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Jim Babka (born 1968) is a writer, activist, and former radio talk-show host. He currently serves as president of the Downsize DC Foundation and DownsizeDC.org, Inc. ==Early life and education== Jim Babka was born in Cleveland, Ohio to James Sr and Joyce Babka. He was raised in Twinsburg Ohio. His mother died in a car accident in May 1978. Babka graduated from Baptist Christian School in Orange Village, Ohio, where he had been class President in 10th grade. Babka's father, an auto-parts company executive, was a conservative Republican who had supported Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. Jim was used to hearing politics discussed regularly, and found that social studies classes came easy to him. By ninth grade he recognized that he wanted to go into a career involving political action.〔()〕 Babka attended the University of Akron〔Linked-In bio of Jim Babka http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/ba8/359〕 where he majored in political science and minored in business management. Early in his college career he became involved in the College Republicans. But he quickly became disillusioned by politics. Favoritism, petty in-fighting, and criminal corruption in the college organization caused Babka to seek other outlets to make a difference. He took over a virtually defunct and in-debt, independent newspaper called ''The Buchtel Helm''.〔Referenced on page 48 of a paper for the National Council for Research on Women http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/13/34/5d.pdf〕 Working with friends he revived it, and served as Editor-in-Chief for one year. The following year, he turned over editing and publishing responsibilities to two other students, Chet Sutherland and Jeffrey Winter, respectively. But Babka served as President of the non-profit organization that produced the paper, and continued to write for it. The three students renamed the paper ''The U of A Times''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jim Babka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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