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July 18-20, 2014 • Hyatt Regency • Denver, CO

July 18-20, 2014 • Hyatt Regency • Denver, CO

July 18-20, 2014 • Hyatt Regency • Denver, CO

A Special Report Prepared By The Times summit a conservative magnet

By Valerie Richardson , Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, Sen. Mr. Andrews said with a grin, “but the Coalition Road to Majority conference, of , former fact remains that my generation came of RightOnline, the , Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Rep. age in the ’60s and ’70s, and ’s time for BlogCon and the Conservative Leader- DENVER | Five years ago, John Andrews of , and us to hand the torch to Americans who ship Conference, among others. was casting about for a signature event former Rep. of . will make or break America in the 21st The phenomenon has become so un- to put the newly founded Centennial founder Jenny Beth century.” mistakable that ran a June Institute on the map, when he realized Martin will be there, but Mr. Andrews Although owned the 2012 article, “Why Are There So Many that there is probably no place politicos said the summit is aimed at all conserva- youth vote in 2008 and 2012, Mr. Andrews Conservative Conferences?” would rather visit in the summer than tives, whatever their stripe. One summit said, it’s the conservative message that is Mr. Andrews has a simple explana- Colorado. The humidity is low, the bugs are scarce and it’s a swing state. Mr. Andrews and former Sen. Bill Armstrong, the presi- dent of Colorado Christian University, envisioned a Western version of the Con- servative Political Action Conference, with a few tweaks. “Bill Armstrong and I said to each other, ‘We could do something like that,’ except that it would be different in three ways,” said Mr. Andrews, director of the conservative Centennial Institute think tank. “It would be in the summer, not the winter; it would be in the Rockies, not on the Potomac, and it would have that broader recognition that important as politics and elections are, most im- portant of all is the understanding of the American idea in the hearts and minds of our people.” Never mind that Mr. Andrews, a for- mer Colorado Senate president, was 66, an age at which most people are put- ting on the brakes. In 2010, the Centen- nial Institute launched the first Western Conservative Summit, a gathering of conservative politicos and intellectuals. GettyImages Its theme: “Right turn, right now.” The Western Conservative Summit has grown tenfold in the past five years, forcing it to move from the Colorado suburbs to the capital. Mr. Andrews hoped to draw about 300 The theme for this year’s conference, which starts Friday with an expected 3,000 attendees, is “Right turn, right now.” attendees to a hotel in suburban Douglas County. Instead, 600 people signed up, forcing him to move the event to down- workshop, “Fight on the Right,” tackles suited to the under-30 crowd. tion: “There’s just no substitute for being town Denver. the tension among tea partyers, the Re- “I think personal choice and personal together.” Five years later, Mr. Andrews expects publican establishment, libertarians and responsibility and self-reliance and taking “The energy that fills the room when as many as 3,000 attendees when the social conservatives. hold of your own future to meet your own a lot of people have come together for a three-day Western Conservative Sum- “That’s healthy. You’re not going to aspirations, which is a conservative and common purpose to hear a powerful mes- mit convenes Friday. This year’s theme: have a governing coalition unless you not a progressive or a liberal approach, sage, and the networking that goes on, the “America at Its Best.” have some disagreement and some con- has all kinds of possibilities with this next friendships, the contacts that get forged,” Once again, the summit has outgrown structive tension,” said Mr. Andrews, “but generation,” he said. “We just have to do a he said. “The realization that, ‘Hey, what its venue. The Denver Hyatt Regency’s there is a danger that a circular firing better job of getting the message across.” I’m doing and what you’re doing, if we combine them, we get synergy, we get one and one to add up to three. That’s It would be in the summer, not the winter; it would be in the Rockies, not why coming together in person and doing on the Potomac, and it would have that broader recognition that important it over a three-day span, not just doing it on one particular evening, there’s some as politics and elections are, most important of all is the understanding power in that.” of the American idea in the hearts and minds of our people. In the summit’s first year, drawing top Republicans to Denver was tricky. THE WASHINGTON TIMES THE WASHINGTON

2,000-seat ballroom isn’t big enough to squad will deprive the right of opportuni- A highlight of the weekend is the Most of the speakers were local, but | hold everyone for the biggest draws, so ties in Colorado and nationally this year.” presidential straw poll, which the sum- now, “We’ve begun to get prominent several events will be held across the Keeping the conference young is a mit began in its second year. Last year, national speakers who seek us out and street at the Colorado Convention Cen- priority for Mr. Andrews, who is 70 but Mr. Cruz won the poll, and he may be say, ‘Can I address your delegates?’” Mr. ter’s Bellco Theatre. as spry as a shortstop. He invites students tough to beat this year, given that he’s a Andrews said. That includes Friday’s opening night from Colorado Christian University to in- featured speaker. “Year by year, the reputation is grow- with Sen. of , troduce the speakers, and 120 people ages The Western Conservative Summit is ing,” he said. “We feel flattered when Gov. and Washington Times 16 to 20 will be attending this year as part ascending at a time when conservative- people say, ‘This is the CPAC of the West. columnist Ben S. Carson. The program of the just-launched Young Conservatives themed conferences are all the rage. This is the CPAC of the summertime.’ I also includes a plethora of other promi- Leadership Conference. In addition to CPAC, there’s the Red- don’t think we’re there yet, but I think it’s

