Dubuque's Tom Tully -- A Happy Political Warrior Posted by David Shorr

Separate from my day gig, I have been active as a volunteer on behalf of National Security Network, the sponsor of this blog. Last night I was sad to learn of the death of Tom Tully, our friend, fireball, vital partner in everything we've done here in Iowa.

In the spring of 2006, colleagues in the foreign policy community were ratcheting up an effort to inject progressive foreign policy ideas and messages into the political process and wanted to have a chapter in Iowa. The organization didn't yet have its current name, but it was soon clear that the word network was highly apt. It was like the old shampoo commercial -- 'I told two friends, and they told two friends, and so on, and so on.' My first call was to Ambassador Ken Quinn of the World Food Prize, and right away he directed me to his old friend Tom Tully.

Tom's spirit and enthusiasm were infectious from the very start. Soon after I contacted him, we met at his favorite downtown haunt, Dubuque's Cafe Manna Java. The essence of activism and organizing is to make something out of nothing, and at a time when we were truly starting with nothing, Tom gave me a shot of confidence that we were onto something. US foreign policy was a disaster, and yes, talking about the issue with voters must be part of the political process.

Along with his passion and energy, Tom had a background that gave him insight into the problem as well as what we needed to do about it. As this terrific Dubuque Telegraph-Herald article on Tom attests, he was a political and civic pillar of his community, complete with service as the city's mayor. With a stint as a civilian official in the Kennedy administration Pentagon, he had been a national security policy professional. Tom was also a classically trained policy wonk -- with a masters from what we now call the Harvard Kennedy School -- with the intellectual appetite of a life-long learner, always ready to tell me about the foreign policy book I needed to read.

Over the next two election cyc few years, we were pretty successful in making something out of nothing. Corraling other Iowans who shared our concerns, we helped give foreign policy issues and the argument for renewing America's engagement with the world a fairly high profile in Iowa's political life. It was a lot of public events, hosting visiting experts, propagandizing, going around to media outlets, op-eding, and driving all around the state. Tom was as dependable as could be, and ever the happy warrior, he helped make it fun.

The thing that strikes me in that newspaper article is that Tom's work with National Security Network was of a piece with a broader lifelong commitment to civic engagement and trying to do some good in this world. We in NSN, for instance, had to share Tom with the Dubuque Area Committee on Foreign Relations. Which wasn't a problem, since Tom seemed to have enough energy to go all the way around. And then of course, his wife Joan had to share Tom with us, for which we were certainly grateful.

As the Telegraph-Herald piece makes clear, people like Tom are rare indeed. I feel lucky to have worked alongside hiim and send my warmest condolences to Joan, Tom Jr., Maureen, Brother Rob, his other siblings, grandchildren, and the rest of the clan.

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