Bill Hammons

William Robert "Bill" Hammons is a [http://www.unityparty.us Unity Party] 2008 candidate for Colorado's 2nd Congressional District, [http://www.bill-for-congress.us] which is centered on the city of Boulder. He was born in Bad Kreuznach, Germany on October 16, 1974 to a career Army officer and moved to the United States when he was three. He was raised in Odessa, Texas and graduated from New York University with a degree in English and American Literature before working in management at Newsweek Magazine for seven years.

Hammons helped found the Unity Party of America on November 4, 2004, a centrist organization spun off from a grassroots group supporting the defunct Presidential candidacy of Wes Clark. He moved to Boulder in 2005, started wrhammons.com, and declared for the United States Congress on November 29, 2007 as the first Unity Party Congressional candidate. He petitioned onto the November 2008 general election ballot with 899 voter signatures, and will be facing Democrat Jared Polis, Republican Scott Starin, and Green Party candidate J.A. Calhoun.

Hammons supports, among other things, a Balanced Budget Amendment, Federal term limits, and global carbon emission licenses to combat global warming.

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