Floyd Brown is an author, speaker and media commentator.
Time magazine wrote: “Brown has stature among devoted conservatives that almost matches his physical heft (6 ft. 6 in. and 240 lbs.)”
He is president of Excellentia Inc., a consulting company specializing in non profit organizational strategy, development and marketing.
From 2001 until 2006 he served as the executive director of Young America’s Foundation, which saved Rancho del Cielo also known as Ronald Reagan’s Ranch or Western White House. As executive director Brown oversaw the preservation of the historic ranch and the building of the 20 million dollar Reagan Ranch Center in downtown Santa Barbara, California.
Brown is the author of three books and wrote the first bestselling Clinton expose Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton in 1992. He was credited with launching the impeachment movement against President Clinton.
Brown has written extensively for many publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Times, National Review and Human Events. As a commentator he has appeared on numerous network and cable TV shows including: CNN’s Crossfire, the CBS Evening News, ABC’s Primetime, NBC’s Today Show, FOX News, MSNBC and more. From 1995 until 2000 he hosted his own talk radio show on Seattle’s KVI 570 AM.
As a speaker he has traveled coast to coast speaking at many universities including Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Notre Dame, University of Miami and the California Polytechnic University (Cal-Poly).
In 1988 Brown formed Citizens United. Citizens United is the largest conservative citizens’ action organization in America. Several Brown organized campaigns have been studied for their effectiveness; these include the effort to secure the confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas, and the independent campaigns against Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton. The anti Dukakis effort produced the famous “Willie Horton” commercial.
He is active in the Republican Party and was a delegate to both the 2000 and 1996 National conventions. In 1996 he served on that Republican National Convention Platform Committee. He 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.
He served in President Reagan’s campaigns and as a political appointee in the Reagan administration. He credits a meeting with President Reagan in 1976 for sparking his interest in public service.
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