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We’re Here to ensure it never happens again.
On the evening of January 6th, 2021, shortly after Republican-sponsored domestic terrorists smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol in a deadly act of sedition, 147 Republican Members of Congress (including 139 members the U.S. House of Representatives and eight members of the U.S. Senate) voted to overturn the result of the 2020 Presidential Election. These 147 GOP members took this step in the absence of any credible evidence or substantiated allegations of electoral irregularities. Rather, they explicitly followed the instructions and example of Donald Trump and the Republican Congressional leadership in a frightening attempt to destroy the US Constitution and subvert the will of the American people.
The time has come to make these Members of Congress pay for their seditious votes. Any elected official who is willing to place the interests of personal power and factional loyalty above those of preserving and protecting America’s Constitution and rule of law represents a threat to American democracy itself. Simply put, these people unfit for office. As such, it is imperative that the 147 Members of Congress who voted against certifying the results of the 2020 Presidential Election be removed from office using the same tool they tried to subvert: the ballot box.
Operation 147 is a multidisciplinary group comprised of some of the nation’s most seasoned Democratic campaign operatives. Our simple mission: Protect the American Way by driving these seditionists from office. The calculation of the 147 is that we will forget that January 6, 2021 ever happened. We will not.
Hold them accountable
We will hold The 147 Members of Congress accountable for their treasonous acts by reminding the public and their constituents of what they did.
Send them home
We will ensure The 147 never holds a majority in either house of Congress by defeating them and their allies in key targeted races during the 2022 cycle.
Keep them out
We will lay down a warning to future Republican Members of Congress that any attempt to subvert the US Constitution will be met with punishment.
who we are
Operation 147 is centered around a core team of five seasoned, nationally respected political professionals, each of whom has 25+ years of experience helping Democrats win tough elections.
Jacqueline Basha
Jacqueline Basha is a veteran marketing, political and business development consultant, with professional experience in both the private and public sectors.
In addition to her experience in all facets of marketing, Basha has also worked extensively in the field of communications including speech writing, investigative journalism, professional radio and television production, and print advertising in Florida, California and Massachusetts.
As Vice President of Philip Hamersmith, Inc, a Miami-based advertising and public relations firm, Basha worked with an extensive list of political candidates at the local, state and national levels. She also managed numerous ballot measure campaigns in the areas of economic development, healthcare, environmental protection, child welfare, education, women’s rights, entertainment and parimutuel gaming.
Joe Trippi
Joe Trippi has been at the vanguard of movement politics for nearly 40 years. Trippi began his political career working on Edward M. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1980 and has worked on numerous presidential, gubernatorial, senate, and congressional campaigns since. Trippi was a senior strategist on Doug Jones’ historic victory in Alabama in 2017, helping elect the first Democratic U.S. Senator in Alabama in 25 years. Trippi wrote the ads and helped build the campaign strategy which was recognized with 7 Reed Awards and 3 Pollie Awards.
Trippi has been involved in a number of Congressional races, recently notching victories for Representatives Ro Khanna and Mark Takano. In 2010, Trippi was a senior strategist and media consultant in Jerry Brown’s successful run for California Governor.
Trippi has been an analyst for MSNBC/NBC, CBS Evening News, Fox, and CNN and is the author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, a comprehensive primer on building political movements in the Internet age.
John Fairbank
A founding partner of Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3), John Fairbank has more than thirty-five years’ experience in public opinion research, specializing electing and advising Democratic candidates on federal, state, and local levels.
John has served as both pollster and strategic advisor to dozens of successful candidates throughout the country running for offices including the United States Senate and House of Representatives, as well as for governor, mayor, and other state and local offices. He has served as pollster for U.S. Senator Patty Murray of Washington since 1992, and his research has helped elect numerous members of California’s congressional delegation, including John Garamendi (CA-3), Mike Thompson (CA-5), Ro Khanna (CA-17), Jimmy Panetta (CA-20), Tony Cardenas (CA-29), Grace Napolitano (CA-32), Norma Torres (CA-35), and Juan Vargas (CA-51); and his research for Democratic independent expenditure efforts helped elect and reelect California Representatives Katie Porter and Mike Levin, Democrats who each won Republican Districts in 2018 and held them in 2020.
John’s work has also helped elect numerous high-profile state and local elected officials throughout California, including Los Angeles County Supervisor (and former Member of Congress) Janice Hahn, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia.
Paul Maslin
Paul Maslin has been one of the leading public opinion analysts and campaign strategists for more than three decades. Paul joined FM3 in 1993, founding the firm’s Oakland office and is currently based both in Madison, Wisconsin and Los Angeles.
His noteworthy recent work includes polling and providing strategy for the DCCC’s successful 2020 independent expenditure campaign to reelect Rep. Tom Halloran in the Republican-leaning AZ-1, the 2018 combined effort to elect Kyrsten Sinema U.S. Senator from Arizona, and Doug Jones in the 2017 Alabama special election for U.S. Senate. Paul also was the lead strategist on two of the toughest and most prominent Democratic Senate victories in recent years, working for Patriot Majority which ran the independent expenditure campaign in 2010 on behalf of Nevada Senator Harry Reid, and then for Majority PAC/Emily’s List in a similar role for Tammy Baldwin in her victories in Wisconsin in 2012 and 2018. Paul also served as pollster for the successful congressional campaigns of Ro Khanna and Lou Correa in 2016, in which the former defeated a longtime incumbent member of congress. He was the pollster and strategist for Governor Gray Davis of California, as well as the pollster for Howard Dean’s landmark Presidential campaign in 2004. Maslin has advised dozens of Senators, Governors, members of Congress, and big city mayors in every region of the United States, and has polled for seven Presidential candidates.
Dave Metz
Dave Metz has provided opinion research and strategic guidance to hundreds of political campaigns, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and businesses in all 50 states since joining the firm in 1998.
In the 2020 election cycle, Dave served as pollster for Washington Governor Jay Inslee in his run for president – the first presidential campaign centered on addressing climate change – and subsequently in his successful gubernatorial re-election. Dave’s research also helped to elect seven Democratic members of Congress; win re-elections for the Mayors of Houston, Texas; Portland, Oregon; and Sacramento, California; and secure billions in renewed funding for stem cell research in California.
Dave has helped Democrats and non-partisan candidates win elections at all levels of the ballot. He provides polling for six current members of Congress, and has helped elect Democratic Governors and US Senators – including current U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WI) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM). His research has helped elect big-City mayors in the aforementioned Sacramento, CA; Portland, OR; and Houston, TX; as well as in Phoenix, AZ; Salt Lake City, UT; and Milwaukee, WI. He has also provided polling to guide dozens of successful state legislative campaigns over the last two decades.
