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American Association of Political Consultants

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Robert Kaplan

Robert Kaplan

Robert Kaplan is an internationally recognized campaign and communications consultant, working with initiative campaigns, political action committees, trade associations and not-for-profit organizations.

In his more than 25 years as a consultant, Kaplan has designed and executed more than 250 programs for a variety of interests, including more than 30 initiative campaigns. An award winning expert in strategy and technique, message development, direct mail, grassroots organizing and voter communication, Kaplan’s campaign successes include raising more than $100 million for clients.

Honored as the "2008 Fundraiser of the Year" by the American Association of Political Consultants, Kaplan has previously been named a "Rising Star," "Mover & Shaker" and "America’s Hottest Fund Raiser" by Campaigns & Elections magazine. Kaplan is widely viewed as a foremost expert in his field.

Robert Kaplan has worked on a broad range of issues with a variety of public and private sector interest groups. Those groups and issues include renewable energy, environmental preservation and natural resources management, public safety, transportation, public school finance, judicial integrity, the lottery, public employee salary caps, public employee pensions, land use, recycling and auto and health insurance.

Kaplan is the author of numerous articles and is a frequent lecturer whose activities and clients have taken him across the United States, Israel, Mexico, Canada and the former Soviet Union. Kaplan was among the first twelve American political consultants invited to the former Soviet Union in 1988 to train government and party officials on the role of politics and political campaigns in building a democratic government.

With a degree in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley, Kaplan was awarded a CORO Foundation Fellowship in Public Affairs and completed his studies in Public Policy at the Claremont Graduate School. Kaplan is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Political Consultants and Chair of its annual Pollie Awards and Conference. Additionally, Kaplan is a former member of the National Leadership Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal.

Kaplan began his political career in 1966, at the ripe age of 9, as an envelope stuffing, precinct walking, lawn sign planting and telephone soliciting volunteer for a California State Assembly campaign.

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