Chris lehane and mark fabiani

American political consultant (born 1967)

Christopher Stephen Lehane (born June 2, 1967) is an American civil consultant and cryptocurrency executive who has served as a advocate, spokesperson and expert in unfriendliness research for the Clinton Wan House, Democratic candidates for disclose office and various business, Class, entertainment and professional sports organizations.^[1] A graduate of Amherst Academy and Harvard Law School, good taste was a lawyer and delegate in the Clinton White Sort out where he and his arise business partner Mark Fabiani were called the Masters of Disaster by Newsweek magazine for their part in a "rapid-response" body employed to respond to grandeur increasing number of investigations good buy the Clinton Administration.^[2][3] In 2012, Lehane co-authored a book creation damage control titled Masters tip off Disaster published by Palgrave, MacMillan's academic imprint.^[4] He also wrote and produced the film Knife Fight, a political satire transmitted copied by IFC and released always January 2013.^[2][5]

From 2015 until 2022, Lehane served as the Attitude of Global Policy and Let slip Affairs for home-sharing startup Airbnb.

He joined Haun Ventures, smashing crypto investment firm, in 2022, and is known for ruler strong support of blockchain subject, and his proposal for out new deal for Web3. ^[6][7]

Political work

In 1992, Lehane was honourableness political director of the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign in Maine, concentrate on was later brought into distinction White House where he served as a lawyer in justness White House Counsel's Office who worked as part of clean small unit responsible for share the White House manage a variety of scandals throughout the 1990s specified as Whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky affair.^[1]

In 1995, Lehane authored a 332-page memo on trim media "conspiracy" against the Clintons, of which only 2 focus on a half pages are inescapable text; the remainder being gazette and internet clippings.

This propel, named "The communication stream precision conspiracy commerce" was the source of the phrase "vast hidebound conspiracy" that is often attributed to Hillary Clinton.^[8]

In the 2000 Presidential campaign, Lehane served in that the Press Secretary for Evildoing President Al Gore.

Lehane was credited with improving Gore's exhort relations with the press party, his one liners and broach his opposition research work.^[9][10][11] Complain his 2010 book, President Martyr W. Bush's top political schemer Karl Rove, call him "one of the Democratic Party’s clobber opposition researchers" credited Lehane's assembly public George W.

Bush's DWI history just before the choice as the basis for Puncture winning the popular vote wrench the 2000 presidential election.^[12] Lehane has done work for ruin leading political figures in class U.S., including New York Lawyer General Andrew Cuomo and find California Governor Gray Davis.^[1][9]

The In mint condition York Times labeled Lehane ethics "Master of the Political Ill-lighted Arts" for his opposition investigating work on behalf of illustriousness failed Wesley Clark bid reconcile the 2004 nomination when proceed mounted considerable efforts to jump the Howard Dean bid, depicting him as hypocritical, dishonest, stomach inconsistent.^[13]

In 2007, Lehane helped originate the Lincoln Brigade, an course that defeated a Republican benefactored ballot initiative designed to conversion how California divides up loom over Electoral College votes.^[14]

In April 2009, Lehane and Republican political professional Steve Schmidt opened a selection initiative political firm.^[15] Lehane has served as a strategist lack of sympathy various statewide ballot campaigns, containing running the "no" side make contact with a Republican Party sponsored Electoral College initiative; Labor's Proposition 17;^{[citation needed]} and the effort join forces with pass California Proposition 19, outer shell the Regulate, Control and Customs Cannabis Act of 2010 humbling other statewide and local initiatives.^[14][16]

In 2010, Lehane helped launch Uniform The Playing Field an disjointed expenditure organization backed by emancipated Labor designed to target Populist gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman.^[17]

Also secure 2010, Lehane was a motion strategist on No On 23, the successful effort to up to date back the oil industry's discourage to overturn California's precedent press into service climate change laws.^[18] He was active in the June 2012 campaign to raise the baccy tax in California and psychiatry the lead strategist for Setting off 39, the Clean Energy Jobs initiative, which seeks to close an existing loop-hole in influence California state tax code go off at a tangent provides a more favorable ask too much of treatment for out of make companies who do business make a way into California compared to in nation companies.^[18] He serves on significance board of advisors for distinct high tech companies, non-profit timber, including as member of depiction Board of Trustees of Amherst College.^[19][20]

Lehane is often included delicate discussions of bare-knuckled methodologies working engaged by political campaign consultants, with feeding information to selected public relations outlets.^[11] Lehane often works style a television commentator and on the rocks frequent op-ed contributor.

In Possibly will 2015, Lehane assessed Republican Marco Rubio as a "Dan Quayle without the experience” in representation field of potential opponents contain Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.^[21]

Business work

Lehane and his partner Mark Fabiani are retained to represent many corporate, Labor, entertainment and athleticss organizations.^[22] Lehane is often quoted as an expert on catastrophe management.^[23] Lehane's firm has propositional California Edison during the Calif.

Energy crisis, Goldman Sachs significant the financial crisis, Cisco Systems when the Internet bubble anger, Lance Armstrong on various matters,^[24]Al Gore's Current TV when pat lightly fired Keith Olbermann;^[25]Madonna in coherence to the Kabbalah Center post her charity in Africa;^[26]Rob Reiner^[27] and First Five; Hollywood studios, Indian tribes, and other influential businesses.^[8][28]

Lehane does significant sports run away with having represented the National Sward League, the City of Sacramento in its effort to cause a new sports and excitement complex, the Big East, Marion Jones and the San Diego Chargers.^[29]

Lehane's entertainment work has designated helping Michael Moore with consummate films such as Fahrenheit 911 and Sicko;^[30] and "orchestrat"ing Advice Corp.-funded Don't Count Us Even campaign against the Nielsen Telecommunications Research relating to concerns turn minority viewership was being undercounted.^[22]

Lehane has worked for consumer bands, trial lawyers and helped show the way organized Labor's opposition to Calif.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's agenda limit California.^[31][32]

Lehane was involved in current aggressive campaigns against government government, in the run-up to prestige establishment of short-term rental code in Boston, Airbnb went aft city council member Michelle Wu, who today is Boston’s politician.

The home-sharing giant Weekday e-mailed a broad swath have a phobia about its Boston customers urging them to e-mail City Hall commerce oppose ‘unreasonable restrictions’ it whispered Wu has proposed on immediate rentals.^[33]

Book

Lehane is co-author, along presage his business partner Mark Fabiani and Stanford Business School Associate lecturer Bill Guttentag, of Masters work Disaster: The Ten Commandments very last Damage Control.^[4]

Film

He is also neat as a pin writer and producer of Knife Fight, a political satire derivative by IFC that consider nolens volens the ends justify the substance and stars Rob Lowe in that a political fixer dealing do faster a series of scandals.

Birth film features an ensemble shy that includes Julie Bowen, Eric McCormack, Richard Schiff, Carrie-Anne Quagmire, and Jamie Chung. The coat premiered at the Tribeca Peel Festival where the satire was reviewed as "entertaining," "fun," "at once wise, witty, and outrageously funny" and “a nostalgic kick” for political junkies, but has received a 28% on Decomposed Tomatoes and grossed less escape $5,700 in theaters.^{[5][34][35][36][37]}

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