"I'm Bill Scher, online editor for Campaign for America's Future. In addition to my blogging here, I have my own blog at LiberalOasis.com. I'm also the author of Wait! Don't Move To Canada!: A Stay-and-Fight Strategy to Win Back America, a contributor to The Huffington Post and Bloggingheads.tv, and a fellow of the Commonweal Institute.

Following my graduation from Oberlin College in 1994, I headed to DC and worked as an environmental policy analyst for big-shot investors wanting to know how proposals on Capitol Hill could affect the markets. By 1998, I fled the Beltway and moved to San Francisco, mainly to follow my now-wife Gina-Louise. There, I joined a public relations firm specializing in “issues management” and “crisis management."" Come 2001, I had become adept at the ways and methods of the corporate world, and decided to apply my communications expertise to advance liberal ideals.

Gina-Louise and I moved to Brooklyn, NY, and I joined the nation’s oldest women’s legal rights organization, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (now-named Legal Momentum), as Deputy Communications Director. My efforts focused on combating coercive government marriage promotion, domestic and sexual violence, and employment discrimination.

In 2002, I started LiberalOasis.com, one of the early liberal blogs. I managed to become the first blogger to interview a presidential candidate (thereby giving me something for my obit), part of the first group to blog the Democratic National Convention, and one of the first bloggers to regularly contribute to the nationwide liberal talk radio network Air America.

In 2005, Gina-Louise and I took our two cats (The Governor and Maru), ditched the big city, and settled in Northampton, MA, where I finished my first book, Wait! Don't Move To Canada!. After getting married in the summer of 2006, I spent three months traveling the country on a book tour. When I returned home at the end of the year, I was fortunate enough to be able to join the great team at Campaign for America's Future and continue working to take back America."