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About William Redpath
Bill has been a member of the Libertarian Party since 1984, and has achieved a distinguished record of service and accomplishment.
He is currently serving his first term as Chairman of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC) and has continued as the informal “Champion of Ballot Access” on the LNC.
He has served as Treasurer for the Libertarian Party on two occasions (1991-1993 and 2003-2004). He currently serves as the treasurer of FairVote, an electoral system reform organization formerly chaired by former independent presidential candidate John Anderson and currently chaired by former Nirvana bassist Krist Noveselic.
He has run for office as a Libertarian three times in Virginia; specifically, he ran for the House of Delegates (1993), the State Senate (special election in January, 1998), and Governor (2001). In his campaign for Governor, he and Lt. Governor candidate Gary Reams became the first Libertarian candidates for statewide office to be on the Virginia ballot. He is currently seeking the Libertarian nomination for US Senate in Virginia in 2008.
He served as Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Virginia during the 1989-1991 term; he has also served as Vice Chairman and Treasurer of the LPVA.
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Bill is perhaps best known for his work on ballot access. He served as Chairman of the Libertarian Party Ballot Access Committee from 1990 to 1997. In 1992 and 1996, the Libertarian Party presidential ticket was on the ballot everywhere in the United States. This marked the first time in U.S. history that a "minor" political party placed its presidential ticket on the ballot in all states in successive presidential elections.
He began petitioning as a volunteer for the LP in 1988; he gathered over 2,000 signatures for LP presidential candidate Ron Paul (including over 1,300 signatures in Virginia). He became the Ballot Access Project Manager for the LNC in 2003. Through his leadership, the LP presidential ticket was on the ballot in 48 states and the District of Columbia in 2004. He personally gathered over 3,000 signatures in five states in 2004.
On election days 1996, 2000, and 2004, Bill gathered signatures for the Libertarian Party of North Carolina at the polling place at North Carolina State University in Raleigh to help qualify the LPNC for the North Carolina ballot for the upcoming four year cycle. On those days, he gathered 1,179, 712, and 550 signatures, respectively. The 1,179 signature effort is believed to be the largest number of signatures ever gathered for the LP by one person in one day.
Bill was born and raised in Findlay, Ohio. He received his BA in Economics and Political Science from Indiana University (1978) and his MBA from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago (1980).
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He is a Vice President for BIA Financial Network, Inc. in Chantilly, Virginia, a financial consulting and valuation firm that specializes in the appraisal of media and telecommunications businesses and assets. Prior to joining BIAfn in 1985, he was a Senior Financial Analyst with NBC in New York, an Internal Auditor with ABC in New York, Assistant Financial Manager of WISH-TV in Indianapolis, and on the audit staff of Arthur Andersen & Co. in Cincinnati.
He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is also an Accredited Senior Appraiser in Business Valuation in the American Society of Appraisers and holds the Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) designation from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He and his wife, Melinda Moore, live in Leesburg, Virginia.
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