About

I was born during the Korean War and raised in a working-class family on Chicago’s Northwest Side — the second of seven kids. My father, who has been totally blind since childhood, worked full-time at a factory while earning his college degree. My mother, before her marriage, graduated third in her class in college while completely blind. “Where there’s a will, there’s a way” was something I heard often growing up.

I started out as a creative writing student at Columbia College Chicago, wrote on my father’s old Smith-Corona typewriter, then left college in 1975 to join the Navy, where I served my four years with an Honorable Discharge

After the Navy, I spent 20-odd years in photo-graphics. With the onset of digital photography. I spent over a decade in industrial trades, culminating in a role as manager of a plant maintenance department at a small manufacturing company. I then became a nurse(RN), the hardest job I ever had. During this time, I was always in school on my own dime. Resulting in a B.S.N., B.A., A.S.N., A.S. and five certifications

None of that is a résumé for the presidency. It’s a résumé for understanding what it’s actually like to live under the decisions politicians make without ever having to live with the consequences themselves.

I’m 74 years old. I live in southern New Mexico with my wife. I have no political machine behind me, no donor network, and about $500 in a campaign account. What I have is this book and the hope that enough people, and the right people, will read it so we, the people, can give this a real shot.

Good Fortune to you and yours

Respectfully,

Glen T. Smith

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