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Chuck Baldwin is a citizen of the United States of America just like you and me. The difference is that he is not an elected politician offering the same old political answers. Chuck Baldwin has talked the talk and walked the walk. He doesn’t have a history of flip-flops and he does not test the wind every time he takes a position. Refreshing isn’t it? Have you ever thought what you would do if you were elected President of the United States? Chuck has done just that and he is providing the right answers to the important questions.

Chuck Baldwin was born in La Porte, Indiana on May 3, 1952. He is married to the former Miss Connie Kay Cole. Chuck and Connie were married on June 2, 1973 after meeting in college. They have three cherished and wonderful children and all three are married with families of their own.

Chuck graduated from La Porte High School in 1971 and attended Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan for two years. After he and Connie married and upon graduation they moved to Lynchburg, Virginia where he enrolled in Liberty Bible Institute at Liberty University. Since he earned his Bachelor and Master Degrees in Theology, Chuck has received two honorary Doctorate Degrees.

Chuck is a founder and minister at the Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, FL. Under his leadership the Church was recognized by President Ronald Reagan. Many conservative political and values leaders have spoken in his church including Patrick J. Buchannan, Pueblo Intelligence Officer Lt. Commander Steve Harris, Congressman Joe Scarborough and Ambassador Alan Keys to name just a few.

Chuck Baldwin is also a radio talk show host and an accomplished author. He moderates a daily, a one hour long call-in show where he addresses current event topics from a conservative point of view. The program is considered to be the most influential voice in the Florida Panhandle for conservative principles. Thousands of citizens are informed and rally to a call to action on issues that are so important to our nation’s future.

Catherine Bleish is the Executive Director of the Liberty Restoration Project. She is twenty five years old and a new activist to the cause, having been motivated by the presidential campaign of Ron Paul. But once she made up her mind to fight for liberty, she has been a human dynamo, co-founding the Liberty Restoration Project; serving as the Kansas City area Grassroots leader for the Ron Paul Campaign, serving as a delegate to the Republican National Convention, organizing "End The Fed" rallies, organizing grassroots training sessions, lobbying in state legislatures, fought the state of Missouri's MIAC report,and taking the liberty message to the streets and to the air ways, speaking, advocating, and organizing for the cause of liberty. Catherine Bleish represents the new young force of activists who are ready to carry liberty's torch into the future.

Oklahoma State Senator Senator Randy Brogdon was elected to his first term in the Oklahoma Senate in 2002. His district includes large portions of the Tulsa suburban area, including Owasso, Collinsville, Catoosa, Sperry and the fast growing areas of northeast Tulsa and Rogers County.

In all of his six years of service OCPAC selected him as "Senate Legislator of the Year" for having the highest conservative voting record in the Senate. In 2005 Senator Brogdon was the first senator in 20 years to receive a 100% on the Conservative Vote Index.

For the 2005-2006 legislative session he was elected to a leadership position by his caucus to serve as Senate Republican Whip and in 2007-2008 he served as the Assistant Republican Floor Leader.

In 2007 he was the recipient of the Phyllis Schlafly Oklahoma Eagle Award for his consistent support of Constitutional Conservative legislation.

He is a true champion of the people proven by his legislation such as "The Taxpayer Bill of Rights" (TABOR) and SB 1 "The Taxpayer Transparency Act." Senator Brogdon was also successful in leading the charge to opt out of the federal "REAL ID ACT" of 2005.

Senator Brogdon is leading the fight in Oklahoma to stop the NAFTA Superhighway, North American Union, and the Security and Prosperity Partnership, all of which undermine our freedom and sovereignty. He is also the author of "Ballot Access." "Term Limits" for statewide elected officials, and the "10th Amendment Resolution" designed to protect states rights.

In 2008 he was appointed as chairman of Appropriation of Transportation and General Government sub-committee.

Dan Byfield serves as president of the American Land Foundation, a private non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of constitutional principles, free enterprise, property rights and liberty. Dan also serves as president of Liberty Matters. With the assistance of the Farm Credit Bank of Texas in 1994, Dan created the American Land Foundation. Dan is the writer and producer of two television video productions documenting the effects of environmental laws on individual freedoms and uses of land in this country. They are "Who Owns the Land?

When the Environment Collides With the Constitution" and "Standing Ground: People, Property and Power." Both have been shown on national cable and educational television, including PBS, receiving a communications award for effectiveness. Dan is a graduate of the University of Texas with a journalism degree, specializing in public relations and has a law degree from South Texas College of Law in Houston.

