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Please consider attending Leadership Tea Party Class 3, to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Saturday, June 19, 2010.

 

  

You will learn specific organizational tools from Tea Party activists who've been very successful at it for the past year and three months.

 

Speakers will include:

 

Phillip Dennis of the Dallas Tea Party

Katrina Pierson of the Dallas Tea Party

Ken Emanuelson of the Dallas Tea Party

Lorie Medina of the Dallas Tea Party

Michael Patrick Leahy of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition

 

You will learn about:

 

The Dallas Tea Party's very successful Neighborhood Precinct Progam, and its "Victory in a Box" project that dramatically increased conservative voter turnout in 4 counties of North Texas in the March 2010 primaries.

 

Rules for Conservative Radicals, from the author of the book by that same name, Michael Patrick Leahy

 

Characteristics of Highly Effective Tea Parties

 

Graduates of Leadership Tea Party Class 1 (Dallas, January 2010) and Leadership Tea Party Class 2 (Virginia, February 2010) have used the collaborative organizational tools they learned at Leadership Tea Party to participate in the following successful projects:

 

Take the Town Halls to Washington

Firethe219

Get out the vote efforts in Texas and other states

 

 

 

 


 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Richard Viguerie

 

Richard Viguerie pioneered the use of computer technology with the art and science of direct mail marketing to build and fund grassroots groups ranging from ideological and political campaigns to charitable organizations.  For more than four decades, he has stood at the top of the profession of direct mail and direct marketing.

 

You might know him from his work with political causes and candidates, but the bulk of Viguerie’s work over the past four-and-a-half decades has been for charities.  Now, for the first time, he is offering his expertise – and that of his hand-picked team, some of the best direct marketers in the world – directly to non-profit organizations.

 

He has been called the “direct-mail kingpin” (Publishers Weekly), “the father of political direct marketing” (Direct magazine),  the man who “perfected” direct mail as a way of bypassing the media and raising money (The Atlantic Monthly), the “inventor of political direct mail”  (Keith Olbermann, MSNBC), “the master of direct mail and fundraising” (Aaron Brown, CNN), and “the metaphorical Henry Ford of direct mail fundraising and political solicitation” (The New York Times).

 

Adweek called him “part social scientist, part propagandist, and part carnival pitchman.”  The  National Observer noted his “entrepreneurial brashness” and called him “dean of direct mailers.”  Viguerie, the Associated Press reported, “envisioned the letter as a tool to inform people and to induce them to take action, as well as to tap their pocketbooks.”

 

Richard Armstrong, author of  The Next Hurrah: The Communication Revolution in American Politics, said in Advertising Age that it was Viguerie who brought to political direct mail “the gimmicks, the hard sell, the bells and whistles that had been evolving in commercial direct marketing sales since Sears Roebuck was founded.”

 

The New York Times Magazine profiled Viguerie as “the direct-mail impresario who sends out 120 million letters per year” and the person who “may have understood the value of a name before anyone else in contemporary politics.”  A “raconteur” known for his “affability and wide-ranging intellect,” the Times noted, the “works diligently to find the precise message” and “interrupts his 13- to 15- work days only to study commercial marketing for two or three hours each afternoon.”

 

The late John F. Kennedy Jr’s magazine, George, declared the founding of Viguerie’s company one of the “100 defining moments” in American politics in the 20th Century.

 

Roger Craver, who has raised millions for liberal and progressive causes, said Viguerie “taught me about raising money and involving citizens.”

 

Lanny Davis, a top adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, called Viguerie a man of “integrity, character, and honor.”  Data-mining guru (and former Al Gore campaign manager) Hal Malchow declared that Viguerie is one of “the few who actually change the world in profound and far-reaching ways.”  Viguerie is, Malchow said, “the father of my profession,” “the creator of grassroots politics in America, a pioneer, and a visionary.”

 

Liberal Syndicated radio talk show host Ed Schultz recently explained why he has Viguerie as a frequent guest on his program:  “He’s an interesting dude, and when I ask him a question, I get an answer.”

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SPEAKERS


John Burns

  

Only 25 years old, Mr. Burns is a veteran of conservative activism. A graduate of the Leahdership Institute, Mr. Burns and his colleagues pulled off this past fall’s Tribute to the Victims of Socialism at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ken Emanuelson

Mr. Emanuelson is a Dallas-based attorney and a member of the Steering Committee for the Dallas Tea Party..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Mark J. Fitzgibbons


Mark J. Fitzgibbons is President of Corporate and Legal Affairs for American Target Advertising. Since 1993, Mr. Fitzgibbons has litigated constitutional cases and battled excessive and unreasonable government regulation of the direct marketing industry.  He has been a guest on numerous radio talk shows and his work on fundraising law has been featured in national publications, including the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

 

Mark’s commentaries have appeared in Politico, The National Law Journal, DM News, The Nonprofit Times, Philanthropy Monthly, The Washington Times and FoxNews.com.  Working with such organizations as the Free Speech Coalition, he has been a leader in the fight to protect the First Amendment rights of charitable organizations.

