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Bob Schaffer is Chairman of the Leadership Program of the Rockies, an educational organization providing economic and political leadership training for future leaders of Colorado. He is an opinion columnist for The Northern Colorado Courier and is employed by Aspect Energy. He was appointed by Governor Bill Owens to serve as Commissioner of the Eighth Judicial District Nominating Commission and in 2005 was elected Colorado's Republican National Committeeman. Mr. Schaffer now serves as an elected member of the Colorado State Board of Education. Bob Schaffer was first elected to Congress in November, 1996 and served from 1997 until early 2003 representing Colorado's Fourth Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. His predecessors representing that District were Wayne Allard and Hank Brown. Bob Schaffer's career in the U.S. House of Representatives included election as president of the 1996 class, a post to which he was elected by his newly elected colleagues in the House of Representatives. Bob served on three House Committees; Agriculture, Resources and the Education and the Workforce. Of Ukrainian descent, Bob is an advocate for Ukraine and was a co-chair of the Ukraine Caucus. He was a member of the GOP Theme Team, the "one-minute conservative debate squad" seen nearly every morning on C-SPAN from the House floor. In addition, he was an active member of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) a group of approximately sixty conservative House Republicans organized for the purpose of advancing a conservative social and economic agenda in the House of Representatives. Prior to election to Congress, he served nine years in the Colorado State Senate, where he was Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Bob voluntarily resigned his Congressional seat to honor a Term Limit pledge he made. Bob Schaffer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from Archbishop Moeller High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Dayton majoring in Political Science. | 