The Occupy Movement didn't start on Wall Street. It started in Madison, Wisconsin, when 100,000 protestors descended onto the grounds of the State Capitol soon after Scott Walker took office as Governor. Their goal was to intimidate him and his allies, but he did not back down. He was unintimidated.
Scott's reforms took power from the hands of big government special interests and put it firmly into the hands of the hard-working people of Wisconsin and those that they elect to run their local governments. Those reforms, known as Act 10, have saved taxpayers more than $16 billion. During Governor Walker's tenure, Wisconsin enacted more common-sense conservative reforms than any state in the nation. They targeted him, and he won, becoming the first Governor in American history to win a recall election.
Now, Scott serves as president of Young America's Foundation, which trains the next generation of leaders in the fight for freedom. YAF conducts programs at the Reagan Ranch, Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, its national headquarters in northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., and regional sites nationwide. YAF also hosts more conservative campus lectures than any other organization and has a digital presence with more than one billion views.
Scott has been married to Tonette for more than 30 years. They live on Pewaukee Lake in Wisconsin while also spending time in Virginia and California. Scott and Tonette have two adult children.
Born the son of a pastor and a part-time bookkeeper and raised in a small town, Scott understands the value of hard work and community. He is a proud Eagle Scout and an alum of the American Legion's Badger Boys State and Boys Nations programs. When he's not working, Scott can be found riding on his Harley Davidson Road King, on their pontoon boat out on the lake, or cheering on the Packers or one of Wisconsin's other sports teams. Most importantly, he is a follower of Christ.
Larry O'Connor hosts the O'Connor & Company, heard daily from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 a.m. on WMAL FM in Washington, D.C.
He appears regularly on Fox News on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream, and Varney & Co., and was a regular on the cult hit Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld.
He is a senior columnist and creative director at Townhall. Prior to joining Townhall, his writing has appeared on Hot Air,The Federalist, Washington Free Beacon, IJ Review, and Andrew Breitbart's original websites, Big Hollywood, Big Government, and BreitbartTV.
Larry is married to Meredith Dake-O'Connor, and they have four children. He previously worked in management in the Broadway theatre industry.
JJ Quinn is a highly accomplished operating executive with experience as a chief operating officer and chief executive officer over multiple commands as a rear admiral with the United States Navy. He is also an experienced business leader with more than 20 years of senior executive management experience in government and private industry.
Mr. Quinn retired from Northrop Grumman Corporation's aerospace sector unmanned systems division, where he was the lead executive responsible for the development and execution of domestic and international growth strategies for the newly restructured $3B division.
Prior to joining Northrop Grumman Corporation, Mr. Quinn retired from the United States Navy after a long and decorated career as a naval aviator with the rank of rear admiral. Previously, he was commander of Carrier Group TWO/Harry S. Truman Battle Group and served as the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Earlier in Mr. Quinn's career, he served as commander of the Naval Space Command and commanding officer of the USS Abraham Lincoln, as well as the USS Juneau and Fighter Squadron TWO. Previous assignments included an instructor tour with the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) and as the naval aide to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Over his 30-year Navy career, Mr. Quinn held a total of five commands and accumulated more than 2,800 flight hours and more than 550 carrier landings in a number of fighter aircraft.
He received his wings and was designated a Naval Flight Officer at NAS Pensacola in September 1975.
Mr. Quinn currently serves as chairman of the board of The Tailhook Educational Foundation and is a board member of Young America's Foundation Reagan Ranch Board of Governors.
Kate Obenshain, author of Divider in Chief: The Fraud of Hope and Change, is a popular speaker and commentator on national television and radio shows. Kate has spent her career championing expanded liberty in America, and impressing upon young people an understanding of the blessings of freedom.
Formerly a vice president of Young America's Foundation, she has been speaking on college campuses for 30 years, has appeared on Fox News, CNBC, and MSNBC, has written for numerous publications and been on hundreds of radio shows.
Kate served as chairman of the Virginia GOP from 2003 to 2006, when she led the fight against tax increases and the expanding role of government; as advisor to former Governor George Allen, and as his Senate chief of staff; and as vice chairman of the Virginia State Council for Higher Education. In 2004, she founded the Jennifer Byler Institute, a leadership training program for women in Virginia.
She is currently a board member of Young America's Foundation and the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women and serves on the advisory boards of the McShin Foundation and the Virginia Conservative Women Coalition. She has served on the NRA's National School Shield Advisory Board and the Steamship Institute's Advisory Board.
Kate is a regular speaker for gatherings̬civic, corporate, educational, and religious̬ across the country, and is known for her inspirational style. Her most treasured role, however, is that of mother to six grown children. Currently, she resides in Cape Charles, Virginia with her husband.
Peter M. Robinson is the Murdoch Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's video series program, Uncommon Knowledge
Mr. Robinson is also the author of three books: How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life (Regan Books, 2003); It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP, (Warner Books, 2000); and the bestselling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA (Warner Books, 1994).
He spent six years in the White House, serving from 1982 to 1983 as chief speechwriter to Vice President George Bush and from 1983 to 1988 as special assistant and speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan. Mr. Robinson wrote the historic Berlin Wall address in which President Reagan called on General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!"
Mr. Robinson then spent a year in New York City with Fox Television, reporting to the owner of the company, Rupert Murdoch. He spent a second year in Washington, D.C., with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he served as the director of the Office of Public Affairs, Policy Evaluation, and Research. Robinson joined the Hoover Institution in 1993.
The author of numerous essays and interviews, Mr. Robinson has published in the New York Times, Red Herring, Forbes ASAP, the Wall Street Journal, and National Review Online. He is the editor of Can Congress Be Fixed?: Five Essays on Congressional Reform (Hoover Institution Press, 1995).
In 1979, Mr. Robinson graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, where he majored in English. He went on to study politics, philosophy, and economics at Oxford University, from which he graduated in 1982. He received his MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1990. In 2005, Mr. Robinson was elected to serve as a Trustee of Dartmouth College.
He lives in northern California with his wife, their children and their dog, Crusoe.