Total Spectrum - Steve Gordon & Associates

Roll Call - June 19, 2008 - Shop Talk: Total Spectrum of Services
By: David M. Drucker

Veteran Republican operatives Steve Gordon and Gregg Keller have joined forces to launch Total Spectrum, a GOP grass-roots and communications firm.

Gordon, of Steve Gordon & Associates, brings 30 years of experience to the table as a Republican fundraiser, including raising money for Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz).

Keller’s expertise is in grass-roots politics, having previously served as the campaign manager for then-Sen. Jim Talent’s (R-Mo.) losing bid for re-election in 2006 and grass-roots director for ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s failed 2008 bid for the GOP presidential nomination.

Among the services provided by the D.C.-based Total Spectrum are grass-roots and communications consulting, fundraising and Federal Election Commission compliance consulting.

Link: http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_155/shoptalk/26084-1.html

Politico - June 17, 2008 - Suite Talk
By: Ariel Alexovich and Jacqueline Klingebiel

Gregg Keller has joined Steve Gordon of Steve Gordon & Associates in the political consulting firm Total Spectrum.

Keller joins founder Gordon as the firm’s new vice president after a stint as national coalitions director for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

Total Spectrum/Steve Gordon & Associates offers political consulting from the local and state level to national campaigns.

With the Romney campaign, Keller built a political and grass-roots infrastructure across 21 coalition groups in nearly 25 targeted states.

Over the years, Gordon has helped raise money for candidates including Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and former Sens. Dirk Kempthorne of Idaho, Bob Dole of Kansas, and Jim Talent and John Ashcroft, both of Missouri.

Link: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11114.html

National Journal - June 14, 2008 - Consulting Game

Steve Gordon and Gregg Keller have teamed up to found Total Spectrum, a firm helping companies, associations, and grassroots groups on legislative and political work. Gordon, a longtime Republican fundraiser, has run his own firm since 1979. He has worked for then-Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., and for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and he is consulting for Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. Keller most recently served on the Mitt Romney presidential campaign. The two met when Keller was working on Republican Jim Talent’s 2002 Senate bid in a special Missouri election. Talent beat Jean Carnahan that year but lost to Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., in 2006.

Gordon, 60, started in his family’s industrial scrap business and held other private-sector jobs in Minnesota. After an HMO he was working for went belly-up, he took a position with Rudy Boschwitz on his 1978 campaign for Senate. “I became finance director, and I had just about zero experience,” Gordon says. But he took to politics naturally and has remained in the field ever since.

Keller, 31, is from St. Louis, worked in finance in Boston, and volunteered for Talent’s exploratory committee before being hired as the “body man,” or personal assistant, for his 2002 race. Keller worked on Talent’s Senate staff, the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign, and Talent’s 2006 re-election bid. “Missouri is the bellwether of bellwethers,” Keller says. “If you don’t learn a lot very quickly in that kind of environment, it will be made clear to you that you’re not cutting it.”

–Gregg Sangillo

PDF: National Journal Profile of Total Spectrum - June 14, 2008

Link: http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/pp_20080614_7062.php

Washington, DC — Steve Gordon and Gregg Keller formally announce the launch of Total Spectrum/Steve Gordon & Associates LLC.

Total Spectrum (www.totalspectrumsga.com) helps corporations, associations, coalitions, and individuals change the legislative and regulatory environment and achieve their public policy goals by developing and implementing dynamic political programs, grassroots and grasstops campaigns at both the state and federal levels.

Steve Gordon and Gregg Keller, along with their colleagues and business partners, bring a wealth of campaign and political experience to Total Spectrum.

