12 Facts About Doug Bailey

Doug Bailey was an American political consultant and founder of The Hotline, a bipartisan, daily briefing on American politics.

Douglas Lansford Bailey was born on Oct 5,1933, in Cleveland.

From 1968 to 1987, Doug Bailey was President of Doug Bailey Deardourff and Associates, among the first national political consulting firms.

Doug Bailey started The Hotline, a daily political newsletter delivered by fax, in 1987.

Doug Bailey sold it to the National Journal in 1996.

Doug Bailey was seeking to start a new centrist party for the 2008 presidential election to try to unite the country.

Doug Bailey appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his cause.

Doug Bailey founded Freedom's Answer, a non-partisan voter turnout effort, with former Clinton Press Secretary Mike McCurry.

Doug Bailey served on the board of directors of the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

In 1994, Doug Bailey joined Jeffrey Pollack in a venture to start a daily briefing for the sports world called the Sports Business Daily.

Doug Bailey sat on the Council on American Politics, which brings leaders from the political and communications arenas together to address issues facing the growth and enrichment of GW's Graduate School of Political Management.

Doug Bailey was married to Patricia P Bailey, who was a FTC commissioner from 1979 to 1988; they had two children.