| Dal LaMagna | |
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| Born | July 4, 1946 Brooklyn, NY |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | St. Clare's Grammar School, Bishop Louglin Memorial High School, B.A. Providence College, MBA Harvard Business School, MPA Kennedy School of Government. |
| Occupation | Political activist Presidential candidate |
| Political party | Democratic |
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Dal LaMagna He is a progressive political activist and was a candidate running for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2008 Presidential election. He is on the board of directors of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, YES! Magazine, IceStone, and Tweezerman, a company which he founded in 1979 and sold to J.A. Henckles in 2004. He is a founding partner of and a blogger at The Huffington Post.[1]
He lives in Poulsbo, Washington and maintains homes in Washington, D.C. and Port Washington, NY He has two children: a daughter, 28, and a son, 21.[1]
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LaMagna was the executive producer of six feature length films "Something Special" in 1984 and five documentaries from 2006 to 2009: The Ground Truth, The War Tapes, Iraq For Sale, [Meeting Resistance] [2] and [War Child] [3] .[1]
In 2008 LaMagna co-founded Reel U Films with Julia Shanbrom, his daughter. The company is distributing documentary films, books, and music with a cause online throughout the world to colleges, churches, and libraries.
In August 2006, LaMagna was part of a sixteen-person peace delegation organized by Code Pink and Global Exchange that met with the Council of Representatives of Iraq, sheiks, and torture survivors. LaMagna also accompanied Congressman Jim McDermott on a similar fact finding mission in Amman the day after the 2006 Federal elections. And in March 2008, LaMagna produced a live video conference between members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq and members of the United States Congress.[1]. He hosted Member of the Iraq Parliament Mohammed al-Dayni at his home in Washington DC and then worked with al-Dayni in Amman and Iraq to try and orchestrate a cease fire between Iraqi insurgents and the Coalition Forces.
LaMagna ran for the U.S. House twice in New York's 3rd congressional district in 1996 as the Democratic and Independence candidate [4], and in 2000 as the Democratic, Green Party and Working Families Party candidate [5]. In 2006, LaMagna became a co-chairman of Senator Maria Cantwell’s (D-WA) re-election campaign after initially considering challenging her in the primary.[2]
On July 18, 2007, LaMagna announced that he was seeking the Democratic Party nomination in the 2008 Presidential election. LaMagna planned to run a one-state (New Hampshire) and one-issue (withdrawal from the Iraq War) campaign.[3] After struggling to find any traction, LaMagna withdrew from the race in October 2007.[4]
LaMagna finished the New Hampshire Democratic primary, 2008 with eight votes.[5] He was tied for the twenty-seventh place with Duncan Hunter, a Republican candidate.
LaMagna founded Tweezerman in 1979. He built it into a multi-national tool brand. He sold the company in 2004.[1]
In his youth he attended Saint Clare’s Grammar School in the Rosedale section of Queens, the Cathedral Preparatory Seminary and Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn. In 1968 he received a B.A. in Political Science from Providence College. In 1967 he spent his Junior Year at Providence Abroad at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 1971 he received his MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2002 he earned a Masters in public administration and received a Littauer Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.[1]
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