Marshall Wittmann

Marshall Wittmann is a pundit, author, and sometime political activist. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council. He is perhaps best known for having changed in his political affiliation and philosophy several times.

He holds both his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan.

He served as the conservative Heritage Foundation's director of congressional relations. He also served as the Christian Coalition's director of legislative affairs, and as a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

In the first Bush Administration, he served as the deputy assistant secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Currently Wittmann describes himself as a member of the "McCainiac" wing of the Democratic Party. He co-signed a letter from the Project for a New American Century endorsing the 2003 invasion of Iraq at its outset. When President Bush's Domestic Spying program was revealed, Wittman dismissed any concerns about the legality or constitutionality of the practice, describing concerns about civil liberties as "fevered imaginations of graying baby boomers and twenty-something bloggers" and opined that "The Democratic Party is increasingly under the influence of modern day McGovernites". [1]

Wittmann also was the legislative representative with the National Association of Retired Federal Employees and a public affairs specialist with the National Treasury Employees Union.

He describes his political journey here. Here is a critical response.