Background
Victor was born in 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Kamber attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he earned his bachelor's degree in 1965.
Kamber received a Master of Arts degree from the University of New Mexico.
Kamber received a master of laws from George Washington University in 1972.
Kamber received a Juris Doctor degree from the Washington College of Law at the American University.
Victor Kamber
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1997
Victor was born in 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Victor attended public schools in Chicago, Illinois. Kamber subsequently attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he earned his bachelor's degree in 1965. Kamber later received a Master of Arts degree from the University of New Mexico, a Juris Doctor degree from the Washington College of Law at the American University, and a master of laws from George Washington University (he received this last degree in 1972).
Kamber started to work on the presidential campaigns of Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon in 1968. He later was an administrative assistant to United States Representative Seymour Halpern (R-New York).
In 1970, Kamber was convicted of forgery while teaching at Prince George's Community College (PGCC). At the time, Kamber was president of the national Young Republicans' leadership training school in Chicago. Federal officials accused him of submitting a forged letter to his draft board in 1968. The letter had ostensibly been signed by the president of PGCC and attested that Kamber was a faculty member there. But PGCC president John Handley testified he had not seen the letter, had not authorized it and had not signed it. Kamber was acquitted of charges that he did not teach at the community college, but convicted of forgery and sentenced to two years in prison.
After his conviction, Kamber worked as a lobbyist for the Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD) of the AFL-CIO. Under Robert Georgine, also a Republican, Kamber rose quickly to become the department's chief lobbyist. Kamber's tenure at BCTD was marked by a significant drop in the political power of the AFL-CIO on Capitol Hill. After the defeat of the picketing bill, Kamber was tapped by AFL-CIO president George Meany to head a labor law reform task force.
Kamber left the AFL-CIO in 1980 and founded his own public relations firm, The Kamber Group. Almost immediately, Kamber took on some very high-profile clients. He established a legal defense fund for Rep. Frank Thompson, Jr. (D-New Jersey), who was caught in the federal government's Abscam sting.
He was counsel for the NFL Players Association during the 1982 National Football League strike. He also served as a public relations consultant and spokesman for the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA).
In 1984, Kamber served as a national campaign advisor to Sen. Alan Cranston during his run for the U.S. presidency. However, Kamber eventually resigned as political and public relations consultant to the campaign after complaining that Cranston's personal staff pushed him to the side.
Kamber turned his attention back to politics in 1992. He supported the U.S presidential candidacy of Sen. Tom Harkin. Although he did not become involved in a presidential campaign to the extent that he did in 1984, Kamber nevertheless played a big role in the 1992 election. In July of that year, he established a political action committee called Americans for Change.
In Giving up on Democracy: Why Term Limits Are Bad for America (1995), Kamber offers convincing arguments against establishing term limits for members of the United States Congress, according to Booklist contributor Ray Olson. Olson wrote that Kamber provides “persuasive” evidence as to why “experienced politicians make the best legislators,” and writes why term limits are “profoundly antidemocratic.” Kamber wrote Are You a Conservative ora Liberal? (1996) with Republican political consultant Brad O’Leary. Another Kamber and O’Leary collaboration, Are You a Democrat or a Republican?, was published in 1998. Both books explain the major political groups in the United States and help readers explore their own political leanings.
He wrote Poison Politics: Are Negative Campaigns Destroying Democracy? in 1997. Steven E. Schier, reviewing the book in Washington Monthly, wrote that Kamber gives ample evidence of negative campaigning, as he “points out how far is too far when going negative, offering vivid examples from recent campaigns of attacks on candidates.’ character, race, gender, or sexual orientation that will make most readers’ stomachs turn.”
In 2002, Kamber became a paid spokesman for the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, acting as political consultant and public relations expert for the union.
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1997(Kamber argues that term limits are a disastrous quick fix...)
1995Kamber is a member of National Press Club, Newspaper Guild, American Civil Liberties Union, Economic Club of Washington, International Association of Political Consultants, Washington Project for the Arts and others.