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Smoot Tewes Group ‘one-stop shopping for candidates’

Paul Tewes and Julianna Smoot have teamed to launch a full-service consulting firm that will blend their field and fundraising specialties.

“I think we’re a firm that is going to be one-stop shopping for candidates, causes and issues that want to hire good folks, experienced folks who have been through this before,” Tewes tells C&E. “From communications to digital to grassroots and field, fundraising and development all bases are covered.”

Tewes cemented his reputation as a field guru together with Steve Hildebrand when the two ran a joint consulting firm and worked together on President Obama’s 2008 campaign. Hildebrand has since left consulting to open a coffee shop in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Now, Tewes has opted to team with Smoot, a veteran of Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, on the new venture. 

Many of the Obama-alum firms have emphasized their digital expertise, but Tewes says their shop will be a blend of traditional and new techniques. “It’s the art and the science that I think we bring,” he says. “We know how to marry up tried and true traditional ways of successful campaigning with new digital technology.”

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In addition to Tewes and Smoot, whose fundraising team raised more than $1 billion in 2012, the Washington, D.C.-based firm has about a dozen employees. “We’ve led campaigns at all levels,” Tewes says. “We’re not just a field shop. We’re not just a fundraising shop.” 

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Sean J. Miller
10/21/2013 12:00 AM EDT
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