You've decided to launch a campaign for office or to deliver key messages to your target audience.Your first step is to find a fit and fast partner to help you cover the ground from launch to success.
Our Green Dog team can help get you there. Our team of strategic partners are experts in research and analysis, strategy, design art direction, production public relations and multi-media.They are professionals remarkable for their extensive experience and have won many awards for their efforts on behalf of clients.These include: candidates for office, non-profit corporations, private enterprise, government and institutions, and other political consultants, marketing/communications firms and advertising agencies.
THE GREENDOG TEAM
Dotty LeMieux – Director, Operations & Strategy
Richard Foldenauer — Research Analyst
Lise Stampfli — Creative Director
Peter B. Collins — Creative Multimedia Writer and Producer
Dotty LeMieux
Founder GreenDog Campaigns and Communications, 1998
Dotty E. LeMieux founded GreenDog Campaigns in 1998, since then she has successfully run campaigns for State, County and local office. These have included campaigns for local school boards, special districts, town and city council offices and county supervisor. In 2004, Dotty was the California Political Director for Kucinich for President. Other efforts include fundraising for the legislative campaign to bring Compassionate Choice (Death with Dignity) to California, several initiative campaigns and the training of environmental and social activists all over the State.
Dotty specializes in running smart, campaigns that leverage selective research and polling and the use of volunteers for maximum reach and impact. She consults with grassroots organizations on environmental issues and has worked on projects surrounding the protection of open space and preservation of habitat, efforts against environmental exposure to toxic chemicals, access to parks and open space and many other progressive and environmental causes. Dotty is a former chair of the Sierra Club, Marin Group, current Membership Chair of the Marin Women’s Political Action Committee and a member of the Marin Democratic Central Committee.
Dotty has authored numerous articles for political publications such as Campaigns and Elections and Winning Campaigns and has a chapter in the book Voting in America, from Praeger Press, 2008. She is quoted extensively in the popular Campaign Boot Camp by Christine Pelosi, Poli-Point Press, 2007 and recently presented a Webinar in the art of negative campaigning for Winning Campaigns Magazine.
Additionally, Dotty has had an environmental law practice in Marin County for more than 20 years. She helps citizens’ groups and individuals protect local trails, waterways and hillsides and advises small businesses on methodologies for “going green.”
The following are examples of winning campaigns:
Susan Adams, Marin County Supervisor, re-election 2010
Richard Benson, Marin County Assessor, 2010, primary victory; runoff victory
Bill Riley for Peralta Community College District Bd. of Trustees 2010
Linda Handy Peralta Community College District Bd. of Trustees 2010
Barbara Heller, San Rafael City Council, re-election 2009
Diana Conti, College of Marin Trustee, 2009
Shirlee Zane, Sonoma County Supervisor, District 3, 2008
No on Measure K, sewer/water rate rollback, Petaluma, 2008
Greg Brockbank, San Rafael City Council, 2007
Judy Schriebman, Las Gallinas Sanitary District, 2007
Larry Bragman, Fairfax Town Council, 2007
Denise Rushing, Lake County Supervisor, District 3, 2006
Derek Knell, Novato School Board, 2006
Whitney Hoyt, Sausalito/Marin City School Board 2006
Mary Ann Maggiore, Fairfax Town Council, 2005
Yes on Fairfax, Measure F, infrastructure/public safety, 2005
Hal Brown, Marin County Supervisor, District 2 (re-election), 2004
Dennis Rodoni, North Marin Water District (re-election), 2003
Rick Fraites, North Marin Water District, 2003
Susan Adams, Marin County Supervisor, District 1, 2002
Alex Forman, Marin Municipal Water District, 2000
Lise Stampfli
Creative Director
Lise is a senior designer and co-creative director in the graphic design firm Torme Design Associates, tormedesign.com, The firm specializes in corporate identity, strategic image development and the creative direction and production of investor and marketing communications. Lise has also been an associate of GreenDog Campaigns since 1989 working on efforts for progressive causes and candidates.
Before this time she performed extensive contractor and subcontractor services for J.W. Thompson,
Chiat Day, Landor Associates, Unigraphics and Esprit. Her extensive political campaign experience
includes many high profile campaigns for clients of Clinton Reilly Associates, Terris and Jaye, and
Staton/Hughes consulting. She has worked on campaigns at the local, state and national level.
