Chair, DC Statehood Green Party Electoral College Task Force; Member, Delegate Apportionment Committee of the Green Party of the United States, DC

Available to speak on the following subjects:
Democratizing the Electoral College
Constitutional Penalty for Voter Disfranchisement
14th Amendment's Right to Vote Provision
Bush v. Gore
Legal Darwinism and Neo-Redemptionist Federalism
Neo-Confederate Culture in American Politics

Bio
Asa Gordon is a member of the DC Statehood Green Party and has served as chair of the party's Electoral College Task Force. He has also served on the Delegate Apportionment Committee of the Green Party of the United States. Gordon is founder and executive director of the Douglass Institute of Government (DIG). DIG is an educational think tank based in Washington, DC. Gordon is a noted writer and speaker on the Supreme Court, particularly the philosophy of "Neo-Confederate Redemptionist Federalism" adopted by some justices of the court.

On Dec. 29, 2000, DIG filed a civil action, Gordon v. Gore, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, contesting the constitutionality of Florida's Presidential Electors and to enjoin Al Gore, President of the Senate, from "Counting the full slate of Florida's presidential electoral votes in Congress" on Jan. 6, 2001, subject to the mal-apportionment penalty as specified in section 2 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

Gordon is the Secretary-General of the Sons & Daughters of the United States Color Troops (S&DUSCT). The S&DUSCT is charted by the African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation to augment the Foundation's mission to use the National Monument "The Spirit of Freedom" to honor the historical legacy of those who served in the United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War. Gordon has been active in nationwide efforts to commemorate black Civil War soldiers.

Gordon's expose' in Kissimmee, Florida of the Afro-confederate myths being propagandized by neo-Confederates was featured in an editorial in the July 5, 1998 issue of the Osceola Sentinel. Editor Mark Pino stated "As for those who try to promote the idea that blacks were willing soldiers for the South, Gordon's research disproves it. In a lecture that was close to three hours long, [He] left no doubt about the fantasies and historical myths of Afro-Confederates." The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) condemned Gordon's speech in Florida on their Internet homepage. It is mentioned as a Heritage Violation on their Heritage Issues page.

Gordon, along with Alex Gross, a Holocaust survivor of the Buchenwald death camp in World War II, and Dr. Leon Bass, one of the camp's African-American liberators, were the honored speakers in a special memorial program on April 11th, 1995, the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Mr. Gordon's remarks were published in the April 11-12, 1996 edition of the Atlanta Daily World.

As a NASA Astrodynamicist (retired), Gordon is published in international scientific journals. His research has been employed by private industry, domestic and foreign, for tracking satellites in space. He served two terms as President of the Goddard Engineers Scientists and Technicians Association (GESTA). His work in science is referenced in Ivan Van Sertima's "Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern."

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