Marshall Wittmann
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Marshall Wittmann (born 1953) is an American lobbyist and the chief spokesman for AIPAC.[1][2]
On November 22, 2006, he was hired to be the communications director and spokesman for Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT). Wittmann is a former senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council. In 2012, he became the chief spokesman for AIPAC.[1][2]
Wittmann was born in 1953 in Waco, Texas. He studied at New York University and obtained a Bachelor in Elementary Education from the University Michigan in 1975 and a master's degree.[3]
He served as the conservative Heritage Foundation's director of congressional relations, the Christian Coalition's director of legislative affairs, and as a senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute for two years from September 2000 to October 2002.[4] In the George H. W. Bush administration, he served as a deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services. Wittmann also was the legislative representative with the National Association of Retired Federal Employees, which seeks to protect and enhance the earned pay, retirement, and health care benefits of U.S. federal government employees, retirees, and their survivors and a public affairs specialist with the National Treasury Employees Union, which fights for fair pay and benefits, improved working conditions, and other issues that impact the working lives of federal employees.
Bull Moose Blog
In his blog, Bull Moose Blog, Wittmann refers to himself in third-person as "the Moose". For example, he writes "The Moose has enjoyed the distinct pleasure of being labeled both a Republican squish and a Rovian Plant".[5] Wittmann borrowed his nickname from Teddy Roosevelt, whom Wittmann admires.
He retired his blog on November 17, 2006, and five days later, he was named the new Director of Communications for Senator Joseph Lieberman. His new role comes after a bitter campaign for the junior Senate seat in Connecticut where Lieberman defeated Ned Lamont; Wittmann was Lieberman's most prominent blog supporter and argued that Lamont's supporters were from the "nutroots".