Theodore "Ted" Terbolizard (born February 29, 1968 in Mountain View, California

Mountain View, California

-Downtown:Mountain View has a pedestrian-friendly downtown centered on Castro Street. The downtown area consists of the seven blocks of Castro Street from the Downtown Mountain View Station transit center in the north to the intersection with El Camino Real in the south...

) is an American

United States

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 Republican Party

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 politician

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. He was a candidate for the Republican Party's

Republican Party (United States)

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 nomination for the United States House of Representatives in California

California

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's 4th congressional district in a seat vacated by Incumbent

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 John Doolittle

John Doolittle

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, who announced that he would not run in 2008.

Terbolizard co-hosts a radio program

Radio programming

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 named Congressional Coast to Coast with Dean Santoro. The show covers current events such as voting, outreach, and general politics.

2008 Congressional campaign

In 2007, Terbolizard launched his bid for the Republican Party nomination for Congress. Terbolizard came in fourth place out of four candidates for the nomination behind Tom McClintock

Tom McClintock

Thomas Miller McClintock II is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party. He is a former Assemblyman and state Senator...

, Doug Ose

Doug Ose

Douglas Arlo "Doug" Ose is a former California congressman who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005, representing California's 3rd Congressional District...

, and Suzanne Jones. Terbolizard ended up with 2.3% of the vote or 2,249 votes.

Lack of mainstream media coverage

Mainstream media outlets like the Sacramento Bee consistently excluded Terbolizard and Jones, focusing on the race between then-State Senator McClintock and former Congressman Ose, both of whom were from outside of the 4th district. Local debate attendees reporting on their weblogs had indicated that local papers such as "The Mountain Democrat" had also excluded Terbolizard in their coverage of the congressional race. The exclusion of both Terbolizard and Jones from the debate at William Jessup University

William Jessup University

William Jessup University is a small non-denominational Christian college located in Rocklin, California. The university had just under 900 students in the Fall of 2011 with both a record entering class and a record total enrollment as of Fall 2011.-History:...

 led the two candidates' supporters to complain of a media blackout

Media blackout

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.

Political positions

Theodore Terbolizard's political views can be categorized as conservative and Constitutionalist. His positions can be traced back to the U.S. Constitution and the powers enumerated in Article I, Section 8. He is pro-personal freedoms, and pro-limited government.

The economy

Terbolizard supports a free-market economy, which he distinguishes from free-trade or fair-trade discussion of the past decade. He believes that American prosperity has come from economic liberty, low-taxes and when government gets out of the way.

The situation in Iraq

Terbolizard sees nothing in the U.S. Constitution that suggests that the U.S. has the right or obligation to sustain funding and deployment of Armed Forces to fulfill their request (Article I, Section 8, [12]). Terbolizard would vote to end the war in Iraq.

Taxes

Terbolizard supports a repeal of the 16th Amendment

Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results...

and an end to personal income taxes and less federal spending and avoiding deficit spending.

External links

• Theodore Terbolizard's Official Site
• Theodore Terbolizard's TV Spots
• Congressional Coast to Coast