 

Mr. Fitzgibbons is a member of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Bars, and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th and 10th Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the District of Columbia and Virginia.  According to The Nonprofit Times, state regulators have described him as “very litigious, “contemptuous,” and “a royal pain.”

 


Bill Hennessy

Bill Hennessy edits www.stlouisteaparty.com and helps lead a small but hygienic and peaceful band of rebels known as the St Louis Tea Party Coalition. He is the author of the recently released new book, Zen Conservatism.  After nine years in the U.S. Navy's submarine force (not so hygienic), Bill wrote The Conservative Manifesto (Right Press, 1993) and was a Town Hall columnist from 1993 to 1996. Bill has appeared on Fox News and numerous St. Louis television and radio programs. He lives in St. Louis County with his wife and four of their five children.

 

 

 

 

Michael Johns

Michael Johns is a health care executive, former White House and U.S. federal government official, and a conservative policy analyst and writer. He is one of several national founders and leaders of the U.S. Tea Party movement. In addition to his extensive private sector career, Michael has served as a White House speechwriter to President George H. W. Bush, a senior aide to former New Jersey Governor and 9/11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean (R-NJ), and a senior United States Senate aide to U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME). Michael began his career as a policy analyst at the Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Foundation and as an editor of the foundation's scholarly magazine, Policy Review. Michael has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, National Review, CBS HealthWatch, and other national media. He has appeared on PBS, CNBC, C-SPAN, Al Jazeera, Fox Morning News, and other networks. Michael is a graduate of the University of Miami, where he majored in economics and graduated with honors. He resides in Deptford, New Jersey and Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

 


Michael Patrick Leahy

Michael Patrick Leahy was one of the early leaders of the Tea Party Movement. As co-founder of Top Conservatives on Twitter, Mr. Leahy joined with Eric Odom and other grassroots activists to organize tea parties in fifty cities on February 27, 2009, a mere eight days after Ric Santelli’s famous rant on CNBC. Using Twitter, Facebook, and other social media, this group of activists, The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition,  followed up by organizing the April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Party demonstration, which was held in over 900 cities and attended by over 1 million demonstrators.

 

Mr. Leahy is an innovative leader in both the tactics and strategy of grassroots conservative new media activism. He has spoken to many tea parties and local organizations on leadership styles within self organizing groups in the age of collaborative technologies. He was one of several conservative bloggers whose reporting helped bring about the eventual withdrawal of the liberal Republican nominee in the 2009 special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District.

 

Mr. Leahy has over two decades of private sector experience in technology, software, marketing, and communications, and has a B.A. degree from Harvard and an M.B.A. from Stanford. He is the author of several books, including Rules for Conservative Radicals, What Does Sarah Palin Believe? and What Does Barack Obama Believe? Mr. Leahy is currently Vice President of Public Affairs for American Target Advertising of Manassas, Virginia, but continues to reside in the Nashville, Tennessee area.

 

 

Lorie Medina

A leader in the Dallas Tea Party, Ms. Medina is a former telecommunications executive and a proud home schooling mom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warren Mosler
 

A native of Connecticut, Warren Mosler started his financial career at the Savings Bank of Manchester in 1972. Over a highly successful thirty five year career, Mr. Mosler has been a highly successful investor and financial innovator. In 1982, he founded Illinois Income Investors, where he developed numerous successful strategies that utilized US Government securities, mortgage backed securities, LIBOR swaps and LIBOR caps, and financial futures markets in a market neutral, 0 duration strategy. He originated the ‘mortgage swap’ in 1986, and orchestrated the largest futures delivery to date (over $20 billion) in Japan in 1996. He also created the current euro swap futures contract.

 

In 2006, Mr. Mosler ran for Congress in the Virgin Islands as an independent, and is currently finishing his new book The Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy, which will be published on April 15, 2010.  He operates the website www.moslereconomics.com .

 

Mr. Mosler was one of the featured speakers at the September 12, 2009 Quincy, Illinois Tea Party.

 


Scott Reddick

Scott Reddick is the owner and publisher of the Gouverneur Times, an online conservative news organization that competes with “The Grey Lady” of Northern New York Newspapers, the Watertown Times. Scott and his team led the local investigative reporting of Dede Scozzafava and the NY-23 Special Congressional Election in November, 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Skoda

The founder of the Memphis Tea Party, Mr. Skoda has over three decades of experience in private sector technology management.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PANELISTS

 

Tanya Bachand
 

Tanya Bachand is the State Coordinator for the Connecticut Tea Party Patriots, one of the nation’s most active Tea Party organizations.