• 2014 17 • July Thursday nent Republicans: former Gov. “Maybe I’m a youthful, energetic 70,” State Gathering, the Faith and Freedom something to aspire to.” 2 A Special Report Prepared By The Washington Times America hasn’t peaked yet By John Andrews from Saigon. Oil prices soared and the of Colorado Christian University, in es- take our eye off the opportunities (and economy flatlined. Soviet adventurism tablishing Centennial Institute as CCU’s dangers) of tomorrow. “Contrition is BS.” Press secretary spread. Jimmy Carter wrung his hands think tank. It’s been a good ride. Nor do we accept the presentism that Ronald Ziegler’s acid tone shocked and proclaimed malaise. Was America His personal connection to the GOP, would discard timeworn landmarks: me – and he didn’t use the initials. It washed up? and mine, are no secret. But parties or the Bible, the American Founding, “the was 1973, a bad year in a bad decade for Within a decade, however, America candidates have nothing to do with the permanent things,” as T.S. Eliot called America. I was a young speechwriter was back. The resilience of our free university’s academic mission and our them. We know that if America is to be in the Nixon White institutions, the institute’s policy mission. Rather we a nation at all, she must forever be a na- House, assigned From Our Opinion Writers toughness and no- seek to impact the culture in support of tion under God. The USA must define to gather input bility of our national such standards as traditional family val- its future by faith, family, and freedom – from Ziegler and character, the honest ues, sanctity of life, compassion for the or have no future. national security advisor Henry Kiss- self-criticism and self-correction of our poor, a biblical view of human nature, From this unfashionable but un- inger for a TV address that we hoped open public square, together disproved , personal freedom, yielding stance, we have seen CCU’s would put the president’s Watergate the diagnosis of terminal decline from a free markets, , original intent core curriculum honored in the top 2% troubles behind him. demoralized left. of the Constitution, and the heritage of nationally by the American Council But the press secretary, channeling Uncle Sam, his head again held high, Western civilization. of Trustees and Alumni. We’ve placed Nixon’s own defiance, wanted no part of signaled the world that our best days It’s from these wellsprings that our graduates in positions of influence Kissinger’s scenario: a contrite chief ex- were still ahead. They were then, in renewal has been nourished in Amer- across the spectrum of careers, from ecutive asking for the American people’s Reagan’s time, and they still are today ica’s comeback since the bicentennial business to law to health care, from forgiveness as JFK had done after the – despite the ascendancy of a president nadir in 1976. And from them equally, politics to education to ministry. We’ve Bay of Pigs. No apology would issue more lawless than RN ever was and even amidst all the country’s difficul- fought the HHS abortifacient mandate from the Oval Office. RN would tough it the travesty of that same ties today, free citizens can draw the in court. And we’ve created high-impact out. Right. directing foreign affairs. Don’t write off strength and purpose to bring the sweet national outreach programs like the an- The 1970s were a dark time. Only a America. We haven’t peaked yet. land of liberty through undreamed chal- nual Western Conservative Summit. couple of years out of the Navy myself, My post-Watergate road brought me lenges in the 21st century. No one knows what peaks of great- I had earlier shared the disgust that from the ethical swamps of the Potomac What of 2076, our next centennial ness and valleys of struggle and vistas most Americans felt when dissident to the bracing air and wider horizons of year? The 300-year milestone is one that of human betterment await this “almost- naval officer John Kerry protested the the West. Here in Colorado we’ve raised few great nations have attained, human chosen people” in a new century. But Vietnam War by throwing away his our kids, buried our parents, sunk roots folly and fallibility being what they are. Colorado Christian University and Cen- medals and accusing the in a caring community, lived the ups and We at the Centennial Institute, true to tennial Institute are all in for America’s of war crimes. Yet millions in the downs of grassroots government. our name, focus intently on this long- grand adventure. country’s “silent majority,” as President I gravitated to education and to think term vision – much more than we focus Nixon called us, had to watch as events tanks, convinced that culture is up- on short-term battles at the legislature John Andrews ([email protected]) is spiralled against all that we hoped and stream of politics. Without winning the or the ballot box, important as those director of the Centennial Institute, former believed in. argument we’ll never win the vote. In may be. We’re very much in the debates president of the Colorado Senate, and au- Nixon resigned in disgrace. 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A Special Report Prepared By The Washington Times 3 An opportunity that can’t be lost

By re-elected in November. He and Gov. John This turnaround hardly means the skeptical of Washington. He railed against Hickenlooper, who as Denver’s mayor in West can be taken for granted by Re- corporate greed and the like, and he won. After a landslide victory in 2008, Barack 2008 had “hosted” the 2008 Democratic publicans and conservatives, who might The problem is that rhetoric gives Obama and his political advisors vowed to Convention, are fighting for their political now assume as Obama and his allies did way to reality once a candidate is elected. not only fundamentally change America, lives. Both the Sen- a few short years ago Obama, Schweitzer, Udall and Hicken- but to lock down their victory by fun- ator and governor that things are mov- looper talked a good game as candidates, damentally changing the politics of the declined to be seen From Our Opinion Writers ing their way. but after their elections couldn’t match American West. in public with Mr. Progressives their actions to their rhetoric. The expec- Those were heady times for Western Obama, though Sen. Udall did agree to thought they had the region figured out tation that they were somehow “different” Democrats. Brian Schweitzer had won appear with him at a private fundraiser even before Obama’s 2008 victories. The from the liberals who came before them the Montana governorship in 2004, and for his own campaign which was closed election of Mr. Schweitzer as Montana’s was never fulfilled. And they lost the vot- Colorado progressives had a plan in place to the press. governor in 2004 was hailed by the na- ers that had made their victories in the that they were correctly convinced would Their reluctance to embrace their tional media and Democratic strategists region possible. Those voters, or many turn that state from Red to Blue in short president and the leader of their policy as a model for victory in other states. of them, will be voting for Republican order. The decision to hold that year’s cocktail of Obamacare, regulatory over- He was even talked about as a future candidates in November. Democratic convention in Denver sig- reach and an Obama-led war on guns, coal Democratic presidential possibility; talk The Republicans, however, have yet naled a deep belief in progressive circles and fracking are changing the landscape which obviously went to the man’s head to develop the cohesive message that that the West was changing, and that by in these states more quickly than those as even now he considers himself a viable will allow them to rely on these states working the region Republicans could be who designed the progressive western national candidate. in future elections. Many western states locked out of the and the strategy could have imagined back then. The key was to avoid hot button issues … Idaho, Montana and Colorado being Senate control for years, or even decades. Since 2008, Republicans have elected that might turn off traditionally conser- prime examples … have swung back and But that was then. Last week President governors in Nevada and New Mexico, vative voters while focusing on popular forth in the past if Republicans fail to take Obama flew into Colorado once again recalled Democratic state legislative lead- concerns without getting into the nitty advantage of the opportunity they have because Democratic control of the Sen- ers in Colorado and may well be on the gritty of how one might go about deal- been presented. ate could depend on whether , cusp of reclaiming control of the U.S. ing with them. His appeal owed much who was elected as part of the president’s Senate with crucial election victories in to the populism of a century ago, and it David A. Keene is Opinion western strategy six years ago, will be the region. seemed to work. He was for guns and was Editor of The Washington Times. When the West is pushed, it turns right

