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Mark Everson, a former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, is throwing his hat in the ring and running for president of the United States. Everson was IRS commissioner from 2003 to 2007 and left to become president and CEO of the American Red Cross. He is currently vice chairman of the tax consulting firm alliantgroup and lives on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. He recently gave an interview to Accounting Today about the impact of budget cuts on his old agency...

Stephen Mansfield explains how the "Everson" decison got it wrong and mis-represents the intent of the Founding Fathers, even of Thomas Jefferson himself.

Last Tuesday (September 27th) the voters of Georgia House District 106 elected Melvin Everson in a Special Election Runoff. The results were extremely close with a final margin of only 27 votes (final results here). In the interest of full disclosure I must tell you that I was the campaign manager for the Everson campaign and am obviously pleased with the result. Now that the campaign is over I would like to make some comments and do my best not to appear self-congratulatory. I agreed to manage the Everson campaign because I consider Melvin a friend and I know first...

Melvin Everson on Tuesday became the first black Republican since Reconstruction to win a contested election for the Georgia Legislature. In a squeaker of an election decided by a mere 27 votes, Everson defeated Warren Auld in a runoff for the state House District 106 seat in south Gwinnett County. Auld, a former Snellville city councilman, is white. "This is a great day for Snellville and it's a great day for me," Everson said. "It's just a prelude to what the Republican Party has to offer to African-Americans. A door has been opened and we need to seize this opportunity."...

If you live in Gwinnett County Georgia, or live in the Atlanta area, please come and visit us. Buzz in Lawrencevillewww.GwinnettGOP.org Gwinnett GOP Hosts Family Picnic Released Saturday, July 12, 2003 Press Release Contact: Donna Lewis @ Phone: 678-985-0990 Grayson, GA – On July 19, from Noon-3 PM, The Holly Pavilion at Tribble Mill Park in Grayson, will be the location of a Town Hall–style family picnic sponsored by the Gwinnett County Republican Party. "The purpose of this gathering is to promote the Republican Party throughout School District One", said GOP District One Manager Donna Lewis. Lewis also stated that...

SNELLVILLE — City Councilman Melvin Everson is seeking a state House of Representatives seat in 2004. If he wins, Everson will be the first black Republican in state government, a milestone former U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma achieved in Congress in 1994. Current mayor pro tem of Snellville, Everson, 45, announced his candidacy Monday for District 70, post 1. The seat is currently held by Charles Bannister, the former Lilburn mayor who is mulling over a race for Gwinnett Commission Chairman. “I’m running for the Legislature because it’s time for a change at the state Capitol. Too many major...