About Floyd
Floyd and Mary Beth Brown have been married 26 years
Who is Floyd Brown?
Floyd Brown is a political innovator, writer and speaker.
Time magazine wrote: “Brown has a stature among devoted conservatives that almost matches his physical heft (6 ft. 6 in. and 240 lbs.)”.
Floyd is president of The Western Center for Journalism. The Western Center sponsors investigative journalism and trains “Citizen Journalists” to use internet tools and online video to create compelling news content. He writes a weekly syndicated column about politics, culture and the economy with his wife, Mary Beth Brown. Their column is posted online here at www.floydbrown.com.
Floyd also is editor of the website www.exposeobama.com, and writes a blog at www.ImpeachObamaCampaign.com .
An economist by training, he also writes on investing for www.investmentu.com. Floyd has written on politics for publications as diverse as the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Times, Townhall.com and Worldnetdaily.com.
Media campaigns organized by Floyd have been studied for their effectiveness. These campaigns include the 1988 campaign of Americans for Bush during which he produced the “Willie Horton ad” and a TV campaign in support of the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
From 2001 until 2006, he served as the executive director of Young America’s Foundation which saved Rancho del Cielo, Ronald Reagan’s Ranch and Western White House. As executive director Floyd oversaw the preservation of the historic ranch home and the building of the 20 million dollar Reagan Ranch Center in downtown Santa Barbara, California.
From 1988 until 2006, Floyd was the founding chairman of Citizens United. The organization, under his leadership, was the largest conservative citizen advocacy group in America. They launched the movement that lead to the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
He has appeared on many network and cable TV shows including: The O’Reilly Factor, the CBS Evening News, ABC’s Primetime, NBC’s Today Show, FOX News, CNN, MSNBC and more. From 1995 until 2000 he hosted his own talk radio show on Seattle’s KVI 570 AM.
He has traveled coast to coast speaking to conferences and at many universities including Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Notre Dame, University of Miami and the University of Wisconsin.
Floyd has been an advisor and consultant to many political campaigns including the Bush, Dole and Forbes for President Campaigns. He managed the Dole for President Campaign in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska in 1988.
Floyd started his career in President Ronald Reagan’s campaigns and as a political appointee in his administration. As Executive Director of the US International Youth Year Commission he spent two years representing the youth of America for President Reagan at international meetings. He credits President Reagan’s 1976 campaign, in which he served as a student volunteer, for sparking his interest in public service.
