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This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Chuck sits down with former Congressman Matt Salmon who is currently running to be Arizona\u2019s next governor. Later in the show, Albert Eisenberg of Real Clear Politics calls in with a look at how Harvard stifles diversity of thought on campus.

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Raised in Tempe, Matt attended public schools, graduated from Arizona State University, and later earned a master\u2019s degree from Brigham Young University. After completing his education, he worked as an executive with a major telecommunications firm in Arizona.

Matt\u2019s career in public service began in 1990 when he defeated an incumbent member of the Arizona Senate in the Republican primary. Four years later, he was elected to represent Arizona\u2019s First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

During his time in Congress, Matt was named a \u201cDefender of Liberty\u201d and earned the \u201cTaxpayer Hero\u201d award from Citizens Against Government Waste. Among Matt\u2019s many legislative accomplishments was the sponsoring and passing of \u201cAimee\u2019s Law,\u201d a measure that gave \u201cno second chances\u201d for rapists, molesters, and murderers.

After honoring his term limit pledge and leaving Congress in 2001, Matt went back to the private sector where he experienced firsthand the obstacles many Arizonans face when trying to grow a small business. As he watched the size of our government and our national debt explode and our individual freedoms shrink, he decided to return to public service.

With support from conservative leaders across the country, Salmon was twice elected to represent Arizona\u2019s Fifth Congressional District.

Matt was a leader in the fight to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a system that offers more affordable options to patients and puts them in charge of their healthcare \u2013 not government bureaucrats.\xa0 He also served as chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, a committee of particular importance to border states like Arizona, where he worked to help secure the release of U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi after he was imprisoned in Mexico.

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Albert Eisenberg is a millennial political consultant based in Philadelphia and Charleston, SC. He is a MaverickPAC Future 40 awardee and co-founder of the non-profit media outlet\xa0Broad + Liberty.

Since beginning to build his own business at the age of 24, Albert has served on campaigns and advised causes from local to national, including running communications for statewide campaigns in multiple states, serving as senior advisor to the Woodson Center and its\xa01776 Unites\xa0campaign, building an urban GOP in his home city of Philadelphia, and creating unique bridges between the LGBT community and Republican candidates in a score of states and swing Congressional Districts.\xa0

Albert\u2019s writing has appeared in\xa0Fox News,\xa0RealClearPolitics,\xa0National Review, The Washington Examiner,\xa0and the\xa0Philadelphia Inquirer,\xa0where he was the youngest op-ed columnist (and only conservative!) before being defenestrated for wrong-think. Albert cares about diversifying the American Right, combatting media bias & opening the \u201cOverton Window\u201d of allowable public discourse. In his spare time he is a cat dad and recently completed a full gut renovation of a rowhome in the Kensington section of Philadelphia.\xa0

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