Gregory L. Mitchell
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…….. | Gregory got his start in politics in 1991 in the Pasadena, California office of Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead. After graduating from California State University, Northridge with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science, he helped Congressman Moorhead win his last two reelection campaigns, as Campaign Coordinator in 1992 and then Campaign Manager in 1994. In 1995, he served as District Administrator until Moorhead announced he would retire.
Gregory then went to work as Chief of Staff to James E. Rogan, who was then the Majority Leader of the California State Assembly. He directed Rogan’s winning campaign for Congress in 1996 and moved to Washington, D.C. to serve as Chief of Staff on Capitol Hill. He directed the legislative, political and fundraising operations for Congressman Rogan, which became national in scope in 1998 when Rogan played a leading role in the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton. After Rogan was reelected in 1998, he helped Rogan go on to serve as an impeachment manager, and one of just four presenters of evidence against the president in the Senate trial of early 1999. After the impeachment trial ended, President Clinton’s political allies targeted Rogan for political destruction. As a result, Gregory directed an aggressive national fundraising operation that grew Rogan’s donor database from 4,000 to 45,000 individuals in just nine months, enabling the 2000 campaign to raise approximately $6.8 million. The Rogan-Schiff campaign for Congress in 2000 set the record for the most expensive House race in history. In the spring of 2000, Gregory returned to California to become one of the co-founders of Digital Campaigns, Inc., a software company that developed and offered online database solutions for political and grassroots campaigns. Digital Campaigns, funded by prominent venture capitalist Tim Draper, was a pioneer company that helped to redefine online applications for campaign databases. While serving as Executive Vice President in charge of Marketing and Sales, he directed the Internet campaign for Draper’s “Prop 38 Yes, School Vouchers 2000” statewide initiative campaign in California, which was the first to field-test the Digital Campaigns software. In 2001, Gregory sold the Republican National Committee (RNC) on the potential of the Digital Campaigns software. The RNC paid for the second field test of the database tools, this time for the special election campaign of John Boozman for Congress in Arkansas. He traveled to Arkansas to run the field test, and the successful results convinced the RNC it was possible to employ online databases and applications to empower a campaign’s supporters to communicate deep into communities, spread good word-of-mouth and collect invaluable data that could be used by the campaign to effectively target messages like a precision laser. In the spring of 2002, Gregory left Digital Campaigns to become Vice President of Keelen Communications, a political fundraising firm headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. He served as the business manager of the firm for its founder, Matt Keelen, and helped the campaigns of several members of Congress to raise millions of dollars. Frustrated by what he viewed to be a broken government that was neither communicating with nor effectively representing the American People, and in search of a higher purpose in life, Gregory walked away from politics and government. Just eight months later, however, he decided to return to Washington to focus on promoting bipartisan reforms designed to solve the problems facing our country. In the summer of 2003, he founded his own government relations consulting business, The Mitchell Firm, and has been working as a member of a variety of coalitions and working groups that are dedicated to commonsense reforms. Among his accomplishments, Gregory played a leading role in the passage of The Second Chance Act of 2007, legislation designed to reduce recidivism rates by helping criminal offenders who are released from prison to reenter their communities successfully, get back on their feet and become contributing members of society. Prisoner reentry programs increase public safety and reduce the costs of corrections. He was at the White House when President George W. Bush signed this bill into law on April 9, 2008. Gregory lives in Chantilly, Virginia with his wife, Renee Bessone, and their two dogs, Bentley and Sienna. This is a time for bold action. We the People are Sovereigns, not subjects. Let’s start acting like it. JOIN US. CONTROL GOVERNMENT. BE FREE AND INDEPENDENT. |
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In 1961, President John F. Kennedy called on the American Newspaper Publishers Association to help protect the freedom and independence of every individual. He concluded his speech with:
And so it is to the printing press – to the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news – that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
Since the mainstream media fails us, We the People must rely on ourselves, and we must look to the Internet, modern communications technologies, new and social media to build the vehicle that will forever change the way we participate in our government.
FREE & INDEPENDENT MEDIA, Inc. is this vehicle. It is a multimedia business that will:
- Remind everyone of the existence and importance of basic American principles, report objective news of current government actions, and provide opinion-editorial commentary focused on whether or not these actions are consistent with the basic principles.
- Increase transparency by monitoring the actions of our government; conducting investigations to uncover conflicts of interest, unethical and even criminal behavior; and reporting the facts to individual Americans.
- Perform extensive research and data analyses to find the root causes of our country’s problems, model to pre-test each of the competing public policy options that are proposed as solutions, and propose legislative reforms based on reason.
At every step of the way, FREE & INDEPENDENT MEDIA, Inc. will engage and involve individual Americans in the process, giving them numerous opportunities to participate effectively and make a difference themselves. A social networking site that is linked to the Blogs will facilitate the building of a grassroots political movement from the ground up.
This movement will be made up of free and independent Americans who choose the path of perseverance and strength, who choose to stand up and fight the central bankers and financial elites for control of our government, who choose to exercise sufficient control to actually govern through our elected representatives.
As Thomas Jefferson said:
Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression.
And:
The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate authority, the government will be safe…
And as President Ronald Reagan later said:
We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we’re sick – professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, “we the people,” this breed called Americans.
This is who we are, and why we are.
FREE & INDEPENDENT MEDIA, Inc. is the vehicle individual Americans will rely on to gain and retain sufficient control over government. And to exercise this control, it will become the de facto Supervisor or Board of Directors over Congress.
It will focus on Congress because it was designed to be the first branch of our government, the linchpin of our constitutional system. Congress is supposed to be preeminent because it is the only branch directly tied to us – We the People – through popular elections and representation. It is Congress, not the president, that originates all laws and government funding, and has oversight power over the other branches of government. Only Congress can withhold funding from and even impeach the president and leaders of the other branches.
We exercise sufficient control over Congress, and then use Congress to exercise sufficient control over the Executive and Judicial Branches.
Our central organizing ideas and principles are those articulated in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, and other writings and correspondences of our Founding Fathers.
Since these ideas and principles are universal and based on reason alone, this is a non-partisan business that fuels and directs a non-partisan movement for all Americans – Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Independents, wealthy, middle class, poor, black, white, brown, red, yellow, etc. We’re all Americans, it’s our country, it’s our government, and it’s up to every one of us to work together to ensure it serves us and protects the rights of each one of us. If we allow just one of us to be oppressed and injured, we allow every one of us to be oppressed and injured.
