Long-time conservative activist, he is chairman of ConservativeHQ.com; Co-Founder of the American Freedom Agenda and Chairman of American Target Advertising; author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause
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