Jacqueline Salit is a 20-year veteran of the independent political movement. Currently the executive editor of THE NEO-INDEPENDENT magazine, a bi-annual journal that covers the independent political movement and the independent voter. Ms. Salit is also the political director of the Committee for a Unified Independent Party, Inc. and the communications director for the New York City Independence Party.

In the latter capacity she ran both of Michael Bloomberg's mayorial campaigns on the Independence Party line in 2001 and 2005. In 2001 the vote on the Independence Party line provided Bloomberg's margin of victory. In 2005 Salit was a primary architect of the Independent/Black alliance, a key pillar of Bloomberg's landslide reelection win.

Born in 1953 in New York City, Ms. Salit grew up in a Jewish family on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, but left to take a job at ABC Network News, covering the Democratic and Republican Party conventions in 1972. Salit left ABC in 1975 to join efforts to unionize welfare recipients citywide in New York and become a legal advocate for the New York City Unemploymed and Welfare Council.

A principal in the National Reform Party (1997-2000) and its precursor the Patriot Party (1994-1997), Salit also served as communications director for the groundbreaking independent presidential campaigns of African American independent Lenora Fulani in 1988 and 1992.

In 2006 Salit was involved in key independent races around the country, including Carole Keeton Strayhorn's independence bid for governor of Texas, the successful campaign to maintain open primaries in New Hampshire, and an initiative to lift the state ban on fusion in Massachusetts. In January 2007, she convened a national conference of independent voters titled "Independent Politics in a 'What's Next?' World."

Salit's analyses have been published in numerous newspapers including the Chritan Science Monitor, The Washington Times, the New York Daily News, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and The Arizona Republic. She has appeared as a commentator on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and Canadian Public Television.

neo-independent - adj. 1 of, or pertaining to, the movement of independent voters for political recognition and popular power ___ n. an independent voter in the post-Perot era, without traditional ideological attachments, seeking the overthrow of bipartisan political corruption ___ adj. 2 of, or pertaining to, an independent political force styling itself as a postmodern progressive counter weight to neo-conservatism, or the neo-cons.

becoming (bi kum' ing) - vi. 1 coming to be 2 growing to be; changing or developing into by growth.