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Craig Alan Huey (born June 16, 1950) is a business owner, marketing expert, author, and former Republican party candidate who owns two direct marketing companies as well as several websites that provide guidelines for voting.

Considered an expert in direct response and digital marketing, Huey has helped turn several companies into multimillion dollar corporations with advanced data targeting and integrated marketing. Many of his clients are in the alternative health and investment newsletter fields. Huey has also helped clients raise significant capital through equity crowdfunding marketing under the JOBS Act.

Huey is the author of 23 Equity Crowdfunding Secrets, The Deep State: 15 Surprising Dangers You Should Know and the e-book 17 Special Advertising Insights for Marketing to Seniors. He is also a frequent guest on TV, including Fox News, and the radio, speaking as a small business expert. Huey is the president of JudgeVoterGuide.com, CraigHuey.com , and ElectionForum.Org.

Huey is the publisher of Direct Marketing Update, an industry newsletter that educates readers about marketing strategies that help them generate new leads and increase profits through integrated marketing, including direct mail and digital marketing.

Early life and education
Huey grew up in Hawthorne, California, and graduated from El Segundo High School.[5] He attended California State University, Long Beach, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with minors in history and economics.

Business career
Huey became wealthy running direct marketing firms.[6][7] He was said to be an expert in direct mail marketing in the 1990s,[8] later gaining expertise and recognition for his internet marketing. He is president of Creative Direct Marketing Group of Torrance and InfoMat.[3]

After college, Huey began work at InfoMat, a mailing list-market segmentation company, and became the owner and president of the company three years later. In 1984, he founded Creative Direct Marketing Group, Inc. (CDMG), a firm that provides direct mail, direct marketing websites, direct response television, infomercials, radio commercials and web-based marketing services. CDMG's client list of more than 200 companies includes many large corporations.[13] Huey pioneered the magalog, created a proprietary direct marketing system and developed the internet landing page as a tool for marketers. He has been recognized for his effective use of viral marketing and list segmentation.[14] His agencies have received 87 marketing awards;[15].

Publishing and public speaking activities
In 1977, Huey launched the industry newsletter Direct Response and in 2001, the Direct Marketing Update e-zine. Articles by and about Huey have appeared in Inc., USA Today, Target Marketing, Christianity Today and Adweek.[17][18][19] He has given numerous speeches at the national Direct Marketing Association (DMA) annual meeting:[21] as well as for DMA affiliates and other organizations listed in his company profile. He has also spoken at the FreedomFest World Economic Summit in Nassau, Bahamas.[22]

Mobilization
Huey has founded three voter information and political discussion websites: JudgeVoterGuide.com, CraigHuey.com, and ElectionForum.org. JudgeVoterGuide.com educates Conservative and Christian voters on how to vote for judges that share their value systems. CraigHuey.com is a Conservative news site, sending weekly email newsletters to over 38,000 subscribers on topics such as the current political climate, the free market, the Deep State, and more. ElectionForum.org is a site that provides weekly news and current events from a Biblical perspective to over 47,000 subscribers. ElectionForum.org frequently shares political news as well as updates about the worldwide persecuted church.

Huey’s book on equity crowdfunding marketing, 23 Equity Crowdfunding Secrets, is the first of its kind on the market, offering specific marketing strategies for entrepreneurs or business owners hoping to raise capital under the JOBS Act.

Huey’s book on the Deep State, The Deep State: 15 Surprising Dangers You Should Know, is a 262-page expose of corruption and ideological influence in government, media, non-profits, large corporations, and more. The book relies on an extensive body of research that undergirds its claims about bureaucratic inefficiencies, corruption in intelligence agencies, voter fraud, and more.

