Panelist Biographies
Overview | Panelist Biographies | Media Advisory | Video/MP3
Mike Krempasky, RedState.org
Mike Krempasky is the co-founder of The Online Coalition, a bipartisan group of bloggers and online professionals organized to protect the rights of online activists.
He is also the co-founder of RedState.org, a conservative collaborative weblog. In addition, he started and maintains the following blogs:
- Rathergate, which helped galvanize the public criticism of Dan Rather in the wake of the now-discredited 60 Minutes report on President Bush's National Guard records. The site generated 3.1 million emails to CBS affiliates around the country in just seven days.
- NotSpecter Ð a weblog focused on denying Senator Arlen Specter the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee
- ConfirmThem Ð another collaborative effort covering the judicial nominations process
Mr. Krempasky is also the Political Director at American Target Advertising, a Virginia direct marketing firm. He helps to build technology solutions for political and charitable clients as well as working with public policy groups to start and use blogging as an effective communication tool.
Previously, he helped to train conservative grassroots activists across the country as the Graduate Development Director at the Leadership Institute in Arlington, VA. He remains a volunteer faculty member at the Institute, teaching seminars on volunteer internet activism.
March 2005