John Stafford (US politician)
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John Stafford is an American
politician and member of the Republican party
from Maryland
. He was the Chief Administrative Law Judge for the U.S. Department of the Interior in the first Reagan
administration and was a candidate for Senate District 21 in the Maryland congressional elections, 2006
. He currently resides in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
.
, SC, and died June 29,2011 at 8:30pm at the Orlando Regional Medical Center,Orlando, FL. of a Marine Corps family. His paternal ancestors were Irish Catholic
migrants from County Wexford
, and claim links to the Dukes of Buckingham. His maternal ancestors were from Sweden
and Bohemia
.
Stafford was educated at the University of Maryland, College Park
where he was Treasurer of the SGA, serving with now-U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer who was elected VP on that same ballot. He also wrote the column "Cloakroom Caucus" for the Diamondback daily newspaper, was Editor-in-Chief of the "M-Book", and was Associate Editor of the "Terrapin", and was a DJ for 4 years on WMUC with his 4 hour every Sunday evening show, playing pop and folk, and the early R&B songs on 45's and LP's of those earliest singers, most of whom are now in the R&B Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Stafford met and knew many of those early pioneer artists---Ruthie Brown, The Platters, The Drifters, etc.---personally, from the Casino Royale in downtown DC in the 1950s, and their other dates and concerts, as well as Joan Baez and Ian and Sylvia and Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba, et al., in his later years.
He served 4 years in the US Marine Corps as a lawyer during the Vietnam war
. His cases as a prosecutor and defense counsel at Cherry Pt. MCAS and NAVARA and the Navy JAG Investigations Division included three of the most important cases arising during that war.
The case of US v. Denzil Allen was the first torture and mass murder and atrocity case of the Vietnam war, 9 months before My Lai. The case of US v. David Y. Przbycien led to setting the limit on how long a serviceman may be detained before trial at 90 days, or charges must be dismissed. That rule was later adopted by the Federal criminal courts, on a 60-day basis.
The case of US v. John Phillip Wass raised the issue of whether or not the United States was in "a time of war" in Vietnam, as Congress had not declared war (as required by the Constitution), but merely passed the infamous Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
in a rush requested by President Lyndon Johnson, before any confirmation of the reality of the second alleged North Vietnam
ese attack on the destroyer USS Turner Joy could be confirmed.
in the 43rd Legislative District of Washington State in 1964 on the ballot with Lyndon Johnson and now-Congressman James McDermott
, who was elected a State Representative. Stafford has worked for other candidates on about 50 political campaigns from county-level to Presidential over 54 years, beginning in 1952 with Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower
, and the past 32 years for Republicans, beginning in 1979 as a National Vice-Chairman of Reagan Finance, at a time when Gov. Reagan was written-off, as was Stafford's boyhood friend since 1947 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, NH, Sen. John McCain, in 2007. Stafford has run for the US Senate in past elections in Maryland, in 1998, 2000, and 2004, as well as for the House of Delegates in 2002, and for the Senate of Maryland in 2006.
John Stafford was the Chief Administrative Law Judge for the U.S. Department of the Interior in the first Reagan administration. He was also National Vice-Chairman of Reagan Finance in 1979, and Special Counsel for the Chairman, Warren G. Magnuson, of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce. In this position he worked on the Rail Services Act of 1975, the 4R Act, where he proposed the re-privatization of Conrail
, with the sale of stock to the public, which occurred in 1986, and is now owned by Norfolk Southern and CSX.
Stafford also served as Caucus Counsel for the majority leaderships of both the Washington State House and Senate, and as counsel to two committees thereof.
Finishing second in a field of nine in the Republican primary in 2004, he was outspent by the 2004 US Senate primary winner, State Senator E. J. Pipkin, by nearly $1 million. Stafford won the Republican nomination for the Maryland House of Delegates in 2002 in the 13th District of Howard County
where he was then outspent by 100 to 1 by the 8-year Democrat incumbent, Shane Pendergrass.
Stafford was also the nominated Republican candidate for Senate District 21 in the 2006, then voluntarily stepping aside for Sen. John Giannetti, the Democrat incumbent, when John offered to switch to the Republican party, as reported by the "Laurel Leader" and by "The Washington Post" (for whom Stafford was a paper boy in 1953 in Chevy Chase DC) Maryland congressional elections.
