Doug Bailey

Douglas Lansford Bailey was born on Oct. 5, 1933, in Cleveland. After receiving a bachelor's degree from Colgate University in 1954, Mr. Bailey received his master's and doctorate degrees in 1957-1962 from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts.

From 1968 to 1987, Bailey was President of Bailey Deardourff and Associates, among the first national political consulting firms.{{cite news|last=Edwards|first=Breanna|title=Hotline founder Doug Bailey dies|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/hotline-founder-doug-bailey-dies-92538.html|accessdate=11 June 2013|newspaper=Politico|date=10 June 2013}}

He worked for Republican candidates for Governor, Senate and president including: President Gerald Ford; senators Edward Brooke, Kit Bond, John Danforth, Charles Percy, Richard Schweiker, John Chafee, Richard Lugar, Robert Stafford, Howard Baker; governors Thomas Kean, William Milliken, Jim Rhodes, Otis R. Bowen, James R. Thompson, Lamar Alexander, Richard Snelling, William T. Cahill, Richard Thornburgh, Jim Rhodes, Robert Ray, Al Quie, Pete DuPont.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

He started The Hotline, a daily political newsletter delivered by fax, in 1987. It began partly as an experiment in bipartisanship.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/us/politics/doug-bailey-gop-political-consultant-dies-at-79.html?_r=0|title=Doug Bailey, G.O.P. Political Consultant, Dies at 79|newspaper=The New York Times|date=13 June 2013|accessdate=2 July 2013|first=Paul|last=Vitello}} Each issue, faxed in the late morning, included a roundup of political jokes from the previous night's talk-show monologues. He sold it to the National Journal in 1996.{{cite news|url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/11/former-republican-consultant-and-hotline-founder-doug-bailey-remembered-as-pioneer/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130615174540/http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/11/former-republican-consultant-and-hotline-founder-doug-bailey-remembered-as-pioneer/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 15, 2013|title=Former GOP consultant and Hotline founder Doug Bailey remembered as pioneer|author=Kevin Bohn |date=11 June 2013|accessdate=11 June 2013|work=CNN}}

After he left day-to-day operations, Bailey was involved in numerous philanthropic activities. Most recently, he was one of the four co-founders of the political reform movement Unity08. He was seeking to start a new centrist party for the 2008 presidential election to try to unite the country. He appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his cause. He founded Freedom's Answer, a non-partisan voter turnout effort, with former Clinton Press Secretary Mike McCurry. He also served on the board of directors of the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

In 1994, Bailey joined Jeffrey Pollack in a venture to start a daily briefing for the sports world called the Sports Business Daily. This venture originally occupied three rooms in the same building as The Hotline, and was sold in 1996.{{cite web|url=http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/article/88125|title=From The Founder: Pollack Talks About The Early Days Of The Daily|work=Interview with Jeffrey Pollack|publisher=SportsBusinessDaily|date=2004-09-13|accessdate=2009-05-26}}

In January 2008, Bailey and fellow Unity08 co-founder Gerald Rafshoon left that organization to launch a national effort to draft New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for president as an independent candidate.{{cite news |title= Unity08 Scales Back, Co-Founders Split For Draft Bloomberg Committee |last= Benjamin |first= Elizabeth |newspaper= NYDailyNews.com |url= http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2008/01/unity08-scales-back-cofounders.html |accessdate= 2008-01-12 |date= 2008-01-10 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080113112906/http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2008/01/unity08-scales-back-cofounders.html |archivedate= 2008-01-13 }}

Bailey sat on the Council on American Politics, which brings leaders from the political and communications arenas together to address issues facing the growth and enrichment of GW's Graduate School of Political Management.{{cite web|title=About {{!}} The Council on American Politics|url=http://www.gspm.gwu.edu/councilamericanpolitics|publisher=GW's Graduate School of Political Management|accessdate=3 February 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111220111743/http://www.gspm.gwu.edu/councilamericanpolitics|archivedate=20 December 2011}}

Bailey died on June 10, 2013.{{cite web |last=Wilson |first=Reid |url=http://www.nationaljournal.com/blogs/hotlineoncall/2013/06/i-hotline-i-founder-doug-bailey-passes-away-10 |title=Hotline Founder Doug Bailey Passes Away |publisher=NationalJournal.com |date=2004-12-29 |accessdate=2013-06-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611164221/http://www.nationaljournal.com/blogs/hotlineoncall/2013/06/i-hotline-i-founder-doug-bailey-passes-away-10 |archivedate=2013-06-11 }}

He was married to Patricia P. Bailey, who was a FTC commissioner from 1979 to 1988; they had two children.{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/what-ive-learned-doug-bailey/|title=What I've Learned: Doug Bailey|author=Ken Adelman|work=The Washingtonian|date=November 1, 2006}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20061027230513/http://www.americanpolitics.com/010798BaileyReed.html An interview with Bailey on the subject of Ralph Reed and the consulting business]
• [http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/2934.html "What I've Learned: Doug Bailey"] "A political guru on the problem with campaign consultants, why people are getting fed up with both parties, and why big changes are on the way" by Ken Adelman, The Washingtonian, November 1, 2006.
• [https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200701/green-unity08 A profile in the Atlantic on Bailey's involvement in Unity08]
• [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/talk/zforum/bailey011399.htm The Washington Post interview with Bailey]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20111220111743/http://www.gspm.gwu.edu/councilamericanpolitics The Council on American Politics at GW's Graduate School of Political Management]
• [http://www.gspm.gwu.edu GW’s Graduate School of Political Management]
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