Pete for America
January 21, 2020

Pete For America Names Four New Hampshire Co-Chairs Who Will Lead the Campaign Ahead of the New Hampshire Primary

Maura Sullivan Is a Marine Veteran Who Served As An Assistant Secretary Of Veteran Affairs and An Assistant To The Secretary of Defense Under President Obama

Jennifer Frizzell Is a Women’s Health and Rights Advocate, Former Vice President of Policy at Planned Parenthood New England And Has Worked As a Progressive Leader in New Hampshire Democratic Policy and Politics

Suzanne Prentiss Is The Former Lebanon Mayor, Current City Councilor, Former Republican, and New Hampshire’s Former EMS Bureau Chief

Eli Rivera Is A Four-Term Cheshire County Sheriff And The Only Latino Sheriff In New Hampshire

Manchester, NH — Today, Pete For America announced its New Hampshire campaign co-chairs: Marine veteran and former Obama administration national security official Maura Sullivan, women’s health and rights advocate and former Planned Parenthood Policy Director Jennifer Frizzell, former Lebanon Mayor and current City Councilor Suzanne Prentiss, and Cheshire County Sheriff Eli Rivera.

This is the first time that Sullivan has publicly announced her support for Buttigieg. Sullivan will help coordinate Women for Pete events and the campaign’s operation on the Seacoast. She will also work closely with the state’s organizing and political teams to reach out to New Hampshire veterans.

Working with New Hampshire State Director Victoria Williams, the co-chairs will lead Pete For America’s outreach to their communities and critical constituencies like veterans, first responders, and local government officials. They will also highlight how Pete’s platform — including his health care, climate change, veterans, and women’s empowerment policies — will benefit Granite Staters in the critical weeks ahead of the primary. Prentiss and Rivera announced their endorsements of Buttigieg in September and have been working with Pete For America’s New Hampshire team since the early fall on everything from organizing to political outreach. Frizzell spoke at the rollout of Pete’s women’s empowerment policy in October and has been advising the campaign for months.

“With our country so divided and beset by many challenges, the future of our democracy requires a different kind of leadership — one that can heal our nation. Pete Buttigieg is our best hope. Strategic, bold, and empathetic, Pete leads with confidence and humility,” said Maura Sullivan. “Choosing a candidate is deeply personal — and no more so than in this election. Our planet, our rights, our health care — and our nation’s fundamental character is at stake. At a time when the President continues to try to divide us, Pete will once again call us to the values that have made America not just a world power, but a world leader. As an Iraq veteran and military family member, I know what it means to put your life in the hands of a commander-in-chief. I trust Pete with the lives of my loved ones. He will never put our troops in harm’s way without a clear strategy, and he will meet our national security challenges using the full breadth of tools at our disposal — diplomatic, economic, and only when absolutely necessary, military. I look forward to a Buttigieg administration that will conduct foreign policy by putting our best values forward — and that starts at home.”

“Every election is important, but this year’s presidential election feels like the most consequential in my lifetime,” said Jennifer Frizzell. “For the past two decades, I’ve worked to protect and expand women’s health and rights — but this president and his allies are using every tool at their disposal to erase our progress and take us backwards. We have to turn the page on the current administration, end the dysfunction in Washington, and write a new chapter for our country. Pete Buttigieg has put forward a bold, comprehensive plan to build enduring power for women. At the same time, Pete recognizes that all of our rights and freedoms are intertwined, which is why his policies will advance civil rights, racial justice, environmental justice, LGBTQ rights, and so much more. He understands addressing our greatest challenges requires that we come together across issues toward a unified progressive vision. With our country so broken, he is connecting people across issues and affiliations and I am proud and motivated to support Pete Buttigieg and to serve as a campaign co-chair.”

“With Pete Buttigieg, we have a chance to unite our country around our shared values and work together to overcome our most significant challenges,” said Sheriff Eli Rivera. “My deputies and I, along with local law enforcement, have been waging a battle against substance misuse disorders and face a mental health care crisis. With Pete in the White House, we’ll finally have a true partner. He understands the power of belonging, and with his national service plan, he will offer young people an opportunity to serve their country and find a sense of purpose that too many are missing. Pete understands serving our country means treating everyone with respect, compassion, and dignity – regardless of who we are or where we are in our life’s journey. With Pete as president, I look forward to a restoration of decency and respect to public life.”

