Steven "Steve" Rosenthal is an American labor and political strategist. He was the political director of the AFL-CIO for seven years.

Biography

Rosenthal's father was a

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shoe salesman. In 2003, Rosenthal was one of the founders and chief executive officer of

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(ACT), a voter mobilization project aimed at defeating incumbent Republican president

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in the 2004 presidential election. ACT raised and spent over $142 million and built one of the largest voter mobilization campaigns in Democratic history. Rosenthal served for seven years as the political director of the AFL-CIO.Steve Greenhouse
Political Director of Labor Federation to Quit Post
''New York Times'' (August 5, 2002). He announced in August 2002 that he would be stepping down from his post after the November elections. At the time, ''The New York Times'' reported that many union leaders credited Rosenthal with "transforming organized labor's feeble, forgettable campaign operation into one that many political analysts say is the most effective in the nation."

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in ''

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'' described Rosenthal in 2005 as one of "the

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's smartest and most influential strategists."Matt Bai
The Way We Live Now: Machine Dreams
''The New York Times'' (August 21, 2005).

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