Nancy Pfotenhauer
Nancy Pfotenhauer, formerly Nancy Mitchell, born Nancy Wadley (born 1964 ) is an American lobbyist. Pfotenhauer became known as the vice president of the trade association Citizens for a Sound Economy and president of the Independent Women 's Forum (IWF ). In 2008, she served on the advisory board of U.S. presidential candidate John McCain.
Life and work
By 1980, Nancy Mitchell began economics at George Mason University to study, which she left with a master's degree. During her studies Pfotenhauer worked as a research assistant for Walter Williams.
In 1987 she was hired as an economic consultant for the Republican National Committee. In 1988 she was appointed chief economist of this body of the Republican Party. For the campaign team of then- presidential candidate George HW Bush Mitchell contributed expertise for the Federal Trade Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission. During the first panel dealt with trade issues of the Federal Government in Washington, devoted the latter to the trade between the U.S. states with each other. In the Bush administration (1988-1992) was one Pfotenhauer founded by Vice President Dan Quayle Council for Competitiveness on, a body that would develop proposals to increase the economic competitiveness of the United States, was the frequent but also criticized for basically nothing else to be used as a tool to fight for the industry and to protect the environment. 1990 Pfotenhauer worked for Senator William L. Armstrong.
After the Democratic victory of 1992 Mitchell took over the chairmanship of the Association of Citizens for a Sound Economy, one in the United States, which also Mitchell's study was co-financed, launched by Koch Industries, one of the largest companies in the petrochemical industry organization with the aim, to the " recovery of the economy" to contribute. From 1996 to 2001 Mitchell acted as Spitzenlobbyistin for the company Koch Industries. 2001 Mitchell had to divorce her first husband, Daniel Mitchell, who worked as a business consultant for the Heritage Foundation. In the same year she married Kurt Pfotenhauer, chief of staff of U.S. Senator Gordon H. Smith.
At the time, took over Mitchell / Pfotenhauer also the Presidency of the Independent Women 's Forum (IWF ), a launched by Koch Industries lobbying. 2002 Pfotenhauer was appointed by then- Attorney General John Ashcroft to the National Committee on Violence Against Women, a team of advisers, who with the issue of violence against women and the ways these get at, is concerned. In 2003, Pfotenhauer the Presidency of the interest group Americans for Prosperity.
2007 Pfotenhauer, was appointed to the campaign team of the Senator from Arizona, John McCain, who competed at this time for the nomination as a candidate of the Republican Party for the U.S. presidential office. In the following months Pfotenhauer McCain supported the internal party primary campaign. After McCain was able to prevail against its competitors for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party in March 2008, Pfotenhauer involved in the election campaign of the Republicans against the Democratic Party for their candidate Barack Obama. Pfotenhauer took primarily functions as a consultant on the staff of a McCain, they also acted as a public spokesperson for the McCain campaign, especially in matters of energy policy. To this end, she appeared regularly as a representative of the Republican viewpoint on television shows such as The Situation Room and Larry King Live. In this role, Pfotenhauer fell on mainly by the vigorous advocacy of drilling for oil off the American coast (offshore oil drilling ).
Due to the respected by their critics as arbitrary manner, argued with the Pfotenhauer favor of the interests of features supported by her McCain campaign, it was considered one of the most controversial figures in American presidential campaign. So reviled the pro-democracy watchdog site The Wonk Room Pfotenhauer example, as "McCain 's dirty Energy spokeswoman ." The TV comedian Jon Stewart again maintained Pfotenhauer ago in an article for his satirical news program The Daily Show, that she practiced a shameless double standard in the evaluation of policy processes in the context of their appearances in news broadcasts. In support of this allegation, he led a series of clips with clips of interviews of Pfotenhauer in various political programs before, in which she commented identical situations with diametrically opposed statements: on the one hand, she replied in an excerpt from the early summer of 2008, in which she was asked how they stand to attacks on the Democrat Hillary Clinton, that it is unacceptable that a woman in politics the "victim card" Operating the and that women should not ask to be tackled differently in the political arena than men. In a second Einspieler, who captured their reaction to similar attacks on Republican Sarah Palin, Pfotenhauer complained, however, that they would look at it from a " female point of view" as intolerable, convert jump with a woman in such a manner.
For attention and criticism Pfotenhauer, and once again in October 2008, when "the real Virginia " described the southern part of the U.S. state of Virginia as and thus implicitly - dominated by Democrats - branded northern areas of the state as un-American.