He lacks a deep fund-raising network and his name recognition is low, but he was among the finalists Senator John McCain was considering for his running mate in 2008.
Given this landscape, theaters' survival will depend on their ingenuity in reaching new audiences, as well as on prudent financial management and access to a deep fund-raising pool.
But councils are expected to face deep funding cuts of up to 5% in their £10bn annual funding in Wednesday's budget.
Men like McColl should be paying a 50p or 60p top rate of tax, says Labour and the Scottish Green party, to help offset deep funding cuts imposed by the Conservative government in London.
Dozens of Scottish arts companies and art centres are facing deep funding cuts and job losses under a radical restructuring of spending by the national arts agency Creative Scotland.
The panel also rejected deep funding cuts for K-12 public schools and the popular SeniorCare prescription drug programme, as well as a proposal to borrow $220m for a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner Mick Gooda, in his 2014 social justice report, referred to the deep funding cuts and uncertainty about government plans as creating one of the largest scale upheavals in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs.
In a time of deep funding cuts, imbalances in funding and company closures, this initiative presents an opportunity for theatres to shout about the great work they do, reach wider audiences and make contacts and collaborate with other venues and stage companies from across the world.
These deep funding cuts and "radical reshaping" of programs and policies, as well as multiple government reviews, and the government's hesitation to set a date for a referendum on constitutional recognition have created an "atmosphere of uncertainty" for Indigenous people, read the report.
Deep funding cuts hamper their ability to implement many of these reforms.
