Steven "Steve" Rosenthal is an American labor and political strategist. He was the political director of the

AFL-CIO The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a national trade union center that is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of 61 national and international unions, together r ...

for seven years.

Biography

Rosenthal's father was a

Brooklyn Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...

shoe salesman. In 2003, Rosenthal was one of the founders and chief executive officer of

America Coming Together America Coming Together (ACT) (founded in 2003) was a progressive, political action 527 group dedicated to get-out-the-vote activities. ACT did not specifically endorse any political party but worked almost exclusively on behalf of Democratic c ...

(ACT), a voter mobilization project aimed at defeating incumbent Republican president

George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Bush family and the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he i ...

in the 2004 presidential election. ACT raised and spent over $142 million and built one of the largest voter mobilization campaigns in Democratic history. Rosenthal served for seven years as the political director of the

.Steve Greenhouse
Political Director of Labor Federation to Quit Post
''New York Times'' (August 5, 2002). He announced in August 2002 that he would be stepping down from his post after the November elections. At the time, ''The New York Times'' reported that many union leaders credited Rosenthal with "transforming organized labor's feeble, forgettable campaign operation into one that many political analysts say is the most effective in the nation." Matt Bai in ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

'' described Rosenthal in 2005 as one of "the Democratic Party's smartest and most influential strategists."Matt Bai
The Way We Live Now: Machine Dreams
''The New York Times'' (August 21, 2005).

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