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Michael S. Kearns (April 14, 1958 - ) is a candidate for Colorado's 6th congressional district, and is running on a "Grassroots Leadership" platform, promoting a Direct Democracy Self-governance Consortium for advancing fully transparent Internet Socio-political consensus decision-making functionality for participative legislation at the U.S. Congressional District level. For Kearns, an ex-Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tiffin University in Ohio, "The U.S. Constitution dictates a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time" [Article I, section 9, clause 7], and I contend the Internet should function to provide a window on the soul of partisan politics, such that James Madison's call for creativity in the moderation of political faction (Federalist No. 10) can finally be realized." Further, Kearns contends, "Full transparency, accountability, and due diligence in politics is Internet-based self-governance at the Federal level. We are at a stage in modeling and simulation technologies wherein our own learned helplessness in
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Michael is the first person to have parachuted over all seven continents. Notably, on December 6th, 1997, Kearns is the sole survivor of the world's first four-way skydive over the geographic South Pole.[1] His military and parachuting exploits were chronicled in MAXIM Magazine (May 1999), The Washington Post (Style Section, May 1998), Outside Magazine (Dispatches, February 1998), and Business Inc. (May 1998). Kearns also appeared on National Public Radio's Morning Edition by Bob Edwards (January 5, 1998),[2] and various sports-talk programs in the Washington, DC area. The Washington Post calls Kearns, "...the clean-cut Boy Scout type who does everything by the book," and Business Inc. notes, [Kearns'] "...professional background reads like the protagonists from best-selling authors Robert Ludlum or Clive Cussler."