Michael Fox
- Location
- Orange County, California, USA
- Company
- Fox Barker Communications
- Bio
- Michael Fox has a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School and an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.
He is a partner in Fox Barker Communications, which provides expert public relations, media and communications support to progressive candidates and causes.
His legal career has included clerking for the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, working for the National Labor Relations Board and the United Steelworkers Union, and arguing numerous cases before federal and state appellate courts.
He has also published works on Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, and French avant garde drama, taught acting, drama and literature, and directed more than 50 plays. He is Artistic Director of Moving Target Theatre and has received an AFL-CIO Award for Meritorious Service for Commitment to Human Rights.
He is also a member of the Executive Board of the Democratic Party of California.
Michael is married and has one son, one dog, two cats, and five guitars.
He is currently directing the play "In Darfur" by Winter Miller.
MY RECENT POSTS
- My Kenyan Birth Certificate --
Revealed!
August 05, 2009 06:25PM - Auto Dealers: No More Cash for
(Political) Clunkers
August 03, 2009 04:49PM - Across America's Racial
Divide: Michael, Rest in Peace
July 07, 2009 02:15PM - Is Sarah Palin Coming to Your
Neighborhood?
July 06, 2009 06:57PM - Sarah Palin Declares Her
Independence
July 04, 2009 12:27PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “From the AP (July 5)
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
didn't wait
long to give
some…”
July 05, 2009 12:24PM - “Cutting legislative
salaries will move the
California budget
an iota
toward resol…”
July 03, 2009 01:16PM - “Thanks to all who read,
commented and
rated!
Thanks for the
lively
discussion!
Than̷
0;”
June 23, 2009 09:14PM - “badgolf: Although Reagan
was not governor when Prop
13
passed, his support for
i…”
June 23, 2009 05:22PM - “badgolfer: Prop 13
passed because the state's
Republicans
adopted (and
co-opted)…”
June 23, 2009 03:46PM
Few Americans have suffered as much from the housing crisis as has John McCain.
While the liberal media and the Democrats have jumped all over McCain for owning at least eight homes (and for not knowing how many he owns), the terrible toll that the housing crisis has taken on
… Read full post »Why Sarah Palin Scares Me
Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech last night at the Republican convention scared me.
Not because I think that it will help her and John McCain achieve victory in November, but because of what it signaled would happen to America if McCain and Palin did gain control of the White House and the… Read full post »
MCain Gives Himself the Admiral's Star He Never Earned
There’s plenty of evidence that John McCain retired from the Navy in 1981 at the rank of captain (0-6, equivalent to an Army colonel), in part because he knew that, with his extremely problematic service record, he would never be promoted to admiral, as were both his father and grandfather.
Unl… Read full post »
Anyone who has seen The Devil Came on Horseback, the heart-breaking documentary film about the genocide in Darfur, will recall ex-marine officer turned unarmed observer Brian Steidle’s comment that “If these photos were seen” — that is, the photos that Steidle himself to… Read full post »
More than 30 years after the last helicopter carried the last American out of Saigon at 07:53 on April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War is still being fought in the American media and the presidential campaign.
The subtext of the McCain campaign’s constant references to McCain’s Vietnam W… Read full post »
Ed McMahon Finds Solution to Beverly Hills Housing Crisis
I'm sure you’ve heard about former “Tonight Show” side-kick Ed McMahon’s financial troubles and the near foreclosure of his Beverly Hills estate.
You’ve probably also heard the news that Donald Trump offered to buy McMahon’s house and let him continue to live
… Read full post »The Rise and Fall of Richard B. Simring, Esq.
Richard B. Simring is not someone you would expect to be charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering in a multi-million dollar scam.
Simring was a rising legal star and a well respected leader in his community.
The son of an attorney, Simring was valedictorian at Hollywood
… Read full post »Disaster capitalists are staking out the U.S. banking industry.
Private equity firms have long wanted to move into banking. And given the financial crisis that many banks are now facing, isn’t this a good time to allow private equity firms, with their billions of … Read full post »
The New York Times has a weekly real estate feature called “Property Values” that shows “What You Get for…” a certain a mount of money.
This week the Times shows you “What You Get for…$10 Million” and it pictures palatial estates in Newport… Read full post »
I would have liked Obama to have taken the opportunity to speak at Saddleback Church about the crucial and positive role that faith institutions and people of faith have played in many of our most important national struggles: abolition, civil rights, nuclear disarmament, and opposition to the wars i… Read full post »
Barack Obama is close to picking his vice-presidential running mate. For both political and substantive reasons, it ought to be Hillary Clinton.
First the political reasons.
Hillary Clinton’s 17 million votes show that she would bring enormous political power to the ticket, far more than
… Read full post »
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