Michael Chapman is a member of the Board of Directors of EdWatch, the premier "Education Watchdog" in America. He is also founder of American Heritage Research. He uses his extensive collection of rare founding-era books to reveal widespread bias and censorship within America's history curriculum. He has conducted research for state legislators as well as U.S. Congressmen. Michael has spoken at various conferences. He has conducted teacher in-service-training on world-view bias in four states, and has been co-speaker with Minnesota State Senator Bachmann.

Dr. Michael Coffman is a nationally recognized expert on environmental issues, and the United Nations. He is the author of The Birth of World Government and Saviors of the Earth?, as well as numerous columns, and booklets. He appeared in Phyllis Schlafly's video "Global Governance," and is CEO of Sovereignty International.

He is the creator of the widely-used "Biosphere Maps" that vividly illustrate the impact of the Wildlands project. These maps were displayed during the Senate debate about the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, and were instrumental in forcing the Majority leader to withdraw the Treaty from further consideration.

Michael's presentations are precise, authoritative, easy to follow, and provide invaluable information for those who need facts and documentation to convince their elected officials. See his presentation on the Endangered Species Act, and on Taking Liberty.

Tom DeWeese is one of the nation's leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education and American sovereignty and independence.

A native of Ohio, he's been a candidate for the Ohio Legislature, served as editor of two newspapers, and has owned several businesses since the age of 23. In 1989 Tom led the only privately-funded election-observation team to the Panamanian elections. In 2006 Tom was invited to Cambridge University to debate the issue of the United Nations before the Cambridge Union, a 200 year old debating society. Today he serves as Founder and President of the American Policy Center and editor of The DeWeese Report. Tom also heads up an Internet news site called Freedom21.com.

For 40 years Tom DeWeese has been a businessman, grassroots activist, writer and publisher. As such, he has always advocated a firm belief in man's need to keep moving forward while protecting our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights.

Gary Franchi, Jr. is an avant-garde filmmaker, television host, Managing Editor of Republic Magazine, national grassroots organizer, and is the successor to the late Aaron Russo as the National Director of Restore the Republic. Restore the Republic is the legacy group formed in response to the success of “America: Freedom to Fascism” and was later singled out by Ron Paul for bringing tens of thousands of new patriots into the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign and the Ron Paul Revolution.

In 2008, Gary co-hosted the Revolution March in Washington, DC that was attended by 15,000 revolutionaries. He is currently producing a new film with award winning director William Lewis about detention centers in America. You can watch Gary as he hosts the popular weekly show, The Reality Report, on Freedom.TV. Gary can be reached at: editor@republicmagazine.com.

G. Edward Griffin is author of the landmark book, The Creature from Jekyll Island, which reveals the secrecy behind the creation and the operation of the Federal Reserve. Along with his writings, Griffin is a documentary film producer with many successful titles to his credit. He has dealt with such diverse subjects as archaeology and ancient earth history, terrorism, international banking, internal subversion, the history of taxation, U.S foreign policy, the science and politics of cancer therapy, the Supreme Court, and the United Nations. He is dedicated to the cause of liberty and expresses his activism through Freedom Force International.

Dr. Matthew Hilton was raised in Walnut Creek, California. He received his training at Brigham Young University in Utah and holds graduate degrees in history, law, and curriculum and instructional science. His doctoral dissertation reviewed 13,000 cases of the United States Supreme Court over a two hundred year span, documented the secularization of the Court, and its impact on First Amendment cases in public education.

Dr. Hilton has a love for the freedom and rights of all people. His legal career has been spent in standing up for constitutional principles protecting families, religious belief and other unalienable rights. Bilingual, he has worked through out the hemisphere as a civil rights attorney, educator and writer of legislation.

Personally and professionally, he is a firm believer in the benefit of the political and legal theory that God is the bedrock foundation of our law and freedom. Students are taught from the framework of “Is the Declaration of Independence True? It’s Up to You!” Non-lawyer are taught to fill an obvious need: “How to Teach a Lawyer Right from Wrong.”

Oklahoma State Representative Charles Key has had a distinguished legislative career fighting liberals, government bloat and tax increases and believes that the new Republican controlled House could use some of that leadership while dealing with the current issues.

