“Whose Running? – Michael Charles Smith”
Election Geek – 12/26/2006

Since it is the giving season I thought I would give some of the other candidates running for president, some might say the ‘longshots’ some time in the blog.

First up on the Republican side is Michael Charles Smith who has officially filed with the FEC and has his campaign Web site up and running. Smith is from the state of Oregon. He was born in Illinois in 1961 and attended the University of Illinois for a short time before joining the Air Force in 1985. While in the Air Force he was trained as a Russian linguist.

He was elected village trustee for the small town of Garrett, Illinois where he served from 1993 to 1994 before moving to Oregon. Smith earned an accounting degree from Oregon State University, where he graduated cum laude in 1999 and a Master of Business Administration degree from Willamette University. He currently works for Hewlett Packard.

Smith announced on Saturday, May 20, 2006, at a fund-raising dance in Corvallis. He believes that the Republican Party is too far right of the American people and is running on a moderate platform of fiscal conservatism, limited government and wants to see the party move away from the religious right.

“I’m disillusioned and frustrated that most of the voices that seem to dominate the discussion in the party I’m aligned with in principle are on the far social and religious right, and I don’t hear much at all from the party on fiscal issues or taxes. The party creed talks about smaller government and individual responsibility and liberties, but much of the activism from the social right seems to step on those principles.”

Smith’s goal is to win enough votes in the 2008 Oregon primary to take a delegate to the Republican National Convention, so he can deliver his message of traditional Republicanism to the party leadership.

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