Authors
Josh Price, Founder and Managing Editor
Joshua Price is a part-time political consultant and college student. He consults primarily on state and local campaigns.
Joshua began his active involvement in politics in 2002. He volunteered for a Georgia House of Representatives campaign where he worked with other volunteers on grassroots level campaign tactics–distributing campaign signs and making get-out-the-vote calls to registered voters.
After volunteering, Joshua’s political career began by consulting for and managing two county level campaigns during the 2004 primary election. His duties and responsibilities included strategic planning, co-ordinating and manging volunteers, allocating campaign signs and identifying sign locations, conducting opposition research, and various campaign organizational tasks.
Joshua is committed to advocating and advancing the traditional conservative principles America was founded upon: a belief in, and commitment to, God, the preservation and promotion of the traditional family, and the unwavering defense of this great nation. He is also passionate about helping bring transparency to the political and campaign process. To this end, Joshua brings an untraditional approach to the political consulting business by emphasizing his clients as hopeful representatives of the people, and not “products” to marketed to “consumers” (voters). Moreover, he views his position as a serious responsibility in the process of our republican form of government and to the conservative movement, and therefore he will not consult for any candidate who he would not vote for.
Joshua is a native Atlantan and has lived in Georgia for 25 years. He currently lives near Atlanta. He holds an Associate Degree in Business Administration from Gainesville State College, and is pursuing his Bachelor’s Degree in Management.
Ellis Washington, Contributor
Ellis Washington, authorized biographer for the conservative intellectual Dr. Michael Savage (see www.MichaelSavage.com), is former editor of the Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute. He is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history, political philosophy and critical race theory. He has written over a dozen law review articles and several books, including “The Inseparability of Law and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law” (2002). See his law review article “Reply to Judge Richard Posner.” Washington’s latest book is “The Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust.”
Kyle Gayman, Contributor
Kyle Gayman is currently a senior in high school and will graduate in 2010. In college, he will pursue a major (or possibly a dual major) in political science, history, or economics. He currently lives in the California Bay Area.
Kyle’s political views have been largely influenced by two factors: his upbringing, and the election of President Barack Obama.
Kyle was raised to value hard work and frugality, and these influences have seeped into his political philosophy. His entrepreneurial spirit (he ran a small automotive detailing business for three years) has also influenced his appreciation for the free market system.
Kyle noticed an alarming trend at his public high school during the 2008 presidential election; this trend pushed him away from the liberal ideologies he used to hold. He noticed how his peers instantly attached to the Obama campaign’s petty catch phrases and devious rhetoric; the media also encouraged these rallying cries. Furthermore, the teachers who inject their personal opinions into class curriculum have bolstered this lack of skepticism towards liberal politicians; conservatives, however, always seem to be fair game to pick apart. Kyle finds this double standard revolting. Although Kyle believes that everyone has an unquestionable right to adhere to any political opinions they choose, he worries that many students are being influenced by various biases (as he once was to some extent), especially ones that are presented as impartial; he decries these teaching habits.
Kyle felt that he was being taught what to think, instead of how to think; hence, he started doing research on conservative philosophies in order to obtain an opposite viewpoint, and found that those philosophies made a lot of sense. And the rest is history…
Kyle identifies himself primarily as an independent conservative, and is also sympathetic towards libertarian economic principles. He advocates individual liberties and personal responsibility, and decries the liberal advancement of the welfare state and their belief that the government’s job is to nurture and provide handouts for the citizens. He ardently advocates freedom of speech, and shudders at the concept of political correctness. Kyle advocates many other traditional conservative principles as well, and also promotes the concept of “Borders, language, and culture” that Dr. Michael Savage coined long ago.
Kyle is very excited to be part of The Conservative Beacon, and will continue to advance the conservative platform in order to protect the greatness of the United States of America.
