Our Team
Gary R. Leigh, Founder, Patriots For A Better America (PBA)
Gary is a strong patriotic conservative who was born, raised, educated, and has lived in Michigan his entire life. He is a loving husband, father and grandfather, and is very close to his Christian faith. He founded and operated two successful businesses in Michigan over the past 45 years, which have won a number of awards and have helped thousands of people.
He has been a political wonk for most of his life and has been working full time during the last several years to help take back our Country.
During the 2010 election he was the National PR Director for Dr. Rob Steele in a highly profiled congressional race against Democrat John Dingell, who had been a Michigan congressman for 55 years. Gary arranged for Steele to appear on over 40 top national and state TV and radio shows. He was able to obtain many thousands of individual donations from all over the country and arranged for Dick Morris and other national known political professionals and conservative groups to help Steele. Even though Dingell out-spent Dr. Steele 3 to 1, that race turned out to be the tightest of Dingell’s career. The closeness of that race shocked both of the Michigan and National pundits.
Please find a recap of Gary Leigh’s Business and Political Accomplishments.
Gary is the founder and the chairman of PBA, which was established soon after the Dingell campaign. He is responsible to see that PBA is successful in being a major force in financing the grass roots to enable them to save Right to Work (RTW) for Michigan and then to help get RTW passed in 26 other states.
James Pinard, Media Director
The fact that media malpractice is epidemic in the US has compelled Jim into joining PBA to fight off “spin” and to educate voters to know when they’ve been “handled.” He is a conservative Christian and is devoted to helping to take back our country.
A native of Michigan and graduate of the University of Michigan, Jim spent the last 26 years in television production and post-production. His work has been recognized by ITVA, Addy, and Telly Awards.
He worked as Senior Producer at Encore Video in Hollywood producing visual effects for notables like the famed Dancing Baby in “Ally McBeal,” “News Radio,” and other shows and countless commercials for Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, among others. He also coordinated post production at Digital Magic in Santa Monica, CA for “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The Beach Boys—An American Family,” as well as a host of commercials, movies of the week, and music videos.Jim also served as Director of Production for Move Communications in Ann Arbor, and as Executive Producer/Director and Art Director for Halo Creative Group of Northville.
Ricky Cain, Website and Social Media Director
Ricky’s dream since he was a child was to literally travel around the globe to absorb the culture of various counties, hopefully leading him to becoming President of the U.S. He is making a good deal of progress on the travel part, as he has been abroad many times, often once a year, with many trips lasting for 3-6 months. Ricky has a strong interest in history and is considered an authority on the Geopolitics and Philosophy of the European and Russian regions.
The knowledge gained from those travels has provided him a deep love for America. Which has manifested in Ricky the passion to work long hours to help save our Country.
He has been active in supporting conservative candidates and causes. His education, experience and interest on politics has positioned him where he is very helpful to PBA in accomplishing its’ goals. Ricky has a degree in IT, he founded CainTechservices and he functions as a consultant in the following specialties: Website Design and maintenance; Social Media; & Computer Network Systems.
Another talent Ricky has that is helpful in his political work is photography. He has the ability to turn an ordinary photo into an artistic portrait or photo.
Anthony Fiaschetti, Data Specialist
Tony is Canadian born, raised and educated. He pursued his U.S. citizenship with an intense study of the U.S. Government, history, and geography, which created the foundation for his love of America.
Tony has worked for Ford Motor Company for 25 years in various management capacities including: Engineering, QC, Material Logistics through to Vehicle Launch / Program Management.
His analytical side thoroughly researched the downward spiral of our country and particularly its economy, concluding that our own government was the main reason our country has so many problems. When the Obama Administration went into action, it became obvious that its policies, regulations, mandates, and Executive Orders were accelerating America’s demise.
PBA welcomes Tony’s personal insight, passion, dedication, and his managerial talents to contribute in our cause for the recovery of our Country’s economy and to see that America’s government adheres to our constitution.
Chris Marston, Compliance Director
Chris Marston owns a company called Election CFO, and a compliance and financial services professional from the D.C. area. He specializes in managing and/or handling the FEC reporting requirements and campaign finances for PACs, Federal Campaigns Party Committees, etc.
Charles Spies, Campaign Finance Lawyer
Charles Spies set up Patriots For A Better America, which is a Super PAC and he considered one of the top campaign finance lawyers (CFL) in the country. Charley was Mitt Romney’s CFL for his 2008 presidential campaign. He was the head of Restore Our Future, which is a large Super PAC that spent over hundreds of millions to support Romney during the primary and the general election.
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