“Pete Buttigieg continues to make our country proud, and I’m proud to serve as the co-chair of his campaign in New Hampshire,” said Suzanne Prentiss. “As someone who has spent years serving in local office, I agree when Pete says Washington needs to look more like our best run cities and towns. Drawing on the experience that can only be gained as the chief executive of a city, Pete has the ability to ensure his ideas actually make an impact and understands how policies actually impact our lives. As our president, Pete will deliver real results and bring the voices of working people in places like South Bend and New Hampshire to Washington along with a common-sense approach. I’m ready to put the chaos and dysfunction behind us and finally get to work on our greatest challenges.”

Pete For America New Hampshire Campaign Co-Chairs Biographies

Maura Sullivan

Maura Sullivan is a nationally recognized leader, Marine Iraq veteran, and former Obama administration official. Sullivan served as the assistant secretary of Veteran Affairs for the Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs and as the assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs. She also serves as the co-chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party's Veterans and Military Families Caucus, and as a member of U.S. Representative Chris Pappas' Service Academy Nomination Board, the Board of Directors of the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire, and the Advisory Board of the New Hampshire Chapter of Children of the Fallen Patriots. Sullivan is also a member of the Seacoast detachment of the Marine Corps League. In 2018, she was a Democratic congressional candidate in New Hampshire’s 1st District.

Jennifer Frizzell

Jennifer Frizzell is currently the Director of Policy at the NH Women’s Foundation and has worked at the highest levels in New Hampshire policy and politics for the past two decades. Frizzell has served as Planned Parenthood of Northern New England’s vice president for policy, the director of policy for the New Hampshire Senate, and was senior policy and outreach advisor to Democratic Governor John Lynch during his 2010 campaign. In 2008, she was a co-chair of NH Women for Hillary Clinton. In October 2019, Frizzell spoke at the launch of Buttigieg’s women’s empowerment policy: Building Power for Women: An Agenda for the 21st Century in Bow, New Hampshire. Last week, she introduced Rep. Annie Kuster at a town hall with Pete Buttigieg in Concord.

Eli Rivera

Eli Rivera is currently serving his fourth term as the sheriff of Cheshire County, and has been on the front lines fighting the state’s mental health and opioid crisis. He is the first Democratic Sheriff to serve Cheshire County since the position became an elected office in 1879 and is the only Latino sheriff in the state. Rivera is also a veteran of the US Army Reserve and Coast Guard as well as a retired Keene Police Lieutenant.

Suzanne Prentiss

Suzanne Prentiss was first elected to the Lebanon City Council in 2009 and was elected to serve as mayor in 2017. She is a certified paramedic and has served as the state’s EMS bureau chief, the state’s trauma coordinator, and the manager of emergency medical services at Concord Hospital’s emergency department. Prentiss is a former Republican turned Independent, who has never endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate in a primary until Pete Buttigieg. In October, she registered as a Democrat as a statement of support for Pete Buttigieg.

Since December, Buttigieg has earned 26 endorsements from current and former elected officials as well as local leaders and Democratic activists. These endorsers include U.S. Representative Annie Kuster (NH-2), NEA-NH Executive Director Rick Trombly, three “Blue Wave” state representatives — Paul Dargie (Milford), Peter Petrigno (Milford), and David Woodbury (New Boston) — Carroll County Democrats Chair Knute Ogren, former Executive Council candidate Gray Chynoweth, Nashua State Representatives Sue and Ray Newman, Nashua Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons, former Somersworth Mayor Lincoln Soldati, and Rochester City Councilor Chris Rice among others.

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Pete for America
November 13, 2019

Pete For America Announces New Hampshire “Pete Summit,” Following Pete Buttigieg’s Four-Day, All-Access New Hampshire Bus Tour

On November 16-17, Pete For America Will Hold Two-Day Training to Empower Volunteers to Organize Their Own Communities
 
MANCHESTER, N.H. –– Today, Pete For America announced that beginning on Saturday, November 16, it will hold “Pete Summit,” a two-day training in New London to empower volunteers and provide them with the resources to organize their own communities to win the era.
 
Pete Summit builds on the grassroots energy the campaign has generated across New Hampshire. The two-day summit will help expand PFA’s organizing capacity by equipping supporters with the tools to mobilize their community around Pete’s commitment to unify our country to tackle the challenges Washington has ignored. Volunteers will learn key skills to help them organize their friends and neighbors in support of Pete. 
 
