As many of Divine Magazine readers know I set out in June of 2015 as the 2016’s U.S. Presidential election ONLY openly gay & physically challenged write-in Independent candidate.
Tom Ufert
Tom Ufert
Tom Ufert “is an inspirational voice in our troubled times. who serves as a political contributor for Divine Magazine” He received his bachelor of arts in political science and history as a scholarship recipient from Centenary College of Louisiana. Tom is a former Rotary International graduate Fellow who attended Australian National University in Canberra, ACT, specializing in East Asian political affairs and was a White House Fellow nominee. He is a former Lyndon Baines Johnson Congressional Intern and constituency aid for two former United States members of Congress. His past services for 11 political campaigns on both sides of the aisle were highly valued by former Louisiana Governor Charles “Buddy” Roemer, Henson Moore the former assistant chief of staff to U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush, and the recently retired U.S. Trade Ambassador, Ron Kirk. At age 23 he was the youngest artistic Board Chairman in the United States as head of the Shreveport Summer Music Festival. Mr. Ufert has served as a member of two other 501(c) three charity boards including his beloved fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia as well as the community advisory board for his former rehabilitation hospital. Over the years he has acquired extensive customer service experience in the food and beverage, hotel, insurance, home security, and pharmaceutical industries. His professional memberships include Phi Alpha Theta, Sigma Tau Delta, as well as both the Worldwide Who’s Who and Strathmore’s Who’s Who. In recent years he has worked tirelessly as a volunteer fundraiser for numerous AIDS charities in his community and served briefly as the community affairs liaison for Legacy Founders Cottage. Tom Ufert, a native of Louisiana, now resides in Texas. He is an Amazon Best Selling Author for his second book On The Roll Again, his first book, Adversity Builds Character received high acclaim with numerous 5 Star reviews, as has his newest release Political Craps. In fact all three books and several of his essay booklets have garnered distinction as Amazon’s Top 20 Best Sellers. Perhaps Mr. Ufert’s greatest claim to fame is that every book he sells contributes directly to charity through his charitable book entity Stand Strong For Others. Interested listeners can hear the distinguished author’s monthly broadcast, Tom’s Take, about politics and current events via the Apri Broadcasting Network (http://www.apribroadcasting.org/tom-ufert-live.html)
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“Orlando Strong Ignites an Unexpected National & Global Sense of Human Unity that Supersedes Bigotry” by Tom Ufert
by Tom Ufertby Tom Ufert 0 minutes readOriginally I had planned to write my usual review/explanation of the 2016 American election season. Sunday June 12th changed all that! In fact, the tragic mass murder event in Orlando, …
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All things considered, the NOTU2016 Campaign for U.S. President is going well. Independent write-in candidate Tom Ufert has consistently held two Google Town Halls per month since announcing on Memorial …
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Politics Today – Iowa Caucus & New Hampshire Primary – America’s Partisan Campaign Season is Off & Running
by Tom Ufertby Tom Ufert 0 minutes readIf there is any political science “Golden Rule” that aptly fits America’s 2016 presidential race it is “throw out the rule book!” In my over thirty years of experienced campaign …
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Politics Today – “Divisive Fearmongering Voices of Hate Do Not Speak for Real America!”
by Tom Ufertby Tom Ufert 0 minutes read“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.” Theodore Roosevelt
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Greetings and salutations or as so many of my former Aussie classmates at Australian National University would say “G’day Mates!”
Politics Today – The “Trump-Effect” and what it says About American Politics in 2016 by Tom Ufert
Donald Trump’s meteoric rise to become the undisputed frontrunner for the Republican presidential nominee says a lot about the chaotic state of American politics today.
Politics Today – “2016 – The Election for a New Vision”
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our …