Huey has also appeared on Los Angeles' Fox 11 News as a political analyst, [24] and has been a frequent guest on nationally syndicated TV, internet, and radio programs for the LA market and Internet syndication.[25][26][27][28]

Locally, he has served on committees, including as chairman (a rotating chairmanship) of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District Measure P Parcel Tax Committee[29] and as president of Peninsula Residents for a Better Community. His op-eds have been published in the South Bay weekly newspaper, The Daily Breeze.[30][31]

Campaign for Congress 2011
Further information: California's 36th congressional district special election, 2011

Huey ran for election to the United States House of Representatives in California's 36th congressional district and edged out Democratic Secretary of State Debra Bowen to finish second in the jungle primary, (an election in which all candidates run in the same primary regardless of political party). The election went to a runoff, which was decided on July 12, 2011, when Democrat Janice Hahn defeated Huey with 54.6 percent of the vote to his 45.4 percent. Hahn will serve out the remainder of Democrat Jane Harman's term in the House.

Political positions
LA Weekly credits Huey with having a "red meat message that Republican voters wanted to hear." He believes the deficit, taxes and regulations on businesses must be cut, and that these cuts will give business owners the incentive to create and bring back jobs. He supports a constitutional amendment that will require Congress to balance the federal budget each year. He says he will oppose pork barrel spending that rewards special interests and will work to defeat wasteful programs. He is opposed to California's anti-global warming law, (AB 32), and believes that the health care law passed under Obama is unconstitutional and that it will destroy businesses. He also supports term limits for Congress. He has said he will not moderate his positions for the general election and that radical changes are needed.

Primary election
Huey faced 16 candidates in California's first "top two" primary, a new voter-approved open primary for California federal elections in which candidates for all parties appear on the same ballot, and voters—regardless of their registration—can choose candidates from any party.[33][34] If no candidate receives 50 percent or more of the votes, a run-off election is held 60 days later between the two top vote-getters.[33][nb 1]

With so many contenders, it was expected that the election would go to a run off as no single candidate would likely receive a majority of the votes.[35] Because the district has been strongly Democratic in previous elections, with Democratic voter registrations exceeding Republican registrations by 45% to 27.5%, conventional wisdom held that the two Democrats, Hahn and California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, would compete in the general election.[34][35] Media coverage had also centered on the two Democrats, ignoring Republican candidates, including Huey.[6] Huey then beat Bowen for second place by more than 750 votes, scoring something of an upset.[34] Huey attributed his strong performance in the primary to the message he directed at independents, Democrats and Republicans who are dissatisfied with the economy.[33] The $500,000 that Huey invested in his own campaign and the direct mail advertising he sent to district homes in the conservative South Bay area also contributed to his victory, according to local sources.[6][36] He was endorsed in the primary by local business leaders, California GOP congressmen Dana Rohrabacher, Ed Royce and Tom McClintock, and Indiana congressman Mike Pence.[37]

Huey ran for election to the United States House of Representatives in California's 36th congressional district and edged out Democratic Secretary of State Debra Bowen to finish second in the jungle primary, (an election in which all candidates run in the same primary regardless of political party). The election went to a runoff, which was decided on July 12, 2011, when Democrat Janice Hahn defeated Huey with 54.6 percent of the vote to his 45.4 percent.

Los Angeles Times called the campaign a “test run” for Organizing For Action, the nonprofit that advocates for Obama’s political campaign.

According to a Democratic official, Organizing for America's California operation organized 41 phone banks during the get-out-the-vote phase, 33 of which were run by volunteers. All told, the official estimates, volunteers worked 1,509 hours making calls on Hahn's behalf. On election day, 394 people signed up through the group to work on phone bank and canvass events.

In a low-turnout race in a district suffering voter fatigue, that effort was crucial, the Hahn campaign said.

"They have such a vast grass-roots network of volunteers all across the state, so it was incredibly helpful to have their assistance in not only identifying our voters early on, but getting out the vote," said Dave Jacobson, Hahn's campaign manager.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the California Democratic Party also assisted Hahn's campaign, making nearly 410,000 live voter calls along with organizing group in the last 20 days of the campaign.

Following his primary victory, Huey pledged to spend $800,000 toward his general election expenses.[5] He was hailed as a conservative hero according to LA Weekly, and said of his opponent "She won't know what's gonna hit her".[7]

Personal Life
Huey and his wife Shelly live in Rolling Hills Estates. He and Shelly attend Calvary Chapel South Bay. They have 5 adult children.