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About me:

Christopher Arps is a managing partner with NLB Enterprises LLC, a digital media and political consulting firm based in St. Louis, Missouri. NLB Enterprises has gained extensive expertise in utilizing the blogosphere and the new media to gain influence and favorable earned media for their diverse array of clients.

In addition to these endeavors, Mr. Arps writes political commentary for his personal blog "The New Leadership Blog" and is a current political contributor to examiner.com. (Oklahoma) Arps has also been a contributor to 'The Tech Republican" and the "Freedom's Journal" Magazine. He also appears on a weekly political segment called the "Wednesday Morning Roundtable" on Oklahoma's Talk Radio 1520, KOKC.

He has been quoted by BET.Com, The Washington Times, The Washington Post, The St. Louis Post Dispatch, and by numerous blogs. He is currently the editor and founder of the Oklahoma Political News Service weblog. Mr. Arps also started a new social network for African American Republicans, conservatives and moderates called www.Move-On-Up.org.

Mr. Arps' insight as a digital media visionary was included In the first scholarly research examining the role of black bloggers in the blogosphere. Brown University researcher Antoinette Pole, assessed how bloggers of color use their medium for purposes related to politics.

Her findings appear in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society and in Pole’s book, "Blogging the Political: Politics and Participation in a Networked Society", which examines the impact of political blogging on politics and participation.

Mr. Arps' political experience includes St. Louis Field Representative for U.S. Senator Jim Talent of Missouri. Campaign manager for the 2006 Sherman Parker for Congress Campaign, and an appointed aide to both the St. Louis County Council and the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners. Mr. Arps also served as an appointed commissioner to the St. Charles City Housing Authority and the St. Charles City Planning and Zoning Commission ('95-'97)

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My Two Cents for Chairman Steele

I want to send my congratulations to the new RNC Chairman Michael Steele. I am guardedly optimistic that Steele will successfully open up the good 'ol boy network and affect real and necessary change within the party apparatus. I am not overly optimistic - because like any bureaucracy - the pencil pushers and the bean counters are who really run them. They are always still there, long after a "reformer" has left the scene.

To be candid, I don't understand why Mr. Steele would even want this job… Continue

Posted on February 3, 2009 at 12:19pm —

Open Letter to Future RNC Chairman: Re: Talk is Cheap

Originally published in 2005

By Sherman T. Parker

Chairman Mehlman
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

Re: Talk is Cheap

Dear Chairman Mehlman:

You and President Bush are spending a considerable amount of time talking to African-Americans, coining phrases such as the "party of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass." What does that mean if your only goal is to marginally break off the African-American vote? It is embarrassing and you are doing the A… Continue

Posted on January 6, 2009 at 4:45pm — 2 Comments

Why Move-On-Up.org?

In the past, whenever I met a fellow African American Republican or conservative, it was always a bitter sweet moment for me. On the one hand, I was elated to meet another African American who shared my cultural values and view of the role of government in our lives, but the elation subsided rather quickly when the realization set in that there wasn't an efficient mechanism to connect them with my conservative African American friends from around the country, or vice versa. There are millions of… Continue

Posted on December 24, 2008 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments