fairkaye

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Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	retired
Location	Atlanta, GA, United States
Introduction	My passion for politics took root in childhood when I watched my grandmother write by hand four to five page letters to her representatives. It blossomed during high school when I had the good fortune to study civics under Ms. Rae Files Still who served in the legislature before retiring to teach and write a book about the process of bringing an idea into law. The protests of the Sixties and Seventies only increased my love for the orderly, lawful changes our nation offers. I often wished that the protesters understood the citizen activism that I had been taught. Later I began to seriously study the media while teaching at the University level. I grew to fear the media induced sound-bite mentality that substitutes appealing phrases for thoughtful discourse. Our media and our busy lives keep many Americans ignorant or complacent about events. Because we have lives to live, children to raise, and jobs to do, it’s easy to comment about Washington, but difficult to demand wise actions. But if voters remain engaged, our government offers more possibilities for excellence than any other. FairKaye is here to make active citizenship easy and interesting.
Interests	Reading, entertaining, gardening, cooking, decorating
Favorite Movies	It's A Wonderful Life, Chariots of Fire, Bella
Favorite Music	Bach, Handel, Mozart
Favorite Books	Anything by Solzhenitsyn, Chesterton, Barzini, and Paul Johnson.