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'''Les Golden''' is an internationally-known gambling writer. He has written for gambling.com, iGamingBusiness, gamblingonline, and Bluff Europe print magazines. He resides in Oak Park, Illinois, and Reno, Nevada.

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'''Les Golden''' is an internationally-known gambling writer. He has written for gambling.com, iGamingBusiness, gamblingonline, and Bluff Europe print magazines. He resides in Oak Park, Illinois, and Reno, Nevada. He learned how to be a card-counter at the popular casino game of blackjack as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, by reading "Beat the Dealer," the seminal work of mathematician Edward O. Thorp.

==Background==

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===Performing===

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Golden is a nationally-referenced animal welfare advocate, <ref>http://www.elephantinformation.com/CEMENT%20FLOORING%20or%20HARD%20DIRT%20GROUND.htm </ref> a professional trumpet player, jazz vocalist, and band leader, and a professional actor with numerous ~~screen,~~ stage, film, radio, television, and commercial credits<ref> (1994), “A film career far (but not removed) from Tinseltown,”

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Golden is a nationally-referenced animal welfare advocate, <ref>http://www.elephantinformation.com/CEMENT%20FLOORING%20or%20HARD%20DIRT%20GROUND.htm </ref> a professional trumpet player, jazz vocalist, and band leader, and a professional actor with numerous stage, film, radio, television, and commercial credits<ref> (1994), “A film career far (but not removed) from Tinseltown,”

Compuserve magazine, August, p. 55 </ref><ref>(1982) “Improvising Your Way to Success,” ''Spring'',1, 6, p. 34 </ref><ref> (1984) “The boss is never wrong,” ''Screen magazine'', October 1, p. 19</ref><ref>www.imdb.com/title/tt0097170/</ref><ref>Petrulis, Len (1982), “Golden TV ‘Spoof’ on Reality,” ''Berwyn Life'', May 19, p. 14</ref> He has appeared numerous times as an actor on the live-broadcast productions of "Unshackled!" He was a featured regular on the Eddie Hubbard Show radio program as the character Jeffrey Clayton Maxwell from Bhutan. He is a member of both the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). As "Flash Golden," he was the play-by-play announcer for the California Golden Bears basketball radio broadcasts and hosted Flash's Jazz Patio on KALX-FM. As a stand-up comedian, he has performed at San Francisco's Holy City Zoo, the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, the Comedy Cottage in Chicago, as well as on the college circuit, Playboy Club, and other clubs. He is a published editorial cartoonist.

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===Local===

Golden began his political career with the non-partisan CARE Party (Citizens Active for a Responsible Electorate) in Oak Park, Illinois. He later formed the TURF Party (Taxpayers United of River Forest) in the adjacent community. He was the president of UTOP (United Taxpayers of Oak Park) from 1991 through 2005. As CARE party president he has been responsible for slating more than 70 candidates for local political office, achieving the election of eight on tax-accountability and environmental issues.<ref>see for example, (1989) CARE joins school board fray, Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest , July 31, page 1; (1989) CARE tries to seek new identity, Oak Leaves, October 11, page 7; (1990) CARE endorsements have defeat the "incumbent" goal, Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest , October 31, page 21; (1991) CARE challenges shake up village races, Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest, February 6, page 1;

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(1991) CARE: a party in search of an image, Oak Leaves, August 14, page 8</ref> ~~He received an award from the National Taxpayers United of Illinois umbrella group for his taxpayer advocacy efforts in 1991.~~

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(1991) CARE: a party in search of an image, Oak Leaves, August 14, page 8</ref>

His notoriety as a sponsor of political candidates led to his namesake, Moe Silver, Chairman of the "LOVE Party," being a lead character in the locally-drawn "Shrubtown" comic strip and theatrical play by the same name by artist and writer Marc Stopeck.<ref>see for example, Stopeck, Marc (1991), “Shrubtown,” ''Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest'', July 24, p. 17; Stopeck, Marc (1991), “Shrubtown,” ''Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest'', August 14, p. 22; Stopeck, Marc (1991), “Shrubtown,” ''Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest'', August 21, p. 23; Stopeck, Marc (1991), “Shrubtown,” ''Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest'', August 28, p. 21; Stopeck, Marc (1992), “Shrubtown,” ''Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest'', August 12, p. 24; Stopeck, Marc (1993), “Shrubtown,” ''Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest'', August 11, p. 22</ref>

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In 2008, he was the statewide spokesman and one of three state-wide coordinators for the group seeking to convene an Illinois Constitutional Convention.<ref>(2008) Sweeney, Chuck, Constitutional convention? Here's a pro-con,Rockford Register Star,, June 18</ref><ref>(2008) Wilson, Doug, Business group says constitutional convention would be too costly, risky, Quincy Herald-Whig, July 15</ref> He wrote the field guide for campaign workers which was used in other states also seeking to convene constitutional conventions. He was selected a charter member of the board of the Illinois Taxpayer Education Foundation (ITEF) in 1994.

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He received the Distinguished Leadership award from the National Taxpayers United of Illinois umbrella group for his taxpayer advocacy efforts in 1991.

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