By Carl Graham depends a lot on which part of the the West’s vast rural areas, warming to never been active in politics or policy elephant he or she is sampling. A nurse many of the self-governance and free debates are getting involved because Most people have heard by now that the in Seattle or a software engineer in enterprise principles that conservatives federal decisions are inflicting real locals out West are getting a little rest- Denver will perceive a much different have traditionally cherished, these fami- pain on them, their families and their less, as they have every other genera- Western political culture than will a lies and communities are in a race with communities. Federal land and water tion or so since the mid-19th century. rancher in Montana’s Missouri Breaks, a growing urban majority that benefits restrictions, Endangered Species Act What’s less clear is whether this or a roughneck in Utah’s Uinta Basin. from that rural production economy but abuses, and other intrusions are turning restlessness reflects a new conserva- They will also have significantly differ- is choking the life out of it by support- rural voters to the right, even if they tive political tilt, or ent public policy ing increased regulation and decreased often don’t realize they’re supporting if it’s just the latest inclinations: not access to critical resources. “conservative” ideals. flare-up in a turf war From Our Opinion Writers so much because It hasn’t always been thus. The rural In a practical sense, they’re just try- over resources and their interests or West has historically been a conglom- ing to preserve their lifestyles and liv- real estate that’s been waged for over a goals vary so much – they don’t. Their eration of New Deal and union Demo- ings. But their priorities and arguments century. policy preferences diverge because crats, post-reconstruction Republicans, are increasingly conservative because Are we looking at an ideological of the angle and proximity of their ornery libertarians and anarchists, and traditional conservative values reflect movement determined to turn this viewpoint. pretty much everything in between. But their everyday lives. Limited govern- region to the right, or simply a periodic One perspective witnesses and expe- a common thread running through this ment, free enterprise, personal freedom episode of sound and fury, signifying riences the rural production economy tapestry was an insistence on being left and privacy: these are the principles nothing? up close as a livelihood and a lifestyle, alone and a feeling – even if not always bringing rural Westerners into the con- Defining Western political forces while the other has real memories or accurate – of self-reliance. This com- servative fold. The question is, can that has always been tricky because these implanted images of an unspoiled and mon thread allowed a sort of détente fold make a difference? forces so much depend on the current imperiled natural legacy. between all these groups, so long as The tilt of the West, and state of relations between the locals and This isn’t a left/right or Republican/ there was enough room and resources may come down to mundane math. If their Washington, D.C., landlords. The Democrat divide, although that’s how it for them to leave each other alone. an urban majority that is disconnected THE WASHINGTON TIMES THE WASHINGTON

federal government’s hand is especially is manifested in the voting booth. It’s an But over the past couple of decades from the rural production economy, a | heavy in a region where bureaucrats urban/rural difference of perceptions a new player – the federal government – majority that values feel-good policy half a continent away control 50 percent more than of aims, and it is too often has stepped in and forced people to take over physical outcomes, can impose of all lands and heavily regulate the exacerbated by cooked-up controversies sides, empowering a lot of busybodies its values from tiny blue dots on a vast state and private lands that remain. and outside agendas insisting that urban and creating a lot of conservatives in red map, then all is lost – at least until Increasingly, though, Westerners’ po- and rural values must be competing the process. those blue dots run out of food and litical leanings can be pretty accurately rather than complementary. But those Federal actions that restrict ac- electricity. guessed by how far their trade or their perspectives are different, and they do cess – economic and recreational – to traditions lie from that heavy hand. make a difference. established livelihoods and lifestyles are Carl Graham is director of Sutherland As in the blind men and the elephant While there certainly is a growing creating a new conservative movement Institute’s Coalition for Self-Government

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By on demand doesn’t mean so much when by women, employing nearly 7.9 million female vote, the best showing for the you’re living in the backseat of your car. people, and generating $1.4 trillion in GOP … since the gender gap emerged in As a woman who moved from the left to “Free” birth control? Less thrilling when sales as of 2014. Women-owned firms the 1980s, when women began to vote the right, I’ve watched with some interest you’re not in the mood for love because (50% or more) account for 30% of all more Democratic than men.” the political discussion about how con- you’re jobless, have no rent money, gaso- privately held firms and contribute 14% of Women’s issues are the economy, servatives can address women’s issues line is $5 a gallon and your health insur- employment and 11% of revenues.” the corrupt government, unemploy- and win our support. ance premiums skyrocketed 41 percent. Small government means lower taxes, ment, , national security, The answer is actually quite simple: The conservative ideal, comparatively, which means we are keeping more of healthcare, and the federal deficit. The be genuinely conservative and realize is one that respects women, doesn’t the fruit of our own labor. It means, as statement made by women in 2010 was “women’s issues” are everyone’s issues. reduce them to objects to be harangued, women, we are able to make choices that unambiguous, but Republicans must be In other words, but instead recognizes best suit us as individuals As long as any- willing to make Reaganesque, fiscally conservatives From Our Opinion Writers them as citizens to one, including women, are reliant on the conservative arguments to win them must reject the persuade. kindness of strangers in the government, back. sexist liberal non- Despite the fever- we are never truly free. Western women especially under- sense of treating women as though we’re ish left-wing characterization of women Women understand this, and it’s why stand the value of personal freedom. The some separate special interest group as crazed zombies caring only of sex, in 2010 a majority of women voted for way to persuade us is the same way to which has no interest in the many serious women’s lives are complex and involved. Republican and conservative candi- win everyone else: by boldly rejecting issues we’re facing as a nation. The economy matters to women, just dates in overwhelming numbers. There the liberal goal of making every woman The left’s obsession with big gov- as it does to men. It is financial freedom was no special Republican strategy to a frightened, reliant victim of govern- ernment, and control over our lives it that allows women to be in relationships win women votes; it happened because ment, and by reminding us of the power requires, destroys women’s lives. So because we choose to be, not because it became apparent we had elected a and imperative of small government, what do Democrats do to keep this we must be—the real pro-choice. Fi- presidential failure. The economy was individual freedom, capitalism and the harsh reality hidden? They marginalize nancial independence means a woman first and foremost on our minds, and we . the discussion, patronizing women by can choose where she lives and which weren’t satisfied with the liberal agenda. is simply the only attempting to distract us with singular is- schools her children attend. It means we The Times reported, belief system that allows all individuals sues, reducing us to reproductive systems are the stewards of our lives, not some “[Economic disappointment among to thrive on our own terms. and sex objects. Abortion, birth control, politician in a far away capitol. women]… translated into a jolting drop and the so-called “war on women” are Government getting out of the way of in female support this year for House Tammy Bruce, an Independent Conser- all meant to keep women, and those who small businesses thriving, is certainly a Democrats, who won just 48% of the vative, is a radio talk-show host, New love them, distracted from liberals’ ruin- women’s issue. According to the National women’s vote, down from 55% four years York Times bestselling author, blogger, ous policies. Association of Women Business Owners, ago, according to exit polls. Republicans political contributor and a After all, being able to get an abortion “More than 9.1 million firms are owned edged them out with 49% of the overall columnist at The Washington Times. The West may rise again

