Bart Marcois

The Chairman and CEO of Eagle PAC is Bart Marcois.   Until April 2008, Bart was the Executive Vice President of RJI Capital Corporation, an international investment banking firm based in Washington, DC.  A Presidential appointee to the U.S. Department of Energy, Mr. Marcois had served as the Bush Administration's Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs. 

Before joining the Administration, Mr. Marcois was the public affairs advisor to the Government of Kuwait in Washington, DC, where he created and implemented a public diplomacy campaign focusing attention on the strength and importance of the U.S.-Kuwaiti alliance.  The campaign combined a strategically targeted national grassroots communications program, advertising, and earned media with a robust presence in Washington, DC policy circles.

Prior to his consulting work, Mr. Marcois was a career Foreign Service Officer in the United States diplomatic corps.  His tenure at the U.S. Embassies in Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen and Kuwait focused on managing public diplomacy programs and directing political analysis in the Middle East and Washington, DC.  He was particularly engaged in encouraging the development of civil society, the rule of law, and democratic institutions in the context of Islamic societies.

Mr. Marcois has been instrumental over the past several years in voter turnout operations for campaigns in key battleground states.   He founded and chaired the RNC Advisory Council on LDS Outreach, and was responsible for the deployment of over 2,000 young volunteers to dozens of targeted battleground states and Congressional districts over the last three election cycles.  These young people constituted 25% and 33%, respectively, of the total 72-Hour Task Force volunteers deployed nationwide in the 2004 and 2006 campaign cycles.  Mr. Marcois works closely with the Republican National Committee, providing guidance to Chairman Mehlman and Chairman Duncan on strategic campaign issues.

Our experience in integrating these volunteers into the mainstream RNC, Victory, and local campaign organizations has had a profound effect on all parties.  The volunteers have learned to become skilled political operators, and many of them have gone on to serve as Administration appointees or party officials, bringing their philosophical backgrounds to bear on policy or political problem solving.  They have also begun to mentor younger people already, starting a “wicking” action to bring other people of similar backgrounds into places of responsibility.  In a time when most Americans consider Washington to be broken, it is heartening to see more people of good character enter the arena.  Republican Party officials have benefited from their association with these young people as well.  They assert repeatedly, in some wonder, that they have never seen volunteers as organized, committed, and helpful as ours.  Because they are interested in keeping our volunteers coming, they have reached out to us on policy matters and invited us to join policy discussions.  RNC and White House officials also have made symbolic gestures that were met with appreciation, such as awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to President Hinckley.