Congressman Scott Perry to Speak at

2013 PA Leadership Conference

 

            (Harrisburg, PA) – Congressman Scott Perry (PA-4), one of Pennsylvania’s newest members in Congress will speak at the 2013 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference on Friday, April 19, 2013 at the Radisson Penn Harris Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania. He joins Steve Hayes of Fox News/The Weekly Standard, pollster/commentator Scott Rasmussen, Fox News Contributor Deneen Borelli, FrackNation producer Ann McElhinney, U.S. Senator Pat Toomey, and John Gizzi of Human Events as announced speakers.

The Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is the premier annual gathering of conservatives each year in the Keystone State. This year’s conference will be held on April 19-20. Panel topics include sessions on Broadening the Conservative Coalition, Unleashing the Economic Potential of Penn’s Woods, Freedom to Work, and a State Issues Roundtable. There will also be three workshop sessions focusing on Using Social Media, The 10th Amendment and States’ Rights, and Citizen Lobbying.

The conference begins at 9:00 A.M. on Friday, April 19th with the social media and constitutional workshop sessions and ends at 5:00 P.M. on Saturday, April 20th with the session on citizen lobbying. Speakers, interactive panel presentations, and three meal functions with featured speakers round out the schedule.

Registration for the two-day event is now open at www.paleadershipconference.org. Additional speakers will be announced over the coming weeks.

Scott Perry brings a unique background of hard work, business acumen, military leadershipk, and community involvement to the U.S. House of Representatives. He served three terms as a Pennsylvania State Representative, establishing a record of dedication to the cause of protecting taxpayers’ interests in Harrisburg. While serving in Harrisburg, Scott was assigned to the Appropriations, Consumer Affairs, Labor Relations, Veterans Affairs ,and Emergency Preparedness and Rules Committees.

Scott knows the importance of effort and dedication. He began his working career at age 13 picking fruit at Ashcombe’s farm in Mechanicsburg. He has worked as a mechanic, dock worker, draftsman and a licensed insurance agent. He is a 1980 graduate of Northern High School and the Cumberland-Perry Vo-Tech School.

To further his education, Scott was able to put himself through college while working a full-time job. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1991 where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration Management.

In 1993, he started his own mechanical contracting firm, Hydrotech Mechanical Services, Inc. The Dillsburg-based business provides contract construction and maintenance services to municipal and investor-owned utilities from North Carolina to New York and specializes in large meter calibration.

Scott began his military career in 1980 when he enlisted in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. He attended basic training at Fort Dix, N.J., and graduated Advanced Individual Training at Fort Belvoir, Va., as a technical drafting specialist. He graduated as the president of his officer candidate school and was commissioned a second lieutenant – field artillery branch.

Colonel Perry served as the Commander of the 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion.  He assumed the command in February of 2008. That unit was called to service in Iraq, deploying in January 2009. The deployment ended in January 2010, after a successful mission, and returned to the base at Fort Indiantown Gap.

On February 5, 2011, Scott was promoted to the rank of Colonel, and has assumed command of the 166th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, located at Fort Indiantown Gap.  He is also a recent graduate of the US Army War College.

Scott’s service to his community has included serving as the chairman of the Carroll Township Planning Commission and as a member of the township Source Water Protection Committee. He was chairman of the Dillsburg Area Wellhead Protection Advisory Committee and he served on the Dillsburg Revitalization Committee. He is still active in the Jaycees and held the office of regional director for the state organization. He is also a member of Dillsburg Legion Post #26 and Dillsburg VFW Post #6771.

Scott began serving as the Congressman from Pennsylvania’s 4th Congressional District in 2013. He serves on the Transportation and Infrastructure, Homeland Security, and Foreign Affairs Committees.

Scott and his wife, Christy, are the proud parents of two daughters, Ryenn and Mattea.

Registration for the 2013 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is now open at www.paleadershipconference.org.

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February 27, 2013

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CONTACT:      Lowman Henry

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Scott Rasmussen named Luncheon Speaker at

2013 PA Leadership Conference

(Harrisburg, PA) – Scott Rasmussen, political analyst and independent pollster will be the Liberty Luncheon speaker on Saturday, April 20th at the 2013 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference at the Radisson Penn Harris Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), PA. Scott is author of the book Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System. He joins Steve Hayes of Fox News/The Weekly Standard, Fox News Contributor Deneen Borelli, FrackNation producer Ann McElhinney, U.S. Senator Pat Toomey, and John Gizzi of Human Events as announced speakers. span>

The Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is the premier annual gathering of conservatives each year in the Keystone State. This year’s conference will be held on April 19-20. Panel topics include session on Broadening the Conservative Coalition, Unleashing the Economic Potential of Penn’s Woods, Freedom to Work, and a State IssuesRoundtable. There will also be three workshop sessions focusing on Using Social Media, The 10th Amendment and States’ Rights and Citizen Lobbying.

 

The conference begins at 9:00 A.M. on Friday, April 19th with the social media and constitutional workshop sessions and ends at 5:00 P.M. on Saturday, April 20th with the session on citizen lobbying. Speakers, interactive panel presentations, and three meal functions with featured speakers round out the schedule.

 

Registration for the two-day event is now open at www.paleadershipconference.org. Additional speakers will be announced over the coming weeks.

 

Scott Rasmussen is founder and president of Rasmussen Reports. Scott Rasmussen is a political analyst, author, public speaker, and independent public opinion pollster. The Wall Street Journal describes him as “today’s leading insurgent pollster” and “a key player in the contact sport of politics.” The Washington Post says Rasmussen is a “driving force in American politics.”

