Bio

Moore was born in 1959, and grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, attending public schools. 

As a teenager, Moore worked a variety of jobs, including fixing bicycles, cleaning motel rooms, cooking breakfast at a fast-food restaurant, bagging groceries, and busing tables at a restaurant. 

Moore was on his high school debating team, was the copy editor of the school newspaper, and won a variety of debating and academic awards.

In 1977, Moore started attending Princeton University on a scholarship, where he majored in Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School.

Moore worked his way through college.  After working as a file clerk in the library as a freshman, he landed jobs as a research assistant for:  the Florida Department of Education; a Princeton economist studying health care issues; and a midwestern public policy “think tank” studying energy conservation. 

Moore also studied foreign policy and military issues, including terrorism, and wrote his senior thesis on strategic nuclear policy.

Moore was on Princeton’s debate team, and ran the program during his senior year.  He received various awards for debating and public speaking, and an award from the Woodrow Wilson School as the “Outstanding Participant” in his junior-year policy conference on industrial policies.  (One of Moore’s classmates in that policy conference, by the way, was Eliott Spitzer, who used to be the governor of New York.)

In 1981, Moore graduated from Princeton with honors, and started attending the Georgetown University Law Center.  Moore became an Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal, and was hired by the law school to teach legal research and writing, and oral advocacy, to first-year students.  Moore’s course-load included, among other things:  legislation, administrative law, corporations, international law, international business law, energy law, securities law, and legal accounting.

Moore has represented individuals, partnerships and public and private corporations in business disputes in state and federal courts in a wide variety of industries including advertising, aviation, banking, computers, construction, energy, entertainment, real estate and telecommunications. 

Moore has handled cases involving fraud, breach of contract, copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, employment discrimination, premises liability, breach of fiduciary duty, legal malpractice, securities law, franchise law, unfair competition, and other subjects.

In 2005, Moore ran for Mayor, but did not try to raise money for advertising; he’s not making that mistake this time. In 2006, Moore co-authored the ballot arguments against Measure H, a tax hike that would have raised money for subsidies to developers.  In 2007, Moore wrote the ballot arguments against Proposition S, a tax hike that Villaraigosa promoted to voters as a tax cut.  Although Prop S passed, over 197,000 people voted against it.  In 2008, Moore wrote Jamiel’s Law, which would deny “sanctuary city” protection to illegal aliens in gangs.  Moore is working to put Jamiel’s Law on the March 2009 ballot.

Moore serves as a member of one of the City’s Historic Preservation Overlay Zone Boards.  His wife is the former president of their neighborhood’s homeowners’ association. Mrs. Moore, having worked in the aviation and garment industries, now manages the family’s income property, which is located in the South of France. The Moores have three dogs, all “rescues.”

The Mayoral election will take place on March 3, 2009.