The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) is a counterpart to a Hill committee

Hill committee

The Hill committees are the common name for the political party committees that work to elect members of their own party to United States Congress...

 works to elect members of the Democratic party to U.S. state legislatures. It was formed after the 1994 elections, by a group of Democratic state legislators and then-DNC

Democratic National Committee

The Democratic National Committee is the principal organization governing the United States Democratic Party on a day to day basis. While it is responsible for overseeing the process of writing a platform every four years, the DNC's central focus is on campaign and political activity in support...

-chair Don Fowler.

About

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) works to win state legislative seats and chambers for Democrats. The DLCC's mission is to build and maintain winning, state-of-the-art campaign committees through a continuing partnership with legislative leaders, professional staff, and supporters.

Its political directors work with legislators, caucus directors, and allies in each state. They develop state-specific strategies, working with national and local partners to enable Democratic legislators to win in all regions of the country.

The DLCC helps give them access to tools like polling

Opinion poll

An opinion poll, sometimes simply referred to as a poll is a survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence...

, communications, opposition research

Opposition research

Opposition research is:# The term used to classify and describe efforts of supporters or paid consultants of a political candidate to legally investigate the biographical, legal or criminal, medical, educational, financial, public and private administrative and or voting records of the opposing...

, and fundraising

Campaign finance

Campaign finance refers to all funds that are raised and spent in order to promote candidates, parties or policies in some sort of electoral contest. In modern democracies such funds are not necessarily devoted to election campaigns. Issue campaigns in referendums, party activities and party...

. Many of the tools of modern campaign--such as microtargeting

Microtargeting

Microtargeting is the use by political parties and election campaigns of direct marketing datamining techniques that involve predictive market segmentation...

, get-out-the-vote drives, and other operations--are too expensive to be used effectively by only one small campaign; the DLCC helps pool the resources of many campaigns, using economies of scale

Economies of scale

Economies of scale, in microeconomics, refers to the cost advantages that an enterprise obtains due to expansion. There are factors that cause a producer’s average cost per unit to fall as the scale of output is increased. "Economies of scale" is a long run concept and refers to reductions in unit...

 to provide access to campaign tools that would be too cumbersome for smaller campaigns to use on their own.

The current chair of the DLCC is Mike Gronstal, majority leader of the Iowa State Senate; he took over the chairmanship in 2007. The committee is led in its day-to-day operations by Michael Sargeant, a longtime Democratic campaign manager

Campaign manager

A campaign manager is a paid or volunteer individual, whose role is to coordinate the campaign's operations such as fundraising, advertising, polling, getting out the vote , and other activities supporting the effort, directly.Apart from the candidate, they are often a campaign's most visible leader...

and political staffer.