OTTAWA – A key member of Justin Trudeau’s inner circle is running to become president of the federal Liberal party.
Anna Gainey, a well-connected, longtime Liberal, is scheduled to formally kick off her campaign on Wednesday.
She says she wants to focus on expanding the party’s support base through the kind of personal engagement strategy used so successfully by U.S. President Barack Obama’s campaign team.
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Gainey is closely connected to Trudeau: she played a senior operations role in his successful leadership campaign earlier this year while her husband, lifelong Trudeau friend Tom Pitfield, was in charge of the digital campaign.
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But her roots in the party predate Trudeau’s ascension to the Liberal throne.
She served as a ministerial assistant to Bill Graham and John McCallum in Paul Martin’s short-lived government.
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