Brian Lunde

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Brian Lunde is a former Democrat campaign manager who defected to become a Bush campaigner in 2000 US presidential elections. In 2004, Lunde co-chaired Democrats for Bush with Senator Zell Miller, which resulted in the recruitment of over 5,000 state and local Democratic elected officials, activists and rank-and-file party members who publicly endorsed the President's re-election. Lunde also served as Chairman for the American Center for Voting Rights, an organization that promotes the regulation and oversight of voting in US elections. Critics have alleged that the organization is actually a GOP front group that worked to promote Republican candidates and challenge voter registrations in minority areas. ^[1].

During Lunde's term as executive director of the Democratic National Committee in the mid-1980s, he is reported to have fundraising ties with indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff ^[2].

Lunde registered in order to lobby for George Birnbaum in 2001. According to the registration filed with the Secretary of the Senate, Lunde's job was to "set up meetings for President Kabila of Congo." By working for Birnbaum and not Joseph Kabila directly, Lunde avoided disclosure laws that would have required him to register as a foreign agent with the Department of Justice.^[3]^{[citation needed]}