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Ever the mellow guy, there is only one point where Nugen tenses up during our conversation and that's when I ask about news reports saying the Clintons planned to raise money at the convention to help pay off her debt. "I'm not going to get into details of...
The assignment was a daunting one for Nugen, who signed on to Obama's campaign in February 2007 as political director - the guy in charge of schmoozing and cajoling the superdelegates to endorse the Illinois senator. By the time Nugen arrived in Denver the convention was already severely behind schedule...
Nugen has experience working on conventions, serving as deputy chief operating officer for the 2000 convention in Los Angeles and lending a hand in Boston in 2004 from his perch as deputy national field director at the DNC, a post he assumed after working on Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman's...
Nugen also has spent years working with the actual delegates - not just 852 superdelegates but those obscure folks who are elected to represent their districts at the convention. "One of the things is having been on the Obama staff during the primaries doing politics he knows who needs what, who...
Those delegates are all arriving now and the show is on the road. The man behind the curtain isn't too worried. "You can't plan for every option or any problem that might come up," Nugen says. "But we have a really crack team, a very talented team with...