Jason Stanford (consultant)
{{Short description|American author, writer}}
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Jason Stanford is an American author and writer. He was the communications director for Austin mayor Steve Adler. Previously, he was a Democratic strategist, commentator and author based in Washington, D.C.{{cite news |title=Democratic consultant says Texas had nation's 'worst voter participation' in November 2014 |author=Dylan Baddour |publisher=Politifact |date=November 25, 2014 |url=http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2014/nov/25/jason-stanford/democratic-consultant-says-texas-had-nations-lowes/ |accessdate=December 7, 2014 |quote=Telephone interview, Jason Stanford, political research consultant, Stanford Caskey, Washington, D.C., Nov. 17, 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7878.html |title=You can run, but you can't hide |author=Erika Lovely |publisher=Politico |date=18 January 2008 |accessdate=24 May 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2008/05/jason-stanford-to-the-rescue.html/ |title=Jason Stanford to the rescue! |author=Robert T. Garrett |website=Dallas News |date=13 May 2008 |accessdate=24 May 2014}} He is a syndicated columnist with Cagle Cartoons and also a regular contributor to the Austin American-Statesman.{{cite web |url=http://www.cagle.com/author/jason-stanford/ |title=Jason Stanford |publisher=The Cagle Post |accessdate=24 May 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/opinion/looking-ahead-to-2014-by-looking-back-to-2013/ncXXx/ |title=Looking ahead to 2014 by looking back to 2013 |publisher=Austin American-Statesman |date=28 December 2013 |accessdate=24 May 2014}}
Stanford co-authored Adios Mofo: Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush in 2011 with James Moore.{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E5D61739F934A2575BC0A9679D8B63 |title=Publishers Announce Two Rick Perry Books |author=Kate Taylor |work=New York Times |date=17 August 2011 |accessdate=24 May 2014}}{{cite news |title=Get ready for the Rick Perry book blitz
|date=21 August 2011
|publisher=The Times-Picayune}}{{cite web |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63755_Page2.html#ixzz1djZW8yCZ |title=As Rick Perry goes national, so do tales from Texas |publisher=Politico |accessdate=24 May 2014}} He has also written for Texas Monthly and the Texas Tribune.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.texasmonthly.com/contributor/jason-stanford |title=Jason Stanford |magazine=Texas Monthly |accessdate=24 May 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.texastribune.org/2010/05/10/jason-stanford-how-bill-white-can-beat-rick-perry/ |title=How Bill White Can Beat Rick Perry |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=The Texas Tribune |date=10 May 2010 |accessdate=24 May 2014}}
Stanford is the founder of Stanford Caskey, a political research and crisis communications firm based in Austin, Texas and Chicago, Illinois.{{cite web |url=http://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/353787/democratic-research-firms-merge-to-form-stanford-caskey.thtml |title=Democratic research firms merge to form Stanford Caskey |author=Dave Nyczepir |publisher=Campaigns & Elections |date=6 February 2013 |accessdate=24 May 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/174552/quality-opposition-research.thtml |title=Quality Opposition Research |author=Boyce Upholt |publisher=Campaigns & Elections |date=12 June 2009 |accessdate=24 May 2014}}
Career
Stanford attended Lewis & Clark College, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in Russian in 1992.{{cite web |url=http://www.lclark.edu/live/profiles/2498-jason-stanford-adios-mofo-why-rick-perry-will-make |title=Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush |publisher=The Chronicle Magazine |accessdate=24 May 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.panews.com/opinion/x1765870974/DAVE-MCNEELY-A-political-hired-gun-for-Democrats |title=A political hired gun for Democrats |author=Dave MeNeely |publisher=Port Arthur The News |date=3 March 2010 |accessdate=24 May 2014}} He studied Russian because he wanted to become a spy. During his final semester at Lewis & Clark, he studied at Moscow State Pedagogical University.{{cite web |url=http://posttrib.suntimes.com/opinions/25526373-474/hotel-not-perfect-no-ones-rushing-to-help.html |title=Hotel not perfect? No one's rushing to help |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=Post-Tribune |date=12 February 2014 |accessdate=24 May 2014}} Stanford worked at the Moscow Guardian following his graduation and later at the Los Angeles Times Moscow bureau, where he worked as an investigative reporter under the byline J. Andrew Stanford.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-24-mn-60284-story.html |title=Russia May Have Used U.S. Aid for Political Purposes : Funding: Ads that were supposed to promote privatization are pulled after partisan overtones were added to them |author1=J. Andrew Stanford |author2=Michael A. Hiltzik |work=Los Angeles Times |date=24 November 1993 |access-date=24 May 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://guriev.lenin.ru/pinoller/mg.shtml#00 |title=This is a normal life. This is a normal job. |author=Alexander Kushnir |publisher=Moscow Guardian |date=April 1993 |accessdate=24 May 2014}} While at the Times, Stanford helped uncover the diversion of American funds from privatization efforts to then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin's political party. He also worked briefly as a model for Ziegenbock beer.{{cite web |url=http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2006/09/jason-stanford-spokesmodel/ |title=Jason Stanford, spokesmodel |author=Mark Babineck |publisher=Houston Chronicle |date=27 September 2006 |accessdate=24 May 2014}}
Stanford became involved in politics following his introduction to members of Ann Richards' 1994 Texas gubernatorial campaign staff by his editor at the Moscow Guardian, Billy Rogers, who was formerly a Texas-based Democratic operative. Stanford moved to Texas to work on Ann Richards' campaign, where he was a researcher and deputy press secretary.{{cite news|title=The Rising Stars of politics 2002.
