The Women Behind the Campaign – Stephanie Schriock
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Now that Al Franken has now officially become Senator Franken, members of the Franken campaign are finally getting their time in the limelight. One of the hardest working of those members was campaign manager Stephanie Schriock. The Washington Post profiles her Monday, revealing, among other things, that she masterminded recount efforts weeks before the election even occurred.
Mandy Grunwald, a veteran campaign consultant and longtime Franken intimate, calls Schriock “spectacular . . . one of the best campaign managers I’ve ever worked with, and I’ve been doing this a long time.” But what has clinched the current acclaim for Schriock is her planning for something few campaign pros have had to plan for: Weeks before Election Day, Schriock sensed that the vote could be close and drew up a road map for a recount.
She trained some 2,000 volunteers to bird-dog the state canvassers in every jurisdiction as officials hand-sorted nearly 3 million ballots. Schriock marshaled hundreds of attorneys, turning party headquarters into a law firm. Field staffers who had been door-knocking for Franken became paralegals prepping his legal exhibits.
“She ran the decathlon,” Schumer says of those miserable Minnesota months.
Learn more about Stephanie Schriock in this in depth profile.
[...] We’ve written before about how impressed we were by the Franken campaign’s Stephanie Schriock. A profile in the Washington Post after the endless recount finally concluded made it obvious how integral she was to Sen. Franken’s success. [...]