Lise has provided leadership to grassroots campaigns in the East Bay, Marin County and Sonoma
counties including the $62.3 million general obligation bond measure for the City of Oakland,
Measure K, 1989; and the recent Ross Valley Drainage Fee Election that raised $40 million for
flood mitigation projects in 2006. Her role in Measure K was seminal and included the following activities:
coalition building, grass roots organizing, leadership in writing the measure, creation of a supportive poll, campaign management, public relations, design and advertising, and secretary of the campaign committee.
Lise has won local, national and international awards for her clients, most notably for investor communications and annual report design. Annual reports produced for Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. received multiple creative and communication awards in 2000, 1999, 1998 and 1997. The 2000 annual report for Advanced Energy won “ARC Gold” for cover design–semiconductor industry, and “ARC Silver” for illustration. Her website for Parry & Son Insurance Company recently received an industry award for "best use of typography."
Since 1997 Lise has expanded her design offering to include interactive, web site design, blog design
and editing. Lise’s commercial, institutional and corporate design experience spans diverse industry
sectors including: financial services, food and beverage, healthcare, biotech, medical/dental equipment,
semiconductor, travel, consumer goods, publishing, nonprofit and environmental.
Lise is a graduate of UC Berkeley with undergraduate degrees in English Literature and Art and has
a Masters in Art from UC Berkeley. Lise has done extensive postgraduate studies in digital technology
and most recently has completed a 12 part course in social media.
Equally comfortable performing account management functions with the management level of top
companies or non profit organizations, Lise also thrills at rolling up her sleeves and inspiring volunteers,
students, or team members. Passion, energy, and an intense desire to create effective visual
communications that achieve lasting results are personal drivers.
In addition to her corporate design, Lise teaches design and communications classes at Dominican University of California.
Most Recent Project:
Launch of GoErinGo.com Adventure Philanthropy, a blog for world traveler and uber nonprofit
fundraiser Erin Michelson and design and QA for 40 websites for an international institute operating in 19 countries.
Political Campaigns (partial list)
Benson for Assessor, Marin
Adams for Supervisor, Marin
Conti for College Board, Marin
Heller for City Council, San Rafael
Hoyt for School Board
Maggiore for Town Council, Fairfax
Hodgens for Town Council, San Anselmo
Zane for Supervisor, Sonoma County
Re-elect Patterson for EBMUD Board
Wilson Riles Jr. for Mayor, Oakland
Bayton for City Council, Oakland
Measure K Oakland (parks open space and recreation)
Measure G San Anselmo (Streets, stormdrains)
Measure C, (preserve RCR zoning at Marin Town and Country Club
Ross Valley Flood Drainage FeeLeMieux for Supervisor, Marin County
Milton Marks State Senate
Delaine Easton for State Superintendent of Schools
Louise Renne for City Attorney
Carter for Congress
Foley for Congress
Dianne Feinstein for Mayor
Clients (partial list) Past clients have included consulting and design services for the following companies in diverse industries.
Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
Equal Rights Advocates
University of California at Davis, Department of Nutrition
Conceptus Corporation
Metric Partners a division of MetLife
Textainer Corporation
PLM Securities
Dominican University of California
Great Place to Work Institute
S3 Solutions
Centex Telemanagement
California Microwave
Intel
PG&E
McKesson Corporation
Carter Hawley Hale Corporation
City of Oakland Parks and Recreation
Sonoma Visitors and Conventions Bureau
San Francisco Airports Commission
Doubletakephotostudio.com
Restaurant Jeanne D’ Arc
Marriott Hotels
Cylink Corporation
SkinRX
Sierra Atlantic
Soma Magazine
Richard Foldenauer
Research Analyst
Target Research (principal: Richard Foldenauer) was founded in the 1980’s by Richard Foldenauer
as an independent professional public opinion research firm. Since then, Target Research, (now
Target Consulting) has conducted a wide variety of research, including benchmark and tracking
polling, as well as providing data services and field work for city, county State and National candidates,
and for campaign consultants and organizations. Mr. Foldenauer was an area precinct coordinator
(working with chair Agar Jaiks) for the San Francisco Democratic Party through several general
election cycles. From 1997 through 2001, Mr. Foldenauer worked as a (polling and research)
statistical programmer for the California Poll (Mervin Field & Mark DiCamillo ) and Field Research
Corporation.
