Vern McKinley

Vernon P. 'Vern' McKinley, born in East Chicago, Indiana, was a Republican challenger to Congressman Frank Wolf in northern Virginia's ushr|Virginia|10|10th congressional district in the 2008 elections. McKinley lives with his family in Ashburn, Virginia.

Early life

McKinley was born in East Chicago, Indiana and grew up in East Side, Chicago. He attended George Washington High School and Downers Grove South High School. He went on to graduate from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1985 with degrees in Economics and Finance, graduating with honors. In 1984, Mr. McKinley worked on the re-election campaign of President Ronald Reagan and the U.S. Senate campaign of Representative Tom Corcoran in his unsuccessful bid to unseat Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois. That year he also worked at the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee, which was chaired by Senator John G. Tower of Texas.

Professional career

From 1985 to 1999 Mr. McKinley worked with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Department of the Treasury's Office of Thrift Supervision. In 1995, McKinley graduated with honors from the evening program of the George Washington University School of Law.

Since 1999 he has applied his expertise as a legal advisor and regulatory policy expert to work as an advisor to governments in the U.S., China, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Yugoslavia (now Montenegro), Kenya, Sudan, Libya, Afghanistan, Armenia, Kosovo, and Tajikistan.

McKinley has completed policy work for both the American Enterprise Institute and the Cato Institute and is an Alumni Board member of The Fund for American Studies. He has been published in "USA Today" [cite news|title=Privatize Fannie May and Freddie Mac|publisher="USA Today"|date=July, 1998|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2638_v127/ai_20954300 Retrieved on May 13, 2007] and has testified before a Subcommittee of Congress [cite news|title=Consumer Bankruptcy and the Credit Industry|publisher=House Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law|date=March 10, 1998|url=http://judiciary.house.gov/legacy/5181.htm Retrieved on May 13, 2007] on issues related to U.S. regulatory policy.

2008 Congressional election

In 2007, McKinley announced his 2008 bid for the United States Congress in the ushr|Virginia|10|10th congressional district. McKinley's campaign centered on his experience as a policy advisor to the U.S. and foreign governments, his legal and government experience, and domestic and international policy issues. McKinley positioned himself as a traditional small government Republican in the campaign. He lost the June 10, 2008, Republican primary with 9% of the vote to Wolf's 91%. [https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/election/DATA/2008/1F04BDCA-048C-407E-9518-82294DEC67C5/Unofficial/6_s.shtml June Republican Primary Unofficial Results] , Virginia State Board of Elections. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.]

References

External links

* [http://www.mckinleyforcongress.com/ Vern McKinley for Congress]
* [http://www.centralbanking.co.uk/publications/books/PDF/efficiency_meaning_and_measurement.pdf McKinley chapter from Dr. King Banaian book on Central Bank Efficiency, September 2005]
* [http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv21n4/keep.pdf McKinley article "Making Regulators Write in Plain Language] in the Cato Institute's Regulation Magazine, 1998
* [http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg20n4f.pdf McKinley article "Ballooning Bankruptcies"] in the Cato Institute's Regulation Magazine, 1997
* [http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-293.html McKinley policy analysis on "The Mounting Case for Privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac"] from the Cato Institute, 1997
* [http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg18v4d.html McKinley article "Sunrises Without Sunsets: Can Sunset Laws Reduce Regulation?"] in the Cato Institute's Regulation Magazine, 1995
* [http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv17n4/vmck4-94.pdf McKinley article "CRA: Ensuring Credit Adequacy or Enforcing Credit Allocation?"] in the Cato Institute's Regulation Magazine, 1994