Jason Stanford

Named a Rising Star in Politics by Campaigns & Elections magazine in 2002, Jason Stanford founded Stanford Campaigns in 1997 with the late Tom Ryan.

Jason began working at the age of 14 as a sports writer for a weekly newspaper in Central Oregon.  In high school, he produced and hosted a weekly radio show.  A Russian major at Lewis & Clark College, Jason moved to Moscow in 1992 to finish his degree and stayed for two years, editing an English-language expatriate magazine and working as a researcher/reporter in the Los Angeles Times bureau.

Jason moved to Texas in 1994 to work as a Deputy Press Secretary for the Ann Richards Committee.  Jason and a former colleague founded the firm in January 1997.

Several media sources have featured Jason’s views on opposition research and modern campaigns, including NPR’s “All Things Considered,” CNN Money, “The Edge with Paula Zahn” on the Fox News Channel, Late Night Live on ABC Australia, To The Point on National Public Radio, Columbia Radio News, Jane Magazine, Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, the Christian Science Monitor, Australian Magazine, Winning Campaigns, Campaigns & Elections magazine, FHM, the Politico, and “Bush’s Brain,” a best-selling biography of Karl Rove.  He was also featured in the documentary about the 2006 Texas gubernatorial campaign “Along Came Kinky.”

Jason has taught seminars at several Campaigns & Elections training conventions as well as for the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Berlin and has spoken to students at several schools and universities.  He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, two sons, and dog, which he adopted from Kinky Friedman’s rescue ranch.