Robert Creamer
Robert Creamer has been a political organizer and strategist for over five decades. He was one of the founders of Democracy Partners where he has worked with many of the country's most significant issue and electoral campaigns.
His organizing career began during the Civil Rights and Anti Vietnam War movements of the 1960s. He worked as an organizer with Saul Alinsky's last major project the Campaign Against Pollution in Chicago in the early 1970’s. Later he founded -- and for 23 years led Illinois Public Action – now Citizen Action of Illinois -- which just celebrated its 50th anniversary. The organization became Illinois's largest coalition of progressive organizations.[3]
Creamer became a political consultant in 1997, and served as a consultant to the Democratic National Committee during the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Presidential election campaigns where he coordinated the field based rapid response to Republican candidates McCain, Palin, Romney, Ryan, Pence and Trump.[4]
In 2005, Creamer was one of the architects and organizers of the successful campaign to defeat the privatization of Social Security. He has served as a consultant to the campaigns to end the war in Iraq, increase the minimum wage, and pass progressive budget priorities pass and defend the Affordable Care Act, oppose right wing judicial nominees, bring high speed rail to America, and pass comprehensive immigration reform.[5]
During the Obama Administration, he worked closely with the White House to pass the Affordable Care Act, hold Wall Street accountable, increase the minimum wage, improve overtime pay, pass progressive budget priorities, reform the criminal justice system, pass legislation to stem gun violence, and gain confirmation for President Obama’s nominations to the Supreme Court.
He served as General Consultant to Americans United for Change where he helped coordinate the campaign to pass President Obama’s landmark jobs and economic recovery legislation, and the successful effort to pass the Iran Nuclear Agreement in 2015.
During President Trump’s first term, he worked closely with a wide array of grass roots organizations to create “The Resistance” to Trump’s legislative agenda.
Since 2017, together with Democracy Partners’ Heather Booth, Creamer has co-convened twice weekly Progressive Mobilization Calls with a wide array of national and local progressive organizations. Since the Newtown shooting in 2012, he has also co-convened weekly Gun Violence Prevention calls with gun violence prevention organizations from throughout the country.
During President Biden’s term, he worked with a wide array of clients to promote passage of a Progressive Democratic agenda including the Inflation Reduction Act, and the successful effort to block the “Red Wave” in 2022. Since the reelection of President Trump, he has continued to organize to stop his attempts to create a right-wing authoritarian government.
During his career, Creamer has worked on hundreds of electoral campaigns at the local, state and national level.
He serves on the board of the Midwest Academy which trains organizers from around the country.
Together with Partners Linda Saucedo and Cheri Whiteman -- Creamer provides a wide array of services to clients, including: general consulting, strategy development, high intensity field programs, political direct mail and social media, message development, phone programs that generate advocacy patch through calls to Congress and other legislative bodies, recruitment services, polling and coalition development.
He is also an author and has written regular columns for publications such as Huffington Post and USA Today. Creamer is married to Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky from Illinois. His most recent book is Nuts and Bolts: The Formula for Progressive Electoral Success. His 2008 book is titled, Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win.
The following interview of Creamer was conducted by the Center for Community Change in 2009 and is now in an archive at Brown University:
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