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Hans Riemer (American politician)

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44: 315:, serving in Chicago as the National Youth Vote Director. His responsibilities included supporting the Campaign's operations in the early states (Iowa, New Hampshire) and working with student leaders to support the Students for Barack Obama network. Young voters were an important part of the Obama's early state voter coalition. After the Obama campaign, Riemer worked for 330:. He successfully ran for an at-large seat in 2010, winning re-election in both 2014 and 2018. From 2014 to 2018, Riemer served as the council president. Riemer spoke publicly in favor of busing and school redistricting. A few months after his presidency concluded, the County announced a $ 100 million budget deficit. He currently serves as Chairman of the 260:
After graduating from UC Santa Cruz in 1995, Riemer worked for the National Academy of Social Insurance, where he had interned during college. Then in 1995 he was hired as Public Policy Associate at the Save Our Security Coalition, under
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as their political director. Credited with returning Marion Barry to power in Washington DC following his prison sentence, the organization helped nearly one million people, largely young voters, to register to vote in the
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to host a youth debate in the Democratic presidential primary. Riemer also ran the organization's campaign on the military draft, about which President Bush coined the phrase "
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in Oakland. Both Riemer's parents were politically active and often discussed community and national issues at home. He grew up in the
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panels, and conducted activist campaigns. He then served as Senior Policy Analyst and Social Security Campaign Director for the
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had indicated support for privatization and then appointed the 2001 President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security.
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and is married to Angela Riemer (née Walker), the Vice President and Senior Director of Federal Government Relations for
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Judy Woodruff; Bernard Shaw (August 2, 1999). "Surplus Politics Create Generational Divide".
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In 1996 he founded The 2030 Center, a non-profit policy organization focused on protecting
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in Maryland from 2010 to 2022. He unsuccessfully ran for Montgomery County executive in
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as a senior advisor on retirement security as well as community volunteerism.
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for Montgomery County. He conceded defeat in the July 2022 primary race.
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Friedman, Lisa (January 19, 2000). "Gen-Xer making waves in Washington".
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meetings: "I just backpacked him and took him everywhere I went."
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In June 2021, he declared his candidacy for the position of
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Riemer ran for the District 5 seat of the county council in
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East Bay Express | Oakland, Berkeley & Alameda
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and one of only two county officials nationally on the
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Riemer, Hans; Cuomo, Christopher (March–April 1997).
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Members of the Montgomery County Council (Maryland)
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Hans Riemer (Maryland politician)
headshot of Hans Riemer headshot from 2020
Montgomery County Council
Oakland, California
Democratic
Takoma Park, Maryland
Alma mater
University of California, Santa Cruz
BA
Montgomery County Council
2022
Oakland, California
League of Women Voters
Oakland Hills
UC Santa Cruz
Bachelor of Arts
ACLU
Alameda County Board of Supervisors
Arthur S. Flemming
Social Security
White House
Campaign for America's Future
privatization of Social Security
George W. Bush
Rock the Vote
2004 election
CNN
on the Internets
Obama presidential campaign
AARP

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