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John Nathan Tabor (born August 29, 1973) is the
founder, owner and CEO of TCV Media, a web-based consulting
firm in the United
States and TheConservativeVoice.com, an internet hub for
right-wing commentary. He is also known as a recent political
candidate and a nonfiction author.
Career
In May 1999, one year after finishing his graduate work, Tabor
joined Revival Soy as joint owner and Vice President of Sales and
Marketing. In 2003, Revival Soy was recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine[1] as the
fourth fastest-growing company in the Piedmont Triad region of
North Carolina with $11 million in sales and 80 employees.[2]
2004 also marked Tabor's first foray into politics: his campaign
for North Carolina's fifth district seat in Congress. Early on in
the campaign, Tabor secured the support of notable members of the
conservative political establishment such as Dick Armey, Steve Moore, Ed Meese, and Art
Laffer. in addition to courting key figures of the Religious Right
such as Pat
Robertson and Jerry Falwell. After participating in the
most expensive primary race in the country,[3] and
raising $750,000 in campaign contributions, he was defeated by Virginia Foxx. Foxx
went on to win the general election and now serves as the 5th
district's representative in the United States Congress.
In 2006, Tabor launched his campaign for North Carolina's state
Senate.[4] The
Republican primary in the 31st district developed into a three-way
race between Tabor, Pete Brunstetter and Gloria Whisenhunt, then
chair of the Forsyth County
Commissioners. Brunstetter, who won the primary and the general
election (there was no Democratic opponent), outspent both of his
opponents by over $100,000, and according to some, did so largely
with the help of corporations.[5] Tabor
came in second, ahead of Whisenhunt.[6] In
January 2006 Tabor sold his interest in Revival Soy to his brother
Aaron. In August 2006 Tabor opened a buy-here, pay here used car
dealership, Country Auto Sales[7], in
Winston-Salem, N.C. Tabor described the business as a niche player
that offers cars to people on a budget.[8]
Author
On October 31, 2006 Thomas Nelson released
Tabor's first book, The Beast on the East River (ISBN
1595550534), in which he argues that the United Nations is in the process of
undermining the sovereignty of the United States. Unlike many
writers and pundits across the political spectrum, Tabor is not
interested in UN reform or restructuring. He contends[9] that
there are three fatal flaws that make the UN unfit for salvaging;
it is ineffective, it is corrupt, and it is opposed to the
principles of sovereignty and democracy.
At its inception, the victories Allied powers set up the United
Nations as an institution which would safeguard the sovereignty of
its member nations, as two world wars had begun with the violation
of a state's sovereignty. With the end of the Cold War, its mission
morphed into global peacekeeping and conflict resolution. However,
Tabor contends, their record on humanitarian crises is dismal; UN
peacekeepers failed to halt the genocide in Rwanda or pacify
Somalia, and in the case of Sudan, actually contributed to the
terror. According to Tabor, the United Nations is not fulfilling
its primary duty, and is useless in any practical sense.
Furthermore, says Tabor, the degree of corruption that exists in
the United Nations is indicative of a systemic failure: the
bureaucracy is more interested in lining its pockets (such as in
the Oil-for-Food scandal) than in alleviating
world hunger or curtailing ethnic strife. Without any clear system
of accountability to its member states, the UN is effectively a
ship that steers itself. The themes of unaccountability and UN
pursuit of an illegitimate agenda are also emphasized in Tabor's
third contention.
The third point Tabor makes is that the UN is not merely corrupt
and ineffective; it is actively seeking to undermine the
sovereignty of its member states by instituting a global education
regime, by laying out global environmental standards, and
instituting an internet tax that would apply to all of its members
(still in the works). This is the United Nation's driving
motivation, Tabor argues. This echoes the sentiment attributed to
Lord
Acton, "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts
absolutely." The United Nations is already unaccountable and
wields a considerable amount of influence. It is ineffective at
global "mercy missions" because it prefers to augment its own
reputation and influence. Therefore, it stands to reason that the
problems endemic to the United Nations will increase as its power
grows.
Tabor continues to write, publishing a weekly column which is
carried on his website, as well as
Human
Events and Townhall.[10]
Currently, TheConservativeVoice.com is one of the largest
right-wing blogs in existence.[11] The
blog Intellectual Conservative has ranked TheConservativeVoice.com
as the 17th most-visited conservative site on the internet.[12]
Political
consulting
Nathan Tabor consulted with North Carolina Senator Fred Smith, who lost the
primary for governor in 2008. In the past, Nathan has worked as the
director of internet outreach for Congressman Duncan Hunter's
presidential campaign.[13][14][15]
Additionally, Tabor has worked for Jim Oberweis in his campaign for governor
of Illinois in 2006, and Jeff Crank, who ran for Congress in
Colorado.
In March 2009, Tabor was elected Chairman of the Forsyth County
Republican Party.
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