For over twenty years, Brent Littlefield has been active as a staff member and consultant in politics and public policy.
As a Republican political and policy consultant based in Washington, D.C., he has worked on races at every level all across the United States; including efforts for Presidential candidates, Governors, U.S. Senators, projects for the Republican National Committee, multiple members of Congress and local Republican office holders.
At a young age Brent started in broadcasting working as a radio personality, in television production and later as a local NBC network affiliate employee.
He then worked with Governor John McKernan’s successful re-election campaign, the closest gubernatorial campaign in Maine's history. Directing efforts in three communities where the campaign plan predicted heavy losses, he produced wins despite facing a voter registration deficit of nearly two to one in all of the heavily unionized communities he was assigned.
Brent led the last-minute ballot access effort for Congresswoman Olympia Snowe’s successful campaign for the U.S. Senate, he served as the Communications and Political Director for the future State Senate President’s campaign for Congress and staffed the State Senate campaign of the Assistant Republican Leader in his
State House.
In 1995 he came to Washington to serve on the Congressional staff of Rep. James B. Longley. The following year he directed Longley’s
re-election campaign ground efforts, a race that was a playing field for attack ads from national union and liberal affiliated organizations.
This experience led Brent to join the nation’s small business advocacy association NFIB, the National Federation of Independent Business. There as a Regional Political Director he helped build a network of small business owners to help even the playing field for pro-free enterprise candidates, help increase and direct PAC spending and use the coalition's grassroots to promote candidates.
As a result, The Washington Post front page on Election Day reported on his efforts as one of the featured people and organizations impacting the nation's mid-term elections. That following year he led NFIB’s national effort to promote IRS tax code reform.
Then in 2000 he co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based firm Political Solutions. For nearly eight years he helped build the firm’s client roster to include Governor Bobby Jindal, Fred Thompson for President, three Republican U.S. Senators, the Republican National Committee, several Members of Congress, state Republican caucus committees, the National Association of Home Builders, Americans for Job Security and many other state and local office holders.
During that time, then as a consultant, he helped direct NFIB’s large program of independent issues expenditures. He also aided in the creation of multiple coalitions between corporations and organizations to highlight issue concerns before Congress and state capitals as well.
During his time with Political Solutions he was the recipient of numerous Pollie Awards from the American Association of Political Consultants, of which he has been a member, for his creative work on behalf of Republican candidates and conservative leaning associations.
Within just the first few months of the creation of Littlefield Consulting, Brent worked with multiple Members of Congress, for the RNC on the McCain Victory coordinated effort, Congressional, statewide and local candidates in multiple states and for national organizations including the American Conservative Union.
Brent has been sought by leading publications, television networks and magazines as an analyst and commentator appearing on the national FOX News Channel, on the evening newscast for ABC’s Washington affiliate, on MSNBC, in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, the Reader's Digest, the Miami Herald, Charlotte Observer, Boston Globe and on numerous radio shows. He has been cited as a source in all three Capitol Hill newspapers: Politico, Roll Call and The Hill. He has also appeared in Politics magazine (formerly known as Campaigns & Elections) and as a columnist and video commentator for the new media website and video channel Pajamas Media.
He has been a guest lecturer at the Leadership Institute and at American University’s Center for Presidential and Congressional Studies. He is a member of the National Association of Republican Campaign Professionals (NARCP).
Brent is a former member of the Republican State Committee of Maine. He is a former Board Member of the Maine State Society.
Having lived throughout his home state of Maine and for short stints in Charlotte, N.C., and Seattle, Brent currently resides just outside Washington, DC in Alexandria with his wife, Gretchen Littlefield.
Brent
and Gretchen attend Trinity United Methodist Church of Alexandria.
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