By as endlessly dynamic as the region itself. We may be at a similar moment, a mo- policies that made---and kept---us great. And that’s why----once the countercul- ment which the West may very well lead Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee ot so long ago, the American tural revolution of the Vietnam-era began yet again. of Utah, Governors Susannah Martinez of West was fertile ground for in ---those Western conserva- As it was in the 1960s and much of the New Mexico and of Arizona, conservative thought, ac- tives realized they had a responsibility 1970s, the federal government today is out Congressmen of Texas tion, and leadership. It was to stand and fight for a different set of of control, crushing freedom everywhere and Jason Chaffetz of Utah, leading the region that remained principles. in its path. Socialized medicine. Effec- Republican lights like California State Nmost faithful to the It was largely the tively open borders leading to swarms Assemblyman Tom Donnelly, Republi- nation’s found- massive government of illegal immigrants entering---and can candidates Mia Love in Nevada, Joni ing principles of From Our Opinion Writers overreach of the staying---in the country with impunity Ernst in Iowa, and Rep. Cory Gardner personal freedom, New Deal of Presi- and draining public resources from in Colorado, former Gov. Sarah Palin of rugged individualism, and economic free- dent Franklin Roosevelt and the Great education to health care. Confiscatory Alaska, among others, have had enough dom. It prided itself on being the nation’s Society of President Lyndon Johnson---as taxes. Uncontrollable federal spending. of the leftist assault and are fearlessly out political frontier, a place that maintained well as the unpopularity of the poorly- An unfathomable eighteen trillion dollars front in the movement for conservative its fiercely devoted embrace of the pio- executed Vietnam war and the Constitu- in federal debt. Gun control. Land grabs. change. neering spirit that gave rise to America’s tional crisis of Watergate---that pushed Suffocating environmental regulations From those leaders in the West, we continental expansion and ultimately, its the political pendulum in the opposite on everything from coal to water flows may very well see the next Ronald Rea- superpower status. direction. The American people had had to protect the endangered delta smelt, gan emerge from the burning wreckage Out of that tradition came some of the enough of oppressive government butting leading to severe droughts in California- of left-coast leftism to bring us back to brightest leaders of the Republican party in in every nook and cranny of their lives- --which in turn lead to lower agricultural the nation we once were---and the one THE WASHINGTON TIMES THE WASHINGTON

and conservative movement of the 20th --and the abuses that went along with it. production. The resistance to fracking we could be again. | century: from California, They were ready...for change. and the Keystone pipeline and other from Arizona, Ronald And change is what they voted for in no-brainer ways to get us to true energy Monica Crowley, the Online Opinion Reagan from California. They were the 1980, when they elected independence. Higher gas and electricity Editor of The Washington Times, is a re- polar opposite of the eastern Repub- president in a landslide and re-elected prices. spected foreign policy analyst who holds licans, who were usually Ivy League- him resoundingly four years later. The These catastrophic policies effect the a doctorate in international relations educated, establishment to the core, and Reagan Revolution was a direct rejection entire nation, of course, but it’s those in from Columbia University, is a member more closely aligned with liberalism of leftist Big Government and a proac- the West who largely bear their most of the Council of Foreign Relations and than with conservatism. By contrast, tive choice of smaller government, lower destructive consequences. That’s why served as Foreign Policy Assistant to the conservatives who were of the West taxes, fiscal responsibility, and a resump- the West may once again lead the way to former President Richard Nixon dur-

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By Niger Innis so-called “public lands,” but refuses issue between Tea Partiers out West, development of the age. The federal here are so many issues to let the public use these lands. so-called flyover territory and the government continues to crackdown facing Americans today The government claims control corridors of power in the East. on offshore oil drilling while, mad- that stem from government of land out West with the attitude The Constitution allows the deningly, investing in other nations’ overreach. The countless similar to Russian czars having federal government to claim lands in offshore rigs. It blocks the Keystone trespasses on the rights control over the land of the serfs. very narrow circumstances. Out- XL pipeline. Perhaps most devastat- of the That phenomenon side of Washington, D.C., the federal ingly, the government has failed to people by ever- of ownership and government is permitted to appropri- maximize the fracking phenomenon From Our Opinion Writers Texpanding gov- power creates the ate lands for “the erection of forts, that would afford the United States ernment could high probability of magazines, arsenals, dockyards and the potential to become the Saudi fill a tome. One particular outrage, . other needful buildings.” Arabia of natural gas. How many po- however, is uniquely felt by Ameri- The Bundy showdown was not The Constitution, however, makes tential Dakotas out West are sitting cans living in the West. an isolated incident. Having raised no mention of a right to perma- on federally controlled land? The issue of land owner- nently co-opt states for them- It is not all bad news, however. ship in America is as old as selves, forever leaving the The spirit of the Tea Party has this nation, itself. However, citizens of that forced these important issues to still, Americans in the West are prominence in discussion. Western forced to live in states and work elected officials now must encoun- on lands that the federal govern- ter this previously obscure issue ment greedily declares is theirs, at townhalls, and many are seeking not ours. means of renegotiating the balance It’s long overdue for that to of land ownership with the federal change. government. The issue of the federal gov- That’s thanks to the Tea Party ernment’s hoarding of land came and other principled conservatives to prominence in the late 1970’s who have stood up with signs, with and early 1980’s with what many articles, with hoarse voices at town- called the “Sagebrush Rebel- halls, demanding an end to the neo- lion.” Even Presidential candi- serfdom that has existed out West date Ronald Reagan proudly for far too long. It’s a long process, boasted of his support for more but Americans are finally on the land in the hands of the states, de- path to regaining their land from an claring in an August 1980 speech in abusive government - a fight many Utah, “I happen to be one who cheers awareness believed was won over two centuries and supports the Sagebrush Rebel- of this issue, ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH ago. lion… Count me in as a rebel.” other patriots People from all walks of life came The standoff at ’s started speaking up. to support and engage in this mod- ranch is a classic example of what Similar abuses were oc- state with only ern day Sagebrush Rebellion and happens when militarized bureau- curring in states like New Mexico the economic crumbs. while the fight is far from over, lines cracy meets frontier-style concepts and Texas, where the federal govern- The government’s heavy-hand- have been drawn and the point has of right and wrong. Many within ment bullied and abused citizens and edness surrounding land usage is been made: the federal government the supported claimed land for themselves. just one of many problems facing may find it easy to push around one Bundy’s right to use public lands - People in the East - even conser- Western Americans today. Constant citizen, one rancher, but we, as a the same public lands his family had vatives - have wondered what the government overregulation from movement, are millions strong. been using since the 1880’s. big deal was. However, those in the authorities at the Environmental Pro- Western Americans have to deal Why did Bundy take a stand? East, by and large, enjoy the use and tection Agency (EPA), the Bureau of with the consequences of the federal Because he had witnessed the federal unchallenged ownership of their own Land Management (BLM), the Occu- government doing what it is consti- government run off every single one land. I am the Executive Director, of pational Safety and Health Adminis- tutionally not permitted to do, while of his neighboring ranchers who re- TheTeaParty.net, an organization that tration (OSHA) and a variety of other also dealing with the consequences lied on this land - somewhere around has been instrumental in highlighting federal regulatory agencies threatens of the federal government refusing 50 ranches. What was the federal and nationalizing this issue. American prosperity and freedom to do what they are constitution- government’s response to his stance? Dedicated to facilitating commu- each and every day. ally obliged to do: secure our border They showed up with rifles, snipers, nications with lawmakers and with a Beyond the obvious freedom- against the continual waves of illegal THE WASHINGTON TIMES THE WASHINGTON

helicopters and emboldened police to massive grassroots outreach, The- crushing implications of power- immigrants surging into our country. | intimidate and corral protesters into TeaParty.Net boasts a membership of ful government intrusion on land But more than any other issue, the a designated “free speech zone.” 2.5 million Tea Party activists nation- ownership, such federal overreaches outcome of the rebellion against the Many in the East might have wide and a social media universe that have the power to rob Americans and land grabbing neo-serfdom of the wondered what the big deal was. reaches 30 million people per week. states of prosperity. federal government will determine The mainstream media glossed over In short: This problem comes Consider the American energy the fate of the West and the destiny the fact that the federal government closer to resolution when conserva- revolution. A coalition of bureau- of the Republic. claims dominion over 87% of Nevada, tives are rowing in the same direc- cratic elites, environmental extrem- my home state and the location of tion. TheTeaParty.net has worked ists and good ol’ fashioned anti- Niger Innis is the Executive Direc- the Bundy showdown. The govern- to create a line of communication growth socialists have come together tor of the Tea Party.Net, which has

