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Name: ...Joe Shea

Location: ....Bradenton, Fla., United
States

... My greatest achievement was to win a First
Amendment lawsuit (Shea v Reno) against Atty. Gen. Janet Reno over the
First Amendment, in which I got a law declared unconstitutional in Manhattan
Federal Court and was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. I've been a reporter
almost all my life, and have worked at or published in publications like The
Reader's Disgest, Esquire, Argosy, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco
Chronicle. I was a 1970 Pulitzer Prize nominee for my stories in the Village
Voice, and am an investigative reporter who once got the President's nominee to
the SEC withdrawn.
I'm a native New Yorker who grew up on a farm in a small
village that is now an important suburb of New York City. We still live in our
pre-Revolutionary War family farmhouse there. I lived in Marietta, Ga., and
Norman, Okla., as a kid, and went to the University of Oklahoma, Orange County
Community College in Middletown, N.Y., and Antioch College in Columbia, Md. I
lived in Beverly Hills and Hollywood, Calif., for 26 years until moving to
Bradenton, Fla., in 2003.