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Carl DeMaio
Carl David DeMaio (born September 14, 1974) is an American politician from San Diego, California who is serving in the California State Assembly. A member of the Republican Party, DeMaio represents the 75th State Assembly district, encompassing North and East San Diego County. DeMaio is also chairman of Reform California, a statewide grassroots conservative political organization, and hosts the podcast "Reform California with Carl DeMaio" weekdays at 5pm on YouTube and other streaming services.
DeMaio served a single term as a member of the San Diego City Council, representing District 5 from 2008 to 2012. He is the first openly gay Republican elected to the California State Legislature.
DeMaio was born in 1974 in Dubuque, Iowa to a pair of teachers, Carl Joseph DeMaio and Diane M. DeMaio (née Elgin). He and his family moved to Orange County, California in the late 1970s. He attended St. Catherine's Military Academy, a Catholic school in Anaheim, through eighth grade. In 1989, he got a scholarship to Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit boarding school in Maryland. His mother died of breast cancer in 1990 when he was 15 years old; his abusive father abandoned the family two weeks prior to her death.
DeMaio became separated from his brother and sister and began attending Georgetown Prep. He graduated in 1993, then attended Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where he received a degree in international politics and business in 1996.
After college, he established The Performance Institute, a for-profit think tank that provided training for government officials on performance measurement, strategic planning, zero-based budgeting, project management and other management improvement topics. In 2003 DeMaio founded a second company, the American Strategic Management Institute, which provided financial and management training to corporations. He sold both companies to the Thompson Publishing Group in late 2007.
DeMaio is married to Jonathan Hale, owner of Hale Media which publishes San Diego Gay and Lesbian News and SDPix.
Between 1994 and 1999, DeMaio worked for the Congressional Institute, serving as the Institute's Director of Planning. In this position DeMaio developed training programs and retreats for Members of Congress and their staff on the budget process and ways to conduct oversight investigations of federal programs using the Government Performance and Results Act.
In 2000, DeMaio joined the Reason Foundation to lead a project to develop a bipartisan management improvement plan for the incoming Presidential Administration. C-Span broadcast a series of Townhall hosted by DeMaio that eventually led to a management reform plan that was accepted by incoming President George W. Bush.
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Carl DeMaio
Carl David DeMaio (born September 14, 1974) is an American politician from San Diego, California who is serving in the California State Assembly. A member of the Republican Party, DeMaio represents the 75th State Assembly district, encompassing North and East San Diego County. DeMaio is also chairman of Reform California, a statewide grassroots conservative political organization, and hosts the podcast "Reform California with Carl DeMaio" weekdays at 5pm on YouTube and other streaming services.
DeMaio served a single term as a member of the San Diego City Council, representing District 5 from 2008 to 2012. He is the first openly gay Republican elected to the California State Legislature.
DeMaio was born in 1974 in Dubuque, Iowa to a pair of teachers, Carl Joseph DeMaio and Diane M. DeMaio (née Elgin). He and his family moved to Orange County, California in the late 1970s. He attended St. Catherine's Military Academy, a Catholic school in Anaheim, through eighth grade. In 1989, he got a scholarship to Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit boarding school in Maryland. His mother died of breast cancer in 1990 when he was 15 years old; his abusive father abandoned the family two weeks prior to her death.
DeMaio became separated from his brother and sister and began attending Georgetown Prep. He graduated in 1993, then attended Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where he received a degree in international politics and business in 1996.
After college, he established The Performance Institute, a for-profit think tank that provided training for government officials on performance measurement, strategic planning, zero-based budgeting, project management and other management improvement topics. In 2003 DeMaio founded a second company, the American Strategic Management Institute, which provided financial and management training to corporations. He sold both companies to the Thompson Publishing Group in late 2007.
DeMaio is married to Jonathan Hale, owner of Hale Media which publishes San Diego Gay and Lesbian News and SDPix.
Between 1994 and 1999, DeMaio worked for the Congressional Institute, serving as the Institute's Director of Planning. In this position DeMaio developed training programs and retreats for Members of Congress and their staff on the budget process and ways to conduct oversight investigations of federal programs using the Government Performance and Results Act.
In 2000, DeMaio joined the Reason Foundation to lead a project to develop a bipartisan management improvement plan for the incoming Presidential Administration. C-Span broadcast a series of Townhall hosted by DeMaio that eventually led to a management reform plan that was accepted by incoming President George W. Bush.