About Phil Giarrizzo Campaigns

Phil Giarrizzo Campaigns has built a reputation for delivering results-driven strategies - grounded in solid policy and political analysis - for elected officials, candidates, labor unions, corporations, and trade associations.

PGC can deliver everything you need to succeed, including: political, legislative, and regulatory strategies, award-winning advertising and communications programs, coalition building, grassroots mobilization and issue advocacy campaigns.

Phil Giarrizzo / Owner

With more than 30 years of experience, Phil Giarrizzo’s background offers a unique balance of political campaign experience, public policy work, coalition building, and organizational development.

Before starting his own political campaign and issue advocacy firm in 1991, Giarrizzo had a varied career. As a young man he was named C.E.O. of a 40,000-member public-sector union, where he pioneered innovative public policy and creative communication strategies, and later was appointed to the Executive Board of the Service Employees International Union under the leadership of former SEIU President John Sweeney.

After deciding to enter full-time political work, Giarrizzo became a Senior Consultant to California’s legendary State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. He also served as a Chief of Staff to a Member of the State Assembly.

Giarrizzo left the legislature after working for the Democratic Caucus campaign team. A few years later, he was named a Rising Star by “Campaigns and Elections” magazine. The firm has gone on to win dozens of awards from the American Association of Political Consultants for direct mail, radio and newspaper advertising, and issue advocacy campaigns.

In 2004, after producing direct mail for Democratic Presidential candidate Wesley Clark, Giarrizzo was tapped for the Democratic National Committee’s battleground states direct mail team.

In 2005, Giarrizzo produced the direct mail and directed the statewide field campaign for the Alliance for a Better California (a coalition of all the state’s largest unions) in its No on Propositions 74 thru 77 campaigns. Under his direction, the Alliance conducted one of the state’s largest and most sophisticated organizing efforts, which helped produce the largest Get-Out-The Vote operation in California history – judged one of the best in the country -- and an across-the-board sweep on Election Day.

Since then Giarrizzo has been involved in campaigns in Nevada, Indiana, New Mexico, Florida, and, of course, California.

While every consultant wants the high-profile races, Giarrizzo prides himself on working just as hard for the hundreds of local and state legislative candidates that are the backbone of every state’s political structure.

Campaigning is not Phil Giarrizzo’s business, it’s his passion.

The range of experience on the PGC staff provides a broad network of contacts and strong relationships with members of the Legislature, legislative staff, regulatory agencies and local governments throughout California.