The Florida Whig Party
Jeremy McShurley, former-Chairman of the Florida Whig Party. Mr. McShurley served as the Chairman until January 2009 when business and education required his relocated to Indiana. Mr. McShurley founded the Florida Whig Party in 2006 and established the foundation upon which the Florida Whig Party operates. The Florida Whig Party Executive Board consists of the Chairman, Vice Chairman, and Treasurer. Various individuals will assist the Board from time-to-time with short and long-term projects such as public relations, conventions, candidate recruitment, research, and more.
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Paul Truesdell serves as the Chairman of the Florida Whig Party. Mr. Truesdell is known by his clients and associates as a common sense, disciplined, compassionate, fiscally conservative, mutually tolerant and open-minded person who not only thinks out-of-the-box but often rejects that a restrictive box exists. Mr. Truesdell's wealth management methodologies are traditional, efficient, and effective. The Truesdell process is known as CAMELOT™ and Mr. Truesdell is a leading innovator and specialist at carefully crafting income and wealth distribution plans. Mr. Truesdell has been actively engaged in the political process since 1964 and his community involvement has included numerous community organizations, a college public policy institute as a board of director and study participant regarding traffic and transportation, access to health-care, and affordable housing. Mr. Truesdell has served on a fire department advisory board, a public school system tax oversight committee, a private school board, a municipal code enforcement board, a municipal board of adjustment, and as the technical advisor for public safety to a neighborhood association of 5,000 homes. Mr. Truesdell’s urban law enforcement experience and training during the 70s and 80s serves as the foundation for an investigative approach to the analysis of macro and micro economic issues. Mr. Truesdell has served as an expert witness on multiple insurance suitability, securities fraud and suitability, and financial planning cases. Mr. Truesdell enjoys defending the "little guy" at the drop of a hat and in 2009 served as the class action representative for a group of registered representatives in a class action involving a Broker/Dealer breach of contract where the Defendant stipulated to the allegations and promptly settled. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF, CLU, ChFC, RFC is a wealth manager whose management methodologies are traditional, efficient, and effective. The Truesdell process is known as CAMELOT™ and Mr. Truesdell is a leading innovator and specialist at carefully crafting income and wealth distribution plans. The Truesdell Companies are located at the Truesdell Professional Building, a technologically state-of-the-art, Santa-Fe style building located in the Ocala International Commerce Park near to the Ocala International Airport. The Southwestern rustic exterior and interior of the building was designed by Mr. Truesdell and includes a gym, laundry, kitchen, kennel, conference rooms, and large seminar room. Wood plank or tile flooring, copper ceilings, and rustic Western art flows throughout.
Henry DeGeneste serves as the Vice Chairman of the Florida Whig Party. Henry has more than 35 years’ experience in security and law enforcement leadership roles, he is currently focused on providing strategic advice to corporations and institutions of higher education to manage risk and develop emergency response and security programs. Henry served as Vice President of Global Security at Prudential Financial for fifteen years where he was the senior executive responsible for developing and managing the strategy and policies that addressed security for the firm and its subsidiary companies. Henry also served on the company’s Crisis Management Committee. Before Prudential Financial, Mr. DeGeneste spent twenty-three years with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey where he served as the Director of Public Safety and Superintendent of Police. Outside of the corporate roles Mr. DeGeneste has fulfilled, he has also served as an adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and continues to lecture at major colleges and universities as an expert on crisis and emergency management. He has acted as a consultant to Scotland Yard, Interpol, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He serves on the Security Intelligence Board of iJET Intelligent Risk Systems. Mr. DeGeneste is a published author with numerous articles appearing in professional journals and has authored a textbook entitled, Policing Transportation Facilities, Charles Thomas, Publisher, 1994. Mr. DeGeneste holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Adelphi University. He is a David Rockefeller Fellow and a Leadership New Jersey Fellow. He is also a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Executive Institute IX, and of the Rutgers University Criminal Justice Institute. Other leadership positions he has held include Commissioner on the National Commission for Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), Chairman of the New York City chapter of the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS), life member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and a founding member of the New York Bankers and Brokers Security Roundtable.
