Shawn Bagley

Shawn K. Bagley is a 3rd generation Californian who has lived in the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas all his life. Shawn works in the fresh produce industry on the central coast at Complete Produce Inc., where as a founding partner he engages in the procurement of fresh fruits and vegetables from growing areas throughout the international marketplace for customers across the country.

Shawn is the second term California Democratic Party (CDP) Regional Director for Region 9 representing the entire central coast of California. He serves as the 1st Vice Chair of the Monterey County Democratic Central Committee (MCDCC). He served as President of the Salinas Valley Democratic Club in 2007. He was elected as a delegate to the California Democratic Conventions in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He had the honor of representing Congressional District 17 as Monterey County’s only District Delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.

He participated in the 2004 Democratic campaign as chair for the Kerry Van project, which created 4 convoys and 25 political rallies for national and local Democratic candidates in the Monterey Bay area, including the counties of Santa Cruz, San Benito, Santa Clara and Monterey. He appeared frequently on progressive radio station KRXA-AM 540, which covers Democratic Party activities in the Monterey Bay area. He also organized the two 2006 appearances in Monterey by nationally syndicated progressive talk show host Stephanie Miller.

Shawn managed the MCDCC campaign office in the 2006 and 2008 general elections, providing strategic support for many successful Democratic campaigns. He created the First Presidential Primary in the Nation in December 2007, which was a straw vote caucus in Salinas with participation by Democratic Party activists and allies around the State.
Shawn organized, as a co-founder, Central Coast Hillary 2008 (CCH 08), a grassroots organization in March 2007. Membership included over 950 active supporters throughout the 17th Congressional District spreading across 5 counties. Activities included over 25 debate watch parties including 10 on one night in the city of Salinas. Central Coast Hillary 2008 volunteers made over 55,000 phone calls not only in California but also the rest of the country.

Shawn participated with the National Campaign as area lead on Hillary Clinton's event right here in Salinas January 22, 2008 where 4,000 supporters attended (with only a 24 hour notice). On the public relations element he made numerous appearances on all media including radio, print and television both local and national. GOTV efforts on Primary Election Day included coordinating with volunteers and Unions, literature drops at over 5,000 houses in Monterey County and 2,500 houses in Santa Cruz County. Fundraising was also a very important aspect of Central Coast Hillary and Shawn worked with both major and small donors coordinating with the National Finance Committee. He opened and operated six Hillary Stores distributing campaign materials throughout the central coast area. CCH 08 participated in a direct mail campaign in which over 17,000 letters were written and mailed to super delegates. Six members traveled to other states including Iowa, New Hampshire, Texas, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Nevada just to name a few. CCH 08 distributed a weekly e-newsletter throughout the long campaign. This local grassroots campaign even reached into the Worldwide Web by utilizing CCH 08 blogs and Facebook to help the Hillary campaign.

Shawn loves political field operations and all the organizing aspects that come with that. CCH 08 with its 5 local leaders was recognized as the number one field operation in California for the HRC campaign.

Shawn did numerous Unity Events immediately after the historic primaries ended representing Hillary supporters from the Monterey Bay area. He was the public face as efforts were made to bring the two campaigns together.
Shawn was actively engaged in getting the vote out for Obama in the 2008 General Election on November 4, 2008. As the CDP leader on the Central Coast, eight offices were set up by Democratic Party organizations and allies with all infrastructures in place to serve volunteers. Office locations included Monterey, Seaside, Salinas, Marina, Santa Cruz, Morgan Hill, Hollister and Watsonville, and were in operation and ready to go by July 2008. All elements of a field operation were in place: a location for national staff, phone systems, food service, business machines, computers, campaign software, volunteer coordinators, databases set up to track activities, along with talented, experienced activists ready to go to work and anything else the national campaign needed to absorb every volunteer who wanted to work.

Never before, in the California Central Coast’s history, has there been such a concentrated effort to mobilize the vote by local Party organizations and volunteers.

In Monterey County, immediately after the 2004 election, Shawn took a leadership role with a group of activists to develop the “Organizing to Win” (OTW) plan. The OTW plan was about the local Party becoming more organized, more focused on its message and more unified, so that it could make a difference locally, statewide and nationally. The central theme of this plan was to build a permanent locally funded Democratic Party office in Monterey County. From the historic 2008 election, building on the success of all the campaign headquarters for both the National and local levels, two permanent offices called the Center for Change (C4C), were opened in 2009. The Centers carry out the mission of the local Democratic Party, advance Democratic ideals and values, identify and empower new leaders in communities, and advance President Obama’s agenda for change from the bottom up.

Shawn has advanced the C4C program statewide. He developed the idea for sharing the C4C template to help build a network of C4Cs through the California Democratic Party’s County Committees and Clubs. Building on the success of having two C4Cs in Monterey County, there are now plans in place to open a C4C in the counties of Santa Cruz (open), San Benito (open), Sacramento, Stanislaus, Fresno and Contra Costa. There are plans being put in place in other counties as well.

Shawn has a BA with honors in World Military History from American Military University in Manassas, Virginia. He participated in Connections, the interdisciplinary conference on conflict simulation for the Department of the Air Force in 1995 at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.

Shawn’s other activities include: Past President and Key Member of the Salinas Jaycees 1989-90; Salvation Army Advisory Board Treasurer 1990-94; United States Jaycees Ambassador #2979; Jaycee International Senator #52789; Salinas Humanitarian of the Year 1992.

Contact:
Shawn K Bagley
831-262-0367
Salinas, California.