• 2014 17 • July Thursday ment claimed for themselves 87% for and understanding of this important to block the most powerful economic 2.5 million members nationwide. 8 A Special Report Prepared By The Washington Times Conservative convert Susana Martinez converts voters with her personal story

By Ralph Z. Hallow delegates and credentialed members of on 2016. electorate that polls show is sick of seeing The Washington Times the press, she wraps up the story this way: “My dad was a golden gloves boxers in over five decades an inverse relationship be- “When we left that lunch, we got in the car the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff,” tween the public money spent on education uoyant, bi-lingual, upbeat and and I looked over at Chuck and said, ‘I’ll be she says. “My mom worked as an office and the quality of the resulting education. the first female Hispanic gover- damned, we’re Republicans.’” assistant. One day they decided to start She is credited with putting into effect a nor of any state, New Mexico’s In small groups her delivery is tailored a security-guard business. I thought they teacher-evaluation system that measures Susana Martinez seems a good a bit differently. She over with en- were crazy. We had absolutely no savings. actual student progress. She went on to fit for chief executive officer of thusiasm and her eyes sparkle as she says, My dad worked the business. My mom did defeat a teachers’ union attempt to use the Ba Western state where almost half the 2.1 “…and I looked at Chuck and said, holy s---, the books at night.” courts to block the reform. million population is Hispanic. we’re Republicans!” Her small audience “At 18, I guarded the ’s One wildcard may be her agreement But will major campaign donors and invariably breaks into laughter. bingo games held in the church lot. My to increase teachers’ salaries as a quid pro 2016 GOP presidential primary voters see Right now, campaign consultants put dad made sure I could take care of myself. quo for increasing accountability in state’s the former prosecutor and daughter of a her on the long list of potential 2016 White I carried a Smith & Wesson .357 magnum,” classrooms. Texas deputy sheriff as a good fit for presi- House candidates. Rising onto the short she says. Her reelection team today boasts that dent of a nation where Hispanics account list will require something special – that She says with palpable pride that her when she took office, she ended “years of for 54 million out of a total population of unanticipated something that is the soul of parents grew their security business that inaction at the state and federal level to 316 million? American politics. started with one teenager guarding a bingo recover any of the taxpayer money that was The answer will become clearer as next Some political consultants will ulti- game to 125 employees in three states. lost as a result” of then-Gov. Bill Richard- summer approaches. mately explore what she brings to a ticket “I went to law school and became a son’s administration scandals. For now, she’s running for a second term in terms of demographics. prosecutor -- prosecuted child abuse cases, Since the change in administrations, Mrs. as governor this November with a personal In New Mexico’s Hispanic-rich counties gut wrenching cases,” she says, adding Martinez’s team touts a successful agree- story that excites the GOP faithful and of Guadalupe, Mora, Rio Arriba, and San that doing so was for her “a privilege of a ment to “recover more than $26 million for right-leaning independents everywhere: Miguel counties, Mrs. Martinez’s 2010 share lifetime.” taxpayers from companies and individuals she and her husband, Chuck, both former of the total votes -- including non-Hispanics At this point, she’ll usually say in Span- related to the scandals.” Democrats, had turned Republican for phil- -- was 57 percent, 46 percent, 41 percent, and ish, “In America, anything’s possible.” Re- Mrs. Martinez, as a former district at- osophical, not knee-jerk partisan reasons. 38 percent respectively. That was probably gardless of the linguistic skills of her audi- torney, is said to have taken great delight “Before I ran for district attorney, two not a majority share of the Hispanic popu- ence at the moment, her meaning is clear in banning corrupt contractors from doing Republicans invited my husband and me lation but from her supporters’ viewpoint, enough to elicit applause and whistles of business with the state. She signed legisla- to lunch,” she says in one version of the remarkable nonetheless. approval. tion requiring nearly 30,000 new local personal tale. “I knew a party-switch was She’s also got the kind of gubernatorial Her checklist as the chief manager of her government employees to be covered by what they wanted from us. So, I told Chuck, record conservative and establishment state includes closing a record-sized struc- ethics laws and “re-instituted the use of ‘We’ll be polite, we’ll enjoy a free lunch and Republicans alike love to love – seemingly tural deficit “by requiring state employees minimum qualifications for state govern- then we’ll say goodbye.’” sparse to non-existent in pandering to to contribute more to their retirements.” ment positions to ensure that those who At lunch, the conversation turned on ethnic groups and other special interests. She boasts having sold the state’s luxury are hired are qualified for their job.” issues with no mention of “Republican,” As soon as she and her husband un- jet used by her predecessor, “capped sala- That she campaigned hard among New “Democrat,” “liberal” or conservative.” packed their clothes in the governor’s ries for cabinet secretaries and eliminated Jersey’s Hispanics for Gov. ’s Instead, they talked about whether “wel- residence, she began crusading to repeal a the chefs in the governor’s residence.” reelection is hardly conclusive evidence that fare is a helping hand up or a way of life.” state law that granted illegals immigrants a On the hottest issue of the election she’s got the magic touch with that growing They talked about the “size of government driver’s license. She also signed an execu- cycle so far, she moved to end the state’s segment of the U.S. electorate. But it doesn’t and how much should it tax families and tive order requiring state law enforcers to sanctuary policy for illegal immigrants hurt the impression that she can pass the small businesses.” check the immigration status of everyone who commit crimes and to crack down on laugh test when it comes to envisioning her In public gathering, like her-prime time arrested in the state. driver’s licenses fraud by foreign nationals. as not only the first woman president or vice 2012 Tampa GOP presidential nominating But it’s her personal story that offers One achievement, in particular, may president, but the first Hispanic elected to speech to millions of TV viewers and 20,000 a strong connection should she gamble make her stand out among an American either post.

