Actor, Billionaire
Melody Bates (aka Ivy League-Legacy) is the National Chair of the Speakers Bureau of Billionaires for Bush and a member of the B4B Cabinet. She is also a core member of the Billionaire Follies, the singing/performing wing of the organization. In the 2004 campaign she performed and spoke in swing states around the country and at many venues in NYC, as well as on WBAI, WNYE, and Air America's Majority Report. She co-wrote and directed "Dick Cheney's Holiday Spectacular," the 2004 Billionaires for Bush holiday show, which won wild acclaim for simultaneously propagating the billionaire message and spreading holiday cheer to billionaires everywhere. In her non-billionaire life she is an actor who has performed in numerous off- and off- off-Broadway venues, and teaches middle school drama at the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School.