The Chauncey Show-Meet Michael Johns National Tea Party Movement Co-founder

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The Chauncey Show-Meet Michael Johns National Tea Party Movement Co-founder. Michael Johns is an American conservative commentator, policy analyst, writer, a former speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush, and a leader and spokesman in the Tea Party movement. He was also a health care executive. Johns began his political and public policy career as a Lyndon B. Johnson fellow working with Rep. Donald L. Ritter. In 1986, he began work at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank. Johns was an assistant editor of the Foundation's journal, Policy Review, for which he wrote on national security and foreign policy issues. In 1988, he became a policy analyst for African and Third World affairs in the Heritage Foundation's foreign policy and defense studies department. While there, he researched and wrote on topics including South Africa, U.S. relations with Zaire and Kenya, the famine in Ethiopia, and the civil wars in Angola and Mozambique. Johns was a White House speechwriter during the presidency of George H. W. Bush. He has also worked for New Jersey governor and 9/11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean, Sen. Olympia Snowe and at the International Republican Institute. Johns has been a spokesman for the Tea Party movement. He has served on the leadership team of the nationwide tea party coalition. Join national politiccal commentator/host of The Chauncey Show, Chauncey I. Brown III and Tea Party Co-founder Michael Johns as we talk about the nations current political climate.