Chuck Reed was born on August 15, 1948 and raised in the small farming town of Garden City, Kansas. His family lived in a public housing project, teaching him the importance of government aid for working families. A strong work ethic was evident early in his childhood, as he took jobs sweeping floors while still in elementary school. He dug ditches, shoveled gravel, and worked in the fields before becoming a teenager. While in high school, he worked part time operating a bulldozer and driving an 18-wheeler semi truck.

Reed left Kansas to attend the United States Air Force Academy and went on to serve in Thailand during the Vietnam War. He also received a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University and graduated from Stanford Law School. After passing the bar, he began working as an attorney in San José handling environmental, employment, land use and real estate law, as well as commercial litigation.

His success as an attorney gave him the opportunity to devote time to serving the community. He began offering free legal advice to tenants in housing disputes and helped a number of local non-profit organizations. He has also served on more than 20 boards, commissions, committees, and task forces.

After two decades of civic participation, Reed ran for and won a seat on the City Council in 2000. As the representative for District 4 (which includes Berryessa, North San José and Alviso), he openly opposed issues that he believed were not in the best interest of San José’s long term future. He became an independent voice on the City Council and gained a reputation for his commitment to fiscal responsibility.

On November 7, 2006, Reed was elected the 64th Mayor of San José. He was sworn into office the following January by his daughter, Air Force Lt. Colonel Kim Campbell. As Mayor, he has been committed to improving the quality of life in the city, boosting the public’s trust in local government, and fixing the City’s structural budget deficit. He has successfully implemented his Reed Reforms, a comprehensive set of policies that requires greater disclosure from elected officials, toughens restrictions on lobbyists and increases the role of citizens in San José government. In 2007, he launched his Green Vision: an ambitious 10-point plan to invigorate the economy and improve the environment over the next 15 years. The Green Vision was unanimously adopted by the City Council and more than 4,000 clean tech jobs have since been created in San José.

Reed was re-elected in June 2010 with a landslide 77 percent of the vote – a strong message of support for his commitment to honesty, fiscal responsibility, and open government. His top priorities during his second term are to bring new jobs to San José and implement much-needed fiscal reforms. In 2011, he introduced a comprehensive retirement reform plan to save the city from a fiscal disaster and protect the city’s retirement funds from insolvency. Along with a number of additional fiscal reforms, these changes are designed to eliminate the city’s structural budget deficit and restore core services to baseline levels before he leaves office.

He and his wife, Paula, have been married for more than 40 years. Paula manages a medical clinic specializing in the care of cancer patients. They have two children, Kim and Alex, who both attended public schools in San José. Kim is a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force who has flown more than 100 combat missions. Alex works in Washington D.C. to help prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

Kevin McGary is the author of Insanity! In Instanity! Kevin presents a refreshing voice with compelling evidence that speaks to how “we the people”, through “blind trust” and lack of involvement, have been wholly complicit in supporting the erosion of rights, liberties and freedoms. He contends, collective zeal for a new era of “hope and change” has prompted irrational support for government leadership made up of charismatic personalities grounded in the strategic use of masterful rhetoric, but it is infused with intellectual dishonesty and devoid of substance needed to move the country forward.
As an NAACP member with strong roots and traditions in voting Democrat, Kevin McGary writes and speaks to audiences confirming current party platforms and agendas for healthcare, education and abortion have provided lofty rhetoric for the Democratic Party, but are actually debilitating and oppressive social agendas and schemes that only perpetuate further enslavement of the "under-privileged" and “under-served”! Mr. McGary speaks about how actual "social justice" and human rights causes are even further undermined by a lack of government leadership and our “new era” politicians.

Mr. McGary contends the U.S suffers from a lack of leadership, lack of competence and general lack of experience, which has lead to significant erosion of the primary foundations that have facilitated our nation's history of success! Undermining of faith foundations and the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence threatens to propel the country back into a state of oppression and tyranny it broke from when becoming an independent nation. Needless to say, this apparent cycle is irrational and illogical. Since Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity refers to doing the same things over again yet expecting different results, Kevin speaks about history and context in a way that demonstrates our general state of….instant-insanity!

