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James Vaughn

 James Vaughn
California Director & Western Field Director

James Vaughn joined Log Cabin Republicans in December 2006.  He is Log Cabin’s California Director and Western Field Director.  He recently served as Vice President for Business Development for Capitol Advantage/Knowlegis.  Vaughn worked with media companies, informal groups, and average citizens to develop tools to provide transparency and accountability of Congress through online tools including their public portal www.congress.org. He also co-developed Power Rankings, which ranks members of Congress for power and effectiveness according to 23 different variables.  Power Rankings was featured on CNN, the Washington Post and hundreds of local media outlets nationwide and was a factor in several 2006 campaigns including the primary loss of Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA). 

 

Prior to Capitol Advantage, Vaughn served as the Deputy on President Bush’s USA Services E-Government initiative, developing federal-wide standards for citizen to government communications with a focus on new and emerging technologies. This was a natural outgrowth of his work as Director of Government and Politics for America Online (AOL) where, among other high profile projects, he developed the highly successful 2002 and 2004 election portals for America Online in partnership with CNN and others.  These projects grew out of research he conducted in the Master’s program in Public Administration at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.  

 

Vaughn was a political and public affairs consultant in California and ran dozens of campaigns at the local, state and congressional level serving as consultant, campaign manager and many other roles   Some of the races he worked on included No on Proposition 128 – Big Green; Marilyn Brewer for Congress (CA48); and races for California Assembly and city councils in Los Angeles, Ventura, and Palmdale among many others.   He also served on the campaign staff and transition team managing external media for Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan’s first inauguration, successfully secured appointments to city commissions for gays and lesbians, and coordinated the first ever appearance by a Los Angeles mayor in the Pride Parade.  He has served as Vice President of the Log Cabin California chapter as well as Director of the Log Cabin PAC.