Contributors

This Page Is Currently Under Construction.  We have a lot of work to do here.  Please Check Back For Routine Updates Of Bio’s.  In a few weeks everyone (other than a handful that wish to remain anonymous) will be listed here.

Kelly Townsend

Kelly Townsend has been a resident of Gilbert, AZ for over five years, is wife to her late husband Daniel, and has three children ages 18, 12, & 10.  She has been active in the community by founding or co-founding several groups, to include the Phoenix 40 Days For Life, The US Airways Christian Resource Group, the Greater Phoenix Tea Party, the East Valley Tea Party, the West Valley Tea Party, the Scottsdale Tea Party, the North Valley Tea Party, the Tempe Tea Party, and the 912 Tea Party Project in Casa Grande.  Prior to her political activism, Kelly was active in founding several other organizations, including the Phoenix Birthing Project’s Doula program, the Cascade Christian Childbirth Association, Doulas of Southern Oregon, the International Christian Childbirth Coalition, and Wimer Christian Fellowship.  She is an author with books published both in the United States and Croatia, and is the leading authority on childbirth issues from a Christian perspective.  Her current focus is to educate and activate the community regarding their civic duty, and actively recruit and prepare conservative, Constitutional candidates for all levels of public office.  Kelly has formed an exploritory committee for her candidacy for the Arizona House of Representatives.

Arizona Samuel

“Arizona” Samuel  has lived in Arizona for five decades.  Avid fisherman and storyteller Samuel has always had a keen interest in the political scene.  Samuel participates in or is a member of 30 different organizations around the state.  He offers an interesting perspective from being on the ground and in the midst of things.  Quick to tell you what he thinks and why he’s just as apt to buy you a beer and pat you on the back.

M.K. Coakley

M.K. was one of SWR’s first and remains one of SWR’s most frequent contributors.  Coakley offers great insight into the state-wide implications of our political scene here in Arizona with an odd ability to seemingly be every-where at once.  Combat Veteran of two branches of the United States Military and a former sports writer, Coakley has been around in more ways than one.  When not arguing over a coffee somewhere out there you’re likely to find M.K. cruising around the state on a fine looking Harley Davidson.

Deucalion Mawronahan

had lived in the Tempe area since coming here in the 1970’s with his family as a child. For the past three-years, he has called the newly named San Tan Valley area home. An average Joe among Joe’s, Deucalion is Husband to a lovely bride, A proud Uncle and Patriot, romantic voyager, an entrepreneur, home and land-owner, former business owner and proud papa to two fluffy puppies. A consummate fan of our ancient history and the work of Will Durant, Deucalion is also an avid consumer of science fiction and of course espionage and other such ‘who-done-its’. He loves fast cars and the open road in front of the handlebars with the music that every 13 year-old boy loves to torment his parents with, blaring in the background.

CLINT VAN WUFFEN

As a concerned 38 year native of Arizona, I have seen many changes in our beautiful state. We are resilient people with many resources and the capability of becoming a business Mecca. We have resources, perfect weather, and many wonderful climates that attract people from around the world.

I want to make common sense approaches to legislation. Some people believe that Republicans are out of touch. Well, I happen to disagree. Republicans are thinkers. Republicans understand the sacrifices that were made for the freedoms we enjoy today. This is why I am so passionate about politics and making a difference.

We need more people to join the conservative movement. I am an avid motorcyclist and musician, and I’ve traveled the world on a modest budget. This has provided enriching opportunities to engage with diverse groups of voters.

I am an entrepreneur and believe strongly in free enterprise. My passion for people and business led me to establish a nonprofit organization whose missional direction is geared towards helping senior citizens of Arizona.

Bottom line, I am proud to be an American. I am proud to be a Conservative Republican. I am not out of touch. I will not divide my conservative party with petty disagreements. I stand by my values, listen, evaluate, and I think.

Bill Konopnicki

Living in rural Arizona helps me understand both the advantages and the challenges of living in a rural community. My goal in serving is to make life better for all Arizonans, especially, the citizens of District 5. This includes better education (both K-12 and higher education), health care, protecting our forests, keeping rural Arizona’s water safe and expanding rural economic development while at the same time keeping taxes low and providing necessary state services.

