17-yr old Tim Bueler is a Junior at Rancho Cotate, a public high school located in Rohnert Park, California, about 50 miles north of San Francisco, the gateway to the Sonoma County wine country, where liberalism is only slightly less established than in San Francisco.
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Tim's grandfather, Mark Bueler, was a Pearl Harbor survivor. From him, Tim learned early lessons of courage, patriotism, and the price of freedom. Upon entering high school, Tim was dismayed to find that the teachings of his family was not supported, but ridiculed.
In the fall of 2003, in response to the overbearing liberal bias confronting them in the classroom, Tim and a few friends started the Rancho Cotate High School Conservative Club. Within a few weeks, the Conservative Club became the largest on campus, with up to one hundred members attending meetings.
Following a community appearance by mockumentary filmmaker, Michael Moore, who had recently shown "Bowling for Columbine", Tim further enraged the school's liberal teaching and student establishment by inviting an off-campus speaker to talk about the Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment, and the fundamental right of Americans to keep and bear arms " topics which were specifically excluded from the curriculum!" When the speaker distributed his monograph, "We Need More Guns In Schools", liberals were outraged.
For their outspoken stand in favor of traditional American values, Tim and the Rancho Cotate High School Conservative Club continue to bring public awareness to the censorship and propaganda which marks too much of today's public education. They have been harassed, and threatened, but they haven't backed down.
Faced with increasing hostility and censorship from school officials, and responding to positive inquiries from all over the nation, Tim became founder and president of the High School Conservative Clubs of America, an organization that seeks to start Conservative Clubs in high schools around the country. When the school banned the club newsletter, "The Conservative Agenda", on campus, Tim rallied his club and adult supporters to distribute the latest issue on public property across from the school. When told he should stay home to avoid confrontation, he refused to miss classes. When teachers make anti-American statements in class, Tim challenges them. The club motto is "Defending America from the Radical Left", and the newsletter masthead includes a picture of the flag raising on Iwo Jima, with the slogan, "Our legacy Courage and Freedom". Tim and the Conservative Club have been written up in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Times, the Seattle Times, the LA Times, the Contra Costa Times, and others, as well as on many Internet sites, such as WorldNetDaily.
Tim Bueler has been profiled on Fox News, and has appeared on "". He has been interviewed on numerous radio stations around the country, from California to Florida, and the Conservative Club has been discussed by many shows, including the program. Talk radio host calls him "...a rebel WITH a cause."
Tim was a speaker at the 's California state Education Conference, and at the California Republican state convention in 2004; and he has responded to so many other speaking requests that he has lost count.
Tim earned a scholarship and invitation to speak the Young America's Foundation conference in Washington, DC this summer; and he will be a speaker at this year's Conference in Los Angeles. Because of his initiative and hard work, Tim has met and been inspired by conservative leaders such as Phyllis Schlafly, , Ambassador Alan Keyes, and many others.
Through the High School Conservative Clubs of America (), Tim Bueler leads by example and hopes to help other students throughout the country stand up to the liberal bias in their own classrooms. Not one to avoid confrontation, he plans to attend college at the west coast's liberal bastion, UC Berkeley.
[Last Updated May 28, 2004]
