Informal Meetings
Informal meetings were held with the following people
in:
A. Berlin
Meetings with Hugh Mortimer, Tilo Fuchs and HE Sir
Peter Torry (Ambassador) British Embassy; Dr. Johannes Becher,
Referat PM3 (Parliamentary Services); Inge Wettig-Danielmeier,
SPD Treasurer, SDP Headquarters; Michael Koss (Transparency International);
Dr Gero Neugebauer (Free University of Berlin, Political Scientist);
Prof Robert Leicht (Co-Editor at "Die Zeit", academic);
and Ulrike Herrmann (Journalist at "Taz", a Berlin Daily).
Dietmar Strehl, treasurer of "Buendnis 90/Die
Gruenen";
Thilo Streit, Institute for German and European party
law and party research, Duesseldorf University; Juergen Lennartz
(Saarland); Dr Michael Wilhelm (Saxony); Wolfgang Gibowski (Lower
Saxony); Dr Michael Schneider (Sachsen-Anhalt); Volker Hoff (Hesse);
Karl Holluba, treasurer of the Left Party.
B. Ottawa, Canada
Meetings with Jean-Pierre Kingsley, Head, Elections
Canada and Elections Canada Officials; Mike Donnison, Executive
Director, Conservative Party of Canada; Graham Fox, Public Policy
Forum; Eric Hebert-Daly, Federal Secretary, New Democratic Party
of Canada; Julian Evans, Acting High Commissioner
The Committee also met: Hon Rob Nicholson MP, Minister
for Democratic Reform and Leader of Government in House of Commons;
Gary Goodyear MP, Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs;
Royal Galipeau MP, Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole; Michel
Guimond MP, Bloc Quebecois; Marcel Proulx MP; Professor Jon Pammett,
Carleton University; Bill Neville, Public Policy Forum; Senator
Daniel Hays, Chair of Senate Reform Committee; Senator Marjory
Le Breton; Senator Noel Kinsella; Senator Terry Mercer; Ken Rockburn,
CPAC Television; Glen McGregor, Ottawa Citizen.
C. Washington DC
Meetings with Alan Charlton, Deputy Head of Mission,
British Embassy; Bob Schiff, Minority Chief Counsel (Campaign
Finance Reform and Judiciary), Office of Senator Russ Feingold;
Dominic Martin, Counsellor, Political and Public Affairs.
The Committee also met: Al Eisele, Editor-at-Large,
The Hill; Paul Herrnson, Director, Center for American Politics
and Citizenship, University of Maryland; Trevor Potter, President
& General Counsel, Campaign Legal Centre; Donald Simon, Counsel
for Common Cause & Democracy 21 (Partner at Sonosky, Chambers,
Sachse, Endreson & Perry LLP).
Michael Toner, Chairman; Ellen Weintraub, Commissioner;
Steven T Walther, Commissioner and Hans A von Spakovsky, Commissioner,
Federal Election Commission; Joseph Cantor, Government and Finance
Division, Congressional Research Service; Thomas Mann, Senior
Fellow, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution; Joseph
Sandler, General Counsel, Democratic National Committee; Ms Kennie
Gill, Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel, Senate Rules
and Administration Committee; Tom Josefiak, Election Law Counsel,
Republican National Committee.
D. Hartford, Connecticut
Peter Kelly, former Democratic Party Treasurer; Albert
Lenge, Deputy Director and Associate General Counsel, Jeffrey
Garfield, Executive Director and Beth Rotman, Director of Public
Campaign Financing Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission;
Michael Kozik, Managing Attorney, Connecticut Secretary of State's
Election Administration Office; Jodi Rell, Governor of Connecticut;
Andy Sauer, Executive Director, Common Cause Connecticut.
E. Boston, Massachusetts
Meeting with John Rankin, Consul-General; Congressman
Martin Meehan; Margaret Marshall, Massachusetts Supreme Court
Justice; Michelle Tassinari, Director of Elections and Legal Counsel,
Massachusetts Secretary of State Elections Division; Michael Sullivan,
Office Director and Denis Kennedy, Director of Public Information,
Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance; Anthony
Petrucelli, Chairman and Committee Members of the Joint Committee
of Election Laws; Peter Vickery, Executive Director of Massachusetts
Voters For Fair Elections and British Student Caucus, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University.
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