Shannon McGauley (born 1963) is the co-founder, spokesman, and president of the Texas Minuteman Inc., USA, the Official Texas Minutemen Texas..
In early 2005, McGauley volunteered in a Minuteman Project Inc. patrol in Arizona. There, he met Minuteman leader Jim Gilchrist. After a short time, it was decided among the two men that McGauley should form the Texas Minutemen and expand into Texas under McGauley's supervision. McGauley shortly thereafter registered the name "Texas Minutemen LLC," based in Arlington. He later dissolved the company, and opted to create the "Texas Minutemen Inc.".
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McGauley was born in Crosby, ND. He is a Texas licensed private investigator, and has commonly worked alongside bail bondsmen as a bounty hunter. McGauley refers to his occupation as a "bail bond enforcement agent." He has never served in the Armed Forces but made passing scores on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, and attempted to become an Air Force pilot in the early 1980s. He currently resides in Arlington, Texas where he is a licensed amateur (N5KOU) radio operator.
McGauley hopes to run for a seat in the Texas Senate by the year 2016 or run for Texas Governor. He has verbally expressed disappointment in a senator who allegedly said, "Immigration is a Federal issue." McGauley did not name the senator. McGauley said he strongly believes that a firm platform for stronger anti-immigration policy could pave his way to a seat in the Texas Senate.
McGauley is a self described conservative, and stated that he is a life-long Republican on the airwaves of KXYL-FM, 96.9. He believes strongly in one's right to bear arms and calls for a permanent lift on assault weapons bans. McGauley believes sodomy and homosexuality are "improper", but said he respects the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Lawrence v. Texas which struck down the criminal prohibition of sodomy in Texas.
In reference to the two factions of Minutemen, McGauley, said he agrees philosophically with Chris Simcox, leader of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, but objects to the national structure.[1]
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