Victor Samuel Kamber was born on May 7,1943 and is an American labor union activist and political consultant in the United States.
42 Facts About Victor Kamber
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Victor Kamber is a frequent guest on national and local television and radio programs, newspapers and magazines, and is a published author.
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Victor Kamber currently is an adjunct professor at The American University.
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Victor Kamber, an Assyrian-American, was born in 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, and attended public schools there.
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Victor Kamber worked on the presidential campaign of United States Senator Barry Goldwater.
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In 1968, Victor Kamber worked on the presidential campaigns of Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon.
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Victor Kamber later received a Master of Arts degree from the University of New Mexico, a JD from the Washington College of Law at the American University, and a master of laws from George Washington University.
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Victor Kamber later was an administrative assistant to United States Representative Seymour Halpern.
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In 1970, Victor Kamber was convicted of forgery while teaching at Prince George's Community College.
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At the time, Victor Kamber was president of the national Young Republicans' leadership training school in Chicago.
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The letter had ostensibly been signed by the president of PGCC and attested that Victor Kamber was a faculty member there.
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Victor Kamber was acquitted of charges that he did not teach at the community college, but convicted of forgery and sentenced to two years in prison.
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Under Robert Georgine, a Republican, Victor Kamber rose quickly to become the department's chief lobbyist.
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Victor Kamber's goal was to prioritize the AFL-CIO's labor law reform goals, strategize a plan for building support for the bill, and winning the legislation's enactment.
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Victor Kamber left the AFL-CIO in 1980 and founded his own public relations firm, The Victor Kamber Group.
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In 1982, Victor Kamber founded the Progressive Political Action Committee.
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Victor Kamber was counsel for the NFL Players Association during the 1982 National Football League strike.
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Victor Kamber served as a public relations consultant and spokesman for the Laborers' International Union of North America.
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Victor Kamber helped LIUNA strategize a political and public relations response to the allegations.
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Victor Kamber pushed his consulting firm to get into labor organizing campaigns as well.
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In 1984, Victor Kamber was a national campaign advisor to Sen.
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However, Victor Kamber eventually resigned as political and public relations consultant to the campaign after complaining that Cranston's personal staff pushed him to the side.
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Victor Kamber claimed the Cranston campaign owned him $150,000, but the funds were unfrozen a short time later.
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In 1987, Victor Kamber established Americans Against Government Control of Unions.
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Victor Kamber formed the group as UFCW, the Teamsters and other unions were under investigation for labor racketeering and domination by organized crime.
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In 1988, Victor Kamber played a key role in helping re-affiliate the Teamsters with the AFL-CIO.
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In 1993, Kamber led the battle to end a Republican filibuster of the nomination of William B Gould IV to be chair of the National Labor Relations Board.
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In 2002, Victor Kamber became a paid spokesman for the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, acting as political consultant and public relations expert for the union.
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In 2003, Victor Kamber established the Victor Kamber Group Political Action Fund, a political action committee.
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Victor Kamber subsequently was forced to take responsibility for a scandal which involved the American Federation of Teachers, another AFL-CIO affiliate.
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Victor Kamber is a noted collector of political memorabilia and art.
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In 2003, Victor Kamber resigned as president of The Victor Kamber Group.
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On February 28,2005, Victor Kamber closed The Victor Kamber Group and joined The Carmen Group as president of Carmen Group Communications.
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Victor Kamber is secretary-treasurer of America's Agenda: Health Care for All, a union-led group which lobbies for universal health care.
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Victor Kamber is a member of the Economic Club of Washington, and treasurer for the National Theatre.
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In 2006, Victor Kamber received the PR News Hall of Fame Award.
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In 1979 Victor Kamber purchased the Politicards name, a company that had put out a set of playing cards featuring the image of political candidates and public officials in 1972.
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Victor Kamber went on to produce his own sets of playing cards under the Politicards name for election years 1980 and 1984.
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In 1984, Victor Kamber created "Rappin' Ronnie", a music video which depicted a rapping President Ronald Reagan.
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In 1992, Victor Kamber started a PAC, Americans for Change, hoping to be the Democratic party's answer to Floyd Brown, the Republican party's opposition research specialist known for unethical, negative campaign tactics.
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Robert F Bonitati, an aide to President Reagan, credits Kamber with saving his life during the Reagan assassination attempt.
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Bonitati, a friend of Victor Kamber's, was leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel with the president.