July 2024, Year XVI, n. 7
Bernie Campbell
A Passion for Politics
Telos: As a political campaign manager, you have advised candidates and political parties not just in the US, but also in several countries around the world. What skills and expertise have made you successful in your profession?
Bernie Campbell: Like many of life’s best discoveries, I stumbled into politics. I met a candidate for US Congress, a real underdog running against a five-term incumbent. He didn’t have a chance, so when he asked if I wanted to run his campaign, I didn’t have anything to lose.
And while we did lose, it was unexpectedly one of the nation’s closest contests, and the next day, my voicemail was full. I’d taken a job and found a career. One that would take me around the world ...more
Editorial
Our guest for the July issue of PRIMOPIANOSCALAc is Bernie Campbell, who knows a thing or two about elections and reminds us that a passion for politics is really a passion for people. And he does not mean this in the abstract sense of “service to your community”.
People who have the kind of passion he is talking about go down to the boat docks before dawn to talk to the fishermen or wait outside the gates of an industrial plant to get to know the workers. They don’t try and give them lessons on how the world works, they try to learn what doesn’t work from them so they can adequately represent them ...more
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