TOM D'AMORE JR

With more than 30 years of experience in local, state and national government and politics, Tom D’Amore is a highly sought-after expert in creating strategic communications, developing policy and tactics, and advising political campaigns.

The chairman at Doyle, D’Amore & Balducci, a public affairs consulting firm based in Hartford, Conn., Tom D’Amore helps clients with full-service campaign solutions from strategy development to execution.

D’Amore is the former Connecticut State Republican Party Chairman, former Chief of Staff for independent Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker, and Deputy Commissioner of Finance and Personnel for Connecticut Governor Thomas Meskill. He was also a senior official on the U.S. Senate Staff of Lowell Weicker and a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

D’Amore joined forces with DHOB partner Dean Barkley in putting together former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm’s challenge to Ross Perot’s Reform Party presidential nomination in 1996. He has worked with DHOB partners Laureen Oliver and Bill Hillsman on independent campaigns for governor in Massachusetts and Virginia, and with DHOB partner Bill Hillsman on Ned Lamont’s recent victory in the Connecticut Democratic U.S. Senate primary. D’Amore and Hillsman have also teamed up on public policy campaigns for the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut.

D’Amore understands the often subtle differences that create deciding arguments for clients in public sector debates. If the requirement is detailed analysis of important issues and successful strategies to achieve a desired outcome, his insight and working knowledge of government and politics are unique and invaluable assets that provide the winning edge.