, slot machine casino gambling
, and gun control, and the many stresses and costs on families and family formations, inter alia, such as excessive income, sales, and real estate taxes. He supports his improved and fairer version of the Cong. Linder/Gov. Huckabee, et al.-supported, "Fair Tax". Stafford's proposal would abolish Federal personal income taxation and the 16th Amendment, which, under President Woodrow Wilson, and at the behest of the NYC bank owners and their "Federal" Reserve Bank, which they actually privately own all the preferred stock of, eliminated the Founders' specific Constitutional prohibition of such a direct "head" tax on personal [but not on business or corporate] income. Stafford would replace it completely with a Constitutional point-of-sales Federal sales tax. He has advocated this necessary change in the many Federal sources of revenue for 4 decades, and with the 3 Members of Congress and the US Senate for whom he has worked, first as a Congressional Staffer and later as Special Counsel to the Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Commerce. Stafford was the one who persuaded the former Chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Bill Archer, the Congressman of George H.W. Bush, from Houston, TX, and his Chief Counsel, to this position in 1995, which proposed legislation Stafford also prepared as a White Paper for U.S. Sen. Bob Dole during Dole's 1996 Presidential race, where Stafford was a close and voluntarily-unpaid advisor for 3½ years. And by alerting the Budget Director, Myrt Charney, of the State of Alaska, and its then-Gov. Egan, in 1973, of the impending bankruptcy of that State by 1979, Stafford played a key role in the repeal of the State income tax in that State, as that second-time Governor, Democrat Bill Egan, called a special hydrocarbon tax structure session of the Alaska Legislature and put that State on a sound financial footing ever since. Stafford's warning was connected to his job as a Consultant with Mathematical Sciences NW of Seattle, the firm which wrote the accurate socio-economic study for the Alyeska Pipeline Co. which then built the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline. A Libertarian Party-elected friend of Stafford's, a member of that legislature, then was able to secure all the support needed to repeal that state-level income tax. And Alaska's Permanent Fund, established because the State's finances were put on that sound basis after Stafford's study and research-based warning, has now paid to all its legal residents as much as $2000 in income per year, rather than taxing their annual income.
United States
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politician and member of the Republican party
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
from Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
. He was the Chief Administrative Law Judge for the U.S. Department of the Interior in the first Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
administration and was a candidate for Senate District 21 in the Maryland congressional elections, 2006
Maryland congressional elections, 2006
The Maryland Congressional elections of 2006 were held on Tuesday, November 7, 2006. The terms of all eight Representatives to the United States House of Representatives will expire on January 3, 2007, and therefore all were put up for contest...
. He currently resides in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Anne Arundel County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is named for Anne Arundell , a member of the ancient family of Arundells in Cornwall, England and the wife of Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. Its county seat is Annapolis, which is also the capital of the state...
.
Biography
John Stafford was born December 18,1940 Parris IslandMarine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island
Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island is an military installation located within Port Royal, South Carolina, approximately south of Beaufort, the community that is typically associated with the installation. MCRD Parris Island is used for the training of enlisted Marines...
, SC, and died June 29,2011 at 8:30pm at the Orlando Regional Medical Center,Orlando, FL. of a Marine Corps family. His paternal ancestors were Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic is a term used to describe people who are both Roman Catholic and Irish .Note: the term is not used to describe a variant of Catholicism. More particularly, it is not a separate creed or sect in the sense that "Anglo-Catholic", "Old Catholic", "Eastern Orthodox Catholic" might be...
migrants from County Wexford
County Wexford
County Wexford is a county in Ireland. It is part of the South-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Wexford. In pre-Norman times it was part of the Kingdom of Uí Cheinnselaig, whose capital was at Ferns. Wexford County Council is the local...
, and claim links to the Dukes of Buckingham. His maternal ancestors were from Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
and Bohemia
Bohemia
Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...
.
Stafford was educated at the University of Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
where he was Treasurer of the SGA, serving with now-U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer who was elected VP on that same ballot. He also wrote the column "Cloakroom Caucus" for the Diamondback daily newspaper, was Editor-in-Chief of the "M-Book", and was Associate Editor of the "Terrapin", and was a DJ for 4 years on WMUC with his 4 hour every Sunday evening show, playing pop and folk, and the early R&B songs on 45's and LP's of those earliest singers, most of whom are now in the R&B Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Stafford met and knew many of those early pioneer artists---Ruthie Brown, The Platters, The Drifters, etc.---personally, from the Casino Royale in downtown DC in the 1950s, and their other dates and concerts, as well as Joan Baez and Ian and Sylvia and Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba, et al., in his later years.
He served 4 years in the US Marine Corps as a lawyer during the Vietnam war
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
. His cases as a prosecutor and defense counsel at Cherry Pt. MCAS and NAVARA and the Navy JAG Investigations Division included three of the most important cases arising during that war.
The case of US v. Denzil Allen was the first torture and mass murder and atrocity case of the Vietnam war, 9 months before My Lai. The case of US v. David Y. Przbycien led to setting the limit on how long a serviceman may be detained before trial at 90 days, or charges must be dismissed. That rule was later adopted by the Federal criminal courts, on a 60-day basis.
The case of US v. John Phillip Wass raised the issue of whether or not the United States was in "a time of war" in Vietnam, as Congress had not declared war (as required by the Constitution), but merely passed the infamous Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was a joint resolution which the United States Congress passed on August 10, 1964 in response to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron 10135 and the destroyer on August 2 and an alleged second naval engagement between North Vietnamese boats...
in a rush requested by President Lyndon Johnson, before any confirmation of the reality of the second alleged North Vietnam
North Vietnam
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam , was a communist state that ruled the northern half of Vietnam from 1954 until 1976 following the Geneva Conference and laid claim to all of Vietnam from 1945 to 1954 during the First Indochina War, during which they controlled pockets of territory throughout...
ese attack on the destroyer USS Turner Joy could be confirmed.
