Daria Novak (R-CT-2)
Daria Novak Congressional Candidate Connecticut District 2
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Daria Novak co-hosts a national radio show called “Conservative Commandos Radio Show” on WIFI and over the Internet live on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Biography of Daria Novak
Ms. Novak is Founder and former President of ERUdyne, LLC an international cross-cultural, business management training and consulting firm, located in the United States in Connecticut. She specializes in helping organizations to leverage culture and turn it into a competitive advantage. Ms. Novak travels extensively across the United States and throughout the world teaching, consulting, and lecturing on global business management and cross-cultural awareness to organizations across the public, private, and university sectors. Since 2003 she has taught seminars in National Security Studies, Chinese Politics, International Relations and American Politics at Eastern CT State University, the University of Connecticut and at University of New Haven.
Ms. Novak received an MA in Political Science from the University of Southern California and is a graduate of the U.S. Foreign Service Institute and Georgetown University’s Institute of Comparative Economic and Political Systems. She received a BA in International Affairs from the University of Wyoming and certification in advanced Chinese language studies at Taiwan National Normal University in Taipei. She began her PhD program at the University at the University of Southern California before transferring to the University of Connecticut. She also has served as a graduate researcher for a Harvard University-based study of presidential politics. Prior to founding ERUdyne, Ms. Novak was a manager in the Technology Practice at META Group. She specialized in knowledge management, risk/vulnerability assessments, IT-business performance standards and contracting.
From 1979 to 1989, Ms. Novak served in career and political positions at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC and overseas. In 1989, she served as Senior Coordinator for the Secretary of State’s 300-member China Task Force handling the crisis in Tiananmen Square and as a U.S. government spokesperson. She received a Meritorious Honor Award from the Undersecretary of State for her “core leadership role in managing the crisis” in China. Ms. Novak has traveled extensively in Asia and was a member of then-Vice President Bush’s White House Advance Team.
Ms. Novak received a Superior Honor Award, the highest given by the State Department, from the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, for her involvement in saving American lives in Haiti during the fall of Haitian President Duvalier. Secretary of State George Shultz awarded her a Meritorious Honor Award for her substantive contributions to the August 1982 U.S.-China Joint Communiqué, one of the main documents governing U.S. relations with China.
Ms. Novak has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Women in World Trade, the California-Taiwan Trade and Investment Council, the California-USSR Trade Association, and the Hong Kong Association of Southern California. For several years she also has been involved in the Shoreline Youth Symphony Orchestra, American Society of Training and Development, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, InfraGard, and the Association for Asian Studies. She was a contributing writer to The Encyclopedia on World Terrorism, 2002 Edition and has written many other articles on foreign affairs.
Ms. Novak has a lifelong involvement with the Republican Party. Among other positions she has served as a Delegate to the 1976 Republican National Convention, various District and Virginia State Republican Conventions, Vice Chairman of Virginia College Republicans, and President of Mary Washington College Republicans, prior to joining the Reagan Administration. She was born and raised in Connecticut and has lived in Madison since 2001.
Biography from ERUdyne
Ms. Novak is President of ERUdyne, an international cross-cultural, business management training and consulting firm, located in the United States in Connecticut. She specializes in helping organizations to leverage culture and turn it into a competitive advantage. Ms. Novak travels extensively across the United States and throughout the world teaching, consulting, and lecturing on global business management and cross-cultural awareness to organizations across the public, private, and university sectors. She also is a professor of Chinese Studies, Political Science and Cultural Factors on Global Security at several Universities in Connecticut such as University of Connecticut and University of New Haven.
Ms. Novak received an MA in Political Science from the University of Southern California and is a graduate of the U.S. Foreign Service Institute and Georgetown University’s Institute of Comparative Economic and Political Systems. She received a BA in International Affairs from the University of Wyoming and certification in advanced Chinese language studies at Taiwan National Normal University in Taipei. She did her PhD work at the University of Southern California and the University of Connecticut and post-grad research at Harvard University.
Prior to founding ERUdyne, Ms. Novak was a manager in the Technology Practice at META Group. She specialized in knowledge management, risk/vulnerability assessments, IT-business performance standards and contracting.
