Matt Bennett is a Third Way political activist, whose pursuit for center left politics has taken him from the campaign trail to the White House. He worked on both of the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, and helped stage the infamous “Dukakis in a tank” photo-op that helped sink Michael Dukakis’ 1988 presidential campaign. He served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs in the Clinton White House, where he was the principal White House liaison to governors and covered issues ranging from disaster response to Medicaid to immigration.