While much has been accomplished in the past 8 years, there is much more still to do. It is important that we continue to fight for the citizens of Arizona by providing affordable health care, increase funding for K-12 education, provide greater accessibility to higher education, develop more and higher paying jobs, and keep our communities safe. I believe that we must have a secure border and must deal with the issue of illegal immigration

OUT OF STATE CONTRIBUTORS

Greg Rico

When the Sacramento Union recently closed its doors, award-winning artist, Greg Rico, started looking for a new outlet to express his creativity. Greg’s classical training in fine arts and illustration-combined with his penetrating political insight and sardonic sense of humor-naturally lent itself to the world of the cartoon. Greg’s extensive travels as the proud son of a Navy Purple-Heart Vet have helped to form his deep-rooted conservative values and sincere love of family. A man who loves a good meal and a great story, classic cars and all-things aviation, his many friends agree that no one loves a joke or a prank more than Greg. And as long as there are Republicans and Democrats in Washington making fools of themselves—Greg Rico will always have an excellent source of material. Greg currently resides in the greater Sacramento area with his three children. You may contact Greg @ gregdrico@gmail.com

YOMIN POSTELNIK

Yomin Postelnik is a Republican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives. Please visit his website at www.ABetterFlorida.com and get involved in this transformational campaign. Postelnik is also a well known business and non-profit development leader. His company, IRPW, specializes in marketing, business loans and non-profit grants and development. His business site is www.BusinessGrowthTrends.com.

Email ypostelnik@insidersreview.org or call (954) 353-1898  to help grow your business or organization. IRPW offers an entire array of common sense yet creative solutions.

DICK MORRIS

Morris handled the winning campaigns for President Bill Clinton, Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, Pete Wilson of California and more than 30 other major political candidates. Today, Morris focuses his energies as a media commentator and author. He pens regular columns for the New York Post, Newsmax, the Hill Magazine and dozens of publications. Many of these columns are published via DickMorris.com’s e-mail list. Dick Morris, along with his wife Eileen McGann, is the author of numerous New York Times best-selling books, including his latest, “Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us . . . and What to Do About It.” Dick Morris is considered one of the nation’s leading political strategists. Time magazine dubbed him “the most influential private citizen in America.” Advertisers to the DickMorris.com e-mail list receive high open rates and great response. DickMorris.com e-mail readers want the latest scoop from Washington. Dick Morris, a trusted source, provides it.Go to DickMorris.com to read all of Dick’s columns!

Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, USAF (Ret.)

Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, USAF (Ret.) served the United States Air Force as a command pilot, completing four tours in Vietnam, he performed flight reconnaissance missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis and air escort missions in the West Berlin Air Corridor. McInerney has a bachelor of science degree from the United States Military Academy and an master’s degree in international relations from George Washington University.He is also a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College and the National War College.

McInerney was Chief Executive Officer and President of Business Executives for National Security from 1996 to 1990. McInerney was Director of the Defense Performance Review (DPR), reporting to the Secretary of Defense in 1994. In that capacity, he led the Pentagon’s “reinventing government” effort, reducing government payrolls by contracting out work to private companies. NetStar Systems, the company he directs, is a supplier of secure intranet and knowledge base systems to the Defense and Intelligence sectors. He is a the director of NetStar Systems and a frequent Fox News guest and contributor. He is also Co-Author of the book Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror.

Major General Paul E. Vallely (U.S. Army Ret.) graduated from West Point and was commissioned into the U.S. Army in 1961. He graduated from Infantry School, Ranger and Airborne Schools, Jumpmaster School, the Command and General Staff School, The Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Army War College. His two combat tours in South Vietnam included positions as infantry company commander, intelligence officer, operations officer, military advisor and aide-de-camp. He has served on US security assistance missions on civilian-military relations to Europe, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Central America with in-country experience in Indonesia, Columbia, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala.

He was one of the first nominees for Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations under President Reagan. From 1982-1986, he commanded the 351st Civil Affairs Command that included all Special Forces, Psychological Warfare and Civil Military units in the Western United States and Hawaii. He was the first President of the National Psychological Operations Association. He retired in 1993, at the rank of Major General from his position as Deputy Commanding General, Pacific.

His units participated in worldwide missions in Europe, Africa, Central America, Japan, Solomon Islands, Guam, Belgium, Korea and Thailand. He has served as a consultant to the Commanding General of the Special Operations Command as well as the DOD Anti-Drug and Counter -Terrorist Task Forces. He also designed and developed the Host-Nation Support Program in the Pacific for DOD and the State Department. Most recently, he has in-country security assistance – experience in El Salvador, Columbia and Indonesia in the development of civil-military relations interfacing with senior level military and civilian leadership.

Gen. Vallely is the Chairman of Stand Up America, serves as the Military Committee Chairman for The Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., is a supporter of the Jerusalem Summit Organization, is a Fox News military analyst, a conservative talk radio host, a frequent lecturer, his commentary has appeared in World Net Daily and many other publications.

Together with Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, Vallely co-authored a book published in 2004, entitled Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror. Vallely also co-authored a 1980 paper with then PSYOP analyst Michael Aquino entitled From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory.

Gen. Vallely is married to Marian Vallely and their son Private First Class Scott Paul Vallely died on April 20, 2004, while in his fourth week of Special Forces training.