Alaska tops wildcard races across the West THE WASHINGTON TIMES

By Seth McLaughlin Democrat, keeps his seat in Alaska, but The race also will have a third-party considered tossups. The Washington Times they may end up deciding which party candidates, which some political observ- The incumbents in those races, Reps. controls the Senate,” Mr. Kondik said. ers say could tip the scales of the election. Ann Kirkpatrick and Ron Barber, are two The road to a Republican majority in “Even though the West is dominated by the Republicans need to pick up a net of six of the nine Democrats who hold seats in

the Senate could hinge on what happens two American megastates, California and seats to win control of the Senate. They districts that Republican candidate Mitt | Thursday • July 17 • 2014 in Alaska, where Sen. Mark Begich is Texas, sparsely populated Alaska is holding have expanded their map of possible pick- Romney carried in the 2012 presidential fighting for his political life and, like other the West’s most important congressional ups in Colorado, where Republican Rep. election. vulnerable Democrats, is trying to distance contest this year.” Cory Gardner is challenging Democratic Mr. Kondik, meanwhile, said the race himself from President Obama and some Mr. Begich will face off against the Sen. Mark Udall. in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District of Mr. Obama’s unpopular policies. winner of the Aug. 19 Republican primary Polls show Mr. Gardner and Mr. Udall “could be the hottest, most expensive Kyle Kondik of the University of Vir- race among lawyer Joe Miller, who ran in are running neck and neck. House race in the whole country.” ginia’s Center for Politics said Alaska could 2010; former Alaska National Resources In House races, Democrats are on the In that race, Republican Rep. Mike be ground zero. Commissioner Dan Sullivan; Lt. Gov. Mead defensive in a number of Western states, Coffman is seeking re-election against, “Only a relative handful of voters Treadwell; and Air Force veteran John including Arizona, where the races in the will decide whether Sen. Mark Begich, Jaramillo. 1st and 2nd congressional districts are » see ALASKA | D11 A Special Report Prepared By The Washington Times 9 ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Democrats By Ted Cruz as many Republicans disagree have three questions Banning speech with a constitutional with films made by Mr. Gore for my Democratic and Michael Moore. colleagues in the Sen- amendment is playing with fire That’s a sign of a healthy and ate: Should Congress vibrant society. Banning films be able to ban books? is not. Should Congress be In Ray Bradbury’s novel able to ban films? “Fahrenheit 451,” — the tem- Should Congress be perature at which ‘book paper’ able to ban groups such as the auto-ignites — Capt. Beatty, INAACP, the National Rifle As- who is the chief book burner, sociation and the Sierra Club said, “If you don’t want a man from speaking? unhappy politically, don’t give The answer to all three ques- him two sides to a question to tions should, unequivocally, be worry him; give him one. Better “no.” But, sadly, 45 Democrats in yet, give him none.” the U.S. Senate are supporting That same sentiment was a constitutional amendment to expressed by the Obama ad- repeal the free-speech provi- ministration, which told the Su- sions of the First Amendment preme Court in Citizens United and give Congress carte blanche that, in its view, Congress could power to regulate political ban books. speech. When Justice Anthony Ken- It’s all because a group of nedy asked the Department of conservative filmmakers made a Justice if the Obama adminis- documentary film in 2008 about tration was truly arguing that, then-Democratic presidential according to the Constitution, candidate that book sales could be prohib- did not speak favorably about ited, the Justice official replied, her record. Forty-four Senate yes, “if the book contained the Democrats are now supporting functional equivalent of express a constitutional amendment advocacy.” from Sen. Tom Udall of New That was a shocking ex- Mexico to stop Americans from ILLUSTRATION BY LINAS GARSYS change. The government made showing movies like the one an unabashed argument for the Citizens United created during The American Civil Liberties political debate. The answer is yes, yes, government being able to stop a the 2008 election. Union, however, has sounded However, The yes and yes. That’s what free book from being sold. Forty-five Senate Democrats the alarm. The ACLU says Times is a corporation. Should speech gives Americans the As the ACLU observed, are willing to rewrite the Con- the Democrats’ amendment they stop penning editorials? power to do — mock, pro- under the Democrats’ proposed stitution to take away the right would “severely limit the First NBC is a corporation. Should voke, challenge and persuade. amendment, Congress could of Americans to speak or create Amendment and lead directly to it quit airing “Saturday Night “Saturday Night Live” has a ban Mrs. Clinton’s new book, art that is government Live”? constitutional right to do so, “Hard Choices.” critical of From Our Opinion Writers censorship After all, wasn’t Tina Fey but the Democrats’ amendment It could ban anti-Hillary politicians. of political influencing voters when she would allow Congress to ban movies and pro-Hillary books Forty- speech.” took on an Alaskan accent and the show. alike. What then would become five Senate Democrats are Floyd Abrams, perhaps the declared “I can see from The hard-line liberal parti- of our political debates? We actively working to silence leading First Amendment litiga- my house” — something Sarah sans who want to rewrite the would have only that which political criticism ahead of the tor in the country and an out- Palin never even said? Constitution to give their party Congress would allow. next presidential election. spoken Democrat, has, as well. Didn’t Will Ferrell’s hilarious a political advantage certainly The Democrats, by working They are the “Fahrenheit 451” He said the amendment “would portrayals of President George do not have the same interests to shut down political speech, Democrats. want to eliminate different Never before has Con- sides of our most important gress tampered with the First We should keep our faith in the Bill of Rights, rather questions, just as Capt. Beatty Amendment. said. When a similar proposal was than in politicians intent on preserving their power. Soon, Senate Democrats will considered in 1997, the famed hold their vote on a constitu- THE WASHINGTON TIMES THE WASHINGTON

liberal lion of the Senate, Ted limit speech that is at the heart W. Bush as childlike and con- in mind as James Madison and tional amendment to repeal our | Kennedy, reminded his col- of our First Amendment.” fused change public opinion of Alexander Hamilton. free-speech protections. leagues that never before had Senate Democrats would our 43rd president? Wasn’t Seth We should keep our faith in They are playing with fire. the Bill of Rights been amended like to pretend they could draw Green swaying voters when he the Bill of Rights, rather than in “Fahrenheit 451” is coming to and “now is no time to start.” the line between what they impersonated Vice President politicians intent on preserving life, and tragically, the Demo- I agree with . think is “reasonable” political as a dry, droning bore? their power. crats are playing the role of the Where are the Democrats who speech and “unreasonable” po- Wasn’t Darrell Hammond There will always be politi- firemen who want to burn our agree with him today? Not a sin- litical speech. To hear the Dem- enforcing a certain kind of cal speakers who someone dis- books and silence the citizenry. gle one has spoken out against ocrats tell it, all they want to do perception of when agrees with. Democrats should this. Groupthink has taken over is stop “corporate influences” he presented the president as a be free to disagree with films Ted Cruz is a Republican mem-

• 2014 17 • July Thursday their party. from unfairly influencing the lusty, smirking cad? made by Citizens United, just ber of the U.S. Senate from Texas. 10 A Special Report Prepared By The Washington Times has no plans to fade into a Western sunset

