The Candidate

Mike worked with the White House Office of Management and Budget as a financial economist during the George H.W. Bush Administration, 1989-1991. In early 1992, Mike moved from White House staff to the re-election campaign's communications staff for Bush-Quayle 92. Mike also campaigned briefly for Bob Dole for president in 1996 and later for George W. Bush for Texas governor in 1998.

Mike's first career also included working with banks as a commercial loan officer and as a consulting economist for the federal agency, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, as well as the World Bank and its affiliate, the International Finance Corporation. From 1992 through 2002, Mike worked as an advocate in Washington for free markets and greater competition in the financial services industry. In 2002, he founded Foreword Financial, a professional education and strategic consulting business which he successfully ran until 2009.

In his second career, Mike served as a police officer in Broward County, Florida, from 2010 to 2021, including five years as a training officer. 

Mike campaigned in the 2021-22 special Congressional election in Florida’s District 20 on a platform centered on rejecting the government’s management of the COVID regime.  Mike was an early 2020 opponent of government shutdowns of private businesses, government vaccine passports, and vaccination mandates under threat of exclusion from society and employment.

Mike served as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 2024, campaigning on a platform centered on boosting the money families earn and retain. This program included reducing government spending, dismantling the inflation machine, sunsetting the regulatory state, separation of science and state, and a foreign policy of strength through peace.  Mike advocated for a Gold New Deal between us and the government we would tolerate, based on individual rights and the decentralization of public-sector authority.

Mike has edited two recent compilations of essays, in 2026 Broken, How American Politics Is Driving Civil Unrest, Financial Collapse & War and in 2023 A Gold New Deal: The Government We Will Tolerate. He currently co-hosts the weekly podcast Liberty Lens and serves as a contributor to  Opportunity Now: Free-Market Perspectives for Silicon Valley Policymakers. 

Mike has taught economics at three universities, substituted at dozens of public schools, and traveled through thirty-six countries. He has a wife, two kids and two stepdaughters, a dog, a cat, and a truck, a BS in Aeronautical Engineering and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and MS and PhD degrees in Economics from The George Washington University.