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| Affiliation | Libertarian |
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| Name | Robert Bakhaus |
| Address |
Santa Barbara, California , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
| Born |
May 26, 1945
(78 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Thomas Walker
Mar 02, 2004 02:48pm |
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| Info | The all too short life of Robert Bakhaus
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Born: May 26, 1945 Current Age: 54
He has resided in: West Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New York City. He has now resided in southern California for twenty years.
Occupation: Political philosopher.
Bakhaus earns his living slaving over a hot computer publishing, teaching, and consulting via the internet. Bakhaus has dedicated his entire adult life to politics and political philosophy. He is the originator of "contractual democracy" theory, a perspective that calls for "informed consent to terms" as the guiding principle of governance: "the rule of contract over the rule of law over the rule of men", "government by uncoerced consent of the governed".
Bakhaus is well known among Santa Barbara, CA politicos for his weekly television show "The Libertarian Alternative" on COM17, his 1990 leadership in state term limits petitioning, his successful 1993 (16-month) litigation against then-Mayor Hal Conklin for violating Santa Barbara's term limits law, and leading an "Operation Democracy" petition drive which subsequently inspired City Council to adopt evening meetings.
Less well known are the two years he spent in the 1960s studying philosophy in New York under the famed philosopher Ayn Rand, his subsequent years as Legislative Analyst in the Louisiana State Legislature for Democrat Assemblyman "Woody" Jenkins, and his several years of work for Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul, before moving to Santa Barbara to work with the Reason Foundation, then Citizens for a Balanced Community, the local Libertarian Party and other clients.
Bakhaus recently (1998) campaigned for Congress as a Libertarian Party candidate from the 22nd District which comprises both Santa Barbara and San Lois Obispo counties. Bakhaus was the only candidate on the ballot without a job designation because California's Secretary of State refuses to acknowledge that "philosophy" is an avocation/occupation/or profession! What would Aristotle, Plato, Diogenes, Socrates, Pythagoras or Rand have to say about that?
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