NEWS

FOR RELEASE: On Receipt                                                                                             March 30, 2008

Del. Bob Marshall (R., Manassas), candidate for Virginia’s Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, has appointed, as his campaign manager, Steve Waters, grass-roots director of the successful 2006 effort to add the definition of marriage to the State Constitution as between a man and a woman.

Marshall also has designated, as his campaign news director, Bill Kling, a former news editor, reporter and prize-winning columnist, and veteran of political campaigns and organizations nationally and in 13 states, including Virginia.

“I’m very pleased that Steve and Bill have joined my Senate campaign,” Marshall said.  “They’re both well-experienced in Virginia’s politics, and they bring our effort valuable know-how and versatility grounded solidly in the principles and tested values held by a clear majority of Virginia’s voters.”

Waters, of Richmond, has served as director of state-wide grassroots operations for The Family Foundation of Virginia and for the Family Policy Council of Focus on the Family in Virginia, and has lobbied the Virginia General Assembly on behalf of pro-family, pro-life and social conservative issues.  He is a graduate of Greensboro College in Greensboro, N.C., and also has worked for Eagle Forum in Washington, D.C.  He and his wife, Kelly, have two sons.  They attend St. Benedicts Catholic Church in Richmond.

Kling, of Heathsville, managing partner of Kling USA Political Communications, has covered politics for the Chicago Tribune and The Washington Times, where he also was that newspaper’s first national editor.  He was director of the Writers Group for the 1992 Bush-Quayle national campaign, and has served as the Republican National Committee’s senior writer and editor; president of the U.S. Senate Press Secretaries Association while Capitol Hill press secretary for Sen. John W. Warner (R., Va.); and chairman of the Prince William County Republican Party.  He has lectured on political communications across the United States and in Argentina, Brazil and Chile.  His twice-weekly Political Animal column in the former Northern Virginia Daily Journal was judged by the Virginia Press Association as the best of 2000.  He is Clerk of Session at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Kilmarnock, and a vice president of the Lancaster-Northumberland Interfaith Service Council.  His wife, Jeanne, is chairman of the Northumberland County Republican Party.

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