Winning Mark’s general consulting, strategic services and campaign planning have helped campaigns achieve what was thought impossible. Here are just a few examples of where the strategic advice and communications managed by Winning Mark's political campaign media specialists have made the winning difference.

Dave Bieter for Boise Mayor In 2003, Idaho was by some measures the most Republican state in the nation. The idea of a progressive Democrat capturing the Mayor’s office in Boise was seen as a pipe dream. But two years previously, the Winning Mark team confounded conventional political wisdom by helping pass a levy to protect critical parts of Boise’s signature foothills. When legislator Dave Bieter declared for Mayor, his campaign came to Winning Mark.

The I-Tax Oregon was the state hardest hit by the Bush recession, with the nation’s highest unemployment rate and a state budget crisis that led to five special legislative sessions and draconian cuts to schools and human services. After two statewide tax measures were crushed at the polls, school and human service advocates in Oregon’s largest county turned to Winning Mark to help.

Say NO to Oil-Dri

In the summer of 2001, the Reno-Sparks Indian colony faced a threat to their homes and families: the Oil-Dri Corporation was planning to put a huge mining operation next to the Colony’s principal residential area. What were they going to mine? Kitty litter. (One of the pleasures of this business is learning something new every day…who knew that kitty litter was mined?) But while it might sound amusing, the reality was anything but: the mine posed a variety of dangers, from health, to water quality, to scarring one of the last beautiful open spaces in the area.