Some of his accomplishments are:

• Co-authored, voted for, and helped lead the fight to pass HB 1804. A bill against Illegal Immigration
• 100% Voting Record AGAINST ALL Tax Increases
• 100% Pro-Life Voting Record
• 100% Pro-Family Voting Record
• 100% Voting Record on 2nd Amendment Legislation
• Endorsed by Gunowners of America and National Rifle Association
• State leader and a national leader calling for a return to our constitutional form of government
• Author of the"The Tenth Amendment Resolution"
• Endorsed by National Federation of Independent Businesses, OK Conservative PAC, GOA, NRA, and the National Taxpayers Union

Mark Lerner is a previous confidant of the most senior people in the biometrics industry. He supported the use of biometrics until he discovered serious acts of wrongdoing. Mark provided what has been called a "massive"amount of evidence to the federal government regarding the wrongdoing uncovered. A nearly two year federal investigation was conducted without any information being provided to the public or congress. Mark now goes state to state waning citizens and state lawmakers about the dangers of the use of biometrics.

Mark has been to Washington D.C. several times to warn members of congress about the reliance the federal government has on the use of biometrics. Mark is also a co-founder of the Stop Real ID Coalition.

Dr. Jeff Marrongelle is a Doctor of Chiropractic and a Certified Clinical Nutritionist. He has been practicing Homotoxicology and nutrition for 14 years. He is a graduate and member of the Board of Trustees for Capitol University of Integrative Medicine, in Washington, D.C. He is a primary researcher in the effects of Electomagnetic fields with the Human Physiology. He has developed formulas and trademarks for several natural supplements and treatments and is a frequent lecturer and consultant, both nationally and internationally. His practice is located in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania.

Judith McGeary is an attorney in Austin, Texas. She has a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University and a J.D. with high honors from The University of Texas at Austin. She began her legal career by clerking for the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Since then, her practice has focused on environmental law, commercial litigation, and appeals. She left her legal practice to found the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance and serves on the steering committee of the Liberty Ark Coalition.

She and her husband also run a small organic farm, with horses, cow, sheep, and poultry, based on the principles of holistic resource management.

Mark Mix is President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. He also serves as President of the National Right to Work Committee, a 2.2 million member public policy organization.

He became President of the Foundation in 2003. Under the leadership of Mr. Mix, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has continued to provide unparalleled free legal assistance to workers and has utilized cutting-edge legal strategies to protect workers from the abuses of compulsory unionism.

Mr. Mix frequently appears on national television shows including Fox News Channel's Your World: With Neil Cavuto and Fox & Friends, as well as CNBC's Power Lunch. Mr. Mix also often serves as a guest on nationally syndicated radio shows such as the Michael Reagan Show and the Jim Bohannon Show.

Similarly, Mr. Mix's writings have appeared in national outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times and National Review. His pieces have also been featured in widely-read regional publications across the country including the Detroit Free Press, the Orange County Register and the San Antonio Express-News.

Mr. Mix is also a sought after speaker on political technology and grass-roots lobbying tactics. He often travels across the country, speaking and training participants in the political process.

Mark Mix holds a BA in Finance from James Madison University and an Associates Degree in Marketing from the State University of New York. Prior to joining the National Right to Work Committee in 1990, Mr. Mix worked for several state-level Right to Work groups. He joined the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation in 1999.

Marc Morano was a reporter and producer for Rush Limbaugh's television show from 1992-1996. According to his CNSNews bio "He holds the distinction of being the first journalist in history to have his video camera seized by the Clinton White House while on assignment."

Marc Morano, is the Communications Director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works dealing with environmental issues ranging from climate change to endangered species legislation. Former Senior Staff Writer for CNSNews, and is previously known as Rush Limbaugh’s “Man in Washington” as reporter and producer for the Rush Limbaugh Television Show, as well as correspondent and producer for American Investigator, the nationally syndicated TV newsmagazine, Marc's reporting has made national news with appearances and coverage on The O'Reilly Factor, Special Report w/ Brit Hume, USA Today, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, the American Spectator and Human Events, as well as online with National Review, Newsmax.com, WorldnetDaily, and the Drudge Report. He has also appeared on Politically Incorrect, NBC and ABC News and the McLaughlin Group. He has also reported for a wide variety of radio programs, including the Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Oliver North Shows. Mr. Morano has both White House and Capitol Hill press credentials.

Dr. Jane Orient obtained her undergraduate degrees in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Arizona in Tucson, and her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1974. She completed an internal medicine residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital and University of Arizona Affiliated Hospitals and then became an Instructor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She has been in solo private practice since 1981 and has served as Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) since 1989.

