What is your greatest
motivation professionally?
Helping people achieve their goals.
When you analyze poll results and see the road map to victory
-- however the client defines it -- and you provide them direction
to achieve victory, well that’s pretty motivating, especially
when a course correction is counterintuitive.
What is the most important contribution
you make to the Moore Information team? 
Probably keeping the firm connected to Washington,
DC
and our clients on Capitol Hill
and providing our clients with
extensive experience in
political campaigns.
Who has inspired you in your
life? Why?
Well, other than my parents,
I’d say my high school dean
and housemaster, Ed Maddox.
He reinforced so many
positive values: simple
decency, selflessness
and treating other people
well. He wasn’t quite as
successful in imparting the
value of diligent study habits.
What accomplishment in your career are
you most proud of?
Oh, I’d say managing Slade Gorton’s
’94 reelection campaign for the U.S. Senate and the huge
victory we achieved in Washington State, up and down the ticket.
Nationally, it was a great year for Republicans to be sure,
but we were incredibly focused, the campaign team meshed perfectly
and we had a lot of fun along the way.
If you could invite 5 people from any
time in history to your birthday party, who would they be?
Herodotus – Ah, the stories he could
tell.
Lauren Hutton – Perfection. (I’m still kicking myself
for freezing up when fate found me sitting next to her at the
counter of the Waverly Diner in New York City in the early 80’s.
A real “habbita-habbita-habbita” Ralph Kramden moment.)
Ernest Hemingway – I think he was probably a bit of a
horse’s ass but he writes how I think. And, he enjoyed
a good fiesta!
Benjamin Franklin – Every party needs someone who’s
an expert on everything.
Ernest Shackleton – His leadership skills and story of
survival are incredible and I’d just like to know if the
guy was actually human. Iron men in wooden boats, indeed.
What has been your most unusual job?
Cleaning out sugar tanks at Domino Sugar with
high pressure water hoses.
Did you end up getting all sticky?
Not really. The tanks were empty and my job
was to blast residue off the walls and the giant paddles on
the inside. The tanks were about two stories high with a small
hatch at the top through which to access them. Inky dark except
for a small trouble light to illuminate the work area. Tedious.
I used to daydream about someday getting to pore through thousands
of pages of crosstabs instead.
What is one thing you can’t live
without?
Well, of course, my wife and kids. But more
philosophically, life needs purpose. You have to have goals
and objectives, something to live and work for. A person needs
a reason to get up in the morning otherwise we’re just
killing time. I may not be in the polling business for the rest
of my life but, I’m going to have to do something - retirement
scares the hell out of me!
What do you like to do when you aren’t
working?
 Here’s
the perfect weekend. Play lacrosse Friday night and then grab
a few beers with friends after the game. Get up early Saturday
morning to go out on the Bay for rockfish, limit out and then
head over to the Eastern Shore to hunt what’s in season
(dove, ducks, geese) and then have a passel of friends over for
a fish and game dinner (with a few ribeye steaks). Then, when
all but the diehards have left, plug in Mad Max or Lonesome Dove
on the old VHS and see how long it takes before the snoring starts.
Spring Break in the Florida Keys is essential to my mental health,
as is Nantucket in the summer. And anytime I can sit around and
watch old episodes of the Odd Couple or Alf with my family is
heaven on earth.
Top ten albums for that
deserted Island?
1: Before the Flood, Bob Dylan and the Band
2: One More From the Road, Lynyrd Skynyrd
3: Songs You Know By Heart, Jimmy Buffet
4: Tannhaueser, Richard Wagner
5: The Singles, 1969-73, The Carpenters
6: Full House, J. Geils
7: The Very Best of Glen Campbell, Glen Campbell
8: Greetings from Asbury Park, Bruce Springsteen
9: Kick, INXS
10: Court and Spark, Joni Mitchell
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