Crony Capitalists in Our Backyards: Who They Are, What They Do and How to Fight Back

By Amy Handlin

New from Voices of the Tea Party. In Crony Capitalists in Our Back Yards, Amy Handlin, a Harvard educated Republican member of New Jersey's General Assembly, demonstrates that crony capitalism is as much of a problem at the state and local level as it is at the federal level. Drawing on her personal experiences, Ms. Handlin paints a colorful picture of some of the political insiders who've used their positions of power to advance their own financial interests at the expense of the public welfare. Ms. Handlin concludes with a set of practical recommendations that average citizens can undertake to fight crony capitalism in their own back yards.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Oct 4, 2011
• ISBN: 9780062123824

Amy Handlin

Amy Handlin is Deputy Minority Leader of the New Jersey General Assembly and Associate Professor of Marketing at Monmouth University. She is a past member of the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education and a former Senior Fellow at Monmouth University's Center for the Study of Public Issues. Dr. Handlin is a graduate of Harvard University, holds an MBA from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Marketing from New York University's Stern School of Business. Prior to being elected to the legislature, she served on the governing body of Monmouth County and as Deputy Mayor of Middletown Township, where she lives with husband David, son Daniel and daughter Rebecca.

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CRONY CAPITALISTS IN OUR BACKYARDS

Who They Are, What They Do and How to Fight Back

Amy Handlin

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Dedication

This e-book is dedicated to the many honest officials and dedicated citizens’ groups I have been privileged to know during my years of public service.

Contents

Dedication

About Voices of the Tea Party

Crony Capitalists in Our Backyards

I. Don’t Get Burned by the Burner!: My First Encounter with Crony Capitalists

II. The Backyard Incursion: A Tea Party Issue

III. Who They Are and What They Do

IV. Four Steps to Fight Back

A Final Note: Winning the Numbers Game

About the Author

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Copyright

About the Publisher

About Voices of the Tea Party

Voices of the Tea Party is a real-time collaborative forum for Tea Partiers around the country that delivers in-depth information on tactics, strategy, and policy from on-the-ground activists through the use of inexpensive and easy to download e-books. The series will serve the vibrant online community of everyday Americans who launched and continue to drive the Tea Party movement, by taking their collaborative discussions to a much higher level. Tea Party supporters around the country will now be able to instantly access best practices that have succeeded elsewhere, hear the stories of others in the movement, and learn from Tea Partiers with specific policy ideas and expertise. Perhaps more important, they will be able to engage with other thought leaders by submitting their own e-book proposals for possible inclusion in the series. (Please see our website for details: broadsidebooks.net.) Readers and writers alike can thereby join the important national discussion within this ever-expanding community of citizen-activists who have dedicated themselves to securing the movement’s core values of constitutionally limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets.

Series editor Michael Patrick Leahy has been one of the driving forces of the Tea Party movement from its inception. He’s a co-founder of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, which sponsored the very first national Tea Party demonstrations; the February 27, 2009, Nationwide Chicago Tea Party; and the April 15, 2009, Tax Day Tea Party. He is also the author of The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement, to be published by Broadside Books in January 2012. His website is http://www.michaelpatrickleahy.com.