“We’re seeing so much excitement on the ground for Pete in New Hampshire, and our supporters are eager to spread that energy to their communities,” said Pete For America New Hampshire Communications Director Kevin Donohoe. “Granite Staters are tired of the division in Washington, which is why Pete’s message of bringing our country together to finally address our greatest problems is resonating. We know that Pete's bold, optimistic message is carried further and deeper when it is spread by supporters within their own communities. That’s why Pete Summit will train our volunteers on how best to organize their neighbors."
 
The training comes just days after Pete wrapped a four-day, 10-county, open-press bus tour, which “attracted enthusiastic crowds as he campaigned across New Hampshire,” and gave “radical access” to reporters and voters. During the trip, more than 4,370 Granite Staters came to see Pete at events in every corner of the state.
 
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Pete for America
To: Interested Parties
From: Kevin Donohoe, New Hampshire Communications Director
Date: October 30, 2019

Memo: Ahead of Filing, Pete Buttigieg Has Momentum in the Granite State

Introduction
In February, Pete Buttigieg held one of his first campaign stops in New Hampshire at an event in Alstead that drew 50 people. It was a big crowd for a candidate who was just introducing himself to New Hampshire — and since then the momentum for Pete in the Granite State has only grown... and grown and grown. Just a few months later in April, 1,200 people showed up to see Pete at a town hall in Plymouth. And this summer — even amidst forecasts of thunderstorms — more than 800 people showed up on a weekday morning to see Pete at an outdoor event in Dover.

Why? After years of politicians in Washington continually fighting each other — and doing little to make Granite Staters’ lives better — Pete is offering something different. At town halls across the state, Pete has been laying out ideas bold enough to address the challenges of our time — but big enough to unify Americans. With a winning message, the campaign quickly became a rocket ship.

On each trip, Granite Staters have enthusiastically welcomed Pete back to New Hampshire by flocking to his events. And as the crowds have grown, so has Team Pete in New Hampshire. When Pete Buttigieg files with the New Hampshire Secretary of State today, he will do so with the most campaign offices of any candidate, one of the largest organizing teams in the state, and a growing army of volunteers who are helping the campaign reach communities from Coos County to the Seacoast. As the Boston Herald recently noted, “backed by more than a dozen offices and 60 staffers statewide, Buttigieg is pitching himself as the candidate ‘who can advance bold ideas and bring people together around them.’”

Hours before Pete Buttigieg officially files in the First-In-The-Nation primary, here is a snapshot of his campaign’s growing momentum in the Granite State:


Pete For America is One of the Largest Campaigns in the Granite State


  • Since the summer, Team Pete in New Hampshire nearly doubled its staff, growing to 65 with the addition of more than 30 new organizers.
  • Team Pete has 13 offices in New Hampshire in all 10 counties — the most of any campaign based on an analysis by the New York Times.
  • In the 24 hours following Pete’s commanding performance at the fourth democratic debates on October 16, Team Pete in New Hampshire contacted 15,799 Granite State voters by phone, email, and text to discuss how they can become part of our growing movement in the state.
  • Since August, Pete For America has been running a series of digital ads across Facebook, YouTube, Hulu, Spotify, Pandora and other digital platforms.
        • Union Leader: Buttigieg NH Digital Campaign Goes on Offense
        • Keene Sentinel: Buttigieg to run ads on Spotify, Pandora
  • Since launching his exploratory committee, Pete has taken 11 trips to New Hampshire — today is his twelfth trip. After this trip, he will have spent 21 days in the Granite State and held more than 50 events.
  • Pete has been widely accessible to New Hampshire and New England media. Since May, he has been interviewed (often more than once) by WMUR, the Union Leader, The Concord Monitor, Seacoast Media Group, The Valley News, The Conway Daily Sun, The Keene Sentinel, The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, The Eagle Times, Kiss 108 Boston, WKBK (Keene), Jack Heath, Chris Ryan, WHDH Boston, NBC Boston, NECN, CBS Boston, Boston 25, WCAX, The Dartmouth, The Boston Herald, and more. Pete has also taken to the pages of New Hampshire’s leading newspapers to make the case to Granite State voters — with op-eds published in The Concord Monitor, The Portsmouth Herald, and The Union Leader.

Growing Enthusiasm
 
  • Since March, more than 12,100 people have come to see Pete at events in every corner of the Granite State.
  • In April, 1,200 people showed up to see Pete in Plymouth in what remains one of the larger crowds of this cycle for any candidate in New Hampshire. In July, 800 came to see Pete on a weekday morning in Dover — even though the forecast called for thunderstorms.
  • In early September, due to overwhelming demand, our office opening in Portsmouth was moved to nearby Prescott Park to accommodate the hundreds of people eager to see Pete.
  • During Pete’s latest visit last week, WMUR reported that Pete is “making a statement with his crowds.”
 