Areas of expertise include sampling, questionnaire and project design, data collection, tabulation
and analysis. In regard to housing, real estate, and development related opinion, Target Consulting
completed a research project to determine the sentiment in a selection of Foster City residents
on housing issues, and has completed many projects for developer clients in the Bay area and in the
Stockton area, as well as for the Building Industry Association of San Joaquin Co.
Selected candidates include:
Gary Hart for President campaign (primary
Harry Britt for San Francisco Supervisor
Tom Hsieh for San Francisco Supervisor
Angela Alioto for San Francisco Supervisor
John Molinari for San Francisco Mayor
Arlo Smith for District Attorney of San Francisco
San Francisco Proposition M (Domestic Partners)
Stockton Mayor Joan Darrah (two election cycles)
John Morrill for Mayor of Brentwood Oct 1994
Robert Winter for Santa Clara Co. Supervisor
Susan Hammer for San Jose Mayor
Margie Fernandez for San Jose City Council
Judy Stabile for San Jose City Council
Buck Nord for San Jose City Council
Tommy Schwee for Cupertino City Council
Gloria Hom for Santa Clara Co. Board of Supervisors
San Mateo CalTrain Extension Proposition
Santa Clara County Tranportation ½ Sales Tax Proposition
Santa Clara County Measure A
Dan McCorquodale for State Senate
Pete McCloskey for US Congress (primary)
Hunt Braly for State Assembly (primary)
Becky Morgan for (11SD) State Senate (primary)
Sarah Flores for Los Angeles County Supervisor
Dean Dana for Los Angeles County Supervisor
Bill Gilkinson for Mayor (Tuscon)
Selected organizational clients include:
California Medical Association,
California Dental Association
Building Industry Association
Distilled Spirits Council of the USA
Restaurants and Institutions Almond marketing board
San Francisco poll (David Binder Research) – propositions and exit polling
Strategic Research (Stockton)
The Grupe Company (Stockton)
Tarrance and Associates
Terris and Jaye Consultants
Clint Reilly and Associations
Hellyer Canyon Waste Management Corp.
Duane Sandul Company, Foster City Homeowners Association
Marin Lagoon Homeowners Association
San Mateo County Fairboard
Peter B. Collins
Radio and Broadcast Producer
Peter B. Collins has deep experience on all sides of media: he has produced and hosted a variety of radio and TV programs, developed syndicated programs, and served as a program director. He has written, voiced, and produced thousands of commercials, and applies his skills to select political campaigns. His expertise includes low-cost radio and cable TV campaigns, paid political programs for radio and TV, and innovative use of the internet in conjunction with other media. Peter B. is a national specialist on the options available only to federal candidates, and has advised campaigns for governor, senate, house, state and local candidates and initiatives, and independent expenditure media campaigns. As an owner of KRXA-AM in Monterey, he understands media from the inside out. Has has placed more than $9 million in media buys in recent years.
For paid media campaigns for candidates, Peter often relies on three powerful devices: biography, validation, and humor. Usually, one of the most important objectives is to define the candidate in her/his terms, before the opponent can do the defining. Validation of the candidate and campaign is vital, and best delivered by real people, not other elected officials. Humor is the crowbar that pries open closed minds, and we’ve won campaigns with messages that first made the voter smile or laugh.
For federal candidates, paid programs on TV, cable and radio offer cost-effective, high-impact platforms that are not controlled by a hostile moderator or producer. Programs are particularly useful to showcase the candidate’s attributes and positions on the issues in more than sound bites. Programs can be combined with the 30-second spots to generate more reach and frequency, especially among likely voters.
Peter has recently tested video ads placed on targeted, high traffic web sites with precise geographic delivery. In the post-election analysis, he gleaned some insights into the behaviors of people who vote by mail and late deciders, which he is sharing with Green Dog clients.
Partial List of Campaigns:
Nancy Pelosi for Congress
Tom Campbell for US Senate
John Vasconcellos, State Senate primary
John Garamendi for Governor, then Congress
Pete McCloskey, primary challenge to Richard Pombo.
Susan Adams, Marin County Supervisor, 2002 and 2010
Laurie Smith, Santa Clara County Sheriff
Margaret Johnson, Superior Court, Santa Clara County
Michael Yaki, San Francisco Supervisor
Shirlee Zane, Sonoma County Supervisor
American Nurses Assn., Independent Expenditure campaigns
