Gary Richardson is an 8th generation Vermonter, and a University of Vermont graduate. He began his business career in locomotive sales and service, then moved on to administration positions, also in Vermont. He left the business world to serve three terms in the Vermont House of Representatives. It was during this time that he witnessed major changes taking place in Vermont's direction. A friend, and a member of the majority opposition party, confided to Gary that his party was advocating policies and legislation that constituted another agenda, of which he, and many of his friends in his party, had no knowledge. Gary remembered these conversations.