Tom Perriello is a former Democratic Congressman from Virginia who ran unsuccessfully for the party’s 2017 gubernatorial nomination. From 2018 to July 2023, Perriello served as executive director for U.S. programs at the Open Society Foundations, the private philanthropic network of George Soros.^{1 2} He has served as a one-term U.S. Representative, a State Department official in the Obama administration, and as president of the liberal advocacy group Center for American Progress Action Fund. ³ As of February 2024, Perriello has rejoined the U.S Department of State and serves as the U.S Special Envoy for Sudan. ⁴

Perriello has a reputation as an aggressive liberal, staking out a left-wing voting record in Congress, pushing liberal policies as an advocate and administration official, and campaigning on a platform reportedly inspired by that of self-described democratic socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont). ⁵

Early Life

Thomas Stuart Price Perriello was raised in a small town outside Charlottesville, Virginia. His father, Vito, was a well-known local pediatrician and his mother, Linda, a financial analyst. Tom was the youngest of four children.⁶

Perriello attended western Albemarle public schools before graduating from Saint Anne’s-Belfield, a private Charlottesville boarding school. He went to Yale University for college. He then claims to have spent some time working for a “sustainability” company before going back to Yale law school, graduating in 2001.⁷

From 2002-2003 he worked as an assistant to the international prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Then he returned to the U.S. and was based in New York⁸ while he worked stints as a national security consultant in Kosovo, Darfur, and twice in Afghanistan for the International Center for Transitional Justice.⁹

Res Publica

After returning from Sierra Leone in 2003, Perriello claims that he worked in left-of-center politics in the U.S. and overseas.¹⁰ During this time, he co-founded the nonprofit Res Publica, an “incubator for social entrepreneurship” that spawns other groups. ¹¹

Avaaz.org

In 2007, Perriello co-founded the “global progressive group” Avaaz.org with two colleagues who had helped him start Res Publica.¹²  Avaaz was formed in collaboration with liberal website MoveOn.org, the massive Democratic online activist group.¹³

Avaaz was created to organize people internationally on liberal issues like poverty, human rights and the environment. ¹⁴ Perriello described it in 2004 an organization “aimed at promoting international justice on behalf of the religious left.” ¹⁵

In its first five years, Avaaz raised about $30 million from members around the globe.¹⁶ Initially, Avaaz was known for its online petitions taking leftist positions and attacking companies that they believed were causing global warming.¹⁷

During Perriello’s 2017 gubernatorial campaign, Avaaz, run by Perriello’s co-founder and colleague, gave Perriello’s campaign $230,000 in “seed” contributions. The Washington Post wrote that Perriello had taken money from “an international activist group that doesn’t disclose the names of the overwhelming majority of its donors”¹⁸ and his opponent criticized him for taking Avaaz’s “dark money” donations.¹⁹

U.S. Representative

In 2008, Perriello was elected to the U.S. Congress from Virginia’s 5th congressional district, defeating then-incumbent Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Virginia). The liberal news website HuffPost wrote, “on the campaign and in Congress, he was a favorite of the progressive community.”²⁰

Perriello described his 2008 campaign as one based on “conviction politics,” ²¹ which critics claimed meant that he arrogantly put his progressive priorities above the desires of the voters in the district that he was vying to represent.²²

During his single term in office Perriello stuck to his left-wing 2008 campaign agenda and backed President Barack Obama on several important votes.  Perriello voted for the controversial $800 billion stimulus package,²³ the Obamacare bill,²⁴ and the proposed “cap-and-trade” environmentalist energy policy.²⁵Perriello also pushed to end a $14 billion corporate tax credit to pay for environmentalist programs focused on weatherization and energy-efficiency.²⁶

Time Magazine labeled him an “unapologetic progressive” for his congressional votes.²⁷

During Perriello’s 2010 re-election campaign his opponent criticized his votes in support of Obama’s priorities, including the cap-and-trade bill, which his opponent said gave tax breaks to foreign companies creating jobs in China.²⁸ President Obama campaigned for Perriello in the final weekend of the campaign.²⁹ Perriello was defeated.³⁰

