Wayne Allyn Root Born: 1963 Birthplace: Mount Vernon, NY
Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Party Affiliation: Libertarian [1] Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Zen of Gambling Sports handicapper, chairman and CEO of GWIN Inc. ("the world's only publicly traded sports handicapping and information firm") and host of The Winning Edge on Fox Sports. He has also devolved into the lowbrow yet lucrative area of self help books and far, far right-wing politics.
In 2004 he told an interviewer: "Once I become even more well-known, and as soon as I have enough money, I will run for the U.S. Senate." And in a 2008 he said "I plan on being the President of the United States in [2024]... People laugh at that, but I'm going to do it."
"The Republican Party is supposed to be the party of anti-government. And by going into people's bedrooms and checking up on what they're doing, by telling you whether you can be gay or straight, I think they've become the party of big government." [Politically Incorrect, 9th March 1999.]
[1] Switched from Republican to Libertarian in 2007. Father: (butcher) Wife: Debra (four children) Daughter: Dakota Son: Hudson Daughter: Contessa Churchill
High School: Thornton-Donovan School University: BA Political Science, Columbia University (1983)
WorldNetDaily Columnist Friends of Joe Lieberman National Republican Congressional Committee National Republican Senatorial Committee Republican Jewish Coalition Founder, Nevada chapter Birther Movement "It is impossible to get a passport in America without a long-form birth certificate, yet we've allowed a man to become president without the same document." (Newsmax column, 20-Apr-2011) Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoking
Author of books:
Root on Risk: Betting to Win on Sports (1989, with Wilbur Cross) The Joy of Failure! How to Turn Failure, Rejection, and Pain into Extraordinary Success (1997) The Zen of Gambling: The Ultimate Guide to Risking It All and Winning at Life (2004, with Paul Pease) Millionaire Republican: The Republican Secrets to Mega-wealth And Unlimited Success! (2005) The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling, & Tax Cuts (2009)
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