Highlights & Quotes
Jack Kemp, the professional football player turned Republican congressman turned vice presidential candidate, is head of Empower America, a rightist policy outfit that he founded in 1993 with the help of Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Bennett.
He was in the NFL for 13 years, playing quarterback for the San Diego Chargers and the Buffalo Bills. He also co-founded the AFL Players Association.
In 1996, presidential candidate Bob Dole chose Kemp to be his running mate.
Kemp's Empower biography claims that he "is one of our nation's leading voices promoting the potential and importance of the digital economy. His work in defense of the information sector of our economy is based on the premise that government's role in a thriving new enterprise should be very limited at most, leaving the free market to sort things out whenever possible. Throughout his career Kemp has also been one of the nation's leading advocates for strong economic growth, free markets, free trade, and tax simplification and lower tax rates on both work and investment. He is also the first and strongest advocate for revitalizing our cities by establishing Enterprise Zones to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation in urban America and of expanding homeownership among low income people through resident management and ownership of public housing." (1)
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Institutional
Affiliations
Empower
America: Co-Director and Founder (1)
Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs (JINSA): Board of Advisers (3)
Heritage
Foundation: Distinguished Fellow (3)
Habitat for Humanity: Board Member (3)
Corporate
Connections
G2
Satellite Solutions: Advisory board member (4)
SmartCOP:
Board member (2)
Oracle: Board member (2)
Hawk Corporation: Board member (2)
IDT Telecom: Board member (2)
ING Americas: Board member (2)
Thayer Capital: Advisory board member (2)
Thomas
Weisel Partners: Advisory board member (2)
Government
Service
Department of Housing
and Urban Development: Secretary during Bush Sr. Administration
(1)
House of Representatives: Congressman for Western New York for 18 years, until his Cabinet appointment (1)
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