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Who are the “Real” Reformers of Government?

Friday, May 07, 2010 by Michael Hackmer

Ross Perot - 1992 Debate - Real Reformer Of Government

The word, “reform,” has been skillfully placed in political rhetoric by strategists and advisers who continue to lure the public into believing that their candidate, or official, is an outsider to the political norms. Reform has become commonplace, not just on the national scene, but in Virginia’s politics recently as well. The public continues to

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Tea Party Movement Is Not About The Republicans

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 by Michael Hackmer

The has been a lot of media coverage of the Tea Party movement in America. Many in the media and in the Democratic Party have branded these concerned, activist Americans as “right wingers” or the more banal term “tea baggers.” That’s is because they believe most of the people who are part of the Tea

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The Nation Needs the Reform Party

Tuesday, March 02, 2010 by Michael Hackmer

As the Republicans scramble to try to take back the House and Senate they are now talking about another ‘Contract With America’. What the Republicans don’t like to talk about is the fact that The Perot Voter wrote the first ‘Contract With America’, which came directly out of Ross Perot’s Book United We Stand. While

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A Game We Cannot Afford To Continue To Play

Monday, February 08, 2010 by Charles "Sam" Faddis

In 2008 the American electorate rejected a Republican candidate for President and elected our first African-American President, Barack Obama. Obama, campaigning on a platform perhaps best summarized simply as “change”, not only emerged victorious but took a number of states that had not voted Democratic in a presidential election in a number of years. The