . The Los Angeles Times ruled in mid-2016 that rarely had someone who had risen so quickly and so high in a political campaign was so colorless, which was good for Clinton; In this way it was possible to keep the election of running mate Tim Kaine secret until the planned announcement, which would otherwise hardly be possible. Mook also organizes meticulously, for example by writing and distributing "field manuals" of several hundred pages for canvassing . He required staff to provide timetables for the entire day at 30-minute intervals and insisted that each meeting end with a to-do list being made . He was, Mother Jones , a mechanic of power, driving the No Agenda content or challenging theoretical assumption. Mook is in close contact with Barack Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe , who is known for his data-driven and disciplined campaigns; Plouffe has certified that it has "unlimited potential". Critics point out that Mook is primarily concerned with defining the opponent of his candidate, which encourages negative election campaigns and mutual abuse and does not give the elected politician a mandate for positive design. In addition, the conservative political scientist Benjamin Tribbett speculated that there was an unjustified “hype” about Mook's success, as he selected his campaigns according to positive demographic trends for the respective candidate and that alone could win most of his election campaigns. The aggressive language used by the “Mook Mafia”, which is directed against the Republicans, could also cause offense if the latter was no longer able to evade the public after an election.

Mook chose “Set goals, experiment and learn, celebrate and appreciate” as the motto of his successful election campaign for Hillary Clinton in 2008, which sets him apart from the authoritarian management style that has been common up to now. The Daily Beast explained this with its generational affiliation with millennials . Again and again he seeks contact with the street election campaigners on site and makes house calls himself. He summed up his experience that in almost every election campaign, public opinion was moved by the information the campaigns released. What gets through depends on the mood - national and local -. The Democrats' mistake in their severe defeat in Congress in 2010 was that their messages missed the needs of voters; “Our TV spots were like bringing a radio to a rock concert”. Political scientists William J. Feltus, Kenneth M. Goldstein, and Matthew Dallek, who spoke to Mook along with a number of prominent campaign advisors such as David Axelrod and James Carville for their book Inside Campaigns , thought many of his insights were the most profound. As in his handbooks before, Mook argued that each campaign has its own culture; the manager is responsible for establishing a good culture. For him it is a matter of "choosing people who are loyal to the candidate and the team, who motivate themselves to work hard" and who see a campaign not only as a springboard for other tasks, but subordinate everything else to the success of the election campaign could.

Politico listed Mook in his list of 50 Politicos to Watch in July 2013and referred to his high reputation within the party. Fortune magazine namedMook in September 2015 on its list of the 40 under 40 , the most influential younger people in American business.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Jonathan Lemire: Political Strategist: Robby Mook '02 Works To Turn the Country Blue. In: Columbia College Today , Spring 2012, p. 46 f., Here p. 46 (PDF) ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.college.columbia.edu
  2. ↑ Matt Hongoltz-Hetling: 'This Is Where I Learned': Hanover High School Graduate Returns Home as Head of Clinton Campaign. In: Valley News , January 31, 2016 (English); Emeritus Faculty. ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Dartmouth.SmartCatalogIQ.com (English); Kathryn H. Mook. In: ResearchGate (English). See Eugene C. Nelson, Mary A. Gentry, Kathryn H. Mook, Karen L. Spritzer, John H. Higgins, Ron D. Hays: How Many Patients Are Needed to Provide Reliable Evaluations of Individual Clinicians? In: Medical Care. Vol. 42, 2004, No. 3, pp. 259–266, here p. 259: Kathryn Mook worked for the hospital's management services . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dartmouth.smartcatalogiq.com
  3. ^ A b c Paul Heintz: Take Back Virginia? Old Dominion Dems Are Counting on Vermont-Born Robby Mook. In: SevenDaysVT.com , September 18, 2013 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Andy Kroll, Patrich Caldwell: Robby Mook Just Took the Hardest Job in Politics: Saving the Clintons From Themselves. In: Mother Jones , April 9, 2015 (English).
  5. ↑ a b c d Alexander Burns: 50 Politicos to Watch: Robby Mook. In: Politico , June 19, 2013 (English).
  6. ^ A b Eric M. Appleman: Howard Dean-Campaign Organization, New Hampshire. In: GWU.edu , 2003 (English).
  7. ^ A b Meryl Levin, Will Kanteres: Primarily New Hampshire: A Year in the Lives of Presidential Campaign Staffers. Third Rail Press, Manchester, NH 2004, p. 218.
  8. ^ A b Jonathan Lemire: Political Strategist: Robby Mook '02 Works To Turn the Country Blue. In: Columbia College Today , Spring 2012, p. 46 f., Here p. 47 (PDF) ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.college.columbia.edu
  9. ↑ Jay Newton-Small: Clinton's Campaign Manager Isn't Worried About a 2008 Repeat. In: Time , February 2, 2016 (English).
  10. ↑ In the original: "His footprint was on our back." Quoted from Albert R. Hunt: Virginia Campaign Could Lift Strategist to Stardom. In: The New York Times , July 15, 2013.
  11. ^ David B. Magleby: The Change Election: Money, Mobilization, and Persuasion in the 2008 Federal Elections. Temple University Press, Philadelphia 2011, p. 160 .
  12. ^ A b c d Daniel Roberts, Leigh Gallagher: Fortune's 40 Under 40: Robby Mook, 35, Campaign Manager, Hillary for America. In: Fortune , September 24, 2015 (English).
  13. ↑ Chuck Ross: Mook Juke Revealed: Hillary's Campaign Manager Held Political Adviser Role At Clinton State Dept. In: The Daily Caller , May 10, 2016 (English).
  14. ↑ Chris Cilliza: Robby Mook to Lead Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for 2012 Races. In: The Washington Post , December 5, 2010.
