Rob Stein, Democratic strategist who organized liberal donors, dies at 78
Source: Washington Post
Rob Stein, Democratic strategist who organized liberal donors, dies at 78
By Emily Langer
Yesterday at 8:10 p.m. EDT
Rob Stein, a Democratic strategist who was the architect of one of the most influential coalitions of liberal donors in American politics, an organization that has helped shape the left’s agenda for nearly two decades, died May 2 at a hospital in Washington. He was 78.
The cause was metastatic prostate cancer, his son Gideon Stein said.
Mr. Stein was a low-profile but high-impact force on the political left, a backstage operative who marshaled the country’s wealthiest liberal donors into an organization that he founded in 2005 as the Democracy Alliance.
Mr. Stein envisioned the coalition as a counterweight to a network of conservative groups — funded by donors including Charles and David Koch and Richard Mellon Scaife — that had helped secure Republican victories in state legislatures, Congress and the White House with President George W. Bush’s election in 2000 and his reelection in 2004.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/05/05/rob-stein-democracy-alliance-dead/
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