Matt Towery is a graduate of England's Cambridge University and Florida's Stetson University Law School (Cum Laude). Matt Towery is a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives, and at age 30, he was his party's nominee for Lt. Governor of Georgia. Matt Towery has served as campaign chairman for Newt Gingrich and chief strategist for numerous national political campaigns. He is known for his bipartisanship. Matt Towery became the first and only Republican to preside over the Democratically controlled Georgia House prior to leaving politics in 1997.Towery is an attorney, businessman and successful author. His first major book, Powerchicks: How Women Will Dominate America, received national attention in publications ranging from The Washington Post to Ladies Home Journal. Matt Towery has appeared on national programs ranging from ABC's "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher," FOX News' "The O'Reilly Factor," CNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews," NBC's "Leeza," and CNN's "Talk Back Live" and "Inside Politics with Judy Woodruff." Towery continues to appear on national talk shows and recently authored the book Mean Business: The Insider's Guide to Winning Any Political Election.Matt Towery has written columns for publications ranging from trade magazines (such as Hollywood's Daily Variety) to daily newspapers and monthly magazines.As a businessman, Towery was CEO of his family-owned Color Graphics, the South's largest commercial sheet fed printing company. He sold the company to Mail Well (NYSE) in 1997. He currently serves as chairman and CEO of InsiderAdvantage.com, a subscription-based source for advanced information about government and public issues for corporations and the media. Its GovernmentBids.com division is the most active site on the Internet for information about government contracts.Matt Towery lives in Atlanta with his wife and two children. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Back in the '90s, an admittedly sappy movie was made for less than $7 million, but it reaped over $80 million at the box office. "Mr. Holland's Opus" starred Richard Dreyfuss as a high school music teacher who... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/11/05/mr_boortzs_opus_why_talk_radio_really_matters 7565d893-e8a7-4e95-82b4-eb8c72f032ac Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT An upcoming municipal election may reveal some clues about the drift of American politics, and about the nature of politics itself. Political machines thrive, only to die one day. Witness what's happening in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/10/29/any_political_machine_can_come_to_an_end db2ebd81-e1c3-48ae-911b-d6ce4fe61c6b Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT I almost had this column finished. Then I hit delete. Why? Because I'm tired of hearing and talking and writing about congressional debates, outlandish "Balloon Boy" stunts" or the fallout from silly TV shows... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/10/22/hit_delete__and_accept_your_prize 26e33fb9-998a-4a08-aeda-0e32a64399e5 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT By and large, the pundit class has it that momentum now favors passage of a national health care program. There's a fly in the ointment, however. Too many of the Senate Democrats needed to pass such legislation hail... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/10/16/swing_state_senators_face_health_care_reform_threat_--_losing_next_election bb6856e9-0543-4f20-9bb8-6a019522cd25 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT It's rare when a liberal Democratic U.S. senator like New York's Chuck Schumer and a conservative like Sen. John Cornyn of Texas can agree on any piece of major legislation, much less on national television. But... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/10/08/a_conservative_stimulus_that_actually_worked ceb92b4e-b2c1-4a68-910a-d5c4e49a93f7 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT It's my genuine belief that when the ball in Times Square dropped and displayed the year "2000" nine years ago, something must have occurred to transform our nation and the world into a permanent version of http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/10/02/when_tom_delay_is_dancing,_you_know_the_world_is_in_trouble 0304c841-c309-45bf-a518-3920d0ed17e9 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT The D.C. pundits think they have it nailed. Sure President Obama and the Democrats have slipped from their mighty post-election high approval ratings. But the Republicans have no message and no candidates, and are a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/09/24/gop_return_to_power_could_be_swift 2615b0e0-8c72-4629-9a8c-69ff5c953162 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Oh, the irony that former President Jimmy Carter has claimed big headlines by saying that South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst against Barack Obama during the president's speech... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/09/17/jimmy_carters_ill-advised_effort_to_atone 626643d5-df93-4f42-8c85-1a36d2c698bb Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT It's easy to attack a leader. And yet President Obama says he wants input from Republicans. When I was politically active, including nationally, I was heavily involved on the GOP side of things. So here's a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/09/10/memo_to_president_obama 6aecf1cb-b3c3-4e0c-be6f-2b67d6f54cc5 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT It has been my contention for the past decade that when it comes to politics, as Florida goes, so goes the nation. Think about the 2008 presidential election. First, following the CNN-YouTube http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/09/03/small_state_senate_race_in_florida_may_explain_entire_future_of_national_gop b279ccb6-b447-423f-a2e9-2bb187d6ef3f Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT I won't go into it again about my years as a student in England and how much I love that country and the university where I received my degree. It is irrelevant to the "Alice in Wonderland" situation that just... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/08/27/british_release_true_savage_while_continuing_to_ban_savage_talk_show_host af26cfe9-de7a-43e2-a473-b0b086cccf6c Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT It's as simple as this: Just as semi-rural Georgia politics of the mid-1970s couldn't be imposed on the Washington establishment, Chicago-style, brute-force politics doesn't work, either. Barack Obama and the Democratic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/08/21/february_prediction_proves_true_in_august_obama_is_new_jimmy_carter ee4f5d8f-430b-4cfd-80b9-6db8f1bfc09e Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Several months back, I suggested that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist was the perfect moderate politician to help bring independent voters back to the Republican Party. Crist had just announced his plans to skip a secon http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/08/13/vulnerable_crist_may_be_gops_test_case e2203c79-feaa-4165-a883-69102f0a1dfb Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT It's just one state. But it's one of the centers of African-American culture and influence in the nation. Atlanta, Georgia, with nearly six million residents in its metro area, is home to hundreds of top black... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/08/07/is_significant_drop_in_african-american_support_in_obamas_future 7709e569-0f99-4eb2-aeb6-07d0aace5f61 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Several weeks ago, the press was full of stories that pointed out Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's absence from important international confabs. Even the most "mainstream" of publications suggested that America's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2009/07/30/could_hillary_be_obamas_rfk 3884e52e-0ec8-49a4-a96b-046ab0e2fd1b Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT