David Donnelly is Public Campaign Action Fund’s (PCAF) National Campaigns Director, and the Director of its Campaign Money Watch project to hold elected officials accountable for the special favors they do for their political contributors.

He led efforts to educate voters about former Majority Leader Tom DeLay in his district, and in that capacity founded the Daily DeLay web blog, the precursor to the PCAF blog.

He also campaigned to expose former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed’s connections to lobbyist Jack Abramoff in the nationally-significant Georgia lieutenant governor’s race.

Before joining PCAF, David managed two successful “Clean Elections” initiative campaigns – in Maine and in Massachusetts, and provided strategic advice to reformers in Vermont, North Carolina, and Connecticut leading to the legislative passage of public financing laws in those states as well. A book David co-wrote in 1997, Are Elections for Sale?, is in its second printing (Beacon Press). His work was recently featured in the Washington Post.