By Ralph Z. Hallow Mr. Perry took to the op-ed page of the politician showing off. All the more to his That bold accusation seems to resonate The Washington Times Washington Post on Friday to deliver a advantage because he is, of course, a politi- with Republicans, independents and many stinging attack on Mr. Paul by name, calling cian showing off. Democrats who suspect collusion between Whether he runs or not, Texas Gov. it “disheartening to hear fellow Republicans, His attack on Mr. Paul for being skeptical the U.S. government and Latin American au- Rick Perry commands plenty of attention such as Sen. (Ky.), suggest that about interventionism in foreign policy may thorities as the only plausible explanation for on the 2016 Republican presidential stage, our nation should ignore what’s happening not sit as well with a GOP electorate that is the sudden inundation of the southern bor- and he knows it. in .” less hawkish than it used to be. der by busloads of unaccompanied children. He demanded a face-to-face meeting In his response, published Monday in Indeed, Mr. Paul noted that widespread Mr. Perry casts himself as the most ag- in Texas with President Obama to talk under the title “Rick Perry is Dead popular opposition to involvement in Iraq gressive and successful governor in person- about Mexico-U.S. border crisis. And he Wrong,” Mr. Paul took an unusually per- means that “it’s time we finally retire that ally persuading corporation heads in the kept demanding until the initially reluc- sonal tack, saying of the Texan that “ap- pejorative” term “isolationist.” U.S. and around the world to relocate part tant president gave him one — a televised, parently his new glasses haven’t altered his For all his personal charm, Mr. Perry or all of their operations in Texas. photographed, widely reported face-to-face perception of the world, or allowed him to may be at odds with an important segment But unknown to most people outside his meeting. see it any more clearly.” of his base — young evangelicals who state, he is something of a culture maven. Barely taking time to catch his breath, “With 60,000 foreign children stream- may dislike his support of a constitutional “There is no question that 10 to 15 years Mr. Perry followed up with a headline- ing across the Texas border, I am surprised amendment against same-sex marriage or ago folks might have had a point in say- generating attack on Sen. Rand Paul’s stance Governor Perry has apparently still found his comparison — which he recently reit- ing we were culturally and intellectually on Iraq. As the longest continuously serving time to mischaracterize and attack my erated — of to alcoholism. a backwater — Al Gore once said the air governor in U.S. history, Mr. Perry felt com- foreign policy,” Mr. Paul wrote. He also alienated some of the adult “rule is brown here,” he told The Washington fortable berating a U.S. senator considered Political observers think targeting Mr. of law” conservatives in his party’s base by Times. “Well, today, we have won that a first-tier White House hopeful. Paul is wily on Mr. Perry’s part because supporting in-state tuition breaks for the battle, both in perception and substance. For a year now, Mr. Perry has been in he went after a legislator, and not a fellow children of illegal immigrants who slipped The cultural arts here have exploded. From full remedial mode for his campaign-killing gubernatorial prospect like New Jersey’s across the U.S. border. But that position zoos, to music, to museums, to theater. In gaffes in the 2012 GOP presidential primary, Chris Christie, Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, is shared by a surprisingly large number Houston, we have more theater seats than including when he couldn’t remember a or Florida’s , a former governor of self-described conservatives who tend any other city in America except New York.” cabinet office he intended to zero out once with plenty of GOP establishment and to open up on the subject only to trusted Mr. Perry’s strong religious faith has been he became president. major-donor clout. friends and acquaintances. a big part of his political career, but for him He has been grabbing the initiative and Whatever casual observers see in this But where Mr. Perry has clear common now, the economy as pre-eminent in the lives holding on to it from his ballyhooed visit to Texan, it’s clear he has no plans when his ground with his party’s base is his demand of Americans, whether religious or secular. last year to his performance in March governor’s tenure ends this year to fade into that Mr. Obama dispatch the National Guard “Americans have to decide what is the at the Conservative Political Action Con- the sunset like a white-hat cowboy cast in to the border to end the invasion of unaccom- most important to them — social issues, ference, where many activists proclaimed a Western, panied Central American children, as well as foreign policy, national security and other he gave one of the best speeches of the Like his predecessor in the Austin guber- the lieutenants of the foreign crime cartels. issues. But all those issues — many of them three-day event. natorial mansion, George W. Bush, Mr. Perry On immigration, he has shown you can should be the purview of states, not the Now he is taking on one of his potential strikes people as a touchy-feely people-lov- talk tough without sounding mean-spirited. federal government,” he said in an interview competitors in 2016 if he runs, jabbing Mr. ing guy who projects no airs about himself. He has repeated publicly his accusation before embarking for the last Paul for being what the Texas governor He’s just “Rick” and he’s just as likely to throw that the children flooding the border are summer. called an “isolationist” outside the party an arm around a visitor’s neck for a quick told to claim to American authorities that “You can’t have any of these if you do tradition of Ronald Reagan and Dwight wrestling gesture as he is to bend slightly at they fleeing for their lives — escaping the not take appropriate care of taxes, regula- Eisenhower because of Mr. Paul’s opposi- the waist in greeting a female visitor. murderous drug wars in El Salvador and tion, legal policies, so that there can be the tion to further U.S. military action in Iraq. He can do either without looking like a other Central American countries. revenues for those desires,” he said.

primary race among Joe Miller, Dan 2nd Congressional District: 26th Congressional District: ALASKA Sullivan, Mead Treadwell and John Democrat: Rep. Ron Barber, Democrat: Rep. Julia Brownley, From page D9 Jaramillo. incumbent incumbent The race also includes Libertarian and Republican: The winner of the Republican: State Assemblyman among others, former state Rep. Andrew Alaskan Independence Party candidates. Aug. 26 primary race among Jeff Gorell Romanoff, a Democrat. ⦁ Colorado Shelley M. Kais, Martha E. McSally and In California, Carl DeMaio, a former Democrat: Sen. Mark Udall, incumbent Charles A. Wooten 31st Congressional District: Open seat San Diego City Council member, is trying Republican: Rep. Cory Gardner Democrat: Peter Aguilar THE WASHINGTON TIMES to unseat Rep. Scott H. Peters, a Democrat, Libertarian: Gaylon Kent 9th Congressional District: Republican: Paul Chabot to become the first openly gay Republican Unity: Bill Hammons Democrat: Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, elected to Congress. incumbent 36th Congressional District: Prognosticators expect Republicans to ⦁ Montana Republican: The winner of the Democrat: Rep. Raul Ruiz, incumbent maintain control of the House and possibly Democrat: Sen. John E. Walsh, Aug. 26 primary race between Wendy Republican: Brian Nestande grow their more than 30-seat margin. Of incumbent Rogers and Andrew Walter the 17 races considered tossups by Real- Republican: Rep. Steve Daines 52nd Congressional District:

