Donilon has also worked on campaigns for Governor Jon Corzine (D-NJ), Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Senator Joe Liberman (I-CT), Representative Dick Gephardt (D-MO), Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), Senator John Edwards (D-NC), Vice President Al Gore (D-D.C), Senator John Kerry (D-MA), and former Senator Mark Dayton (D-MN).[4] In 2006 and 2008, Donilon claims he was "instrumental in the campaigns for Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Senator Mark Udall (D-CO), and Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), working to create the campaign ads for those races paid for by independent expenditure of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee."[attribution needed]