Bob Bird (activist)

Bob Bird (born August 1, 1951 in Evanston, Illinois) [ [http://www.birdforsenate.com/bio.html Bird for US Senate - Bob's Bio] ] is a pro-life activist, high school teacher, [ [http://www.birdforsenate.com/about.html Bird for US Senate - About Bob Bird] ] and Alaskan Independence Party candidate for the United States Senate seat currently occupied by Senator Ted Stevens. [ [http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/406709.html Teacher will run for US Senate: Alaska News] ]

Bird has been teaching for 34 years on the secondary and collegiate levels, at high schools in Alaska and Minnesota and at Kenai Peninsula College. He has been a radio broadcaster for KSRM radio in Kenai for Alaska Baseball League and high school hockey games.

Education

Bird earned his B.S. degree from Bemidji State University in Minnesota, where he majored in Social Studies. He earned his Master's degree in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 1992.

Political involvement

Bob Bird ran as a Republican in the 1990 Alaska primary against incumbent Ted Stevens, earning 34,000 votes to Stevens' 81,000. Bird's notoriety stemmed from organizing and leading the first two events of the Alaska Rescue Project in 1989, the largest civil-disobedience event in the state's history. He served as president of Alaska Right to Life from 1995-97, was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in San Diego in 1996 as a Buchanan supporter and the Reform Party in Long Beach (Calif.) in 2000, also as a Buchanan delegate.

Bird joined the Alaskan Independence Party in 2004 and was a delegate to the Constitution Party's national convention as a supporter of Michael Peroutka.

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