In 2012, Rasmussen became a New York Times bestselling author with his book The People’s Money.

Rasmussen provides public opinion updates three times a day for a nationally syndicated radio show anchored by WOR radio in New York and writes a weekly newspaper column distributed by Creators Syndicate. In September 2012, Rasmussen launched a nationally syndicated TV show – What America Thinks – with WCBS-TV as the New York station.

Rasmussen’s work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Investor’s Business Daily, the Christian Science Monitor and other major publications.

He is a frequent guest on Fox News, CNBC, BBC and other major media outlets. Rasmussen also has appeared on The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. Highlighting Rasmussen Reports’ increasing pop culture presence, the firm has been mentioned on popular television shows like The West Wing, The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Gossip Girl.

Rasmussen and his firm have developed a reputation for delivering reliable, newsworthy and actionable public opinion data. Slate.com’s Mickey Kaus declared in 2009, “If you have a choice between Rasmussen and, say, the prestigious N.Y. Times, go with Rasmussen.” The Washington Examiner’s Michael Barone calls him “one of America’s most innovative pollsters.” Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen, pollsters for Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, say that Scott has an “unchallenged record for both integrity and accuracy.”

In 2008, Rasmussen projected then-Senator Barack Obama would win the presidential election by a 52% to 46% margin. Obama won 53% to 46%. In 2004, Rasmussen was within half a percentage point of the actual vote totals earned by both President Bush and Senator Kerry.

“If it’s in the news, it’s in our polls” is more than a company slogan; it’s the way Rasmussen runs his business. Polling topics are inspired by the day’s headlines, not dictated by any client or special interest group. As the influential Washington publication The Politico puts it, Rasmussen Reports is “an organization with fast zeitgeist reflexes.”

Rasmussen speaks regularly at events around the country, translating poll numbers into meaningful analysis and commentary about current events, underlying trends and the questions that Americans are curious about.

Rasmussen has tremendous faith in the collective wisdom of the American people. That faith is displayed in his latest book, The People’s Money. In the book, Rasmussen argues that the American people are the solution to budget issues rather than the problem. He shows specific proposals supported by a majority of voters that would balance the budget, completely eliminate the federal debt and prepare the nation for the rest of the 21st century.

His earlier books include Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System and In Search of Self-Governance.

Rasmussen founded Rasmussen Reports, LLC in 2003 as a media company specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. The firm’s website, RasmussenReports.com, provides daily news coverage and commentary on political, business, economic and lifestyle topics. It has become America’s most visited public opinion polling site.

Rasmussen did his first radio commercial at the age of seven and considers the opportunity to emcee the 50th birthday of his childhood idol, hockey legend Gordie Howe, the most outstanding highlight of his career. He and his father founded the cable sports network ESPN, an entrepreneurial adventure that has been recounted in numerous books.

Registration for the 2013 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is now open at www.paleadershipconference.org.

February 13, 2013

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

CONTACT:      Lowman Henry

(717) 671-0776

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John Gizzi of Human Events to Speak at

2013 PA Leadership Conference

           (Harrisburg, PA) – John Gizzi, Political Editor and White House correspondent for the national conservative newsweekly Human Events, will be the Freedom Breakfast speaker at the 2013 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference on Saturday, April 20th at the Radisson Penn Harris Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), PA. He joins Steve Hayes of Fox News/The Weekly Standard; Fox News Contributor Deneen Borelli; FrackNation producer Ann McElhinney, and U.S. Senator Pat Toomey as announced speakers.

A perennially favorite speaker at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, John Gizzi has come to be known as “the man who knows everyone in Washington” and, indeed, many of those who hold elected positions and in party leadership roles throughout the United States. With his daily access to the White House as a correspondent, Mr. Gizzi offers readers the inside scoop on what’s going on in the nation’s capital. He is the author of a number of popular Human Events features, such as “Gizzi on Politics” and spotlights of key political races around the country. Gizzi also is the host of “Gizzi’s America,” video interviews that appear on HumanEvents.com.

The Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is the premier annual gathering of conservatives each year in the Keystone State. This year’s conference will be held on April 19-20.   In addition to the featured speakers, three workshop sessions focusing on Using Social Media, The 10^th Amendment and States’ Rights and Citizen Lobbying have been announced.

 

The conference begins at 9:00 A.M. on Friday, April 19th with the social media and constitutional workshop sessions and ends at 5:00 P.M. on Saturday, April 20th with the session on citizen lobbying. Speakers, interactive panel presentations, and three meal functions with featured speakers round out the schedule.

 

Registration for the two-day event is now open at www.paleadershipconference.org. Additional speakers and panel topics will be announced over the coming weeks.

 

John Gizzi got his start at Human Events in 1979 after graduating from Fairfield University in Connecticut and then working for the Travis County (Tex.) Tax Assessor. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including Fox News Channel, C-SPAN, America’s Voice, The Jim Bohannon Show, Fox 5, WUSA 9, America’s Radio News Network and is also a frequent contributor to the BBC — and has appeared on France24 TV and German Radio.

He is a past president of the Georgetown Kiwanis Club, past member of the St. Matthew’s Cathedral’s Parish Council, and secretary of the West End Friends of the Library. He is a recipient of the William A. Rusher Award for Journalistic Excellence and was named Journalist of the Year by the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2002.

John Gizzi is also a credentialed correspondent at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He has questioned two IMF managing directors, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Christine LaGarde, and has become friends with international correspondents worldwide.

Registration for the 2013 Pennsylvania Leadership Conferenceis now open at www.paleadershipconference.org.

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