She is the author of YOUR Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Healthcare, Sutton's Law (a novel about where the money is in medicine today), and the second and third editions of Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis. She coauthored two novels published as e-books, Neomorts and Moonshine, and books for schoolchildren, Professor Klugimkopf’s Old-Fashioned English Grammar and Professor Klugimkopf’s Spellling Method, published by Robinson Books.

More than 100 of her papers have been published in the scientific and popular literature on a variety of subjects including risk assessment, natural and technological hazards and nonhazards, and medical economics and ethics. She is the editor of AAPS News, the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Newsletter, and Civil Defense Perspectives, and is the managing editor of The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

Larry Pratt is the Executive Director for Gun Owners of America, a national gun lobby with over 300,000 members. Pratt was awarded a B.A. in Political Science from American University. He has appeared numerous national radio and TV programs such as NBC's Today show, CBS' Good Morning America, CNN's Crossfire and Larry King Live, Fox's Hannity & Colmes, MSNBC's Phil Donahue show and many others. Pratt is the author of Armed People Victorious (1990), Safeguarding Liberty: The Constitution and Citizen Militias (1995), and On the Firing Line: Essays in the Defense of Liberty (2001).

Allen Quist is Professor of Political Science at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota. He is a widely recognized writer and speaker in Minnesota and throughout the United States. Allen Quist is author of five books, the most recent being America's Schools: The Battleground for Freedom. Quist authored the best-selling book, FedEd: The New Federal Curriculum and How It's Enforced, which has sold 17,000 copies. He explains the federal No Child Left Behind legislation and programs such as International Baccalaureate, he describes the math and reading wars,and he discusses the effects of international agreements on our schools. Quist writes about the preservation of America's sovereignty, our commitment to self-evident truth and unalienable rights, and our resolve to pass this liberty on to the next generation.

Prof. Quist served three terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1983 to 1988. In the Minnesota House, he served as Chair of the Social Services Subcommittee and also served on the House Education Committee. Prof. Quist played an influential role in legalizing home schools in Minnesota. He was the Republican-endorsed candidate for Minnesota Governor in 1994, and was one of seven delegates elected from Minnesota to the White House Conference on Families in 1980.

Jim Robinson is a native of Washington State with a prolonged interest in the foundations of our nation, our state, and how we, as citizens, can most effectively execute our duties as such.

He speaks to political and community groups on The Founders, the Constitution, the environmental movement, and Agenda 21, and is an experienced PCO trainer and political mentor.

Jim has over twenty years in Republican leadership, including state and local executive boards, district leadership, and precinct committee officer. Recruited candidates from PCO through state legislative positions. Directed two congressional campaigns and held various positions in presidential, gubernatorial, legislative, and local campaigns.

He came out of retirement to work as Legislative Aide to Representative Matt Shea of the 4th District of Washington State.

Representative Samuel E. Rohrer is a Pennsylvania State Representative from the 128th district in Berks County. As a nine-term veteran of the House of Representatives, Rep. Rohrer continues to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania with the same dedication and zeal as he did from his first day in office.

Representative Rohrer was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1992 and quickly showed his commitment to true government reform, fiscal discipline in spending, free market principles, and respect for the Constitution.

As the ranking Chairman of the House Finance Committee, Representative Rohrer works to protect the financial interest of the Commonwealth as well as the tax dollars from Pennsylvania citizens. He has also served as the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee Chairman and the Chairman of the Game and Fisheries Committee, and has spent twelve years on the Appropriations Committee and sixteen years on the Education Committee. As architect and prime sponsor of the School Property Tax Elimination Act, Representative Rohrer has also earned the statewide title of the champion for the taxpayer.

Representative Rohrer’s political ideology is one of individual responsibility coupled with the belief that the Constitution is the bedrock for making all critical legislative decisions and issues of public policy. To Representative Rohrer, the most urgent needs of this upcoming session are to ensure that the economic situation is addressed in a manner that recognizes fiscal discipline and the Constitutional role of government and to ensure the defense of our freedoms against expansionary and unconstitutional government programs like Real ID.

Representative Rohrer’s consistency in his personal and political life stem from his dedication to God, his love for his wife, six children, two grandsons and one granddaughter, and his tireless service to the constituents of his Berks County district as well as the citizens across the Commonwealth.

Bob Schulz is the founder and chairman of We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc., and We The People Congress, Inc.

Bob has an engineering degree from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York (1963), and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio (1969). He completed most of the course work for a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the Graduate School of Public Affairs, State University of New York at Albany.