 

Fresh off her group’s contribution to the Scott Brown victory, Tanya is not only gearing up for the next Tea Party battle, she is actively seeking office herself, challenging a 29 year incumbent for State Representative of the 85th house district of Connecticut.

 

A noted trial attorney and Managing Partner of one of Connecticut’s most storied law firms, Tanya meld’s an unwavering commitment to the original intent of the Constitution with a pragmatic approach to getting things done.  

 

A graduate of Quinnipiac University School of Law and Fairfield University, she served as trial counsel for Allstate Insurance Company for 6 years before starting her own law practice in 2008.  Then, in 2009 she merged her firm with a larger practice in South Norwalk, Connecticut to form the firm Bachand DiScala LLC.

 

An avid Tweeter, you, like over 2,000 others, can follow her frequent and informative Tweets on Twitter at www.twitter.com/tanyabachand.  As a legal analyst she has appeared on Court TV, and as a political leader she has appeared on Fox and innumerable talk radio programs.

 


Vernon Brossart

 

Mr. Brossart is the co-founder of the Williston, North Dakota Tea Party

 

 

Christie Carden
 

Only 25 years old, Christie Carden founded the Huntsville, Alabama Tea Party in February 2009. The Huntsville Tea Party  is one of the most effective medium metropolitan market tea parties in the country.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phillip Dennis
 

A co-founder of the Dallas Tea Party, Mr. Dennis is a frequent guest on local radio and national cable TV programs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Mike Flynn
 

Michael Flynn is Editor-in-Chief of Big Government. He has almost twenty years experience in policy development, legislative affairs, media relations, political campaigns and crisis communication. He has testified often before the U.S. Congress and before at least two-dozen state legislatures. His work has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Post, Reason and numerous magazines, regional newspapers and radio. He is a frequent guest on a number of broadcast and cable networks. His work recently won top awards from the Western Publishing Association and the Los Angeles Press Club.

 

 

 

 

Greg Holloway
 

A graduate of the University of Texas Law School and a well respected practicing attorney, Mr. Holloway is a co-founder of the Austin Tea Party, and an active leader in the Texas Common Sense Citizens Network.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dana Loesch

Dana Loesch blogs at DanaRadio.com and Mamalogues.com and hosts her own daily radio show, The Dana Show, on KFTK 97.1 FM Talk. She was named the Riverfront Times Best Columnist of 2007 and she was selected as one of St. Louis’s “30 Under 30″ by the St. Louis Business Journal in 2008. In May 2009 she was named as one of the top 16 most powerful moms online by Neilsen. Dana appears regularly on Fox News and CNN, and was the first and only female guest host for the popular Michael Savage, who called her his “mental match.” She’s writes for Biggovernment.com, BigJournalism.com, and vlogs for Momversation. She speaks regularly on the subject of activism and netroots, serves as co-founder of the St. Louis Tea Party, and is credited with having helped take Dede Scozzafava out of NY23. She and her husband, Chris, and their two young sons live in St. Louis.

 

 

 

 

Gina Loudon

Dr. Gina Loudon is the Founder and President of  Legacy Group, a media and speakers' bureau since 2000.  She is an organizer for the St. Louis Tea Party, creator and spokesperson for  the Nationwide Tea Party BUYcott. She is a writer and speaker on topics ranging from grassroots political activism, to lifecoaching, to special needs adoption, and she serves as Director on the Board at Life Skills Foundation, Break Down STL, and Mo. Baptist Childrens' Home. In her political work she was instrumental in the passage of Landmark Pro-Life legislation, and Sammy's Law (named for her son with Down Syndrome). She has been married for almost 20 years to Sen. John Loudon (ret. R-MO), and has 5 children.  She is a publicist to Joseph C. Phillips (The Cosby Show), Lynne Jackson (The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation), and others.   She is currently co-writing a book on Dred Scott and his St. Louis heritage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Eric Odom 

Eric Odom is a free markets conservative activists and one of the founders of the Tea Party Movement. He is currently the Executive Director of the American Liberty Alliance and publisher of 73wire.com. Along with Michael Patrick Leahy and Stacy Mott of Smart Girl Politics, he formed the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, which hosted both the February 27, 2009 “Nationwide Chicago Tea Party” and the April 15, 2009 “Tax Day Tea Party.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Katrina Pierson

A member of Steering Committee for the Dallas Tea Party, Ms. Pierson was recognized by former Senator Fred Thompson as the person who gave the most moving speech in the country at the April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Party.   She is a health care administrator based in Dallas.