Presidential Candidate/ Herman Cain

Herman Cain

                 Businessman from Goergia. Running for the Republican nomination for President.
               Family
Herman Cain Was born on December 13th 1945 in Memphis, Tennessee to parents Lenora  and Luther Cain, Jr. His father worked three jobs including a chauffeur, and his mother worked as a maid.  Cain, and his younger brother, grew up in Atlanta, Georgia under years of segregation and hatred towards his heritage. In 1968, he married his wife Gloria. They have two grown children.
                    Education
After graduating high school at the top of his class, Cain went on to Morehouse College where he graduated in 1967 with a degree in mathematics.  He then went on to earn a Masters Degree in computer science from Perdue University.
               Career
While working on his master's degree from Purdue, Cain worked for the Navy as a mathematician. He left after graduating to work for Coca Cola Company as a business analyst. In the late 70's he landed a job with Pillsbury Holding company as a executive where he rose, in a few short years, to corporate Vice-President. He then decided to branch off into a company subsidiary, that at the time need help financially, Burger King, where he was Regional Manager
and ran over 400 stores in the Philadelphia area and brought them to set record numbers. Under Cain's leadership, his region went from the least profitable for Burger King to the most profitable in three years.  After the success with Burger King, Pillsbury appointed Cain to President CEO of another troubled subsidiary, Godfather's Pizza, Inc. based out of Omaha, Nebraska. Cain also within a short time frame turned the company around to make profiting numbers. Cain eventually bought out the company and remained CEO until 1996.  During this time, Cain was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Restaurant Association (NRA) in 1988 and later served as chairman and elected CEO and president. He was also later appointed to serve on the Economic Growth and Tax Reform Commission. He became a Keynote speaker and founded a leadership firm and he has authored three books on topics ranging from leadership to self-empowerment. Cain became a member of the board of directors to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1992 and served as its chairman from January 1995 to August 1996. He became CEO and president of RetailDNA, a software technology company, in 1999. In 2002, he became an Executive Lecturer for the Gallup Organization, a world leader
performance management consulting firm. He is currently an associate minister at Antioch Baptist Church North in Atlanta, which he joined at the age of 10. Cain also serves as a commentator for Fox Business and sits on th board for Hallmark, AGCO, whirlpool.          
    Political Background
In 1996, Cain was a senior economic adviser in the Dole/Kemp presidential campaign. Cain ran for candidacy for the Republican nomination for United States Senate from Georgia in 2003, losing badly.
             The Issues
Herman cain is against Abortion. He supports the right to bear arms. He is against same sex marrige. Cain favors offshore drilling and supports drilling in Alaska.  Cain favors allowing consumers to choose alternative energy sources such as solar and wind through the private market instead of the government providing funding and incentives to particular corporations and industries. He believes in economic growth by implementing policies that emphasize less legislation, less regulation, lower taxes, and business friendly policies. Cain supports the Gold standard, saying that abandoning it "allowed Congress to inflate our currency whenever they overspent." Cain is for vanishing the Welfare System.  Cain supports lowering the corporate tax rates from 35 to 25 %, eliminating the capital gains tax, and suspending taxes on repatriated foreign profits. He favors small governments and free enterprise. ..

Presidential Canditates/ Tim Pawlenty

 Tim Pawlenty

                    The Former Governor of Minnesota from 2003-2010.  Former Minnesota House of Representatives from 1993-2002.  Running for the Republican nomination for President.
               Family
Timothy James Pawlenty was the youngest of five children. Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on November 27th 1960 and raised in the small city of South St. Paul by his parents Virginia Frances  and Eugene Joseph Pawlenty, a milk truck driver.  His mother died when he was a teenager of cancer. In the early 1990's Pawlenty married Mary Anderson and moved to Eagan, Minnesota where they have two  teenage daughters Mara and Anna.
             Education
Originally planning to become a dentist, Pawlenty enrolled in the University of Minnesota. Being the only member of his family to due so, he graduated in 1993 with a BA in political science and went on to earn a Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota law School in 1986 
        Career 
 Pawlenty first worked as a labor law attorney at the firm Rider Bennett.  He  was also the Vice President of the software company Wizmo Inc. www.wizmo.com/.  
        Political Background
Tim Pewlenty started off already interested in politics around 1980 when he interned for two summers in the office of  US Senator Durenberger.  He later was  appointed to the city's Planning Commission and was elected to the Eagan City Council in 1991, at the young age of  just 28. He won a seat as a Minnesota State Representative in 1992, representing District 38B in suburban Dakota County. He was re-elected four terms and was voted majority leader by House Republicans in 1998, in which he held through 2002 when he was elected Governor of Minnesota. During his first year as governor, Pawlenty balanced a deficit of $4.3 billion without raising taxes, mostly by reducing the rate of funding increases for state services, including funding for transportation, social services, and welfare. he then turned around in his second term, and erased a $2.7 billion deficit by cutting spending, shifting payments, and using one-time federal stimulus money. He led worldwide trips for business leaders and trade delegations to explore trade opportunities.  Pawlenty was chairman of the Midwestern Governors Assocation in 2006 and then the chairman of the National Governors assocation from 2007 to 2008.  Pawlenty traveled several times to the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq to visit with commanders and troops in support of their efforts and cause.  In 2008 he joined John McCain's Presidental campaign team as chairman.
                The Issues
Tim Pawlenty believes the government should criminalize abortion, except for cases of rape, incest, and to save a woman's life. He opposes same-sex marriage and civil unions.  He would like to reinstate " Dont Ask Don't Tell".   Pawlenty is for cutting Social Security and Medicare programs in order to balance the federal budget. He supports troops in Afghanistan.  Pawlenty is not a supporter of Government bail outs for companies.  He supports capitol punishment and stricter bordor contol in the form of closed borders.  He is for drilling in Alaska. Pawlenty  was also part of the lawsuit on behalf of his state declaring Obamacare unconstitutional.