Political career
He was elected a Democratic Precinct CommitteemanPrecinct committeeman
A Precinct Committeemen, or PC, is the name for a office and the name of the official that organizes a voting precinct for a political party.There are state, ward and township party organizations, but the basic unit of U.S...
in the 43rd Legislative District of Washington State in 1964 on the ballot with Lyndon Johnson and now-Congressman James McDermott
Jim McDermott
James Adelbert "Jim" McDermott is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1989. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The 7th District includes most of Seattle and Vashon Island, and portions of Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Tukwila, SeaTac, and Burien.He serves on the House Ways and Means...
, who was elected a State Representative. Stafford has worked for other candidates on about 50 political campaigns from county-level to Presidential over 54 years, beginning in 1952 with Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
, and the past 32 years for Republicans, beginning in 1979 as a National Vice-Chairman of Reagan Finance, at a time when Gov. Reagan was written-off, as was Stafford's boyhood friend since 1947 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, NH, Sen. John McCain, in 2007. Stafford has run for the US Senate in past elections in Maryland, in 1998, 2000, and 2004, as well as for the House of Delegates in 2002, and for the Senate of Maryland in 2006.
John Stafford was the Chief Administrative Law Judge for the U.S. Department of the Interior in the first Reagan administration. He was also National Vice-Chairman of Reagan Finance in 1979, and Special Counsel for the Chairman, Warren G. Magnuson, of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce. In this position he worked on the Rail Services Act of 1975, the 4R Act, where he proposed the re-privatization of Conrail
Consolidated Rail Corporation
The Consolidated Rail Corporation, commonly known as Conrail , was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeast U.S. between 1976 and 1999. The federal government created it to take over the potentially profitable lines of bankrupt carriers, including the Penn Central Transportation Company and...
, with the sale of stock to the public, which occurred in 1986, and is now owned by Norfolk Southern and CSX.
Stafford also served as Caucus Counsel for the majority leaderships of both the Washington State House and Senate, and as counsel to two committees thereof.
Finishing second in a field of nine in the Republican primary in 2004, he was outspent by the 2004 US Senate primary winner, State Senator E. J. Pipkin, by nearly $1 million. Stafford won the Republican nomination for the Maryland House of Delegates in 2002 in the 13th District of Howard County
Howard County, Maryland
-2010:Whereas according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau:*62.2% White*17.5% Black*0.3% Native American*14.4% Asian*0.0% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander*3.6% Two or more races*2.0% Other races*5.8% Hispanic or Latino -2000:...
where he was then outspent by 100 to 1 by the 8-year Democrat incumbent, Shane Pendergrass.
Stafford was also the nominated Republican candidate for Senate District 21 in the 2006, then voluntarily stepping aside for Sen. John Giannetti, the Democrat incumbent, when John offered to switch to the Republican party, as reported by the "Laurel Leader" and by "The Washington Post" (for whom Stafford was a paper boy in 1953 in Chevy Chase DC) Maryland congressional elections.
Platform
Stafford opposes abortionAbortion
Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced...
, slot machine casino gambling
Gambling
Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods...
, and gun control, and the many stresses and costs on families and family formations, inter alia, such as excessive income, sales, and real estate taxes. He supports his improved and fairer version of the Cong. Linder/Gov. Huckabee, et al.-supported, "Fair Tax". Stafford's proposal would abolish Federal personal income taxation and the 16th Amendment, which, under President Woodrow Wilson, and at the behest of the NYC bank owners and their "Federal" Reserve Bank, which they actually privately own all the preferred stock of, eliminated the Founders' specific Constitutional prohibition of such a direct "head" tax on personal [but not on business or corporate] income. Stafford would replace it completely with a Constitutional point-of-sales Federal sales tax. He has advocated this necessary change in the many Federal sources of revenue for 4 decades, and with the 3 Members of Congress and the US Senate for whom he has worked, first as a Congressional Staffer and later as Special Counsel to the Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Commerce. Stafford was the one who persuaded the former Chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Bill Archer, the Congressman of George H.W. Bush, from Houston, TX, and his Chief Counsel, to this position in 1995, which proposed legislation Stafford also prepared as a White Paper for U.S. Sen. Bob Dole during Dole's 1996 Presidential race, where Stafford was a close and voluntarily-unpaid advisor for 3½ years. And by alerting the Budget Director, Myrt Charney, of the State of Alaska, and its then-Gov. Egan, in 1973, of the impending bankruptcy of that State by 1979, Stafford played a key role in the repeal of the State income tax in that State, as that second-time Governor, Democrat Bill Egan, called a special hydrocarbon tax structure session of the Alaska Legislature and put that State on a sound financial footing ever since. Stafford's warning was connected to his job as a Consultant with Mathematical Sciences NW of Seattle, the firm which wrote the accurate socio-economic study for the Alyeska Pipeline Co. which then built the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline. A Libertarian Party-elected friend of Stafford's, a member of that legislature, then was able to secure all the support needed to repeal that state-level income tax. And Alaska's Permanent Fund, established because the State's finances were put on that sound basis after Stafford's study and research-based warning, has now paid to all its legal residents as much as $2000 in income per year, rather than taxing their annual income.