Tammy knocked it out of the ball park!! We could not have had a better speaker. She engaged with our guests and brought some great ideas to the staff. She enhanced our fundraising immensely.
Tammy Bruce, an Independent Conservative, is a radio talk show host, New York Times bestselling author, blogger, Fox News Political Contributor and columnist at The Washington Times. A lifelong Democrat (until 2008 when she registered as unaffiliated), Ms. Bruce worked on a number of Democratic campaigns in 1990s, including the 1992 Boxer and Feinstein senate races and the Clinton for President campaign. President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky and the liberal and feminist establishment continued support of him was one of many tipping points in Ms. Bruce's embracing of libertarian and conservative ideals. She is proud to have voted twice for President Reagan and has supported all Republican candidates for president since George W. Bush's election in 2000. A free-speech and Second Amendment advocate, an important contributor to her position on the issues comes from her experience as a radio talk show host. The "Tammy Bruce Show" premiered in 1993 in Los Angeles and was nationally syndicated in 2005, enjoying over 200 terrestrial affiliates. In 2009, in a move to gain more freedom, Ms. Bruce took her radio show independent, making it an exclusively New Media program available online and via podcast. Tammy Radio remains the #1 program on the worldwide internet radio hub TalkStreamLive for 3 consecutive years. Additionally, Ms. Bruce has been profiled, and her editorials and commentaries on significant social issues have been published nationally and internationally, in a wide variety of magazines, newspapers including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, and The Advocate among others. In addition to her media work, Ms. Bruce speaks to a variety of groups nationwide, including college, business and civic organizations with her speech, "Contrary to Popular Belief: How Conservative Ideas Empower Women, Gays and Blacks." Ms. Bruce's first book, "The New Thought Police," was published by Forum, an imprint of Crown/Random House, in October 2001. An analysis of freedom of expression and the culture wars, it explores the importance of freedom of expression and personal liberty and how that liberty is under attack by the dangerous rise of Left-wing McCarthyism. Her second book, "The Death of Right and Wrong," also for Random House (April 2003), addresses the rise of moral relativism in society and quickly became a New York Times best seller. Ms. Bruce's latest work, "Fear Itself: Exposing the Left's Mind-Killing Agenda," published by Broadside Books, is now available. Besides Ms. Bruce's blog, radio program, books, and columns, she can be seen in in two short films. In "2081," an adaptation of Vonnugut's "Harrison Bergeron," she portrays the "Inspector General" and in 2010 she was featured in the Sarah Palin documentary "The Undefeated." Drawn into feminist activism in the late 1980's, Ms. Bruce focused on women in the workplace, violence against women and ending international subjugation of women. Just two years after joining the National Organization for Women, with a brand of feminism that places her somewhere between Donna Reed and Thelma and Louise, Ms. Bruce was elected president of the Los Angeles chapter of NOW at the age of 27. Until she saw the conservative light, she also served on their national board of directors. A native of Los Angeles, Ms. Bruce holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from the University of Southern California, from which she graduated cum laude. Currently she is a PhD candidate at Claremont Graduate University. Ms. Bruce notes her interest in politics and individual liberty was sparked during her childhood in part because of the work of authors Ray Bradbury and George Orwell, both of whom remain her favorite writers. A native Los Angeleno, Ms. Bruce splits her time between New York and Los Angeles.