Walter R. Buchanan

Walter R. Buchanan is serving as the chairman of the Kansas Conservative Party. He is an accomplished entrepreneur with a proven track record of developing technology companies in California, Asia, Europe and the mid-west. As founder and president of FabTech, Inc. he led this start-up from concept through profitability and its successful sale. The company continues to operate profitably today as Diodes FabTech, Inc. Mr. Buchanan's international business experience includes Japan where he lived as part of a business recovery team, Hong Kong, China, Germany and the United Kingdom. Mr. Buchanan has 30 years of experience managing high technology operations and development. Mr. Buchanan is a veteran, a graduate of the University of Kansas and holds eight patents in the field of power semiconductors. My belief "As a conservative, I found I had no party. Both major parties actively support the abolishment of federalism and concentration of power in the federal government. The lure of federal power to rule outweighed any obligation by oath to uphold the constitution. As our government grows ever larger and more controlling, fiscal responsibility is abandoned. National and international moral and social "imperatives" with big government solutions replace rational, sound judgment. The costs, whether for the good of the US citizens or not, are casually passed on to the taxpayer and now, to our children. Our federal government's involvement in education has directly resulted in one of the most expensive, ineffective educational system in the developed world. Our children and their children's children will be the ones paying for our excesses - sans the education to effectively compete. It is time for citizens to take responsible, positive action to restore the rights of individual states to govern according to the will of the people, and to return the federal government to its proper, fiscally responsible, limited role." Conservative Party 2009