William Christie Samuels is a political activist and businessman who resided in New York and now lives in Rhode Island.

Under Secretary of Commerce under President Lyndon B. Johnson, was Director of the Small Business Administration and founded Kordite, which made Baggies and Hefty.

[2] The Council produced research on major public companies’ records on the environment, women and minority advancement, tobacco support, South Africa involvement, and other social issues.

Samuels raised money and supported John Kerry’s Vietnam Veterans Against the War March on Washington on April 23,1971.

The students were from the near-by Washington Irving High School and belonged to a biology class that planned to examine plants and wildlife in the park.

[17] Samuels, who lived nearby, was “was disturbed enough” that he hired a major law firm and  financed a civil rights lawsuit.

[14][18] Blue Tiger believes that the Democratic Party needs to build into its regular voter activities, civic engagement projects such as senior computer training, VA Hospital support for the veterans, food drives, or roadway clear-ups.

[27] Samuels was a leader and the biggest financial supporter of the required New York State 2017 vote that asked the question: Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution and amend the same.

He traveled the state with Brian Kolb, the Republican Assembly Minority leader, urging voters to approve the convention.

[25] Voters rejected the convention and Samuels said: “the measures’ defeat is a triumph for all of the enemies of reform in Albany.”[28] He pursued one of his main suggestions: The need for an inclusive Equal Right Amendment.

In 2017 he and State Senator Liz Kruger held a press briefing and submitted to the State Senate a constitutional amendment that not only covered women, but many other categories such as race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression.

[31] The measure places New York at the forefront of legal efforts to protect reproductive rights for women after the Supreme Court voted down Roe V Wade.