Warren Redlich

Warren Redlich of Guilderland, New York was the 2006 and 2004 Republican candidate for Congress in New York's 21st congressional district.

Family
Redlich is married to Heather J. Redlich, an attorney, and together they have two daughters. Redlich's father, Allen Redlich, was a professor at Albany Law School.

Education
Born in Long Island, Redlich grew up in Guilderland and graduated from Guilderland Central High School in 1984. He went to Rice University in Houston, Texas, graduating in 1988 with a Bachelor's Degree in mathematical economics. He holds a Master's Degree in Political Science from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Albany Law School.

Career
Redlich taught English in Hiroshima, Japan for a year after law school. He began his legal career as a trial lawyer for the Allstate Insurance Company. He then worked as a law clerk for a judge of the New York Supreme Court (New York's trial court) in Fulton County, New York. In May of 2003 he opened his own law firm.

Redlich works on a fairly narrow range of legal matters, including criminal defense and personal injury cases.

Due to the success of the Redlich Law Firm website, Warren began developing other law-related websites with his brother Steve, forming SpinJ Corporation in the process. Their most prominent site to date is town-court.com, a directory of traffic courts, that is growing rapidly and is one of the top 250,000 websites in the US (per Alexa as of 7/31/2007).

Political Campaigns
In 2007, Warren was elected to the Guilderland Town Board. He was nominated by the GOP after the original candidate declined. In the past, he ran for US Congress:

Redlich ran in the race of 2004, gaining 30% of the vote; 5 points better than the last 7 challengers to Democratic incumbent Michael R. McNulty. His petitions for the 2006 race were filed on July 13th, containing nearly 6000 signatures (1250 required).
2004
In 2004, Redlich advertised that the US should "Stop wasting money overseas defending rich countries like France." This was directed at the US military presence in Europe, Japan and South Korea. In their two debates, Redlich challenged the incumbent to explain his exit strategy for these countries. The incumbent countered that it would not be appropriate to remove our troops from Europe while we were at war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the military presence in Europe supported these wars and provided quicker medical care for soldiers coming back.
2006
For 2006, Redlich simplified his campaign message to "Stop wasting money," which is also the name of his blog. In so doing, Redlich addressed various issues with this theme, attempting to connect this with the McNulty's 2003 rating as the 2nd biggest spender in Congress with an 18% rating from the National Taxpayers Union.
2007
Redlich was elected to the Guilderland Town Board on November 6th. Along with his running mate, Mark Grimm, Redlich will take office on January 1, 2008 for a four-year term.

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