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Guy Gilchrist (born January 30, 1957) is a cartoonist/poet/songwriter and author whose work includes a run on the comic strip Nancy, Your Angels Speak, Night Lights & Pillow Fights, Screams, The Poetry Guy, The Muppets and The Rock Channel. As of the 2010s writes and draws Nancy and Today's Dogg, a panel launched in 2010 on Facebook, and later picked up by comics.com, United Features' website. He has also written 49 books, and had songs he wrote or cowrote recorded by Suzy Bogguss, Glenn Douglas Tubb, Billy Swan, Eddie Kilgallon, Carol Hahn and others, as well as having his version of the songs "Victoria's Secret," "Heart of the Night," "Christmas Light" and "I Don't Need You" played on country radio worldwide.

Gilchrist debuted in the late 1970s with Superkernel Comics, a monthly comic book published by Weekly Reader Books in Middletown, Connecticut. He also created the comic strip Mudpie. [1] Additionally, he designed logos for Minor League baseball teams like the Portland Sea Dogs, Norwich Navigators, and New Britain Rock Cats, and was also the cartoonist behind J. League football team Shimizu S-Pulse's mascot, Palchan.

James Jay Carafano (born May 8, 1955 in New York City) is the director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies and the deputy director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is a historian and a recognized expert on national security affairs. Carafano has authored a number of books, including Private Sector/Public Wars: Contracting in Combat-Iraq, Afghanistan and Future Conflicts, and he has appeared before congress as a national security expert.

Carafano was born in New York City and raised in East Meadow, New York. He holds a B.S. in national security and public affairs from the United States Military Academy in West Point, an M.A. in British and early modern European history from Georgetown University, an M.A. in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Georgetown.

Carafano served 25 years in the Army in Europe, South Korea and the U.S., and he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. During that time he served as head speech writer for the Army Chief of Staff and was the executive director of Joint Force Quarterly, the Defense Department's military journal.

Peter "Pete" Hoekstra (born October 30, 1953) is a former Republican U.S. Representative for Michigan's 2nd congressional district who served in the House from 1993 until 2011. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Michigan in 2010 and is running for the United States Senate against Debbie Stabenow in 2012.

Born in Groningen, The Netherlands, he moved to America with his parents at the age of three. He received a B.A. in political science from Hope College in 1975 and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business in 1977. He then joined office furniture maker Herman Miller and remained there for 15 years, eventually becoming vice president of marketing.

In 1992, Hoekstra made his first bid for public office in the 2nd District. The district, previously the 9th, had been represented for 26 years by Guy Vander Jagt, longtime chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Hoekstra rode his bicycle across the district, charging that Vander Jagt had served in Congress for too long. He scored a monumental upset, winning by almost six percent. This primary win was tantamount to election in the 2nd district, the "most Republican" district in Michigan (Republicans have held the district for all but four years since it was created in 1873). (Hoekstra continues to ride his bicycle across the district every summer, and biked across the state for his gubernatorial campaign).

Jeff Rose is a Canadian trade unionist and former public servant. He is national president emeritus of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, having served as national president of CUPE from 1983–1991, and was deputy minister of intergovernmental affairs for the government of Ontario from 1991-1995.

Rose began his career as a city planner in the City of Toronto and in 1976 became active with his local union, CUPE Local 79, which represents City of Toronto inside workers. In 1980 he was elected president of Local 79 and in the next two years negotiated collective agreements containing across-the-board wage increases that totaled 26.5%. These bargaining achievements, and campaigns around working conditions and short-staffing in homes for the aged and around waste disposal and landfill in Toronto that he conducted for Local 79, brought him to the attention of CUPE locals on a national scale. In 1983, with rank-and-file support from a wide spectrum of locals, Rose ran from the floor of the CUPE national convention and was elected national president, succeeding Grace Hartman.