Marcoccio to join Obama's Montana campaign

Andrea Marcoccio, a staffer at Cranston-based Vision Strategies, is the latest Rhode Islander to take an out-of-state assignment with Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

In an e-mail, the firm’s husband and wife partners, Bill Fischer and Jenn Bramley, write that Marcoccio . . .

is moving to Montana to assist Barack Obama's campaign, making her last day at Vision Strategies this Friday, August 1. For the past two years, Andrea has served as an account executive and graphic designer for our firm. She has brought a high level of dedication, creativity and commitment to our clients and the projects with which she has been associated.

Although we will miss her presence at Vision, we are certainly excited that one of our staffers will be contributing to Senator Barack Obama’s campaign to become the next president of the United States. Andrea will be working in the Missoula area of Montana where she will serve as a field organizer. She will officially begin her duties on August 5.

Fischer tells N4N that Marcoccio, a Warwick native, possess a very strong work ethic and is skilled at meeting deadlines.

Michael Dorsey, a familiar face from his work in Rhode Island in the 2006 Democratic campaign, is also working for Obama in Montana.

Larkin Barker, previously press secretary for LG Elizabeth Roberts, previously left that office to join Obama's NH campaign.

In a sign of the split present in some public and private offices during Rhode Island’s presidential primary, Bramley worked as Hillary Clinton’s deputy communications director. She also previously worked for former US Representative Bob Weygand and former treasurer Paul Tavaras, while Fischer was chief of staff during Sheldon Whitehouse’s days as attorney general here in Rhode Island.

Other former Vision Strategies staffers who've moved into politics include Whitehouse staffer Tony Simon and former Roberts's chief of staff Paul Tencher.