Dan shomon biography

Dan Shomon is a leading government relations consultant and strategist in Illinois.
Chicago-based Dan Shomon Inc. provides grassroots advocacy, government relations, global business consulting, and strategic communications and social media.
Dan Shomon, Obama's legislative director in Springfield, was pushed aside by David Axelrod's crew once Obama ran for the U.S. Senate.

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After Morton Grove Mayor Dan DiMaria pledged to try to get a larger share of state funding for Morton Grove projects, the village has hired a Springfield lobbyist, Dan Shomon, who worked for President Barack Obama until 2006, according to the Morton Grove Champion.

Obama served as an Illinois State Senator until 2004, and a U.S. Senator from 2005 to 2008, when he ran for the presidency.

Shomon's biography on his website says his clients include Fortune 500 companies and associations as well as municipalities.

"Clients have received more than $150 million in federal, state and local grant, loan and bond funding for their projects while he represented them," the site points out.

Morton Grove is asking Shomon to help with funding its new police station and $1 million in sewer lining every year, according to the Champion.

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When I read that N’DIGO publisher Hermene Hartman told Chicago magazine that Barack Obama has forgotten his old hometown supporters, the complaint sounded familiar.

Barack is not necessarily loyal. In Chicago politics, that’s rule number one: be loyal; dance with the one who brought you. I see that as a key trait. I see Rahm having it. Rahm is very appreciative and very thankful. I was very loyal to Barack, but he has not been loyal to some of the people who were there for him from day one. That’s my personal disappointment in him. Did you outgrow us, or did you forget?

Hartman, who connected Obama with the car dealer who loaned him $50,000 to launch his U.S. Senate campaign, told me the same thing when I interviewed for my book, Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President. And she wasn’t the only one. In his rise to the presidency, Obama left behind a lot of old allies who are miffed that they didn’t get taken along to the White House.

Steven Rogers, a Northwestern University business professor, complained about Obama’s treatment of Jim Reyno

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Shomron, Dan

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