Welcome to Warpath Strategies

Warpath Strategies is my attempt to try and start a political consulting, public relations, and marketing firm.

I ultimately want to return to law school at some point but right now I need money coming in and I might as well do what I know best and that is win elections because I’ve been planning on how to win elections in my own right for almost 20 years, have studied numerous campaigns, know which counties should go which way and why and believe ultimately in an organic model of politics that functions on a continuum and it’s figuring out how to position yourself on it in a way which will lead you to victory on election day.

I have stated that I am willing to work 80 hour weeks associated with multiple campaigns as long as I can make a million dollars in 2016 and in this I am serious.

At Warpath Strategies, for the 2016 cycle I generally want to focus on the following areas:

1. Running candidates from dispossessed minority groups of many kinds
2. Running candidates who will promote issues related to sexual freedom
3. Running candidates who support getting the federal government out of the drug war as it relates to marijuana leaving the decision to each state.
4. Finding an openly autistic spectrum candidate to elect to the U.S. Congress (in either house, either party)
5. Finding an openly mentally ill, autistic (which is not a mental illness), or otherwise PwD candidate to challenge Congressman Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania and I’d like to run candidates in both parties and the reason why I want Warpath to take down Murphy is because of his “Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act” which I view as an affront to the United States Constitution and which is opposed by advocacy groups such as the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and if we could do it with an openly mentally ill candidate and preferably one prevented from firearms ownership under the Brady Act (and I’d like to reopen that debate too) then it’s sort of in the same vein of San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk on the campaign trail against State Senator John Briggs and Anita Bryant back during the Briggs Amendment initiative in 1977, something which actually even Jimmy Buffett refers to in the song Manana from the Son of Son of a Sailor album in 1978. If in such a campaign you elect the openly mentally ill candidate, it changes the conversation more than a celebrity like Demi Lovato identifying as bipolar ever could.
6. I want to work the initiatives especially, because the initiative process in many states allows you to get things on the ballot that a state legislature would never pass but which voters would pass and as I look through the states that have some form of citizen initiated initiative and referendum I see many of them that if you put it to the people at very minimum medical marijuana will pass and more likely recreational will pass because actually Colorado has a strong social conservative streak to it and it passed there and my thought is if it can pass in a state like Colorado it might pass in a state like Missouri which also has initiative and referendum.
7. I want to achieve empowerment for minority groups that might not otherwise have it through what I term the Chickasaw Strategy taking advantage of the Castro Effect and the Castro Effect is how I refer to the population changes in the Eureka Valley and surrounding areas in San Francisco between 1960-1975 which allowed for a situation where as early as 1973 had there been district based elections Harvey Milk would have been elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors even though he did not have the favor of the “Alices” and had only been permanently in town for a year.
8. I want to try and get a new city charter passed in New Orleans, Louisiana and the reason for this is New Orleans has term limits for the mayor, which I oppose (I on ideological grounds oppose term limits as fundamentally undemocratic) and also because the method of legislature which is five council members by district and then two at large I think simply the districts have too many people per district and I have this same complaint in particular about the Mobile County School Board, which is five districts with roughly the same population ratios as one of the A-E districts on the New Orleans City Council. I’ll devote a tract to this but when you compare this to Chicago which has 50 aldermanic districts with about 50,000 residents each (10,000 more than an Alabama or Louisiana House of Representatives District) or Mobile which has 7 districts with 30,000 residents each (and in Alabama, Mobile’s council is small and persons per district is quite high when compared to Montgomery for example which is of a similar overall citywide population) you know the 70,000 residents per district in New Orleans disenfranchises many people. I believe that at the very least an attempt should be made to get population down to 20,000-30,000 a district which would allow probably for the election of a Vietnamese councilperson in New Orleans East and likely an openly gay councilperson and depending on how you draw the district you could get students elected to the council. Admittedly my own self interest is involved here, I do want to be in New Orleans at some point and I’d like to be elected to the New Orleans City Council and I like my odds better in a smaller district especially overlayed over an area of town where it’s generally all newcomers.
9. After looking at all the initiatives that have been proposed in Mississippi I am appalled at how many of them seek to either weaken the democratic power of the citizens, deprive the citizens of their legal rights, and I am thankful most of them haven’t qualified for the ballot but my thought is in 2016 if you could get an initiative to legalize recreational marijuana I think it would go down to the wire but it has a fighting chance of passing because for one thing the federal government operates a marijuana farm at the campus of Mississippi State University in Starkville and it can be sold as a way to generate money for the state, because Mississippi is very dependent on tourism income with other major casino states moving towards marijuana legalization (Nevada probably will, New Jersey won’t be one of the first, there is a strong anti-drug element there and Mississippi would legalize before New Jersey) you could sell it as a way to help the casinos, especially if you restrict it to certain counties. Still I feel confident that right now most counties in the Delta, Hinds County, Harrison and Hancock Counties, and the university counties where the student vote can swing it would all vote for marijuana legalization and my sense is among African-Americans it would pass with very high margins and with young whites in the remainder of Mississippi you don’t need many, get it on the ballot and it can cross the 50% mark, that may not be enough to make it law in Mississippi, but get a majority of Mississippians voting to legalize it and that would send shockwaves throughout the nation.
10. I generally oppose this move towards “Player Piano” government in the United States, that is taking government out of the hands of elected officials towards appointed ones unaccountable to the people, trying to reduce the number of elected positions, and making the elected districts cover more constituents (such an initiative was proposed in Mississippi) and will support attempts to increase the number of seats, increase the number of elected offices, and so forth. We used to add seats to the U.S. House of Representatives every census, but the last census where we added seats afterwards was 1910. It’s time to add some more especially when you consider how many citizens were per district in 1910 versus how many are today, under the 1910 allotments you would have at minimum 5-6 congresspersons directly representing San Francisco, basically a more reponsive Congress.
11. I am generally progressive but one exception is that I do believe if a state has a bicameral legislature they should be able to have their state government have a system exactly like the federal government while complying with one man, one vote, ie a proportional lower house and then an upper house by geographic locale, with even an electoral college in the mix. I still support the ruling in Baker v. Carr for the most part because Georgia’s county unit system did not function like the electoral college and overweighted the rural counties over the urban counties in a way that the electoral college does not. I do support however overturning the parts of Reynolds v. Sims that requires both houses to be proportional and it’s for the same reasons our federal legislature is organized as it is. Practically this will work out in most state to urban houses and rural senates and that might not be such a bad thing. The problem we have in America now is everyone trying to run roughshod over everyone.
12. I vigorously support the 7th Amendment of the United States Constitution and want it incorporated to the states.
13. I want to work to promote the initiative & referendum system to all 50 states because I believe it to be an important component of democracy.
14. I am generally a proponent of New Urbanism and wish to see it promoted.
15. I want to support candidates who support gender equality.
16. In so far as marijuana goes, and I’ve addressed this earlier, I do think nationally marijuana industry money could play the same role that video poker money played in the South Carolina elections of 1998.

I could go on and on but this is just an introduction to some of the things I want to do at Warpath Strategies and part of the reason why I need investors is my approach is organic and you go down to the precinct level and study old results, study demographics, get the kind of organic feel that I generally have example for Mobile County in Alabama where I have close to 20 years of observation on my side.

I will be releasing many tracts because this is how I want to try and sell the firm to potential investors and at this point what we are selling is my political knowledge and strategic ability.