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https://www.influencewatch.org/person/elisabeth-pearson/
Elisabeth Pearson is a Democratic Party operative. She is president of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), a Democratic PAC chaired by former Attorney General Eric Holder, and on the board of the NDRC’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit affiliate National Redistricting Foundation (NRF). [1] From 2013 to December 2018, Pearson served as executive director of the Democratic Governors Association; she has also served as political director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).
https://www.rollcall.com/2017/02/13/at-dga-pearson-quietly-pulling-democrats-back-to-prominence/
In 2006, Pearson was campaign director for the Democratic Party of Virginia when Jim Webb knocked off GOP Sen. George Allen. During that cycle, her future husband, Charlie Kelly, managed Phil Kellam’s unsuccessful challenge to GOP Rep. Thelma Drake in Virginia’s 2nd District. The couple first met on the initial Kaine race.
After helping guide Democrats back to a majority in the Virginia state Senate in 2007, Pearson was hired by Warner and his team for his U.S. Senate run.
Managing the coordinated campaign “is as much about wrestling egos as execution,” Warner said. “She was great at both.” The former Democratic governor cruised to victory while Barack Obama won Virginia at the top of the ballot.
Warner was so impressed with Pearson that he wanted her to be his chief political person, “but she still had the campaign bug,” the senator recalled.
“She had the determination to make sure Warner’s interest was represented well and not left out,” remembered Warner campaign manager Mike Henry on dealing with the behemoth of the Obama campaign. “Her brains and talent and toughness were evident at a young age.”