Jack Gargan

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Jack Gargan is a retired financial planner in the United States who became chairman of the Reform Party started by Ross Perot. He later split with Perot over differences with respect to the direction of the party.

In Florida in 1990, Gargan funded a series of "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" (an unironic reference to a famous quote from the 1976 political and mass media satire movie, Network) newspaper advertisements denouncing U.S. Congress for voting for legislative pay raises at a time when average wages nationwide were not increasing. Gargan later founded "Throw the Rascals Out", which Ross Perot supported.

Gargan was a speaker at the 2000 Libertarian National Convention.