With the 2010 General Election almost behind us, Sonoran Alliance is beginning to hear names surface for the upcoming City of Phoenix mayoral campaign. One of those names is Wes Gullett, the former right-hand man of Senator John McCain. As of today, no paperwork has been filed with the City of Phoenix. FYI: Gullet’s bio is available online but we’ll post it here:
Wes Gullett is a founding partner in the firm FirstStrategic, Communications & Public Affairs. He works primarily on strategic planning projects and representing businesses engaged in public policy efforts.
He has directed and worked on numerous public policy projects at FirstStrategic, including successful efforts passing Propositions 203 and 100. Gullett’s main focus is on providing corporate leaders with strategic communications advice so that they can accomplish their objectives.
Gullett served as Deputy Campaign Manager for McCain 2000 during John McCain’s campaign for the Republican Presidential Nomination. His principal duties were overseeing www.mccain2000.com, the pioneering effort to bring web technology and web applications to a major political campaign. This Internet program was heralded as the first serious effort to bring Presidential politics to the Internet. Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report as well as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the San Jose Mercury News reported on the spectacular success of the McCain Internet Campaign. Gullett also served as the co-leader of the McCain 2008 Arizona Campaign Leadership team.
In addition to working on political campaigns, Gullett has worked in the consulting world for the past 12 years. He was a partner in the Phoenix public affairs firm of HighGround, Inc. Prior to his current venture, Wes Gullett formed Integrated Web Strategy, LLC, a company that provides Internet consulting services for business, organizations and political campaigns.
Gullett has extensive experience in government. He was Chief of Staff for Arizona Governor Fife Symington from July 1993 to April 1996. In addition he served as Administrative Assistant to U.S. Senator John McCain. He also served as Senator McCain’s 1992 Campaign Manager. Gullett’s tenure with McCain was seven years and included Administrative Assistant, Community Relations Director and Northern Arizona/Maricopa County Field Director for McCain for Senate (1986).
Gullett served three years on Capitol Hill working for the U.S. Senate Republican Conference (1983-86). At the Conference, Gullett served as senior media producer. As the senior producer, Gullett oversaw the daily production of several radio and television programs.
Gullett is a native of Ottumwa, Iowa and attended The University of Iowa. He and his wife, former Arizona Representative Deb Gullett, have three children – Kelly, Katie and Nikki – and reside in Phoenix.
Oh, sweet Jesus, no. (<– pronounced hey-zeus).
You mean Wes Gullett of “Republicans for Janet Napolitano” fame? No thanks.
RINO Alert!
Need some meat to go with the talk. “Messaging” isn’t enough. Problems aren’t talked away.
A Friday evening roll out…typical of the political acumen we’ve seen out of the Gullets and their ilk.
Will Grant Woods be cutting his ads?
And will Travis and Ann comprise the campaign staff?
Stay tuned!
Carlist…
Grant Woods is a POS. Yep. I sort of cussed. The guy is irrelevant and needs to go away. Far away.
As for who I will support in the Phoenix Mayor’s race…it isn’t Peggy Nealy or Claude Maddox.
Right now, I would work my little fingers to the bone for ANY candidate who would get rid of the POS Harris and all the suck-up admin staff who go along with his CYA style.
The absolute lies being put out by the current PPD admin are all about covering up their own screw ups and mismanagement.
The latest story is nothing more than a diversion to appease the minority population because Harris and POS Romley know they have got a big cluster on their hands.
Montgomery is here now. They are SOL.
Yep…more cussing.
Anybody but Gordon who has the cajones to hire a REAL police chief, won’t run a sanctuary city, will support the cops on the beat, and fire all the dead weight.
That’s my guy/gal for the job!
Yep. Wes Gullet can be real proud of his work to elect Janet Napolitano over Republican Munsil.
Liberal “Republicans” need to be hunted to extinction. I’ll vote the Democrat first – truth in advertising and all that.
This is part of the Phil Gordon Needs a Job plan. Wes becomes Phil’s golden parachute so he can stay on as Wes’ chief of staff. This is about as hollow as the 500 job cuts city hall is bragging about in the paper – 500 empty positions, that is. Wake up Phoenix, this is more recycling only with your green.
Ann and Tortoise:
Your sentiments are greatly appreciated but the problem remains insofar as the key “liberal Republican” P.O.S. in Arizona has just been re-elected to the U.S.Senate and Grant Woods is at his right hand to do his bidding!
Grant also stands at the side of Jan Brewer!
The R.I.N.O. hunt will have to extend past the city of Phoenix.
Blah, blah, blah…thanks but no thanks. If it comes with the big “BUT”…that denies the words previously stated.
What part of majority do some of you not get? Your hate of one candidate does not make the absolute dislike of another, by others, less valid. Your dislike of McCain is nothing compared to the general voter dislike of JD. So where does that leave us?
Get over it and move on to what we can do…
Start by being sure NOT TO ELECT A LIB TO LEAD PHOENIX!
First priority…fire Jack Harris and hire a real chief who actually believes in the officers. A policy driven by “perception” and the desire to design that perception to meet Harris’ needs is no way to protect a city.
Jack Harris out. Yes. Bob Khan is on drop and going to retire. Great. Also time to add council districts so the cost of a council seat election is no longer $200,000 so only the rich, special interests can play. Each district has 250-300,000 people – the size of the city of Scottsdale. Diffuse the power of the mayor. Cut wasteful city programs and freeze wages for two years. Cut employee benefits, like the liberal buy-back of up to two years of unused leaves. Be like the Fed govt – don’t use it, lose it. Live within our means.
More self-promotional BS from The Creepy Ginger.