Email; standupamerica1@gmail.com

General Barry McCaffrey (US Army Ret.) is a retired United States Army General, news commentator, and business consultant.

He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the United States Military Academy, where he was the Bradley Professor of International Security Studies from 2001 to 2005. He is also an NBC and MSNBC military analyst as well as president of his own consultant firm, BR McCaffrey Associates.

McCaffrey attended Phillips Academy, Andover. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (Class of 1964), and gained a MA in Civil Government from American University in 1970. He is also a graduate of Harvard University’s government and business schools, the National Defense University, the United States Army War College, the Command and General Staff College, and the Defense Language Institute’s program in Vietnamese.

Following his graduation from the U.S. Military Academy in 1964, McCaffrey was commissioned into the infantry.

His combat tours included action in the Dominican Republic with the 82nd Airborne Division in 1965, advisory duty with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam from 1966-67, and company command with the 1st Cavalry Division from 1968-69.

During the course of his service in the Vietnam War he was twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart three times and the Silver Star twice.

During Operation Desert Storm, McCaffrey commanded the 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized). Under his command, the division conducted the “left hook” attack 370km into Iraq. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. In Operation Desert Storm he was known for his speed and boldness. Joe Galloway, the co-author of We Were Soldiers Once…And Young, rode with and reported on the division, where he favorably compared McCaffrey with Hal Moore.

General McCaffrey’s peacetime assignments included tours as an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy from 1972-75, Assistant Commandant at the U.S. Army Infantry School; Deputy U.S. Representative to NATO; Assistant Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS); Director of Strategic Plans and Policy, JCS.

General McCaffrey’s last command in the Army was that of the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), the unified command responsible for U.S. military activities in Central and South America. He commanded SOUTHCOM, whose headquarters were then in the Republic of Panama, from 1994 to 1996. Besides managing military personnel, as part of his duties in Panama, McCaffrey supported humanitarian operations for over 10,000 Cuban refugees in 1996. It was also during his last military position that he created the first Human Rights Council and Human Rights Code of Conduct for U.S. Military Joint Command.

McCaffrey was the youngest General in the Army at the time of his retirement

Brigadier General Jim Cash (USAF Ret.) was born in DeKalb, Texas, in 1939, and graduated from DeKalb High School in 1958. He earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1962 and a master of science degree in systems management from the University of Southern California in 1970. He completed Squadron Officer School in 1968, Armed Forces Staff College in 1975, Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1976 and the Air War College in 1983.

In September 1962 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Texas A&M. General Cash completed pilot training at Laredo Air Force Base, Texas, and received pilot wings in May 1965. After completing F-102 and F-106 training, he was assigned to the 456th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Castle Air Force Base, Calif., for one year. He then transitioned to the F-4C as an aircraft commander. In September 1967 he was assigned to the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing, Cam Rahn Bay Air Base, Republic of Vietnam. The general transferred to South Korea in February 1968 and was first at Kunsan Air Base, then Taegu Air Base, as an operational F-4 pilot. In September 1968 he was assigned to the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing at George Air Force Base, Calif., as an F-4 instructor pilot. In June 1972 he was assigned to the U.S. Air Force Academy as air officer commanding Cadet Squadron 18.

General Cash entered the Armed Forces Staff College in January 1975 and upon completion was assigned to the 51st Composite Wing, Osan Air Base, in September 1975. He served as an F-4E flight commander and, later, as chief of the Standardization and Evaluation Division. He was assigned to the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing, Langley Air Force Base, Va., as chief of the Langley Consolidated Command Post in September 1976. In March 1978 he transferred to the 27th Tactical Fighter Squadron for F-15 checkout and in June became operations officer of the 71st Tactical Fighter Squadron. In April 1979 he assumed command of the 94th Tactical Fighter Squadron, “Hat-in-the-Ring.” He was assigned as chief of the Operations Training Division with the inspector general team, Headquarters Tactical Air Command, Langley, in March 1981.

The general was assigned as deputy commander for operations, 56th Tactical Training Wing, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., in July 1983. He was wing vice commander from June 1984 to August 1984, when he assumed command of the 56th Tactical Training Wing. In February 1986 the general became deputy chief of staff for operations, Headquarters 9th Air Force, Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. He became command director, North American Aerospace Defense Command combat operations staff, Cheyenne Mountain Complex, Colo., in February 1987. He assumed his present position in September 1989.

The general is a command pilot with 4,000 flying hours. His military awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster, Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters, Air Medal with five oak leaf clusters, Air Force Commendation Medal and Vietnam Service Medal.

He was promoted to Brigadier General July 1, 1988, with same date of rank. The General now spends most of his time writing and working with Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Paul Vallely on their efforts for Stand Up America.

Email; jcash1@bresnan.net