Tammy Bruce | |
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Born |
Los Angeles, California, United States |
August 20, 1962
Occupation | Radio host, writer, political commentator |
Website | tammybruce |
Tammy K. Bruce (born August 20, 1962) is an American radio host, author, and political commentator. She is an on-air contributor to Fox News Channel, and writes material for the Fox Forum blog.
In 2003, Bruce was appointed to serve on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Transition Team after his successful recall election against Gray Davis. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Southern California and is currently a PhD candidate at Claremont Graduate University.
Bruce collaborated with Los Angeles professional women to create one of the first ad hoc independent pro-choice activist groups. The group's early feminist activism began in 1987. This group confronted anti-abortion group protesters, and helped develop a strategy to stop "Operation Rescue" from successfully blocking the entrance to abortion clinics. During the years 1987–1990 she also participated in the Los Angeles chapter of the AIDS activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP).
For seven years, Bruce served as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) (1990–1996). Bruce served two years on NOW's board of directors, but later criticized the organization in one of her books. During the early 1990s, she spearheaded the campaign to publicly criticize the sexualized violence in the novel American Psycho, and led an effort to boycott all titles by the book's publisher, Knopf, for a year.