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Obama Alum to Join Schwartz Team

Pat Millham
Pat Millham

Allyson Schwartz continues to build her gubernatorial campaign team. Obama Pennsylvania campaign alum Pat Millham started with the Congresswoman today. Bill Hyers will join in the fall, two Democratic operatives told PoliticsPA.

Hyers was Obama’s State Director, the campaign’s highest-ranking official in Pa. Millham was the President’s Political Director in the state where he coordinated elected officials, labor organizations, and and other elements of the Obama coalition.

Millham will be a senior adviser to Schwartz and will run the operation for the next several months.

The two Democratic sources say Hyers will assume the duties of campaign manager in November at the latest; he presently manages the campaign of New York City mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio, one of the Democrats competing in the Sept. 10 primary.

“I’m thrilled to work for the Congresswoman and excited for the campaign,” Millham said. “It’s clear to me that she’s got the right vision for Pennsylvania and will give voters a clear contrast from the failed policies of Governor Corbett.”

Schwartz’s team currently comprises Communications Director Reesa Kossoff, who ran press for Obama in Ohio, and Finance Director Aubrey Montgomery, formerly of the Pa. Democratic Party – as well as longtime Schwartz aide Neil Deegan.

Schwartz’s campaign confirmed the Millham hiring but did not confirm Hyres. An effort to confirm with Hyers via the de Blasio campaign was unsuccessful.

PoliticsPA named Millham one of the top 30 under 30 political rising stars for 2012 thanks to his work for Obama and his 2010 work as Dan Onorato’s political director. We wrote in December: “Want to know who is the Dems’ 2014 Gov front runner? Watch where Milham goes.”

He worked for John Kerry and Ed Rendell in western Pa., too. Recently he’d been doing consulting for the Carey Group in Pittsburgh.

Hyers has a long resume, including gubernatorial campaigns in Kentucky in 2011 and Ohio in 2010 and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s primary win in 2007.

Editor’s note: Hyers hire is not official, as an earlier version of this story implied. The story has been changed to make clear that information about Hyers fall plans is based on two Democratic sources, not on confirmation from Hyers or Schwartz. Those sources also initially informed PoliticsPA of Millham’s hire.

7 Responses

  1. Scranton Harrisburg are run by Casey Biden Union Democrats and share not only partisan affiliation but also governing philosophy. The results in Wilkes Barre Philadelphia Reading and almost every failing Act 47 municipality is, and has been , run by Democrats. Democrats cannot be trusted with money. The empirical, real world evidence is overwhelming.

  2. Bob
    Are you aware that Casey and Biden don’t run local gov in Scranton?

  3. Keegan, I don’t think that picture is right. It just appears to be a homeless man in a suit.

  4. Far Left Allyson Schwartz can be counted on to bring Obama’s job policies to Pennsylvania. Small businesses, those who want to work, Tax Makers worry. Socialist millionaires like Allyson Schwartz will be able to take care of tax taking Socialist Crony Capitalists and low information voters who want their “free stuff”.

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