About

Phil Moffett is the Tea Party, Republican candidate in Kentucky’s 2011 gubernatorial primary. He is a private businessman and this is his first run at public office. He is a University of Kentucky graduate and lives with his wife Christi and their four adopted children in Louisville. Phil and his wife are active homeschoolers.
Phil is the managing partner of CCS Partners, a Louisville telecommunications management firm he founded nine years ago. In the truest sense of entrepreneurship, he built his company from scratch and defined a new market segment now referred to as mobile telecommunication management.

In 1998, he started School Choice Scholarships (SCS), Kentucky’s only private voucher program, which to date has helped over 3600 Kentucky children escape Louisville’s failing public schools. After only three years in the program, 96% of SCS students are at or above grade level in reading and 81% at or above grade level in mathematics. SCS students gain the education and social tools they need to break their families’ cycle of poverty.

When Phil announced his candidacy in July 2010, he resigned from the board of directors of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions (BIPPS), Kentucky’s free market think tank. BIPPS focuses on pro-Liberty, free-market solutions to our country’s social and political challenges. He served as a leading member for several years.

As a Tea Party activist, Phil is concerned about Kentucky’s excessive debt and unfunded liabilities, inadequate schools and bloated government bureaucracy.

Phil was raised in poor circumstances by a divorced mother. His life took a big turn when he arranged on his own to perform janitorial duties in exchange for tuition to a local private high school. Watching others around him drop out of school and struggle in life had a profound impact on Phil. Following simple rules like living within his means and addressing problems creatively but in a no-nonsense fashion has prepared Phil well to go into state government and drain the swamp currently controlled by professional politicians.

His top priorities in office will be protecting Kentucky’s state sovereignty, improving the business environment with his innovative tax reform plan, creating a new, competitive management structure for public schools and shrinking state government to fit within existing state income. His race takes on national importance not only because Kentucky’s incumbent governor is the only Obama-supporting Democrat running for re-election to his state’s highest office in 2011, but also because underachieving states like Kentucky hurt our nation’s competitiveness at a time when America can’t afford the heavy price of political games.

Phil’s running mate, Mike Harmon, is a state representative serving Boyle and Washington counties. He is also a mortgage loan officer and an insurance agent. A consistent conservative, Mike has championed lower taxes and smaller government in the legislature in addition to working for better schools and to protect the unborn. Mike is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University and lives with his wife Lynn and their daughter in Boyle County.