Obama Campaign Announces New Jersey State Director and Senior Advisor

     TRENTON – The Obama Campaign today announced Tricia Mueller will serve as Senator Obama’s New Jersey State Director and Bob Decheine will act as New Jersey Senior Advisor.   Mueller and Decheine will work with Senator Obama’s grassroots supporters on the ground and reach out to New Jersey voters about Obama’s commitment to changing politics in Washington, D.C.

     “New Jersey voters are ready for a President who will turn the page on Bush’s failed economic policies, not four more years of the same through McCain,” Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe said.  “Our team in New Jersey knows that strong organizations are built from the bottom up, not the top down, and we look forward to working with area supporters as we grow our grassroots campaign to end the failed policies of the past and bring change we can believe in.”

     See below for more information on state director Tricia Mueller and Senior Advisor Bob Decheine.

Tricia Mueller, State Director
    Since 2000 Mueller has been Political Director for the New Jersey Regional Council of Carpenters. Mueller is the only woman ever to have been a political director among New Jersey’s building trades unions, and is the first female regional political director among the 50-plus regional political directors of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.  Since October 2000 Ms. Mueller has been director of the New Jersey Regional Council of Carpenters Non-Partisan Political Education Committee (PEC), where she oversees the political and legislative agenda, fundraising, and considerable human resources of 18,000 union households representing 55,000 family members across the state.   Mueller is a graduate of The College of New Jersey. 

Bob Decheine, Senior Advisor
    Bob Decheine has worked on 16 campaigns including managing 9 competitive elections for U.S. House, U.S. Senate and President.  Decheine was Communications Director for Senator Russ Feingold and has been a Chief of Staff in the House for over a decade.  For the past five years he has been Chief of Staff to Congressman Steve Rothman (D-NJ), the Northeast Regional Co-Chair of the Obama campaign.  Decheine is originally from Wisconsin where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Secondary Education and a Master's degree in History from the University of Wisconsin.  

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