Bye, Bye To Tom Ingram

By Kleinheider Posted on April 30, 2009 at 4:06 pm

DC says farewell to the man who will architect the gubernatorial campaign of Bill Haslam:

And, last night Sen. Lamar Alexander’s longtime COS, Tom Ingram, held a rather festive farewell party at The Monocle.

It was a packed house, with Sens. Lamar Alexander, Mitch McConnell, Mark Warner, Bob Corker and Former Labor Sec Elaine Chao, plus Minority Leader John Boehner, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the White House Legislative team, Chuck Schumer’s CoS Mike Lynch, new staff director of the SRC Ryan Loskarn, Jim Jeffries with Alexander, Denzel McGuire of Kyl’s office, Stephen Replogle with the SRC, Rhonda Bentz of Navigators LLC and Jen Morris of McConnell’s office.

Guests were treated to a warm and funny speech by Sen. Mark Pryor’s COS Bobby Russell, Ingram’s DC roommate and cofounder with Ingram of the Bipartisan Chiefs of Staff breakfasts.

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Ingram Leaving Lamar

By Kleinheider Posted on March 23, 2009 at 12:09 pm

Ken Whitehouse has the breaker. Sen. Alexander’s longtime chief of staff will leave his post but will continue to consult with Sens. Alexander and Corker and most notably Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam who is currently running for governor.

UPDATE: R. Neal on the news.

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The Problem Solver

By Kleinheider Posted on December 10, 2008 at 10:02 am

Politico profiles Lamar Alexander’s Chief of Staff, Tom Ingram:

Ingram says he means what he says about bipartisanship. For the past several years, Ingram — whom colleagues call a social butterfly — has put together a regular bipartisan breakfast for more than 60 chiefs of staff to discuss ways in which their bosses can work together. The breakfasts have evolved into dinners and drinks and have given Ingram a sort of rock star status among Hill staffers.

“I am nuts about Tom Ingram,” said Tamara Luzzatto, chief of staff to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. “He has invested his precious time, wonderful sense of humor and terrific leadership skills into serving as a co-shepherd of a bipartisan flock of Senate chiefs of staff who hope, like he does, that by getting to know one another and learning from one another, we just might work more effectively together.

“I just wish he weren’t as good at electing Republicans,” Luzzatto said.

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Tags: bipartisanship, Bob Corker, Chief of Staff, Fred Thompson, Hillary Clinton, Lamar Alexander, political operatives, Tamara Luzzatto, Tom Ingram