Index

Current Listings

Elected Officials

Appointed Officials

Activists

Ron Unz

Honorable Mentions

Current projects (not completed)

Eric Eldred, activist--
An on-line volunteer publisher, he has led opposition to Congress's perpetual giveaway of copyright to large corporations.
US Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL)
forfeiture reform. Under current law, if the government takes your money, you are "guilty until proven innocent": to get it back, you must post a high bond, hire a lawyer, and prove your innocence. Money robbed from citizens, is used, as in many Third World countries, to enrich corrupt police departments. Rep. Hyde for several years has been fighting to put the burden of proof for seizing private property back on the government, where it belongs.

Major Achievements

Bill Bradley, former US Senator (D-NJ)
initiated the 1986 Bradley-Reagan tax reform, that brought lower tax rates to everybody by closing loopholes.

Rudi Giuliani, Mayor of NYC
dramatically cut NYC's crime rate, eg from 2200 murders a year in 1993 (the last year of Mayor David Dinkins) to 600 in 1998. Never again can any soft-on-crime politician argue that NYC crime is uncontrollable.

John? Kitzhaber, now Governor of Oregon
As a legislative leader, pioneered a revamp of Oregon's medicaid program to provide more care for the working poor, by discarding some heroic measures for the hopelessly infirm, eg anacephalic newborns.
His reforms were strenuously opposed by "right-to-life" groups, who recruit heavily among the brainless for followers.

Lifetime Achievement

Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thatcher

Least favorite Politicians

Dummies

John Rowland, Governor of Connecticut
Butt-boy for Robert Kraft, Professional Football tycoon
Instead of returning some of Connecticut's surplus to the taxpayers, this supposed Republican tried to blow it (and more) on the nation's single most lavish football stadium giveaway, to bring Kraft's "New England Patriots" from Foxboro MA to Hartford CT. Fortunately for the people of CT, Kraft had merely been using Rowland as a bargaining chip to get a slight improvement in terms from MA officials.

Gun prohibitionst


Lifetime "achievement"

Coleman Young, former mayor of Detroit
Took an average industrial city, and turned it into America's largest disaster area. One indication of his modus operandi: Before "car-jackings" became a nationwide problem (curbed by harsh new Federal laws and vigorous enforcement), there was a rash of them in the Detroit area. Both Detroit and suburban police reacted in the same way, with decoy operations. In some cases, the thugs caught in the decoy operation reacted violently and were shot. In the suburbs, politicians defended their police; car-jacking, after all, is a violent, extremely dangerous crime. In Detroit, however, Coleman Young decried police "racism" and ordered the decoy operations shut down. Not surprisingly, suburbanites found less and less occasion to enter Detroit.

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