Gordon is one of the pioneers in the field of political guidance, and has 30 years of experience designing and implementing fundraising and political programs for scores of candidates for federal office, corporations, and advocacy groups. These candidates have included Senators Wayne Allard (CO), Christopher Bond (MO), Chuck Hagel (NE), Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX), Jon Kyl and John McCain (AZ), Mitch McConnell (KY), Thad Cochran (MS), and John Thune (SD). Steve’s client list has also included former Senators Dirk Kempthorne (ID), Jim Talent and John Ashcroft (MO), Bob Dole (KS), Alfonse D’Amato (NY), Pete Wilson (CA), Rudy Boschwitz (MN), Slade Gorton (WA), Rod Grams (MN), Lauch Faircloth (NC), and Steve Symms (ID), as well as former U.S. Representatives Vin Weber, Lynn Martin, and Ray McGrath.

Gregg Keller is one of the Republican Party’s great young political talents. He has extensive experience in grassroots and grasstops, coalition building, communications, and fundraising - and at every level from state legislatures to presidential campaigns.

Keller joins Total Spectrum from the Mitt Romney for President campaign, where he was National Coalitions Director and built a political and grassroots infrastructure across 21 coalition groups in nearly 25 target states. Keller also managed all of the Romney campaign’s national coalition steering committees.

Before joining Romney’s campaign, Keller was the campaign manager for former U.S. Senator Jim Talent of Missouri. He previously served as Sen. Talent’s State Director and worked on the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign in Missouri and New Hampshire.

Total Spectrum has offices in Washington, DC and St. Louis, MO.

Associated Press - May 7, 2008

Jefferson City, MO — Gov. Matt Blunt is giving his former chief of staff a spot on a state board whose members don’t need Senate confirmation.

Ed Martin, 37, left the governor’s office in November after a rocky year. Martin was involved in a controversy over the destuction of certain government e-mails, among other things.

Blunt’s office on Wednesday announced Martin had been picked for a three-year term on the State Park Advisory Commission that actually started May 1.

The governor’s office also announced it has named Gregg Keller to the Missouri Humanities Council. Keller was Sen. Jim Talent’s campaign manager in 2006. That panel’s members also don’t need Senate confirmation.

April 30, 2008

Washington, DC — Total Spectrum/Steve Gordon & Associates LLC announced today that Gregg Keller has been named Vice President.

Total Spectrum (www.totalspectrumsga.com) helps corporations, associations, coalitions, and individuals navigate the legislative and regulatory process by developing and implementing dynamic political programs at the state and federal levels. Gregg Keller will provide Total Spectrum clients with comprehensive political solutions that will change the legislative environment, and help them achieve their public policy goals.

Keller joins Total Spectrum from the Mitt Romney for President campaign, where he was National Coalitions Director and built a political and grassroots infrastructure across 21 coalition groups in nearly 25 target states. Keller also managed all of the Romney campaign’s national coalition steering committees.

Before joining Romney’s presidential campaign, Keller was the campaign manager for former U.S. Senator Jim Talent of Missouri. He previously served as Sen. Talent’s State Director and worked on the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign in Missouri and New Hampshire.

Steve Gordon, Total Spectrum’s Managing Director, said, “We are thrilled Gregg Keller is joining the firm. He is one of the Republican Party’s great political talents. His extensive experience in grassroots and grasstops, coalition building, communications, and fundraising at every level from state legislatures to presidential campaigns will be a tremendous asset to our clients.”

Total Spectrum, LLC was founded by Steve Gordon. He is one of the pioneers in the field of political guidance, and has 30 years of experience designing and implementing fundraising and political programs for scores of candidates for federal office, corporations, and advocacy groups. These candidates have included Senators Wayne Allard, Christopher Bond, Chuck Hagel, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Jon Kyl, John McCain, Mitch McConnell, and John Thune. Former Senators include Dirk Kempthorne, Jim Talent, John Ashcroft, Bob Dole, Alfonse D’Amato, and Rudy Boschwitz.

Past and current corporate clients include Compressus, The Constitutional Sources Project, McDonald’s Corporation, Illinois Tool Works, A.E. Staley Manufacturing, Property Casualty Insurers Association, Peabody Energy, and the Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands.