Jack Gargan is a retired financial planner in the United States

United States

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 who became the second chairman of the Reform Party

Reform Party of the United States of America

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 (after Russ Verney

Russ Verney

Russell J. Verney is a political advisor who served as chairman of the Reform Party of the United States from 1995 to 1999. He worked on the presidential campaigns of Ross Perot and Bob Barr.-1990s:...

) started by Ross Perot

Ross Perot

Henry Ross Perot is a U.S. businessman best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems in 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988...

. He was ousted from this position by a 109-31 vote in February 2000.

In Florida

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 in 1990, Gargan funded a series of "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" (a reference to a famous quote from the 1976 political and mass media satire movie, Network) newspaper advertisements denouncing U.S. Congress for voting for legislative pay raises at a time when average wages nationwide were not increasing. Gargan later founded T.H.R.O. ("Throw the Hypocritical Rascals Out"), which Ross Perot supported.

Gargan was a speaker at the 2000 Libertarian National Convention

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In 1998, Gargan ran on the Reform Party ticket for the United States House of Representatives

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, 5th Congressional District seat against Democrat Karen Thurman

Karen Thurman

Karen L. Thurman is a former U.S. Representative from Florida. She is a Democrat.She was born on January 12, 1951 in Rapid City, South Dakota, but has spent most of her life in Florida. She received her Associate's Degree from Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville in 1970 and her Bachelor's...

. Gargan received 33.7% of the vote to Thurman's 66.3%. In 2002, Gargan ran again for the seat, this time as an independent in a three-way race. He received 3.39% of the vote. In this race, the Democratic incumbent Karen Thurman was defeated by Republican Ginny Brown-Waite

Ginny Brown-Waite

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External links

Photograph of Jack Gargan at the Geoghegan

Geoghegan

Geoghegan is a surname of Irish origin.Usually spelt nowadays without the prefix Mac, the name has many variants, including Gehegan, Geoghan, Geohegan, Gagan, and Gagon which approximate the most common pronunciations of the name. It is usually pronounced gay-gan, ge-heg-an or go-hee-gan. In Irish...

family genealogical site.