Jeffrey J. Carneal is president of Eagle Publishing Inc. in Washington, DC, the conservative/free-market-oriented publishing firm which he founded in 1993. Eagle is the parent company of Regnery Publishing, Human Events and various  other publications.

Taylor is vice president, editorial director and editorial page editor at The Orange County Register in Santa Ana, Calif.

Swaim is founding publisher of the OCWeekly and former publisher of LA CityBeat.

Smoller is director of the Masters of Public Administration Program at Brandman University in Irvine.

Schnur is a political consultant who teaches “Campaign Strategy: Media and Message” at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California.