Winner of PR News’ 2006 Hall of Fame Award for his outstanding career in labor communications and politics, Victor Kamber is often controversial, but never dull.
A veteran Democratic political consultant, Kamber has worked in over 100 political races, from City Council to Presidential. For many years he directed Politics, Inc., an affiliate of his award-winning communications firm The Kamber Group. During the 1980s and 1990s, Politics Inc. had an enviable record in Congressional and gubernatorial campaigns, electing Democratic candidates.
Kamber is the author of four books, including Poison Politics, a timely book that explores how negative campaigns affect democracy and offers valuable perspective each and every campaign season. In Poison Politics Kamber anticipated “Swift-boating”, posting a warning that “a more dangerous problem” of political ads that lie and smear “is the increasingly cynical attitude toward government that is poisoning our politics and causing many voters to give up and stay home.”
Another Kamber book, Giving Up on Democracy: Why Term Limits Are Bad for America, is causing new headaches this year for at least seven House Republicans who were elected on the “term limits” pledge and who now say, “oh, never mind”. Kamber writes that he has long believed term limits “is one of the silliest ideas ever to spawn a national movement” but has only scorn for elected officials who renege on voter promises.
Kamber is co-author, with Brad O’Leary, of Are You a Conservative or a Liberal?, a fun book that helps readers determine where they fit on the American political spectrum and made timely by today’s headlines screaming party labels as epithets.
Kamber’s frequent articles and opinion pieces on contemporary American issues appear regularly in newspapers around the country. He appears on numerous television talk shows where he is an astute, articulate observer of why candidates and political parties succeed or fail.
Since founding The Kamber Group in 1980 with a staff of three that grew into one of the nation’s largest independently-owned communications firm, Kamber has built an outstanding record of achievement in the fields of public affairs, politics and labor relations. In January 2005, he was named President of Carmen Group Communications where his clients continue to win awards (such as the 2006 “Telly” for the Sheet Metal Workers International Association).
Prior to starting The Kamber Group, Kamber served as assistant to the president of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, and director of the AFL-CIO Task Force on Labor Law Reform. He also was administrative assistant to Rep. Seymour Halpern (R/N.Y.).
Kamber holds four earned degrees, including a law degree from The American University, and an L.L.M. with highest honors from George Washington University. He received his M.A. with honors in rhetoric and public address from the University of New Mexico and a B.A. from the University of Illinois.
Telephone: 202/218-4149
Email: kamberv@carmengroup.com
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