Bob has held significant positions in industry (Westinghouse and General Electric), in government (Director of a State Office in Connecticut and a State Office in New York, and full time advisor to the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency), on Wall Street (Prudential-Bache Securities), in business (founder and CEO of a consulting firm), and on the radio as a talk-show host (WROW-Albany).

However, this work and these assignments are not Bob’s principal reason for being.

Although he is not an attorney, Bob is not unskilled in the law. Since 1979, Bob has been occupied with an abiding concern about wrongful governmental behavior. He has been carefully scrutinizing Government’s behavior, comparing that behavior with the requirements of the State and Federal Constitutions and unhesitatingly confronting improprieties and conflicts, in the courts, professionally, intelligently and rationally. Bob has performed the research, prepared the briefs and argued cases in the highest state and federal courts. Over one hundred fourteen (155) decisions have been published in cases he has brought against unconstitutional and illegal behavior by those wielding governmental power.

Bob’s current focus is on the historical context and purpose of the last ten words of the First Amendment, what Bob refers to as the accountability clause.

Michael Shaw is a founder of Freedom Advocates, formerly Freedom 21 Santa Cruz. He was a participant in the first Local Agenda 21 initiative in Santa Cruz, California. He saw the flaws in the initiative, and decided to try to counter the impact of sustainable development in his community. The organization he helped to create has become a leader in developing strategies for local organizations. He developed the Freedom 21 Platform and Action Plan, and two powerful booklets, Understanding Sustainable Development - Agenda 21 - A Guide for Public Officials, and Sustainable Development: Global to Local Action Plans.

George Shepherd is the founder of Republic Magazine. Using his knowledge of marketing and technology, George has launched several websites and tools within the freedom movement. He shares his passion for freedom and financial independence through Republic Magazine and his Internet business course at www.tacticalprofit.com.

John Stadtmiller, owner of Republic Broadcasting Network has been at the forefront of inforamtion disemination for 16 years. He has been behind the microphone for all of those years informing people of the true causes of most of the important issues that Americans face today. Having started two radio networks GCN radio network, formerly Republic Radio International, and the current network RBN.

RBN just celebrated its fifth aniversery this past June, RBN stands for liberty, Constitutional law, and true soverign freedom.

Amanda Teegarden is co-founder of Operation Information and Oklahomans For School Accountability, grassroots conservative research organizations. She has visited and written about the public hearings in Texas on the TTC-35, the Kansas City Smartport Offices, the Kansas City Mexiplex; attended the North America Works II Conference ("Building the Security and Prosperity Partnership") held in Kansas City, MO. She and other Oklahoma citizens have formed OK-SAFE, Inc., a coalition joining the national Conservative Caucus.

Scott Tips received his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976, studied at the Sorbonne (Paris I) from 1976-1977, and obtained his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1980, where he was the Managing Editor of the California Law Review. A California-licensed attorney, he was admitted to the California Bar in 1980 and has specialized in food-and-drug law and trademark law, but also engages in business litigation, general business law, and nonprofit organizations, with an international clientele. Since 1989, Mr. Tips has been the General Counsel for the National Health Federation, the World's oldest health-freedom organization for consumers. In 2007, Mr. Tips became NHF President, and has been a speaker for the organization on several continents.

A legal columnist, he writes a monthly column for Whole Foods Magazine called "Legal Tips," a column he started in 1984. Currently, Mr. Tips is occupying much of his time with health-freedom issues involving the Codex Alimentarius Commission and its and other attempts to limit individual freedom of choice in health matters. In that capacity, he has recently compiled, edited, and published a book on the subject entitled Codex Alimentarius - Global Food Imperialism. He also attends Codex meetings worldwide and has attended more Codex meetings than any other health-freedom activist.

Patrick Wood is the founder and director of World Research Library, editor of The August Review and Geo-Strategic Trends, and is an author and lecturer on topics relating to globalization, finance, economics and investments.

Wood partnered with Antony Sutton in the 1970's and 1980's to produce seminal research and publications on the elitist Trilateral Commission, its members and activities.

He currently resides with his family in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Jim Worthing will once again perform and entertain us at the Reception on Thursday night and throughout the Conference. Jim is an outstand musician whose most recent album features patriotic songs, including his own "Soul of Liberty." He was lead singer with the Cumberland Boys for ten years, featured at Opry Land. He has appeard at the Grand Ole Opry, and virtually every other important country music venue. He performed at the 2009 C-PAC conference in Washington, DC, and is in demand by churches everywhere to perform his distinctively styled gospel music. Visit Jim's MySpace page to learn more, and to listen to his music.