Anita Dunn

Quick Facts

Full Name	Anita Dunn
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 8, 1958(1958-01-08)
Age	66
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Anita Dunn Biography

Anita Dunn is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 8, 1958 in United States. Anita B. Dunn (born on January 8th 1958) is an American political strategist who worked as the Acting White House Communications Director from April to November 2009. She is the managing director of SKDKnickerbocker which is a strategic communications company based in Washington, D.C., and is currently an consultant to presidential candidate Joe Biden.

The year 2008 was the time when Newsweek declared Dunn and Bauer as the”new “power couple” in Washington, D.C.

Dunn left her interim post at the end of November 2009 and was replaced by her deputy Dan Pfeiffer.

On Sunday, October 11, 2009, she appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources and was asked to discuss a statement she made to Time magazine regarding Fox News, “it’s opinion journalism masquerading as news.” She responded by saying, “if you were a Fox News viewer in the fall election, what you would have seen would have been that the biggest stories and biggest threats facing America were a guy named Bill Ayers and something called ACORN. The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.” She added, “And it’s not ideological. Obviously, there are many commentators who have conservative, liberal, centrist, and everybody understands that. But I think what is fair to say about FOX and certainly the way we view it is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party.”

In April 2008 it was announced Dunn was a newcomer to in February to join the Obama campaign earlier in the month, was to be Director of Communications policies and research at Obama for America and held the title of Senior Adviser and was among the key decision makers for Obama for America. Obama campaign. She was named as one of the top four experts (along together with David Axelrod, David Plouffe and Robert Gibbs) in a 60 Minutes interview held after Obama’s then-presidential election 2008, victory address at Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois. In the 60 Minutes interview, as, “a relative newcomer who handled communications, research and policy.” During the transition to president the years 2008 and 2009, Dunn trained White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

Anita Dunn Net Worth

Anita Dunn is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anita Dunn 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a part of her campaign for U.S. Senator John Glenn (D-OH) in 1984, as well as at Capitol Hill before joining the firm created by Bob Squier and William Knapp in 1993. She was the adviser and communications director for senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ), and was Chief Strategist for the campaign of President Barack Obama. Dunn was also an adviser for senator Evan Bayh (D-IN), the former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) and as the communications director for the presidential campaign of Al Gore in 2000. In 2004 Anita was the media producer on behalf of the congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX). In 2006, she was tapped by the then-Senator Barack Obama to direct communications and strategy for his political action committee, The Hopefund. This announcement signaled that Obama was contemplating a run for presidency. As a consultant to Hopefund in 2006 and Obama during 2006, she played a key role in the planning to launch Obama for America and also helped bring several key staffers to the Obama campaign, with whom she worked in Bayh’s and Daschle’s offices.

Dunn was married to Robert Bauer, former partner at Perkins Coie and former personal counsel to the president Obama as well as his White House Counsel. Bauer has also been the counsel general for Obama for America since January 2007.

After leaving the White House, Dunn rejoined SKDK. Although working for a lobbying firm, White House records show that Dunn maintained strong connections with the administration where visited over 100 times since her departure in 2009. At the same time the firm announced a “major expansion” emphasizing strategic communications and advocacy work for business. The firm added about a dozen Obama administration insiders as the firm’s staff doubled in size. Among the major clients the firm took on were General Electric, AT&T, Time Warner, and Pratt & Whitney. In particular, SKDKnickerbocker corporate clients have included such controversial companies as the for-profit Kaplan University and TransCanada Corp., the developer of the Keystone XL pipeline. At the same time that Kaplan Education hired SKDK to block Obama’s crackdown on predatory for-profit colleges, Dunn was known as “a close friend of President Obama.” The progressive social change organization CredoAction mounted a petition calling on Dunn to stop her work on behalf of TransCanada, calling it a “betrayal of the commitments that so many of us worked so hard for, and that Dunn herself played a huge role in shaping.” Another client, The Association of American Railroads (AAR), is also associated with oil pipeline infrastructure necessary to make ventures like the Keystone XL successful. SKD Knickerbocker helped AAR produce advertisements aimed at suppressing support for union workers.

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Who is Anita Dunn Dating?

According to our records, Anita Dunn married to Bob Bauer. As of December 1, 2023, Anita Dunn’s is not dating anyone.

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Other SKD Knickerbocker clients include a half-million subcontract from Paul Weiss Rifkind to lobby for Carlos Ghosn, the ousted Nissan CEO who was arrested in Japan and escaped in January 2020, New York City landlords and real estate associations resisting stronger rent protections for tenants, big food companies such as General Mills, Pepsi Co, Nestle, Kellogg, Viacom, and McDonalds in their fight to resist Obama-era nutritional standards for marketing foods to children, and Google and Pfizer in their campaign to cut taxes on foreign profits. Some of Dunn’s own clients at SKD Knickerbocker include pro-charter lobbying groups Students First and Families for Excellent schools, as well as Amazon.

Facts & Trivia

Anita Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Anita Dunn celebrates birthday on January 8 of every year.

Who is Anita Dunn's husband?

Bob Bauer

How old is Anita Dunn?

64 years (January 8, 1958)

Where is Anita Dunn from?

Dunn was raised in Bethesda, Maryland, the daughter of Albert E. Babbitt and Carol Hutto Babbitt.