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Biography
Dave Scully,
The Grandson of Immigrants,
was born March 28, 1951
in Newark, New Jersey.
Raised in a vibrant,
ethnically and culturally rich
Irish-Italian working class
community,
David also enjoyed
close working and personal
relationships with
Afro-American, Hispanic,
Jewish, and other friends
in the Newark and New York City
environment.
Living in a bustling neighborhood
five houses from Sacred Heart School
and Church, David benefitted from
8 years of competent education
under the firm and dedicated
hands of the Sisters of Charity,
and also from active family involvement
in community and church activities,
including cub scouts, boy scouts,
church altar boy service,
and little league where he excelled
as a center fielder. He recalls
with fondness the boyhood friendships
and cohesive community of his childhood.
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He attended a Jesuit high school,
St. Peter's Prep in Jersey City,
where he often lunched with his
classmates on the docks
across from the future
World Trade Center site.
From a culture with a strong
work ethic, David experienced
work as a youth selling newspapers
on a busy street corner, doing
warehouse work, Christmas mail work,
and frequent work with YES,
Youth employment Services,
of South Orange, NJ.
After high school graduation,
he worked as a clerk on Wall Street at
Merrill, Lynch, PF&S,
in the mailroon at AVCO Embassy Pictures,
a midtown NYC movie company,
as a NYC taxi driver and messenger,
and at various restaurant and trucking work,
primarily in New York City and area.
He was also introduced to farm work
and the tranquillity of the rural
experience, as well as some travel.
In 1973, disillusioned with the
shallowness and lack of integrity
of the left that influenced him
in college, and with the chaotic, violent
environment of the Northeast city,
he joined the Navy and requested a
California assignment.
David Scully immigrated to California
in 1974 when assigned to duty
on the USS Enterprise in Alameda.
For the past 30 years, he's been
out West, primarily in California
(6 years in Alaska), home-based
in the Sacramento/Davis area.
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From 1973 to 1977, he served
in the Navy where he was assigned
to the USS Enterprise, working
throughout the Engineering Department.
He was selected as the Enterprise's
Man of the Month in April, 1975,
from a department of over 600 workers.
He graduated from UC Davis in 1979,
and attended McGeorge School of Law
in Sacramento the next year while
working full-time in Sacramento.
He worked as a property appraiser
and programmer, and as a teacher,
fully credentialed in three subjects:
Mathematics, Physical Science,
and Social Studies.
He was very active in his neighborhood
in Sacramento, organizing a neighborhood
CrimeWatch program, and organizing
the neighborhood youth in various
play activities. He was also active
in the Cub Scouts and Girls Scouts
with his children.
In 1982, while taking computer classes
at California State University Sacramento,
David established a student organization
and published a series of newsletters,
which became the script for
the Rush Limbaugh program
and the foundation for
conservative talk radio.
As the Father of Conservative Talk Radio,
David is also a factor
in the historic Davis Recall,
which wouldn't have happened without
conservative talk radio.
In 1988, Mr. Scully became active
in Republican Politics, supporting
Bush for President in Victory '88.
Mr. Scully was famous that year
for fighting a one-man battle
against an activist liberal press
and agent-provocateurs at Sacramento
Airport, and winning, and for putting
some steel in the spine of the
mild-manner VP candidate, Quayle.
David went to Alaska in 1990 to teach
in the Bush (the remote areas),
and stayed in Anchorage because
of the relative tranquillity
compared to California' hectic pace.
He developed a latent singing talent
and was later sought after by a
Dick Clark talent scout for his
extraordinary talent.
Returning to California in 1996,
David has made a living as a
truck driver. He has been blackballed
by the liberal education establishment,
by the McCarthyism of the Left,
for his earthshaking activism in 1982.
Despite obstacles and roadblocks,
he has renewed his teaching credentials
and managed to obtain a summer school
teaching job this summer, but he
is even more convinced than ever
that the educational system needs
to be totally restructured.
This is the main plank of MR.SCULLY's platform
in his 2003 California Gubernatorial Bid.