Out Of The Election.
Not Out Of The Fight.
The race is over. The reasons for running are not. Here’s what I’m working on now, and how to bring me in.
Values And Views
The campaign ended. These didn’t.
Top versus bottom
This fight isn’t left versus right. It’s the people who make the decisions against the people who live with them.
Money out of politics
Corporate money is the root of what’s broken. That was the whole case, and Montanans vote on it this November.
Montana first
Montana’s people, land and values come first, in the rural towns as much as the blue cities.
On The Horizon
The things I’m actually spending time on.
The Montana Plan
On the November ballotInitiative I-194 permanently bans corporate money from Montana elections. The Montana Supreme Court upheld it in April. Montanans vote on it this November.
Follow the initiative →The Cleveland Collective
Taking clientsLeadership for hire, with Dr. Kate Cleveland. Advisory, interim and board-level work for organizations that need someone who has run something.
How we work →Skills In Play
What I’ve built, and what it turned out to be good for.
- Building from nothing Co-founded Rocky Mountain Kids and grew it to serve thousands of children across the region.
- Running an operation at scale Ran a large portion of the Denver market for U.S. Bank across nearly a decade in banking.
- Standing something up fast Built the nation’s first remote learning centers when the pandemic closed schools, and helped launch Universal Pre-K across Colorado.
- Ballot and advocacy strategy Took Initiative I-194 from drafting through a Montana Supreme Court challenge and onto the November ballot.
- Building in the physical world Multi-family affordable housing in Saint Regis, and a family homestead and cattle ranch built by hand.
- Saying it plainly A first-time congressional run financed entirely by individual contributions. No PACs, no dark money.
Leadership
For Hire.
Russ and Dr. Kate Cleveland take on advisory, interim and board-level work through The Cleveland Collective.
Between them: a bank market, a childcare company grown to serve thousands of families, the country’s first remote learning centers, and a ballot initiative that survived a state supreme court.
No Campaign.
Still Worth Knowing.
A note when something actually moves. The initiative, new work, where I’m speaking. Nothing weekly.
Already on the campaign list? You’re on this one. Nothing to do.
It’s Still About Us,
Not Me.
If you were part of the campaign, you’re part of what comes after it.