Growing Endorsements

  • Since September 1, eight State Representatives have endorsed, bringing the total from two to ten.
      • Endorsers include 12-term Representative and House Ways & Means Committee Chair Susan Almy and three “Blue Wave” Representatives who flipped Republican seats - Michelle St. John (Hollis), Harrison Kanzler (Conway), and Donna Mommbourquette (New Boston)
  • 21 current and former elected officials and Democratic activists also endorsed including:
      • Cheshire County Sheriff Eli Rivera, former Lebanon Mayor and current City Councilor Suzanne Prentiss, Epping Board of Selectmen Chair and Army Veteran Adam Munguia, Democratic Activist and New Castle “power couple” John and Mary Rauh, and progressive advocate Dan Weeks

Expanding Our Community Of Volunteers

  • We’re doing things differently with a program that is focused on relational organizing: meeting voters where they are, building a strong community of Pete supporters — and having fun! We’re not just knocking on doors — although we are — we are actively engaging and living in the communities we’re organizing and finding new places to talk about Pete.
  • The American Prospect said Pete For America’s New Hampshire team was “perhaps the most creative campaign in the state in terms of events.” Here’s why:
        • A group of organizers entered a community cast iron cooking competition in Holderness — and won it.
        • One of our organizers is now an active member of the local church in Laconia.
        • Another ran a 5k to support the local fire department in Jaffrey.

Pete for America
October 10, 2019
Kevin Donohoe
Eugene Chow

Pete For America Announces “Boot Pledge Pledge” Statewide Weekend Of Action

Manchester, N.H. —  On Saturday, October 12 and Sunday, October 13, Pete For America will host a massive, statewide “Boot Pledge Pledge” Weekend of Action. At 37 events in all ten New Hampshire counties, hundreds of volunteers, grassroots organizers, and community leaders will canvass their neighborhoods and talk to their neighbors about why they are pledging to support Pete Buttigieg in the First-in-the-Nation primary.

The “Boot Pledge Pledge” events will expand the ever-growing community of Pete supporters in New Hampshire, and spread Pete’s message about the need for solutions big enough to meet our greatest challenges and unifying enough to actually be achieved. Each “Boot Pledge Pledge” event will start with Pete supporters officially signing a pledge to vote for Pete, sharing it on social media — and then heading into their communities to ask their neighbors to commit to vote for Pete as well.

The massive weekend of action comes amidst a surge of enthusiasm for Pete in the Granite State. Since early September, eight New Hampshire state representatives have endorsed Pete, bringing the total from two to ten. Pete also earned the endorsement of ten current and former elected officials and Democratic activists — including former Lebanon Mayor Suzanne Prentiss and New Hampshire “power couple” John and Mary Rauh. And over the course of the last three months, Team Pete in New Hampshire nearly doubled its staff — growing from 34 to 64 with the addition of nearly 30 new organizers — and added 13 offices in all ten of New Hampshire’s counties.

The Day of Action comes after months of the campaign focusing on organizing through relationships. Beginning this summer, Pete For America trained and empowered hundreds of volunteers to organize their own networks. At trainings, house meetings, and social events, volunteers have worked with the campaign to introduce their friends, family, and neighbors to Pete, invited their networks to attend campaign events, and built a grassroots, volunteer-led organization in support of Pete. In September alone, Pete For America’s New Hampshire team held 222 organizing events. In a field of 20 candidates and with four months until the primary, this unique tactic has allowed the campaign to break through the noise and talk to potential voters who might not otherwise pick up their phone from an unknown number, be paying close attention to the race this early, or even exist on the traditional lists campaigns contact.

Media planning to cover the events are asked to RSVP to Eugene at echow@peteforamerica.com.

The 37 Boot Pledge Pledge events will occur in the following locations:

Amherst, Berlin, Bethlehem, Claremont, Conway, Concord (multiple events), Derry, Durham (multiple events), Epping, Exeter, Fremont, Gilford, Goffstown, Hampton, Hollis, Hooksett, Keene, Laconia, Lebanon, Londonderry, Manchester, Nashua (multiple events), New Market, Peterborough, Plaistow, Portsmouth, Salem, Somersworth, Strafford, Rochester, Merrimack, Milton, Wolfeboro

Pete for America
October 1, 2019

Thirty Days of #PeteWave in New Hampshire

www.peteforamerica.com

Manchester, NH - In the past thirty days, Pete For America’s New Hampshire team has seen a surge in staff, organizing capacity, volunteers, endorsements, and field offices. 

