Tom Perriello

Tom Perriello, who is being targeted by the RNC for 2010, was a national security consultant and founder of faith-based organizations. He has worked in Africa to end atrocities in the West African countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone, which had suffered long civil wars fueled by blood diamonds. He has also served as a national security analyst for the Century Foundation. He has worked inside Darfur and twice in Afghanistan. Since 2004, Tom has helped to launch a political and social movement in this country that is credited with shifting the national debate about America’s moral priorities. He helped found FaithfulAmerica.org and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, which bring together faith communities to fight for children’s health care, supporting a higher minimum wage, environmental stewardship, and responsible solutions in Iraq. For more information on Tom, see Tom Perrielo for Congress.

Tom Perriello

Tom Perriello is a national security consultant and founder of faith-based organizations. He has worked in Africa to end atrocities in the West African countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone, which had suffered long civil wars fueled by blood diamonds. He has also served as a national security analyst for the Century Foundation. He has worked inside Darfur and twice in Afghanistan. Since 2004, Tom has helped to launch a political and social movement in this country that is credited with shifting the national debate about America’s moral priorities. He helped found FaithfulAmerica.org and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, which bring together faith communities to fight for children’s health care, supporting a higher minimum wage, environmental stewardship, and responsible solutions in Iraq. For more information on Tom, see Tom Perrielo for Congress.

Steve Driehaus

Steve Driehaus is a husband, father, community leader and an Ohiostate representative. First elected in 2000, Driehaus represents the people of western Cincinnati, Addyston, Cheviot, Cleves, and North Bend.  In the legislature, Steve Driehaus has fought to expand health care coverage and led the charge against predatory lending and foreclosures in Hamilton County that led Governor Ted Strickland to create the Governor’s Foreclosure Task Force. For more information, see Steve Driehaus for Congress.

Patrick Murphy

As the first and only Iraq war veteran elected to Congress, Patrick has unique insight into the Iraq debate. In January, Congressman Murphy, along with Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and Congressman Mike Thompson (D-CA), introduced the bi-partisan, bi-cameral Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007, which aims to safely redeploy our troops from Iraq by March 31, 2008. Locally, Congressman Murphy has focused on flood mitigation and attracting green energy companies to the 8th district of Pennsylvania. Congressman Murphy is a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition and serves on the Armed Services Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence. For more info, see Patrick Murphy for Congress.