Rodney Nelson:  

Life I married a third time in 1998, very happily. I got a diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome after high school, in my junior year of college. It has caused me great difficulty through job discrimination, buy I have always worked very hard. I work on my own, and have had a lot of unique experiences. After graduating with an accounting degree from CSUFresno, I got a master's degree in taxation from the largest tax program in the world: Golden Gate University, a well respected private law school in San Francisco. I entered but did not complete a Ph.D. program at Texas A&M University, and got to see the bonfire. After putting a lot of energy into the California Republican Party State Central Committee, including getting several resolutions passed at the State Convention (and meeting interesting people like Newt Gingrich and some US Congressmen from California) and a decade of self employment, mixed with visits to help the Contras beat the Sandinistas in the late 1980s, and writing articles for publication on editorial pages around the state, I packed up and moved my family to New Mexico in 1994. I had been in charge of 13 northern California Counties in Prop 174, the school voucher ballot initiative constitutional amendment in November 1993, and was fired because clients of my employer were terribly unhappy! (School District Administrators). So I moved to New Mexico at the invitation of my father in law to work in his business and reestablish my accounting profession. I am a CPA licensed in California and New Mexico. Serious health issues appeared in 1997 and my second divorce happened in 1998. I was absolutely devastated: Though I lost my job and residence, I stayed in New Mexcio because my children were here. I married a nurse, and we have each helped raise the others' children, a total of eight. Two with some mental retardation. It was a chall...Expand for more