Sen. Curtis Olafson Joins the Team!
We're thrilled to announce that Sen. Curtis Olafson has joined the Compact for America Educational Foundation team as our Vice President of State Alliances! You can watch Sen. Olafson talk about the importance of fixing the national debt with "external discipline" here and here. Retired North Dakota State Senator Curtis Olafson is Vice President of State Alliances with Compact for America Educational Foundation, Inc. and on the Advisory Council of Compact for America, Inc. He
The Team Grows Again!
The Team Grows Again! Welcome Compact for America Educational Foundation's New Legal & Legislative Assistant Geoff Hersch! Geoff Hersch recently completed his J.D. at Chapman University. His background includes a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and Criminology from the University of Idaho and experience as a legislative intern in the U.S. House of Representatives, a law clerk with Legal Aid of Cambodia, a law clerk with the Orange County District Attorney in the Spec
Welcome Elisa Montealegre to the Team!
Welcome Elisa Montealegre to the Compact for America Team! Elisa recently graduated from the University of Virginia with a double major in Foreign Affairs and Latin American Studies. Her personal interests stem from her experience growing up in Nicaragua. Elisa co-founded Hermanas Unidas Rompiendo Fronteras, a mentoring program in Nicaragua that aims to optimize the leadership potential of young women. She is also a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow as well as a
Welcome Greg Brooks and Baker Spring to the Team!
Compact for America Educational Foundation is thrilled to announce that Greg Brooks and Baker Spring have joined the team! Greg Brooks is the principal of West Third Group and will serve as Director of Communications for the Foundation. Greg has successfully led numerous communications campaigns, and he has actual skin in the game, having already donated significant time and travel expenses to advancing the communications objectives of the Foundation. Baker Spring is a federa
Welcome Rep. Lori Saine to the Advisory Council!
Colorado Representative Lori Saine joins the Advisory Council of Compact for America Action! Rep. Saine has long been a leader in the Article V movement. Lori is in her second term in the Colorado State House. As a legislator, she has earned the coveted House Champion award from the Colorado Union of Taxpayers for defending the taxpayers of House District 63. She signed the Colorado Union of Taxpayers pledge to protect TABOR, the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. Lori has received an
FEE's Larry Reed Joins the Board of Directors!
It's official: Lawrence Reed-the President of the Foundation for Economic Education-has joined the Compact for America Educational Foundation's Board of Directors! Reed has been and will continue to be a member of the Foundation's Council of Scholars. But now he will take on even greater responsibility. He will serve alongside Chairman Thomas C. Patterson (immediate past Chairman of the Goldwater Institute), CPA and investment banker Chip DeMoss, Constitutional scholar, talk
Compact for America Superstar Workshop
On December 5, 2014, the Compact for America Team converged on Washington, DC for a panel discussion explaining the policy, economics and constitutionality of the Compact for America approach to Article V. In a mere 70 minutes, you will hear from 6 experts in all relevant fields both explaining the issues and fielding hard-hitting questions from an engaged audience of policy analysts and policy makers. Introductions by Compact Commissioner Paulette Rakestraw CFA Board Chairma
What Has Brought George Will, Judge Napolitano and Lawrence Lessig Together?
It's time to stop sending the bill for our debt spending to our kids. Together, we must stop taxation without representation. Towards that end, the Goldwater Institute's immediate past Chairman Thomas C. Patterson has joined Compact for America Educational Foundation's Board as Chairman in a nationwide deployment of a bipartisan/nonpartisan push to fix the National Debt by the end of next year!
Last week's election results make this push eminently plausible; and the failur
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What Would Thomas Jefferson Do Now?
As argued by Compact for America grassroots supporter Barney Brenner in his recent Townhall column, Thomas Jefferson was right when he observed in a letter to a friend: I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution; I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its constitution. I mean an additional article taking from the federal government the power of borrowing. B