Center For American Progress Action Fund

In 2011, Perriello was named president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) advocacy and lobbying organization best known as the publisher of the ThinkProgress network of liberal blogs, just as his post-congressional lobbying ban was set to expire. CAP Action was established as the advocacy and lobbying arm of the Center for American Progress (CAP) think tank, which was established by longtime Clinton family confidant John Podesta, liberal billionaire George Soros, and a handful of other prominent Democrats and former Clinton administration officials. The Action Fund is also the home of the Progress Report,³¹ and a college campus-organizing group, Campus Progress.³²

In this post, Perriello supported the Democrats and liberal policy issues.

• Perriello released a statement lauding the Democratic-controlled Senate’s vote to enact the nuclear option in appointing numerous federal appellate judges.³³
• Perriello fasted in solidarity with leftist immigration reform activists³⁴ and he penned an op-ed calling for amnesty for 11 million illegal immigrants.³⁵
• He also called for Obama to unilaterally implement green energy policies and lauded Obama’s green energy mandates. ³⁶

From 2011 to 2013, the Center for American Progress Action Fund spent over $500,000 lobbing the federal government.³⁷ The organization lobbied on a wide range of bills taking liberal policy positions against domestic energy production, against a repeal of Obamacare, and to raise taxes on American energy corporations.³⁸

U.S. State Department

In February 2014, was appointed to a position in the Obama administration’s State Department under Secretary John Kerry. Perriello would lead a State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development efficiency review effort originally created by Secretary Hillary Clinton.³⁹

Perriello said one of his top objectives in this effort would be to make sure that climate change was integrated into the State Department’s strategic vision.⁴⁰ He also focused on number of other leftist global priorities that sought to use American taxpayer dollars to cut poverty, create an inclusive global middle class, and address global health problems.⁴¹

After the report was released in April 2015, the Washington Post highlighted criticisms that it’s “[proposed] solutions feel very small-bore compared with the scale of the problems identified.” Specifically that the report didn’t have a big plan for reforming the UN to deal with failed states, nor does it propose a groundbreaking strategy on climate change.⁴²

In July 2015, President Obama additionally appointed Perriello Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region and the Democratic Republic of Congo.⁴³

In February 2024, U.S Secretary of State for the Biden Administration Antony J. Blinken announced Perriello had rejoined the U.S Department of State and would be appointed as U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan, replacing Ambassador John Godfrey. In the press statement, Secretary Blinken noted Perriello would, “draw on his over two decades of experience working across the executive branch, the legislative branch, multilateral institutions, and NGOs.” ⁴⁴

2017 Gubernatorial Campaign

In January 2017 Perriello launched a “progressive insurgent” campaign for Governor of Virginia.⁴⁵ According to liberal magazine The Nation, Perriello would have been among the most liberal governors ever elected in Virginia.⁴⁶

Perriello focused his campaign on national issues and opposition to the Trump administration.⁴⁷ In addition to obstructing conservative policies, Perriello said that as governor he would support a number of left-wing priorities. Perriello’s campaign supported government-funded community college, supported a $15 minimum wage,⁴⁸ called for state funding of eight weeks of paid family leave for employees,⁴⁹ opposed tax cuts,⁵⁰ opposed Republican plans to repeal Obamacare, and proposed government funded clean-energy projects.⁵¹

Perriello’s Democratic opponent, then-Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam (D-Virginia), criticized Perriello’s previous skepticism of certain pro-abortion positions. Perriello said that he regretted those positions and was pursuing an “unapologetically pro-choice platform.”⁵² Northam also criticized his platform for seeking $1 billion in tax increases to fund government spending programs. ⁵³

During the race, Perriello was endorsed by U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)⁵⁴ and Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), ⁵⁵ CAP founder and former Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, current CAP CEO Neera Tanden, and about 30 Obama White House staffers including Obama’s 2008 campaign manager David Plouffe and former White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer.⁵⁶

