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“We’re here to be sure that small business owners and the entrepreneurial spirit they embody continue to have a voice,” asserts John Kabateck, Executive Director of the California chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business. In California, a state where small businesses make up 99.2% of the business community, that’s a lot of business owners to represent. Yet Kabateck says since 1943, that’s been the heart of NFIB’s mission “to promote and protect the right of our members to own, operate and grow their businesses.” When founded in San Mateo, Wilson Harder’s “club” answered the call of Franklin Delano Roosevelt for small businesses to have a greater role in shaping our nation’s future. Now, 70 years later, NFIB is the nation’s (and the state of California’s) largest organization serving small, privately owned businesses.