From 1979 to 1989, Ms. Novak served in career and political positions at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC and overseas. In 1989, she served as Senior Coordinator for the Secretary of State’s 300-member China Task Force handling the crisis in Tiananmen Square and as a U.S. government spokesperson. She received a Meritorious Honor Award from the Undersecretary of State for her “core leadership role in managing the crisis” in China. Ms. Novak has traveled extensively in Asia and was a member of then-Vice President Bush’s White House Advance Team.
Ms. Novak received a Superior Honor Award, the highest given by the State Department, from the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, for her involvement in saving American lives in Haiti during the fall of Haitian President Duvalier. Secretary of State George Shultz awarded her a Meritorious Honor Award for her substantive contributions to the August 1982 U.S.-China Joint Communique, one of the main documents governing U.S. relations with China.
Ms. Novak has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Women in World Trade, the California-Taiwan Trade and Investment Council, the California-USSR Trade Association, and the Hong Kong Association of Southern California. She is a member of the American Society of Training and Development, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, InfraGard, and the Association for Asian Studies. She was a contributing writer to The Encyclopedia on World Terrorism, 2002 Edition. She has published numerous articles and currently is working on a book entitled, “Managing Across National Cultures: A Pragmatic Framework for Leading Groups to Success.”
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Abuse of Power That Could Impact You
Listening to the results of the Iowa caucuses I started thinking about this nation, our Founding Fathers, and what they might think about how their “Great Experiment” is turning out as we enter 2012.
In Iowa we have patriots and politicians running for the highest public office in our land. Sometimes, we are lucky and the candidate is both. But then it really hit me. We can’t afford to base our laws on the belief that those running for or holding such office will place the national interest before their own.
The is no guarantee that “The Good Leader” will emerge from Iowa, or Chicago, despite all the promises. We need to hold our all our officials accountable and follow Rule of Law not Presidential fiat.
The National Defense Authorization Act (the “NDAA”) that passed recently is an excellent example of what we Americans have to fear. In essence, our Bill of Rights is being repealed by legislation with the stated aim of protecting our citizens from those wishing us harm.
However, upon closer examination, Section 1021 (formerly named “Section 1031″) of the NDAAA Conference Report poses a real challenge to “due process of law” and our Fifth Amendment rights (“the Right to Remain Silent” and against “False Imprisonment”).
Our Founding Fathers wanted the federal government only to be as strong as is necessary to protect our citizenry. Yet, today, there is a provision in the NDAA lowering that bar and, in essence, repealing the very basic concept of Due Process. A “Good Leader” won’t use the powers allowed under Section 1021, but is that how our U.S. Congress should be writing law?
This President, with the vaguely defined criteria of this law, can INDEFINITELY detain any American citizen for suspected support or association with a terrorist group located anywhere in the world. This can be construed to include an American citizen making a donation to a group (church, relief group, or otherwise) that operates in areas where terrorists are active — including inside the U.S. One is forever linked to that donation and could be subject to Section 1021 of the NDAA if the government deems it so under the law.
For the first time in American history this is codified in our law! A key check on power that can be used against our citizens, is gone. The slope gets more slippery, too. It is not simply a single incident. This is what most concerns me.
On January 4, while the Senate legally was In Session, President Obama made not one, but four “recess” appointments. He named Richard Cordray the head of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB), in violation of the spirit of the law, which requires Senate confirmation of this type of appointment when the Senate is In Session. He then went on to name three additional persons, all without consent of the Senate — just as dictators do in many Third World nations without democracy. There is a reason we have Checks and Balances on our government.
Not only is the President pushing his use of Executive Power, it also raises the issue of the Administration itself, and its overstepping of its authority in an unprecedented power grab in an election year.
The new CFPB bureaucracy created costs us taxpayers $500 Million per year. It will begin to oversee mortgage companies, payday lenders, debt collectors and other financial companies faulted for the 2008 economic meltdown. This is a massive government undertaking.
It is time we American stood united behind our Constitution and Rule of Law in America before that, too, becomes illegal.