|publisher=Campaigns & Elections
|date=Apr 2002
|page=22}}
In 1997, following his work on the Richards campaign, Stanford founded Stanford & Ryan Research (now known as Stanford Caskey) with the late Tom Ryan.{{cite web |url=http://www.texastribune.org/1999/06/07/five-months-of-appetizers/ |title=Five Months of Appetizers |author=Doug Addison |publisher=Texas Weekly |date=7 June 1999 |accessdate=24 May 2014}} Ryan left the company in 1999 and it became Stanford Research.
Stanford is credited with helping then-Democratic Oklahoma state Senator Brad Henry defeat Steve Largent in the 2002 Oklahoma gubernatorial election.{{cite web |url=http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2010/01/friedman-campaign-brings-on-op.html/ |title=Friedman camp pulls in former foe Jason Stanford |author=Jessica Meyers |publisher=Dallas News |date=27 January 2010 |accessdate=24 May 2014}}{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Bell-chief-helped-beat-former-hero-1872773.php |title=Bell chief helped beat former hero |author=R.G. Ratcliffe |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |date=24 October 2006 |accessdate=24 May 2014}} Stanford later served as campaign manager for Chris Bell's 2006 Texas gubernatorial campaign.
In 2013, Stanford Campaigns merged with William Caskey's 3rd Coast Research and became Stanford Caskey. Stanford began writing a weekly column for The Quorum Report, a newsletter about Texas politics, in May 2014.{{cite web |url=http://www.quorumreport.com/Quorum_Report_Daily_Buzz_2014/stanford__texas_florida_headed_in_opposite_directi_buzziid21949.html |title=Texas, Florida headed in opposite directions on Hispanics |publisher=Quorum Report |date=9 May 2014 |accessdate=24 May 2014}}
Jason has three film credits. He is credited as appearing in "Bush's Brain," a documentary about Karl Rove.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023|reason=IMDb is *not* a reliable source (see WP:IMDB, WP:IMDB/RS and WP:IMDB-EL).}} Though he was interviewed by the filmmakers after he was quoted in the book{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ANSfwJOiDEC&q=%22bush%27s+brain%22+%22jason+stanford%22&pg=PR8 |title=Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential |author=James Moore and Wayne Slater |date=10 February 2011 |publisher=Wiley & Sons |isbn=9781118039823 |accessdate=1 September 2015}} that the documentary was based on, footage of his interview was not used in the film. He did appear in All About Ann, an HBO documentary about the life of former Texas Governor Ann Richards, as well as in Along Came Kinky, a film that documented Kinky Friedman's campaign during that gubernatorial election.{{cite web |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/columnists/wayne-slater/20100127-Slater-In-Texas-politics-5436.ece |title=In Texas politics, you're with 'em one day, against 'em the next |author=Wayne Slater |publisher=Dallas News |date=27 January 2010 |accessdate=24 May 2014}}
Publications
- Adios Mofo: Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush (2011)
- Rick Perry Emerges as GOP's Voice of Reason (2015){{cite web |url=https://www.texasobserver.org/greater-state-rick-perry-emerges-as-gops-voice-of-reason/ |title=Rick Perry Emerges as GOP's Voice of Reason |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=Texas Observer |date=26 August 2015 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Odds are Congress won't nix Iran Deal (2015){{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/11/time-remember/31410375/ |title=Odds are Congress won't nix Iran Deal |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=USA Today |date=11 August 2015 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Galaxy Quest (2015){{cite magazine |url=http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/galaxy-quest/ |title=Galaxy Quest |author=Jason Stanford |magazine=Texas Monthly |date=31 July 2015 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Senate threatens historic deal with Iran (2015){{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/07/15/jason-stanford-senate-threatens-historic-deal-iran/30209687/ |title=Senate threatens historic deal with Iran |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=USA Today |date=15 July 2015 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Pearson contract loss marks end of an error (2015){{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/05/26/pearson-contract-loss-marks-end-error/27976703/ |title=Pearson contract loss marks end of an error |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=USA Today |date=26 May 2015 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- The Governor in the Tin Foil Hat (2015){{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/05/19/jason-stanford-governor-tin-foil-hat/27595337/ |title=The Governor in the Tin Foil Hat |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=USA Today |date=19 May 2015 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Islamic attacks and the First Amendment (2015){{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnists/syndicated/2015/05/15/islamic-attacks-first-amendment/27250567/ |title=Islamic attacks and the First Amendment |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=USA Today |date=15 May 2015 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Why does US ignore domestic terrorists? (2015){{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/01/12/us-ignores-domestic-terrorists/21634251/ |title=Why does US ignore domestic terrorists? |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=USA Today |date=12 January 2015 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Mute the Messenger: When Dr. Walter Stroup showed that Texas’ standardized testing regime is flawed, the testing company struck back (2014){{cite web |url=http://www.texasobserver.org/walter-stroup-standardized-testing-pearson/ |title=Mute the Messenger: When Dr. Walter Stroup showed that Texas' standardized testing regime is flawed, the testing company struck back |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=Texas Observer |date=3 September 2014 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- The Torture Report Isn't Just On Bush—It's On All Of Us (2014){{cite web |url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/torture-report-is-on-all-of-us-not-just-bush |title=The Torture Report Isn't Just On Bush—It's On All Of Us |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=Talking Points Memo |date=12 December 2014 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- The Nuclear Arsenal We Don't Need (2014){{cite web |url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/conservative-group-tries-to-revive-barry-goldwater-with-daisy-2 |title=The Nuclear Arsenal We Don't Need |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=Talking Points Memo |date=21 August 2014 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Conservative Group Tries To Revive Barry Goldwater With 'Daisy 2' (2014){{cite web |url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/conservative-group-tries-to-revive-barry-goldwater-with-daisy-2 |title=Conservative Group Tries To Revive Barry Goldwater With 'Daisy 2' |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=Talking Points Memo |date=21 August 2014 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Nobody Died and Made Rick Perry King (2014){{cite web |url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/nobody-died-and-made-rick-perry-king-110131 |title=Nobody Died and Made Rick Perry King |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=Politico Magazine |date=18 August 2014 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Rich Lowry's 'Callow' Attack Is, Well, Juvenile (2014){{cite web |url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/callow-president-rich-lowry |title=Rich Lowry's 'Callow' Attack Is, Well, Juvenile |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=Talking Points Memo |date=15 August 2014 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- No, Obama Isn't Our New Chamberlain (2014){{cite web |url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/no-obama-isn-t-our-new-chamberlain |title=No, Obama Isn't Our New Chamberlain |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=Talking Points Memo |date=23 July 2014 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Thank God For Dick Cheney (Really) (2014){{cite web |url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/dick-cheney-iraq |title=Thank God For Dick Cheney (Really) |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=Talking Points Memo |date=20 June 2014 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Honey, I Want to Move to Mars (2014){{cite magazine |url=http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/honey-i-want-to-move-to-mars/ |title=Honey, I Want to Move to Mars |author=Jason Stanford |magazine=Texas Monthly |date=2 April 2014 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Blue Skies Smiling At Me (2014){{cite magazine |url=http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/blue-skies-smiling-at-me/ |title=Blue Skies Smiling At Me |author=Jason Stanford |magazine=Texas Monthly |date=3 February 2014 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Abortion a winning issue for Davis (2013){{cite web |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/abortion-is-a-winning-issue-for-wendy-davis-097429 |title=Abortion a winning issue for Davis |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=Politico |date=26 September 2013 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- The One That Got Away (2013){{cite magazine |url=http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-one-that-got-away/ |title=The One That Got Away |author=Jason Stanford |magazine=Texas Monthly |date=7 August 2013 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Wendy Davis’ path to the governor's mansion (2013){{cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/wendy-davis-path-the-governors-mansion |title=Wendy Davis' path to the governor's mansion |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=MSNBC.com |date=28 June 2013 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Ted Cruz's secret past? Stimulus funds and teacher payouts (2013){{cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ted-cruzs-secret-past-stimulus-funds-and-teacher-payouts |title=Ted Cruz's secret past? Stimulus funds and teacher payouts |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=MSNBC.com |date=8 March 2013 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Texas school conspiracy reaches state legislature (2013){{cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/texas-school-conspiracy-reaches-state-legisla |title=Texas school conspiracy reaches state legislature |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=MSNBC.com |date=28 March 2013 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Ted Cruz's craziness is the unfunny, dangerous kind (2013){{cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ted-cruzs-craziness-the-unfunny-dangerou |title=Ted Cruz's craziness is the unfunny, dangerous kind |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=MSNBC.com |date=30 January 2013 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- How the Texas GOP fuels anti-government paranoia (2015){{cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/how-the-texas-gop-fuels-anti-government-paran |title=How the Texas GOP fuels anti-government paranoia |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=MSNBC.com |date=20 January 2013 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- Accentuate the Negative (2006){{cite web |url=http://www.texasobserver.org/2148-open-forum-accentuate-the-negative/ |title=Accentuate the Negative |author=Jason Stanford |publisher=Texas Observer |date=26 February 2006 |accessdate=31 August 2015}}
- "Balancing Discretion and Glasnost." in Campaigns & Elections (Strategy & Tactics) (2001)
- Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (2021, with Bryan Burrough and Chris Tomlinson) {{ISBN| 9781984880093}}
Personal life
Stanford is married to Sonia Van Meter.{{cite web |url=http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local/local-woman-sets-her-sights-on-a-trip-to-mars-and-/nc8zY/ |title=Local woman sets her sights on a trip to Mars, and yes, she's serious |author=Andrea Bell |publisher=Austin American-Statesman |date=1 February 2014 |accessdate=24 May 2014}}
See also
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