H. L. Richardson
Personal Information
Description
Hubert Leon "Bill" Richardson was a successful advertising executive. In 1965, he published Slightly to the Right, a humorous book teaching conservatives how to debate liberals. He was also a big game hunter, having taken trophies in Africa, Alaska, California and most of the western states. In 1966, he became a California state senator, where he served until 1988. During his terms, he received legislator of the year awards from Christian and Sportsman organizations six times. In 1974, he ran as a Republican for the United States Senate but was defeated. In 1975, he founded the firearms lobby group Gun Owners of America (GOA) and began to focus his political career on the preservation and protection of the American right to bear arms. While in office, Richardson organized multiple Political Action Committees [PACs] to raise money to campaign against the political left. One such committee defeated three state Supreme Court justices, while another defeated the Governor's veto on capital punishment in California. In 1988, Richardson left political office to focus on building GOA into the second largest pro-gun organizations in America.
Books
The devil's eye
Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt is "the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke" (Stephen King).Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene—who has been mind-wiped. She has no memory of her past life, or of her plea for assistance. But she has transferred an enormous sum of money to Alex, also without explanation. The answers to this mystery lie on the most remote of human worlds, where Alex will uncover a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval—a secret that somebody desperately wants hidden, though the price of that silence is unimaginable…
Confrontational Politics
In this era of ever-growing, more distant, unresponsive government -- and politicians of both parties who do not walk their talk -- retired California state senator H. L. (Bill) Richardson's book is a strong tonic. He warns, however, his words are not for the faint of heart: as Finley Peter Dunne once said, "Politics ain't beanbag." He spells out in a series of lessons how his often hard-pressed conservative minority was able to win victory after victory on issues like the death penalty, gun control, and removing liberal judges. "The central theme of this book is the methodology both sides use. Being 'right' is not enough," he cautions.