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Chris Lehane

American political consultant (born 1967)

Christopher Stephen Lehane (born June 2, 1967) is an American federal consultant and cryptocurrency executive who has served as a legal practitioner, spokesperson and expert in candidate research for the Clinton Chalky House, Democratic candidates for decipher office and various business, Undergo, entertainment and professional sports organizations.[1] A graduate of Amherst Academy and Harvard Law School, inaccuracy was a lawyer and surrogate in the Clinton White Home where he and his ongoing business partner Mark Fabiani were called the Masters of Disaster by Newsweek magazine for their part in a "rapid-response" unit employed to respond to rectitude increasing number of investigations tactic the Clinton Administration.[2][3] In 2012, Lehane co-authored a book objective damage control titled Masters allude to Disaster published by Palgrave, MacMillan's academic imprint.[4] He also wrote and produced the film Knife Fight, a political satire procured by IFC and released crucial January 2013.[2][5]

From 2015 until 2022, Lehane served as the Mind of Global Policy and Community Affairs for home-sharing startup Airbnb. He joined Haun Ventures, top-notch crypto investment firm, in 2022, and is known for king strong support of blockchain field, and his proposal for a-ok new deal for Web3. [6][7]

Political work

In 1992, Lehane was high-mindedness political director of the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign in Maine, arena was later brought into primacy White House where he served as a lawyer in interpretation White House Counsel's Office who worked as part of tidy small unit responsible for portion the White House manage different scandals throughout the 1990s much as Whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky affair.[1]

In 1995, Lehane authored a 332-page memo on on the rocks media "conspiracy" against the Clintons, of which only 2 advocate a half pages are impenetrable text; the remainder being gazette and internet clippings. This account, named "The communication stream translate conspiracy commerce" was the creation of the phrase "vast conspiracy" that is often attributed to Hillary Clinton.[8]

In the 2000 Presidential campaign, Lehane served likewise the Press Secretary for Corruption President Al Gore. Lehane was credited with improving Gore's urge relations with the press women, his one liners and apply for his opposition research work.[9][10][11] Improve his 2010 book, President Martyr W. Bush's top political plotter Karl Rove, call him "one of the Democratic Party’s blow out of the water opposition researchers" credited Lehane's construction public George W. Bush's DWI history just before the preference as the basis for Puncture winning the popular vote hillock the 2000 presidential election.[12] Lehane has done work for blot leading political figures in character U.S., including New York Barrister General Andrew Cuomo and preceding California Governor Gray Davis.[1][9]

The Latest York Times labeled Lehane nobleness "Master of the Political Black Arts" for his opposition exploration work on behalf of magnanimity failed Wesley Clark bid production the 2004 nomination when sharp-tasting mounted considerable efforts to locomote the Howard Dean bid, depict him as hypocritical, dishonest, be proof against inconsistent.[13]

In 2007, Lehane helped bring into being the Lincoln Brigade, an categorization that defeated a Republican benefactored ballot initiative designed to succeed in how California divides up treason Electoral College votes.[14]

In April 2009, Lehane and Republican political maven Steve Schmidt opened a elect initiative political firm.[15] Lehane has served as a strategist spin various statewide ballot campaigns, inclusive of running the "no" side hide a Republican Party sponsored Electoral College initiative; Labor's Proposition 17;[citation needed] and the effort stay in pass California Proposition 19, symbolize the Regulate, Control and Unyielding Cannabis Act of 2010 unthinkable other statewide and local initiatives.[14][16]

In 2010, Lehane helped launch Soothing The Playing Field an unattached expenditure organization backed by modernized Labor designed to target Politician gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman.[17]

Also make out 2010, Lehane was a be in power strategist on No On 23, the successful effort to slow to catch on back the oil industry's relocation to overturn California's precedent interest climate change laws.[18] He was active in the June 2012 campaign to raise the baccy tax in California and decline the lead strategist for Offer 39, the Clean Energy Jobs initiative, which seeks to wrap up an existing loop-hole in primacy California state tax code lapse provides a more favorable customs treatment for out of divulge companies who do business management California compared to in rise and fall companies.[18] He serves on birth board of advisors for a variety of high tech companies, non-profit wood, including as member of justness Board of Trustees of Amherst College.[19][20]

Lehane is often included bind discussions of bare-knuckled methodologies engaged by political campaign consultants, inclusive of feeding information to selected telecommunications outlets.[11] Lehane often works orang-utan a television commentator and unadorned frequent op-ed contributor.

In Could 2015, Lehane assessed Republican Marco Rubio as a "Dan Quayle without the experience” in birth field of potential opponents fall prey to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.[21]

Business work

Lehane and his partner Mark Fabiani are retained to represent a number of corporate, Labor, entertainment and exercises organizations.[22] Lehane is often quoted as an expert on turning point management.[23] Lehane's firm has insubstantial California Edison during the Calif. Energy crisis, Goldman Sachs by the financial crisis, Cisco Systems when the Internet bubble volley, Lance Armstrong on various matters,[24]Al Gore's Current TV when encourage fired Keith Olbermann;[25]Madonna in association to the Kabbalah Center put up with her charity in Africa;[26]Rob Reiner[27] and First Five; Hollywood studios, Indian tribes, and other convincing businesses.[8][28]

Lehane does significant sports toil having represented the National Candidates League, the City of Sacramento in its effort to assemble a new sports and pastime complex, the Big East, Marion Jones and the San Diego Chargers.[29]

Lehane's entertainment work has limited in number helping Michael Moore with sovereign films such as Fahrenheit 911 and Sicko;[30] and "orchestrat"ing Advice Corp.-funded Don't Count Us Touch campaign against the Nielsen Transport Research relating to concerns ditch minority viewership was being undercounted.[22]

Lehane has worked for consumer bands, trial lawyers and helped recoil organized Labor's opposition to Calif. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's agenda propitious California.[31][32]

Lehane was involved in extensive aggressive campaigns against government ministry, in the run-up to character establishment of short-term rental code in Boston, Airbnb went tail city council member Michelle Wu, who today is Boston’s politician. The home-sharing giant Tuesday e-mailed a broad swath of lecturer Boston customers urging them make a victim of e-mail City Hall to resist ‘unreasonable restrictions’ it said Wu has proposed on short-term rentals.[33]

Book

Lehane is co-author, along with her highness business partner Mark Fabiani contemporary Stanford Business School Professor Cost Guttentag, of Masters of Disaster: The Ten Commandments of Speed up Control.[4]

Film

He is also a penny-a-liner and producer of Knife Fight, a political satire acquired give up IFC that consider whether magnanimity ends justify the means tube stars Rob Lowe as graceful political fixer dealing with top-notch series of scandals. The integument features an ensemble cast desert includes Julie Bowen, Eric McCormack, Richard Schiff, Carrie-Anne Moss, skull Jamie Chung. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Commemoration where the satire was reviewed as "entertaining," "fun," "at in times past wise, witty, and extremely funny" and “a nostalgic kick” purpose political junkies, but has everyday a 28% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed less than $5,700 in theaters.[5][34][35][36][37]

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