Kevin has recently accepted the role as President of the Frederick Douglass Foundation of California. The FDF is committed to providing political advocacy, educate and empower "communities of color" and "urban centers" on the proper role of government, and partnering with like-minded organizations to ensure maximum freedom, liberty, and justice! Additionally, Kevin is an active member of the Hayward Rotary, the NAACP, and the 912 Freedom Fighters.

Chief Moore has been a police officer since 1982. He has worked in numerous assignments including Patrol, Patrol Administration, Street Crimes, Internal Affairs, Burglary, Community Services, Systems Development, Field Training and a tour as department spokesperson.

In 1999, Chief Moore was selected as a White House Fellow and served one year as Counsel to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. In 2004, Moore was awarded a Fulbright Police Research Fellowship to study police accountability at the London School of Economics and New Scotland Yard. He is a member of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).

Chief Moore holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, a M.P.A. from San Jose State University, and a J.D. from Lincoln Law School of San Jose. He is a member of the State Bar of California and is a graduate of the California P.O.S.T. Law Enforcement Command College. Chief Moore is also a recipient of the SJPD Hazardous Duty Award.

Ron Prentice is the Founding Director of the California Family Council, an organization committed to the protection and promotion of Judeo-Christian principles in California's culture. Prior to this position, Ron served as the Vice President of Public Affairs with Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, CO.

He headed the "Yes on 8" campaign. He helped form the successful coalition of biblical Christians, Catholics, and members of the LDS Church that was able to convince a majority of Californians to support traditional marriage by voting Yes on 8.

Prentice is also a key player in the defense of Proposition 8 in our courts and in the media. He participated in the recent San Francisco Superior Court challenge to Proposition 8 as a central advisor and strategist.

Ron lives in Southern California with his wife and three children.

Rev. Charles E. Self, Ph.D.,  (www.drcharlieself.com) is a minister and has recently launched a full-time coaching, communicating, educating and master planning outreach. Charlie is a “Messenger to the Thoughtful” TM and has been teaching at the college and graduate level in history, philosophy and religion since 1981 in private and public contexts and has taught over 60 distinct courses.  He is a distinguished author and speaker. His writings include The Power of Faithful Focus (with Les Hewitt), published by Health Communications (The Chicken Soup for the Soul folks), and The Divine Dance, published in 2003. Recently he has spoken at an Apple Computer Diversity Event and was a media speaker for the Islamofascist Awareness Week events at San Francisco State University. He is known as “Dr. History” on the Brian Sussman Show every week, Hot Talk 560 AM, a leading talk station in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In 2007 Dr. Self directed the establishment and development of AGTS West in collaboration with the Northern California-Nevada District Council and Bethany University.

He is currently Associate Professor of Church History at Assemblies Of God Theological Seminary.

Charlie has been married for 28 years to Kathleen D. Self, artist (www.colorbrush.com) and has three children.

Brian Johnston is the Western Regional Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He has served as Executive Director of the California ProLife Council, California Commissioner on Aging, on California's State Board of Nursing Home Examiners, and the Board of Directors of the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled.

He has spent more than 20 years as an advocate for the medically vulnerable. A Parliamentarian, Mr. Johnston has testified before numerous state and national legislatures including those of Belgium, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia. He is a frequent spokesman on the threat of assisted suicide and has appeared on Fox News, CNN, World News Tonight, PBS News Hour and many other programs.

Johnston has authored numerous books and articles on the topic of restoring basic legal rights for those who are not able to defend themselves. His important book (and later a documentary) Death As A Salesman: What’s Wrong With Assisted Suicide, is credited with ensuring continued legal protection for the medically dependent in New Zealand, the Republic of South Africa, and several other jurisdictions that were about to enact euthanasia laws.

He resides in Sacramento, California.