Dr. Brad Blanton (born September 4, 1940) is an author, seminar leader, and 2006 candidate for United States House of Representatives. Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. Dr. Blanton was on the ballot as an Independent running against Republican incumbent Eric Cantor in Virginia's Seventh Congressional District, though, before the election he announced that he no longer wished to be elected and asked his supporters to instead vote for Democrat Jim Nachman. In Politics, an independent is a Politician who is not Affiliated with any Political party. Eric Ivan Cantor was born in Richmond Virginia on June 6 1963 The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state Virginia's Seventh Congressional District is a US Congressional district in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. Jim Nachman is the Democrat who challenged Republican incumbent Eric Cantor for his place as Representative of Virginia's 7th congressional district in [1]
His first book, Radical Honesty: How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth, became a nation-wide bestseller in 1996 and has been translated into seven languages . A bestseller is a Book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on lists of currently top selling titles that are based on publishing industry and book trade That success was followed by books that applied the principles of Radical Honesty to personal growth, social transformation and parenting. Radical Honesty is the name of a self improvement program developed by Brad Blanton PhD that challenges people to give up their addiction to lying "Radical Honesty" emphasises noticing and ceasing various forms of self-deception and lying to others, including white lies. Self-deception is a process of denying or rationalizing away the relevance significance or importance of opposing Evidence and Logical argument A lie (also called prevarication) is a type of Deception in the form of an untruthful statement especially with the intention to deceive others often with the further
Dr. Blanton earned his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in 1966 when he was 25 years old. He spent 25 years in the private practice of psychotherapy, becoming the Director of The Center for Well Being in Washington, D.C., where he worked with individuals, couples, and groups. Psychotherapy is an Interpersonal, relational intervention used by trained psychotherapists to aid clients in problems of living Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D He also served as a consultant to corporations, government and the media. In 1990 he moved to central Virginia and founded Radical Honesty Enterprises, a private corporation dedicated to promoting honesty in the world. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state
Politically active from his days in the civil rights movement to the present, Dr. See also Protests of 1968 Historically the civil rights movement was a concentrated period of time around the world of approximately twenty years (1960-1980 in Blanton ran as an Independent against Eric Cantor in 2004 election for the United States Congress in Virginia's Seventh Congressional District. Eric Ivan Cantor was born in Richmond Virginia on June 6 1963 Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 109th Congress were held on November 2, 2004. The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses In that race, he earned 24% of the vote.
Brad Blanton now lives in Stanley, Virginia, where he spends his time writing and recovering from his campaign for Congress in 2006. Stanley is a town in Page County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1326 at the 2000 census.
Dr. Blanton is the 7th District Chairman and member of the Central Committee of Virginia's Independent Party, The Independent Greens of Virginia.
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External links
- Blanton For Congress Official Website
- Radical Honesty Official Website
- This American Life television episode featuring Blanton
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