Here are some highlights:

Since September 1, eight State Representatives have endorsed Pete, bringing the total number to ten. Those endorsers include 12-term Representative and House Ways & Means Committee Chair Susan Almy and three “Blue Wave” Representatives who flipped Republican seats. Last month, Pete also earned the endorsements of ten current and former elected officials and Democratic activists including former Lebanon Mayor and current City Councilor Suzanne Prentiss, Epping Board of Selectmen Chair and Army Veteran Adam Munguia, Democratic activists and New Castle “power couple” John and Mary Rauh — who WMUR called a “significant get” for Team Pete.

In addition to the latest slate of endorsements, since the start of September, Team Pete in New Hampshire nearly doubled its staff, growing from 34 to 64 with the addition of nearly 30 new organizers. 

Team Pete now has 13 offices in New Hampshire. We were the first campaign to open an office in Berlin — and Pete personally opened offices in Portsmouth, Somersworth, Conway, and Berlin. As WMUR reported noted, “the Buttigieg network of offices is one of the largest in the state, if not the largest, among the Democratic presidential field.”

On top of all that, Team Pete also:

  • Held 222 organizing events 
  • Canvassed for State Representative Naomi Andrews (on September 21) and Manchester
    Mayor Joyce Craig and Manchester Democrats (on Sunday)

  • Hosted 26 debate watch parties

Read highlights from the past thirty days of #PeteWave:



Pete for America
September 2, 2019

12 Offices, 10 Counties, 4 Days: Pete For America’s NH Office Opening Schedule

Manchester, N.H. — Monday, Pete For America announced that it will open twelve new offices in all ten counties in New Hampshire this week.

Pete For America’s new offices will begin opening on Thursday, September 5, when Chasten Buttigieg and Pete For America Campaign Manager Mike Schmuhl will launch a tour around the Granite State to open offices in Manchester, Concord, Lebanon, Laconia, Claremont, Keene, Nashua, and Derry. And following his appearance at the New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention on Saturday, September 7, Pete Buttigieg will open additional campaign offices in Somersworth and Portsmouth before heading to the North Country on Sunday morning for meet-and-greets at PFA’s new Conway and Berlin offices.

PETE FOR AMERICA NEW HAMPSHIRE OFFICE OPENINGS SCHEDULE

Pete Buttigieg will attend the office openings in Somersworth, Portsmouth, Conway, and Berlin on September 7-8.

Thursday, September 5

1:15 PM ET: Pete For America Manchester Office Opening
Location: 542 Elm St, Manchester, NH
 
2:45 PM ET: Pete For America Concord Office Opening
Location: 11 Depot St, Suite 1, Concord, NH

4:15 PM ET: Pete For America Laconia Office Opening
Location: 635 Main St, Suite 303, Laconia, NH

6:45 PM ET: Pete For America Lebanon Office Opening
Location:  2 West Park St, Suite 260, Lebanon, NH


Friday, September 6

9:00 AM ET: Pete For America Claremont Office Opening
Location: 24 Crescent St, Claremont, NH

10:45 AM ET: Pete For America Keene Office Opening
Location will be sent upon RSVP.

1:30 PM ET: Pete For America Nashua Office Opening 
Location: 37 Main St, Nashua, NH

4:30 PM ET: Pete For America Derry Office Opening
Location: 127 Rockingham Rd, Unit 11, Derry, NH
 

Saturday, September 7
 
4:30 PM ET: Pete For America Portsmouth Office Opening with Pete Buttigieg
Location: 33 Deer St #5A, Portsmouth, NH

5:45 PM ET: Pete For America Somersworth Office Opening with Pete Buttigieg
Location: 8 Government Way, Somersworth, NH


Sunday, September 8

7:30 AM ET: Pete For America Conway Office Opening with Pete Buttigieg
Location: 73 Main St, Unit 4, Conway, NH

10:30 AM ET: Pete For America Berlin Office Opening with Pete Buttigieg
Location: 19 Pleasant St, Berlin, NH



Pete for America
June 21, 2019

Pete For America Announces New Hampshire Deputy State Directors, Organizing Team Leadership