John Wahl

Junior Fellow in Practical Political Leadership

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John Wahl is an up an-coming political strategist and campaign operative with impressive achievements already in his mid-twenties. As Director of Communications, he held a senior role in a major campaign for the internationally recognized former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore in his 2010 campaign for Governor, who registered in polls as the leading candidate until falling prey to heavily-funded opposition from a Republican establishment perceived by many voters as deeply resistant to reform and implacably opposed to a return to true Constitutional government. Mr. Wahl had also served as a grassroots coordinator for Chief Justice Moore's 2006 campaign, though only in his teens at the time.

An avid student of the Constitution and the Founding Fathers, Mr. Wahl consistently throws his weight behind candidates, legislation and causes with those same values. A recent example culminated in an off-year election in Spring of 2011 when he was a senior consultant in the stunning campaign of Robert Atkinson who ran for a seat in Alabama's House of Representatives, an underdog candidate with minimal financial resources who, controversially, chose to run on the Constitution Party ticket opposing a liberal Democrat who ran as a Republican. His opponent was backed by the Republican Party establishment, though himself a liberal who had backed multiple Democrats the year before in races including the Gubernatorial race.

By two days prior to the election Mr. Atkinson had come from far behind in the polls to break even against the overwhelming resources of his establishment-backed opponent. At this point his opponent suddenly rolled out a grossly dishonest phone bank campaign in which Atkinson was accused of positions which he had never put forth. The result was that Robert Atkinson, given no chance at all at the onset of the campaign, lost the election by only some two-hundred votes to an opponent with resources and backing from a Republican Party establishment that greatly preferred a Democrat running as a Republican over an authentic conservative running on the Constitution Party ticket.

Mr. Wahl is currently the Chief Political Director for WT&S Consulting, and continues his work with state legislatures by authoring and supporting constitutional legislation. He has worked with dozens of local, statewide, and national campaigns, beginning, remarkably, in his teen years. He increasingly specializes in campaign planning, polling, and media relations. He is a founding member of the Freedom Alliance PAC, a business owner, and occasional political news author and commentator.

He is dedicated to restoring the legal, social, moral and spiritual values that were renewed in the Great Awakening and made the historic miracle of the American Founding possible. In keeping with this he finds himself explaining and debunking the dangers and hypocrisies of the modern so-called "conservative" movement, perhaps as much as he does the anti-constitutional, anti-Judeo-Christian, anti-family, anti-life, anti-America "left."

A student of the American Constitution, he enjoys studying history and Constitutional law. A firm believer in the famous aphorism that "those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it," Mr. Wahl strives to understand the original intent of our Founding Fathers, and how their ideas and learned insights must be applied to issues we face today to maintain our liberty.