Perriello was defeated by Northam in the Democratic primary.⁵⁷

Campaign Funding

As of April 2017, 56 percent of Perriello’s $2.2 million in campaign contributions came from out of state donors.⁵⁸ In June 2017, liberal billionaire George Soros gave Perriello another $250,000, bringing his family’s aggregate total for the election to more than $685,000 in contributions.⁵⁹ Joining Soros with $300,000 in contributions was Donald Sussman, a billionaire hedge fund manager who sits on the board of directors at the Center for American Progress. ⁶⁰

Win Virginia

In June 2017, immediately following his Democratic primary loss, Perriello launched the Win Virginia PAC to raise $1 million in support of Democrats in Virginia hoping to try and flip the Virginia House of Delegates to the Democrats.⁶¹ In the 2017 general elections, Democrats made substantial gains but did not win a majority of seats.

Open Society Foundations

In 2018, Patrick Gaspard, a former Obama Administration official who led George Soros‘s Open Society Foundations (OSF), appointed Perriello to lead OSF’s United States programs as executive director.⁶² During his time as executive director, OSF reportedly “made a strategic decision to change funding priorities” that eliminated 47 issue “silos” that were deemed too narrow in scope. “The result,” according to Politico, “was larger grants with longer horizons and the type of political support that Perriello credited with helping pass President JOE BIDEN’s domestic agenda.” ⁶³ Remarking on his departure from OSF, Perriello told reporters that “The center of gravity in American politics has shifted towards needing fundamental transformation of the system more than fixing around the edges.” and that his next endeavor would focus on “the intersection of artificial intelligence and human purpose.” Alexander Soros, George Soros’ son, spoke fondly of Periello, without giving a reason for his departure from OSF, saying “Five years ago, we looked at the scale of not just the threats but opportunities for open, inclusive democracy in the United States, and decided to double our investments and hire Tom Perriello to transform the way we worked.”

Support for the Inflation Reduction Act

According to Politico, a defining feature of Perriello’s tenure at OSF was building “a modern environmental advocacy community” and working closely with the White House under the Biden Administration to support the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, “a historic environmental policy achievement”. ⁶⁴ Reports indicate that, Perriello, who once lost his congressional seat because of his voting record on left-wing environmental policies, was so involved in supporting the Inflation Reduction Act that he was invited to celebrate the bill’s passage on the floor of the House of Representatives by Democratic congressmen. “What was remarkable wasn’t just how excited everyone was to vote for this, people were talking about how they were going to run on this. It was a complete sea change in the politics,” Perriello told reporters. He also told reporters that, when President Biden boasted about the Inflation Reduction Act during his 2023 state of the union address, he had “wept” with happiness while watching the speech on his mother’s television. ⁶⁵ Other reports indicate that Perriello was even invited to the Whitehouse to attend an “’inflation reduction’ party” on the South Lawn that commemorated the signing of the bill with a performance from rock-star James Taylor. ⁶⁶

Governing for Impact

One of the key ways Perriello influenced policy under the Biden Administration was his through leadership position at Governing for Impact, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, that received roughly $57 million from OSF under Perriello’s leadership and operated in secret for several years writing regulatory policy advisory documents for the Biden Administration, at least 20 of which were ultimately used. Schoffstall, Joe. ⁶⁷

Frequent Whitehouse Visits

While serving as Executive Director at OSF, Perriello made more than a dozen visits to the Biden Whitehouse from May 2021 to September 2022. According to Fox News, “Jordan Finkelstein, the chief of staff to Biden senior adviser Anita Dunn, was one individual to greet Perriello. Richard Figueroa, a race and ethnicity policy adviser; Rachel Chiu, chief of staff in the office of political strategy and outreach; Yohannes Abraham, previously the deputy assistant to the president, chief of staff, and executive secretary of the National Security Council, also appear in the logs, among others.”

Perriello was also met by Kimberly Lang, an assistant to a national security advisor, a total of five times. ⁶⁸

Perriello wasn’t the only senior staff member at OSF to visit the Whitehouse during that time. While Periello reportedly made 17 total visits, others at OSF, including Alexander Soros, visited the Whitehouse as well, a combined total of 33 times. ⁶⁹

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