  15. ^ A b Cheryl Feliciano: Five Leading Political Campaign Strategists to Teach as Adjunct Faculty Members in the NYU School of Professional Studies Certificate in Political Campaign Management. In: NYU.edu , September 12, 2014 (English).
  16. ^ A b Amy Parnes: Favorite Emerges for Clinton Campaign. In: The Hill , January 8, 2015 (English).
  17. ↑ a b c d Amy Chozick: A Young Manager for Clinton Juggles Data and Old Baggage. In: The New York Times , March 14, 2015.
  18. ↑ Rick Klein: EXCLUSIVE: Read the Secret Emails of the Men Who May Run Hillary Clinton's Campaign. In: ABC News , November 14, 2014 (English).
  19. ↑ a b c d Ruby Cramer: The Robby Mook Playbook. The Big Win, Big Risk Philosophy Behind Hillary Clinton's Campaign. In: BuzzFeed , June 4, 2015 (English).
  20. ^ A b c Jonathan Allen: The Man Poised to Guide Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign. In: Bloomberg.com , December 22, 2014 (English).
  21. ↑ a b Edward Helmore: Can the Geek Who Hates the Spotlight Guide Hillary to the White House? In: The Guardian , April 12, 2015.
  22. ↑ Sydney Finkelstein: Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent. Portfolio / Penguin, New York 2016, p. 125 .
  23. ^ Anne Gearan: How Cheap Is Hillary Clinton's Campaign? This Cheap. In: The Washington Post , June 9, 2015.
  24. ↑ James D. Boys: Hillary Rising: The Politics, Persona and Policies of a New American Dynasty. Biteback Publishing, London 2016, p. 165 .
  25. ↑ In the original: "We're sticking together, all of us, every day." Quoted from: Jay Newton-Small: Clinton's Campaign Manager Isn't Worried About a 2008 Repeat. In: Time , February 2, 2016 (English).
  26. ↑ In the original: "They value his rare ability to charm and include the abundant advice-givers without allowing them to become too intrusive." Quoted from: Amy Chozick: A Young Manager for Clinton Juggles Data and Old Baggage. In: The New York Times , March 14, 2015.
  27. ↑ Amy Chozick: Hillary Clinton Campaign, Unnerved by Iowa, Braces for New Hampshire. In: The New York Times , February 2, 2016.
  28. ^ Glenn Thrush, Annie Karni: Clinton Weighs Staff Shake-up After New Hampshire. In: Politico , February 8, 2016 (English).
  29. ^ Ella Nilsen: From New Hampshire roots, Clinton campaign manager rises to top of national politics. In: Concord Monitor , July 28, 2016 (English).
  30. ↑ Annie Karni: Clinton aides blame loss on everything but themselves. In: Politico , November 11, 2016 (English).
  31. ↑ Clinton's ex-campaign manager on Fake News: "We have to stop this". In: Spiegel Online , March 13, 2017; Gabriel Debenedetti: 'I'm Sure Some Psychoanalyst Could Have a Ball With All of This'. In: Politico , November 7, 2017.
  32. ↑ Christa Case Bryant: Political rivals join forces to protect America's elections. In: Christian Science Monitor , March 29, 2018.
  33. ^ A b Noah Davis: Walk Softly and Carry a Big Email List: Meet Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton's Secret Weapon.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Vice.com , February 20, 2015 (English).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.vice.com  
  34. ↑ In the original: "He's very, very bright and people will work hard for him." Quoted from Jonathan Lemire: Political Strategist: Robby Mook '02 Works To Turn the Country Blue. In: Columbia College Today , Spring 2012, p. 46 f., Here p. 47 (PDF) ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.college.columbia.edu
  35. ↑ Alexander Burns: 50 Politicos to Watch: Robby Mook. In: Politico , June 19, 2013 (English, page 2) .
  36. ↑ Edward Helmore: Can Just One Obsessive Nerd Guide Hillary Clinton to White House? In: Irish Independent , April 12, 2016 (English).
  37. ↑ Evan Halper: Clinton's loyal and low-key campaign manager started his political career at the dump. In: Los Angeles Times , July 29, 2016 (English).
  38. ↑ Edward Helmore: Can the Geek Who Hates the Spotlight Guide Hillary to the White House? In: The Guardian , April 12, 2015.
  39. ^ Glenn Thrush: Plouffe to Clinton: Stop Micromanaging. In: Politico , February 29, 2016 (English).
  40. ^ Albert R. Hunt: Virginia Campaign Could Lift Strategist to Stardom. In: The New York Times , July 15, 2013.
  41. ↑ In the original: "Set Goals, Experiment and Learn, Celebrate and Appreciate." Quoted from Eleanor Craft: It's Crunch Time for Clinton Quarterback Robby Mook. In: The Daily Beast , January 28, 2016 (English).
  42. ^ For example, Jennifer Epstein: Robby Mook Returns to Field Organizing for Final Iowa Push. In: Bloomberg.com , January 31, 2016 (English).
  43. ↑ In the original: “our TV ads were like bringing a boom box to a rock concert”. In: William J. Feltus, Kenneth M. Goldstein, Matthew Dallek: Inside Campaigns: Elections through the Eyes of Political Professionals. CQ Press, Thousand Oaks, CA 2016, p. 46 f.
  44. ↑ In the original: “people who are going to be loyal to the candidate and to the organization, people who are going to be self-motivated to work really hard. I'm not looking for people who are interested in being on the campaign for the purpose of going on to do something else. " In: William J. Feltus, Kenneth M. Goldstein, Matthew Dallek: Inside Campaigns: Elections through the Eyes of Political Professionals. CQ Press, Thousand Oaks, CA 2016, p. 258 .
personal data
SURNAME Mook, Robby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mook, Robert E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American campaign manager
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Sharon , Vermont