About the Author

Mr. Smith is a Systems Architect for Wells Fargo, Communications Director for the Polk County Republican Party, and a political blogger at the Des Moines Register. He is a founding member of Valley Evangelical Free Church in West Des Moines, Iowa. Art is the Publisher and an Editor of The Conservative Reader, The Conservative Reader: Iowa and Editor of Blog Net News Iowa. He occasionally appears at BitsBlog, and substitutes for Tim Albrecht at "The Beanwalker Live!" on the internet radio station Des Moines Local Live. Art's views are purely his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Wells Fargo, Polk County Republicans or Valley Evangelical Free Church.