Category: Events

Herman Cain to Keynote 2011 PA Leadership Conference!

Herman Cain, likely Presidential candidate, radio talk show host and former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza will deliver the Keynote Address at the 2011 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference on Saturday, April 9th at 9:30 A.M.

Raised in Atlanta, Georgia by poor parents who survived by faith and hard work, Mr. Cain graduated from Morehouse College.  After earning his Master’s Degree, he went to work for the Department of the Navy, the Coca Cola Company, and then Pillsbury’s Burger King Division.  He took over Godfather’s Pizza as it teetered on the edge of bankruptcy.  Mr.

Cain returned the company to profitability and then sold it to a management team.  He is currently a talk show host on WSB-AM/FM in Atlanta, Georgia and has formed a Presidential Exploratory Committee.

The 2011 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will be held April 8th and 9th at the Radisson Penn Harris Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania.

Fox News Analyst and Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Dr. Charles Krauthammer is the conference’s featured dinner speaker.  Also addressing the conference will be U.S. Senator Pat Toomey; Lt. Governor James Cawley; former Virginia Governor James Gilmore, now President of the Free Congress Foundation; Rose Tennent of the Quinn & Rose Program; John Gizzi of Human Events, John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, Tim Phillips of Americans for Prosperity and state senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Jake Corman.

The Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is the premiere annual gathering each year of conservative activists from across the commonwealth.  Known as “Pennsylvania’s CPAC,” the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will also feature four interactive panel presentations, workshops, and over 40 exhibitors.

School Choice Town Hall

The Union County Republican Committee will host a Town Hall meeting March 22 at the Lewisburg Area High School, 815 Market Street, Lewisburg, at 7 pm.

The topic is: School Vouchers; It’s Your Choice

Guest speaker is Senator Anthony Williams, Democrat, 8th District, Philadelphia.  The Commonwealth Foundation will present their research findings, in support of Senator Williams current bill SB1, the Opportunity Scholarship Act.

Senator Anthony Williams, a lifelong resident of West Philadelphia, is serving his 4th term in the PA Senate. He is currently the minority whip. He, along with Senator Jeff Piccola, Republican, 15th district (Dauphin and York Counties), authored SB 1 to provide educational options for students imprisoned in failing public schools.

In the first two years, the failing school districts will be addressed. In year three, vouchers for low income students will expand to include all PA public school districts. These vouchers will allow the parent to use the voucher to send their children to the school of their choice, public or private.

The Commonwealth Foundation is a non-profit independent research and educational foundation. Its mission is to effectively demonstrate the social benefits of individual liberty, free enterprise, and a limited and accountable government so that key decision makers in PA will embrace these principles.

For further information, contact Yvonne Morgan, UCRC Chairman at 490-6252

Clouse Family Benefits

Clouse Family Fund and events to help the Perry County Family who lost 7 children in a house fire.

Clouse Family Fund:

A fund has been set up to help the family. Contributions can be made to the Clouse Family Fund, care of the Church of the Living Christ of Loysville, P.O. Box 180, Loysville, Pa., 17047.

Chicken barbecue:

There will be a chicken barbecue from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. this Saturday at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, only a few hundred yards down the road from the Clouses’ farm.

The supply of chicken is unlimited. There also will be a bake sale of goods donated by local Amish churches. And there will be an opportunity to donate.

I did call the Church to confirm this.

Radio Auction:

BOB 94.9 will be hosting an on-air auction on Monday, March 14th from 5am-7pm, to benefit the Clouse Family, who recently lost 7 of their 8 children when their Perry County home caught fire.

Every hour, a different item will be auctioned off to the highest bidder, with all proceeds benefiting the Clouse Family Fund. The auction items will include various signed memorabilia and VIP experiences from some of the biggest stars in country music, including: Keith Urban, Toby Keith, Kenny Chesney, Shania Twain, and many more. www.bob949.com.

Related News Stories:

http://www.fox43.com/news/wpmt-amnews-perryco-fatal-fire,0,3362155.story

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/03/technology_rallies_a_nation_to.html

http://www.wgal.com/news/27128851/detail.html

http://www.fox43.com/news/wpmt-leave-your-condolences-for-the-clouse-family-20110310,0,1386591.story

PLC Panels Announced

March   7, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:       Lowman S. Henry

(717) 671-1984

lhenry@lincolninstitute.org

 

2011 PA Leadership Conference Panels Announced

Four interactive panel discussions to be presented at conference

 

Harrisburg, PA – The 2011 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, to be held April 8th and 9th at the Radisson Penn Harris Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), will feature four interactive panel presentations including Path to A Better Pennsylvania; Curbing Union Power; School: It’s Your Choice and TEA Time: Effective Grassroots Activism. The panels will be interactive, with conference participants having the opportunity to submit questions to panelists.

 

The panel moderators and panelists include:

 

Path to a Better Pennsylvania

Moderator:     Matthew Brouillette, Commonwealth Foundation

Panelists:        Joe Sterns, Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania

Michael Geer, Pennsylvania Family Institute

Scott Roy, Range Resources

Lynne Schmidt, PPG industries

John Stephenson, National Taxpayers Union

 

Curbing Union Power

Moderator:     Simon Campbell, Stop Teacher Strikes

Panelists:        Daryl Metcalfe, State Representative

Vicki Craft, Keystone Associated Builders & Contractors

John Bear, State Representative

Larry Pastor, Neshaminy Taxpayers Group

Chris Prandoni, Americans for Tax Reform

 

School: It’s Your Choice

Moderator:     Otto Banks, REACH Alliance

Panelists:        Jeffrey Piccola, State Senator

Anthony Williams, State Senator

Jeanne Allen, Center for Education Reform

Robert Enlow, Foundation for Educational Choice

Richard Komer, Institute for Justice

TEA Time: Effective Grassroots Activism

Moderator:     Katy Abram, Americans for Prosperity

Panelists:        Rich Davis, American Sheepdogs

Ana Puig, Kitchen Table Patriots

Sam DeMarco, Veterans and Patriots United

Robert Howard, Coalition for Responsible Government

Kim Schmidtner, Lehigh Valley Project 9/12

 

In addition to the panel presentations, a pre-conference campaign training workshop and a pre-conference workshop on the U.S. Constitution taught by the Constitutional Organization for Liberty will be held on Friday morning, April 8th; and a Blogger Conference sponsored by Americans for Prosperity will be held following the conference on Saturday afternoon, April 9th.

 

Featured speakers at the 2011 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference include Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer; U.S. Senator Pat Toomey; former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore, now with the Free Congress Foundation; Rose Tennent of the Quinn & Rose program; John Fund of the Wall Street Journal; John Gizzi of Human Events; Tim Phillips of Americans for Prosperity; Lt. Governor James Cawley and State Senator Jake Corman.

 

Complete information and registration for the 2011 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is available at www.paleadershipconference.org.

Mark the date – School Choice Town Hall

The Union County Republican Committee is hosting a town hall with State Senator Anthony Williams (D-8) co-sponsor of S.B. 1, The Opportunity Scholarship Act, on Tuesday March 22 at 7 p.m. in the Lewisburg High School Auditorium.  Please plan to attend and invite your neighbors and friends.

The U.C.R.C. unanimously approved a resolution calling for passage of S.B.1 at its February 17th meeting.