A Guide for Republican Candidates: This Book Promotes the Traditional GOP Principles of ?Limited Government?, and ?Comply with the Constitution?. This (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781545412039)

Biography of Dave Redick Personal: Dave grew up with his two brothers in a middle class family near Detroit, MI. When he was 14, the family moved to an 80-acre general farm near Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army Reserve. Education and Business: Dave won a four-year tuition scholarship to the University of Michigan, based on grades, activities (Sr. Class President, sports), and need, and started in the fall of 1953. He completed his engineering degree in Feb., 1958. Upon graduation he worked as an aerospace engineer for 5 years (rocket engines and satellites) in California, and then started his career in telecom sales and management. In 1965 he earned an MBA in Economics from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA, and after management positions in several other firms, in 1995 became VP Sales, then President, of a wireless engineering consulting firm www.hntelecom.com. He left in 2000 to be VP and cofounder of a Silicon Valley telecom startup 'Fiberstreet' (closed, see Google), and helped raise $6 million of venture capital. In 2005 he started 'Sustainable Energy Earth', an energy consulting firm. Political: In 1978, Dave became concerned about economic and social damage caused by counterproductive government 'management'. He then read about and discussed this subject widely and became an activist for more cost-effective, and less abusive, government. He ran for Congress as a Libertarian in 1982 in District CA-1 (got 3% of vote), then returned to his Republican roots and ran in CA-1 again in 1984 with Reagan (got 38% with same issue positions!). He ran for State Legislature as a Republican in CA-24 in 2004, and in WI-77 in 2010. During the G. W. Bush administration, Dave became concerned about the Republican Party's departure from its core principles. In 2007 he was the Wisconsin contact for The Republican Liberty Caucus (see www.WI.RLC.org and www.RLC.org), which promotes the principles of limited government and free enterprise. In 2008 Dave founded the 'Forward USA Foundation' to promote better government. The website is www.forward-usa.org