Kellean Truesdell, J.D., LL.M. serves as the Treasurer of the Florida Whig Party. Mrs. Truesdell is a practicing attorney in the State of Florida whose practice is limited to estate planning, elder law, wealth transfer planning, asset protection and preservation planning, probate administration, trust administration, federal transfer tax planning, Medicaid qualification planning, long-term care planning, and lifecare planning. Attorney Truesdell graduated from Eckerd College, University of Akron School of Law, and the University of Miami School of Law. She is a member of the Florida Bar, Real Property, Probate & Trusts Division, and Elder Law Division. Attorney Truesdell is admitted to U.S. Tax Court and State of Florida. Kellean's favorite charities include the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, and The Federalist Society. Kellean enjoys traveling, golfing, reading, and politics. Kellean is a subject matter expert on Private and Public Education, Middle East Conflicts, Tribes, and Sects, Rogue Nations and Stateless Terrorism, and Pandemic Influenza Epidemiology. Recently Kellean, Graham, and Alexandria have begun extensively baking from scratch. From 1992 to present, Kellean and Paul Truesdell has spoken as a host or guest speaker at approximately 500 public engagements where over fifteen thousand residents of the State of Florida have attended. Topics for seminars, workshops, and online webinars include, but are not limited to estate planning, revocable & irrevocable trusts, asset protection, advanced wealth transfer, probate and trust administration, Medicaid, elder law & abuse, and securities and insurance fraud and suitability. Kellean is married to Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF, CLU, ChFC, RFC, an Economist and President of Truesdell Consulting, Inc. They have three children, Paul, Graham, and Alexandria, and are dynamically involved in their children’s education on a daily basis. Kellean and her husband operate their practices from the Truesdell Professional Building in Ocala, Florida; a unique Southwestern architectural building they built in 2005-2006, located in the Ocala International Commerce Park (one mile east from the Ocala International Airport and one mile west of Interstate 75). The Truesdells previously resided in Tampa for thirteen years and maintain their contacts and business relationships with regular frequency.
The Florida Whig Party is a bottom-up political party with a flat organizational structure.
1. Registered Voter
2. Delegate
3. Coalition Leader
4. Executive Board
Unlike other political parties, which have an organizational structure that promotes internal political conflict and posturing, the Florida Whig Party has created a structure that is extremely focused on allowing Coalition Leaders to build their organizations, as they deem appropriate. Because "people-will-be-people" and will not always get along with each other, the FWP encourages those who split from a Coalition to create their own coalition and continue their political engagement. Often, Florida political parties will have strong personality conflicts at the county level that leaves many good men and women behind and cast off. This will not happend with the Florida Whig Party. We merely ask that you agree with the majority of the platform, remain open minded, mutually tolerant, and civil. The Executive Board does not govern from the top down, but rather views itself as the central organizer for America's return of a great political party; The Whigs.
REGISTER TO VOTE AS A FLORIDA WHIG
Each registered voter who has selected the Florida Whig Party (FWP) on their Florida Voter Registration Application (line 12) is a member of the Party.
1. Click HERE to open the PDF Florida Voter Registration Application.
2. Complete the editable PDF.
3. Make sure to select minor party on line 12 and Florida Whig Party (FWP) is clearly printed.
4. Print the Voter Registration Application.
5. Sign the Voter Registration Application.
6. Follow the submission instructions on page two of the Voter Registration Application.
FLORIDA WHIG PARTY DELEGATE
A registered voter may become a Delegate:
1. Click on and open the PDF Delegate Membership Form.
2. Complete the editable PDF Delegate Membership Form.
3. Print the PDF Delegate Membership Form.
4. Write a check made payable to the Florida Whig Party for $60.00; the dues for a Student Delegate is $30.00.
5. Place the Delegate Membership Form and check in an envelope, attach sufficient postage, and mail.
6. Address the envelope to:
The Florida Whig Party
200 N.W. 52nd Avenue
Ocala, Florida 34482
You may also become a delegate by completing the Online Delegate Form.
1. Click on the red button on the right side of all screens titled: Join the FWP.
2. Complete the Online Delegate Form.
3. Click on the button titled: Submit Form.
4. Your computer screen will be directed to the Donation Page of the Florida Whig Party.
5. Click on the button titled: Make a Donation.
6. Select Delegate or Student Delegate as your membership status.
7. Click Other if you would like to Donate a different amount and then enter that amount in the box.
8. If you would like to make a monthly Donation, select Please charge my credit card every month.
9. Select Continue with Donation.
10. Complete the Online Form.
11. Select Confirm Donation.
12. The information you entered on the prior page will appear on the next page.
13. Review the information for accuracy.
14. Enter your credit card information.
15. Select Process Donation Now to complete the donation.
Florida Whig Party Delegates will receive by U.S. Mail:
1. A personalized membership identification card.
2. 25 business cards.
3. 10 door hangers.
4. An order form for various Whig merchandise such as yard signs, polo and t-shirts, lapel pins, and bumper stickers.
All Delegates can attend quarterly online meetings and participate in policy and issue development.
FLORIDA WHIG PARTY COALITION LEADER
To become a Florida Whig Party Coalition Leader:
1. Become a registered voter with the Florida Whig Party as your Party of Affiliation.
2. Become a Florida Whig Party Delegate.
3. Recruit two additional Florida Whig Party Delegates.
4. Notify the Florida Whig Party of your desire to become a Coalition Leader by way of the Florida Whig Party Contact Form.
Upon receipt of your request, the Florida Whig Party will contact you and send you a password to the online Coalition Leader Page. The Coalition Leader Page has audios, videos, and multiple PDFs to guide you through the process of starting, building, and seeding a Coalition.
Coalitions are the heart and soul of the Florida Whig Party and Coalition Leaders are the ministers of their political flocks.
Ten Words to Live By:
Principles before Party, Personality, and Profits,
with Deeds not Words.
It's Just That Simple
