Michael Zak is a native of Chicago and resident of Washington DC.  Before writing Back to Basics for the Republican Party, Mr. Zak was a Foreign Service Officer, serving in Mexico and Venezuela, and an international banking analyst based in Chicago and New York.

While at the House Policy Committee, Michael Zak wrote the 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar, which was distributed at the 2004 Republican National Convention.   The calendar highlights, for every day, a civil rights achievement by our Grand Old Party.

Michael Zak is also the person who back in February 2003 originated the U.S. Senate’s “nuclear option” for confirming President Bush’s judicial nominees.   His idea was based on the Republican Party’s success in defeating the Democrat filibuster against the 1957 Civil Rights Act:

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April 29, 2005  "The idea for implementing such a motion [the nuclear option] probably originated with an Internet posting on a conservative Web site written in 2003 by the author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party by Michael Zak, who has done extensive research on the GOP’s historical support for civil rights.  The article brought Mr. Zak to the attention of the director of outreach at the Senate Policy Committee, Barbara Ledeen.  Mr.Zak later explained his idea to a policy adviser in the office of the Senate majority leader, Senator Frist of Tennessee.  Mr. Zak also sent his option idea by e-mail to several key Senate staff members."

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