Michael McCaskey

1st Vice Chair

Michael is a first generation Arkansan. Having escaped California, he brings with him a lifetime experience and knowledge of how the liberal progressives work to strip freedoms and rights from the people. Growing up in the splendor of a once beautiful, small farming town, Michael witnessed how the socialist Marxists turned, what was once known as the “Valley of Fruits Delights”, into the insanity of what is now “Silicon Valley”. A place where even changing a light bulb, inside your own home, requires a paid permit by an unelected bureaucracy.

While Michael spent much of his early life surrounded by apples, peaches, plumbs, prunes, and more, while helping out in the orchards on his grandpa's farm, becoming a technology expert was the only career path to take in the new California tech world.  So he dove in and went to work becoming one of the early technology kids of “San Jose” (do you know the way)...

Today, Michael is a Principal Technology Architect, with a wide range of clients including the largest names in Silicon Valley. But the most notable being his military contractor work with Space Force, Air Force, and the Army.

Michael is married, has three beautiful children and is looking forward to his 4th grandchild in mid 2025. He just finished a two year remodel on his generational compound up on Posy Mountain and is breaking ground on Sacred Meadows Farm, where he plans to retire from his technology life and return to the time of family farming.

Michael's political life, as a 1776 originalist or Constitutional Conservative, moved into high gear decades ago. He and his wife, Sharise (a professional actress and dancer) were early Tea Party-goers fighting hard during the Obama years. Together, they started a new media company and produced the “Restrained No More” show. A political satire show written, directed, and performed by Sharise.  It was quite popular that even Politico, at the time, wrote it up as one of the only Conservative new media shows that told the truth!

As the 1st Vice Chair, Michael is looking forward to bringing all of his experience and passion towards a return to our 1776 beginnings. A time when citizens ruled themselves without an unelected bureaucracy or dictator telling them what they are allowed to do and not do. He will dive in to do the work to protect our freedoms -  whether in our county, our state, or federal government.

Candice Bright

2nd Vice Chair

Candice and 17 of her family members moved to Arkansas from California to provide a better life to their families. California had become an unrecognizable state, and Candice has been dedicated to sharing her and her family’s story about leaving California through interviews, podcasts and a documentary. She is a dedicated wife and mother and is active in a variety of community-based organizations. Candice is passionate about politics and education. Candice, her husband Chad and her mother Diana are opening the Melting Pot Restaurant in Rogers.

A Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), Candice has over 20 years of involvement in working with children and adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. She holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Human Development and Biological Psychology from the University of California, Davis, and a Master of Arts degrees in Special Education and Applied Behavior Analysis from the California State University, Sacramento. She is a small business owner of multiple organizations in the healthcare/social services sector.

Candice has been a member of BCRP since moving to Arkansas in 2023 and looks forward to supporting our community and the RPA.