Mike Wiley (born Michael Schreibman) is a controversial United States author, politician, and radio personality. Wiley was born in Boston and raised as an Orthodox Jew, the son and grandson of Teamsters. He graduated Bentley College with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. In 1990, Wiley moved to Orlando, and took up acting, adopting his uncle's last name as a stage name.
Florida talk radio Wiley entered public life in 1991 as the host of Viewpoint from the Extreme Middle, a politically oriented radio talk show with a call-in format on the American Freedom Network. Wiley led a rally in support of the Second Amendment, which Wiley claims was the largest in Florida history, while on the air. The rally, noted by the Ocala Star-Banner as a grassroots movement unassociated with the National Rifle Association, was a response to House Bill 241, a ban on assault weapons authored by Representative Ron Klein.
United States Senate election in Florida, 1994 He ran as a conservative Democrat against Hugh Rodham in the 1994 Florida Democratic Party primaries for United States Senate. Rodham defeated Wiley 58 percent to 42 percent in a run-off. The Rodham campaign levelled the accusation that Wiley was hiding his Jewish faith by changing his name. In the presence of Rodham at a press conference, senior executive consultant and lawyer Ellis Rubin stated that Wiley "changed his name before the campaign to deceive voters about his Jewish religion." NewsMax described the tactic as Jew baiting. Conversely, Wiley accused then-President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton (sister to Hugh Rodham) of belonging to Marxist organizations, and he compared Mr. Clinton's social programs to National Socialism.
Kentucky's 4th Congressional District After the election, Wiley switched affiliation to Republican and moved to Florence, Kentucky. He ran for the United States House of Representatives in Kentucky's 4th congressional district. His platform included opposition to free trade with China and support for Enumerated Powers Act, a bill requiring lawmakers to cite the United States Constitution for the authority to permit any law enacted. Wiley also supported the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service, federal taxes on alcohol and tobacco, as well as opposing abortion rights. His campaign was considered outspoken and Wiley himself stated, “I am a big mouth and the best way to find out what is going on in Washington is to send me... because when I find out what they are doing, you'll know.” Wiley was defeated by Geoff Davis, who lost to Ken Lucas that fall.
Author Wiley has since written a memoir of the 1994 campaign and its aftermath entitled Diary Of Hillary's Right-Wing Conspirator: Exposing the Media’s Lies while battling Hillary’s Far Left Reign in the Democratic Party - 1993-1996
I want to know if you are the same Wiley who will be seeking the US Senate seat that Senator Harry Reid holds?
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2. 17-08-2009 17:17
Good article. Well written and informative. Bio should be updated to include his run for the US Senate in Nevada in the 2010 election.
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3. 18-01-2010 20:46
Gee I just found out about this website. Okay let's correct a few things.
After the 1994 campaign, I went to Boston to be on WRKO AM 680 as a radio talk show host. The Clinton's caught up to me and later had me removed from the airwaves in a deal to allow the radio ownership to acquire 8 radio stations they legally could not own. I refuse an offer from the Clinton's to drop out of the race and they attacked me on the anti-Semitic front. It was weeks later when I was asked to meet Pat Buchanan and join the Republican Party. I did and two months later became his campaign spokesperson.
In 2000 I moved to Kentucky to take a job in Cincinnati. A Black Republican City Councilman wanted me to run for Mayor of Cincinnati, but that would have meant moving from Kentucky.
The local congressional race saw no experienced Republicans willing to challenge Ken Lucas, so I did. Within several months of the campaign I had found out that a Geoff Davis was also in the race and was a True Conservative Republican as I. We met and had a three hour lunch in which I offered to drop out of the race in his favor because he had military experience and at that time after eight years of the Clinton's I felt it would be needed. I was right. Even though Geoff did not win in 2000. He did win in 02, 04, 06, 08. So my dropping out was for the good of the country, since Geoff could save resources in that all important first race for him.
And yes I am that Mike Wiley that is running for US Senate in Nevada. And if there was a better candidate than I, I would drop out. But this time there is not.
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4. 18-01-2010 20:48
By the way it was the Patriot Radio Network and View Point from the Extreme Middle was a concept we never really used.
I wonder who put this info together.
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5. 18-01-2010 20:52
One more correction. I never said Bill Clinton was a member of Marxist organizations. That was a printed media lie to try and detract my Conservative Democrat support in North Florida. I had stated that Hillary Clinton was a member of Marxist organizations which is true just like Barack Obama. They relate to the same socialists. My comment about National Socialism is that today\'s Marxists believe that Fascism is a better approach then Communism and Barack Obama is proving my point.
