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Tea Party on the Square
March 15, 2009
Speaker Biographies
Mike Wilson
(The Enquirer/Patrick Reddy)
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Mike Wilson is a concerned citizen and taxpayer who decided it was time to step forward and get involved. Mike has followed
politics and economics as a hobby, but has no prior political experience. As his friends and family can attest, Mike is a strong
advocate for conservative principles.
Mike believes that hardworking, fiscally responsible Americans are still a majority in this country, but previously have been
too busy taking care of business to get involved and make their voices heard. He is proud of those that are choosing to stand
with us to work to restore sanity to our federal government.
Mike is a manager with a local IT services company that competes in the free market on a daily basis. They are a small business
that succeeds or fails based only on their merits and doesn't ask for government favortism at the expense of others.
Mike is a lifelong Cincinnatian and is married to Joni, his wife of 12 years. He has three wonderful children
that are 8, 6, and 4. He founded the Cincinnati Tea Party to help ensure
that they have the same opportunities that he had. He is looking forward to meeting many of you at the rally on March 15th.
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Jay is a self employed attorney and resident of Anderson Township.
He graduated from the UC College of Business in 1984 and Notre DameLawSchool in 1987,
at which time he moved to Cincinnati. His wife, Janice, is part owner of a local
marketing research firm. They have two children, Blair and Jack.
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Steve Chabot and his wife Donna live in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Westwood. They have two children: Erica and Randy. Erica
was recently married and lives in Westwood and Randy will graduate from St. Xavier.
Steve was born and raised in Cincinnati. A graduate of LaSalle High School, Steve pumped gas and swept floors after school
to pay his tuition. After earning his degree from the College of William and Mary, he returned to Cincinnati and taught at St.
Joseph's School in the West End and studied at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law in the evening.
Before being elected to Congress in 1994, Steve served as a Hamilton County Commissioner and a member of Cincinnati
City Council. As our Congressman, Steve Chabot represented us well, remaining true to his conservative principles.
Steve is again running for the 1st district congressional seat in 2010.
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(From http://www.700wlw.com/pages/onair_mcconnell.html)
Mike, raised in Philadelphia, has been hosting Middays on 700WLW for
the past 20 years (he started young) and besides
The Big One his weekday program can be heard in other markets such as Atlanta,
Minneapolis and Orlando to name a few.
His Saturday program,
"The Weekend with Mike McConnell" is heard on over 100 stations across America.
Mike is one of the most listened to radio personalities in the Midwest and is known for
his quick wit and common sense approach to discussions.
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Cincinnati Council Member Chris Monzel is also an engineer at General Electric Aviation. Chris and his wife Jana live
in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Spring Grove Village and have three children. Chris was born in Hamilton,
Ohio and was raised in Loveland, Ohio. There he attended St. Columban Grade School and later graduated Valedictorian
from Moeller High School in 1986. His interest in politics was first sparked while at Moeller when he took part in
student government, the American Legion's Buckeye Boys State, and the Cincinnati City Council's Youth in City Government
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Michael Muñoz studied political science and public administration at the University of Tennessee. He has been the
Director of Development for the Anthony Muñoz Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to impacting the area's
youth - mentally, physically, and spiritually. He will complete his master’s in business administration at Miami University
next July.
Michael married the former Emily Jones, also a graduate of UT, in May of 2003. Emily too, is a native of the
greater Cincinnati area. Emily graduated with a degree in nursing and works at a local hospital.
Michael and Emily are strong in their faith. They attend church together at Faith Bible Church and are active
in a young couple's Bible study. They both feel blessed to have family and friends locally.
Michael and Emily live in Hamilton Township. As Hamilton Township Trustee, Michael will work to see it remain
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Tom is a Chartered Financial Consultant, having served the community
as a Financial Planner and Investment Advisor for over 35 years.
He is an entrepreneur and committed fiscal conservative, believing in free market principles and
limited government.
Tom believes that ordinary hard-working folks should have the opportunity to dream,
plan and succeed, without overbearing regulation, excessive taxation and infringement on constitutional
rights.
There is no reason to mortgage our childrens' futures with useless pork barrel projects,
burdening the next generations with crippling debt and limiting their ability
to reach the "American Dream" due to redistribution of wealth.
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A “stay at home Mom”, Théa can trace the beginnings of her conservative value system to summers spent working on an assembly line to pay for her degree from the University of Kentucky.
This independent spirit and self-reliance blossomed into a successful career in sales and marketing, until she voluntarily left the workforce to pursue the more time consuming (and lousier paying)
job of raising her wonderful family full time.
In addition to this top priority, Théa is passionate about using her energy to support several campaigns and political causes that align to her core belief: that man was endowed by his Creator with certain
unalienable rights; chief among these being Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. An avid believer in limited government, Théa has organized several grass-roots efforts in southwest Ohio for various local,
state, and federal campaigns and ballot issues.
Steadfast in faith with Almighty God and together with her family, while not thrilled with current circumstances, Théa welcomes the challenges presented by these trying times and looks forward to informing, motivating,
and bringing together people within her community to affect positive change with her wit and self-deprecating humor.
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(From http://www.55krc.com/pages/onair_BrianThomas.html)
Brian grew up in DelhiTownship and graduated from Oak Hills H.S. in 1983.
In 1987 he received a Bachelor's Degree, with Honors, in Political Science from the University of Cincinnati,
followed by a J.D. from the College of Law in 1990.
After graduation, he began practicing in Chicago, IL,
mainly in the areas of commercial, product liability and insurance coverage litigation.
He returned to Cincinnati in 1998 to take an in-house counsel position with Anthem Blue
Cross and Blue Shield, where he was serving as Executive Counsel, Litigation when he accepted
the offer to host the 55KRC Morning Show in January 2007. He's married to Paulette, has two great kids,
Jerry and Lauren, two big Doberman Pinschers, Kimber and Cody, and a tank of tropical fish.
All are located in SymmesTownship (which is a great place to live).
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David Watkins is a 19 year old college student
from the University of Cincinnati majoring in International Affairs and
Political Science with a minor in Arabic. He is originally from Sidney,
Ohio where he attended Holy Angels Elementary and graduated from Lehman
Catholic High School in 2007. He is the oldest of three boys and his
family has owned and operated a car lot in Sidney for the past 75 years.
David is a member of St. Monica-St. George Parish in Clifton, where he resides,
and is also involved in the University Honors Scholars Program.
During his spare time, he enjoys riding his motorcycle and playing the piano.
His interest in politics started while at Lehman under the tutelage
of his government and religion teacher.
David is currently serving as
Secretary for the UC College Republicans and plans to graduate in 2012 and attend graduate school.
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Born in 1954, Harald was raised in East-Germany and was fully indoctrinated in the communistic brainwashing system.
Although the overall scientific education was great, he found it very strict and authoritarian. At 16 years old, Harald
was a strong communist. At 22, he met his wife and she brought him to Christ. He was 26 when he finished his Masters degree
in electronic engineering, by which time he had two children.
Harald was 31 when he could finally leave East Germany. He managed manufacturing divisions in multi million dollar
corporations. Since, then, he has formed companies from nothing into success. He finally fulfilled his dream by starting
his own business here in the United States. He is now afraid that his dream may become a nightmare as this country slips into
the trappings of the failed political positions he left behind in East and West Germany.
Harald loves this country and the people and although he sees how irresponsible politics may be beginning to destroy the
hard work of generations, he still believes it is the best country on God’s Earth.
Harald Zieger is co-founder of Engineered Control Services (ECS), which focuses on leveraging
maintenance technologies to
enable productive manufacturing operations.
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