ClearPolitics, Democrats are defending Libertarian: Roger Roots ⦁ California Democrat: Rep. Scott H. Peters, | Thursday • July 17 • 2014 14 of them. Independent: Samuel David Rankin 7th Congressional District: incumbent The following are races to watch in the Democrat: Rep. Ami Bera, incumbent Republican: Carl DeMaio West, according to The Rothenberg Politi- House Republican: Former Rep. Doug Ose cal Report, the University of Cen- ⦁ Arizona ⦁ Colorado ter for Politics and TheGreenPapers.com. 1st Congressional District: 21st Congressional District: 6th Congressional District: Democrat: Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, Republican: Rep. David G. Valadao, Republican: Rep. Mike Coffman, Senate incumbent incumbent incumbent ⦁ Alaska Republican: The winner of the Aug. 26 Democrat: Amanda Renteria Democrat: Andrew Romanoff Democrat: Sen. Mark Begich, incumbent. primary race among Gary Kiehne, Adam Green Party: Gary Swing Republican: The winner of the Aug. 19 Charles Kwasman and Andrew M. Tobin Libertarian: Norm Olsen A Special Report Prepared By The Washington Times 11 FRIDAY SATURDAY AFTERNOON, CONTINUED... 2:00 pm Registration Open...... Hyatt Regency 3:30 pm Citizen Action Workshops, Round 2 ...... Mineral Halls 3:00 pm Exhibit Area Open...... Hyatt Regency 4:00 pm Gold Reception as Ticketed...... Grand Hyatt 3:00 pm Citizen Action Workshops, Round 1...... Mineral Halls 5:00 pm Dinner Break...... Bellco Lobby 5:00 pm Dinner Break...... Bellco Lobby 5:30 pm Gold Banquet with 4:00 pm General Reception, Exhibit Hall...... Hyatt Regency Michele Bachmann as ticketed...... Grand Hyatt 5:30 pm Gold Reception as Ticketed...... Bellco Lobby 7:00 pm Vision Rally with , Jim DeMint & Ted Cruz 6:30 pm Doors Open...... Bellco Theater “Let’s Be America at Its Best”...... Bellco Theater 7:00 pm Summit Opening Night with Bobby Jindal, Mike Lee 9:30 pm The Right Movies...... Mineral Halls & – “Now is the Time”...... Bellco Theater 9:30pm The Right Movies...... Mineral Halls SUNDAY 7:15 am Gold Breakfast with Linda Chavez – as ticketed..... SATURDAY “Women of the West”...... Hyatt Regency 8:00 am Exhibit Area Open...... Hyatt Regency 8:00 am Exhibit Area Open...... Hyatt Regency 8:00 am Doors Open & Breakfast Snack Buffet...... Hyatt Regency 8:00 am Doors Open & Breakfast Snack Buffet...... Hyatt Regency 8:30 am Convening of Summit Session A...... Hyatt Regency 8:45 am Summit Chapel with Robert Woodson...... Hyatt Regency Tim Scott – “Washington Report” 9:30 am Convening of Summit Capstone Session...... Hyatt Regency – “How Culture Drives Politics”...... Daniel Hannan – “The Anglosphere Century” Guy Benson, Mary Katharine Ham, Katie Pavlich, James Golden Nick Adams, Charlie Kirk, Warren Smith, Ashley Pratte “Who’s Winning the Fight on the Right?” “Which Way : Left or Right?” KT McFarland – “A World of Storms” – “Why Freedom Succeeds and Collectivism Fails” Hugh Hewitt – “Ideas Have Consequences” Allen West – “Answer the Call, Conservatives” THE WASHINGTON TIMES THE WASHINGTON

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• 2014 17 • July Thursday Elbert Guillory – “How the Democratic Party Left Me”

12 A Special Report Prepared By The Washington Times NICK ADAMS is an Australian political commentator, author, and ELBERT GUILLORY is a Louisiana state senator, representing the columnist for PatriotUpdate.com. His love for America has led some state’s 24th district. With a law degree from Rutgers, he worked to call him “the de Tocqueville of our generation.” Adams’ latest book, as a criminal defense attorney for 43 years. Sen. Guillory’s video The American Boomerang: How the World’s Greatest ‘Turnaround’ announcing his 2013 party switch from Democrat to Republican Nation Will Do It Again (WND Books), was co-written with Col. garnered over 500,000 views on YouTube within the first three days. Allen West and released earlier this month. An avid mountain climber, Guillory counts as one of his favorites, Colorado’s highest peak and his “namesake,” Mt. Elbert.

GUY BENSON, not yet 30, is the political editor of .com and JAMES GOLDEN has been a producer, engineer, and call screener host of a Sunday-night radio program, The Guy Benson Show. He is a for the Show for over 20 years. Since 2008, Golden frequent contributor to Townhall’s “Tipsheet Blog” and has appeared has appeared frequently on the show under the pseudonym “Bo as a political analyst on CNBC, C-SPAN, Network, Fox Snerdley,” speaking as “the Official Obama Criticizer, certified News and The Blaze TV. Benson graduated with honors from the black enough to criticize.” Golden co-hosted a Sunday night talk Medill School of Journalism at in 2007. He show, James and Joel, on WABC from 1992 to 1998. He attended City spoke at WCS13. University of New York-Queens College. He spoke at WCS13.

MICHELE BACHMANN has represented Minnesota’s 6th district in DANIEL HANNAN is a member of the European Parliament, the U.S. House of Representatives since 2007. Dubbed the “Queen of representing South East England for the Conservative Party. Fox News the Tea Party,” the one-time school board member ran for the 2012 viewers know him for eloquent denunciations of UK socialism and the Republican presidential nomination and became the first woman to EU bureaucracy, which he say makes Europe “poorer, less democratic win the Iowa Straw Poll. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, have and less free.” Hannan writes a regular blog at The Telegraph and has five children and have provided care to 23 foster children. She was the authored several books, most recently Inventing Freedom: How the first speaker at our first Summit, WCS10. English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World.

BEN CARSON was for many years a professor at the John Hopkins MARY KATHARINE HAM is editor-at-large at and a School of Medicine and the director of pediatric neurosurgery at contributing editor at Townhall Magazine. A regular Fox News the John Hopkins Children’s Center. Among his countless honors, contributor, Ham is often featured on the O’Reilly Factor opposite Dr. Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008. Juan Williams. Previously, Ham has worked at , Since retiring from medicine, he has become a weekly Washington Daily Caller, and . She graduated in Times columnist and prominent political voice. His latest best-seller journalism from the University of in 2002. She spoke at is One Nation: What We Can All Do To Save America’s Future. WCS10 and again at WCS13.

LINDA CHAVEZ graduated from CU-Boulder and rose to become the HUGH HEWITT is a professor of law at Chapman University, highest-ranking woman in the Reagan White House. When President lawyer, columnist, author, and the host of the nationally syndicated George W. Bush chose her for Secretary of Labor, the left was so radio show, The Hugh Hewitt Show. After graduating from Harvard enraged that she withdrew in the public interest. The longtime in 1978, he worked as a ghostwriter for President Richard Nixon, media commentator and political organizer is now chairman of the took a law degree from the , and served in the Center for Equal Opportunity and heads the newly formed Becoming Reagan White House. His most recent book is The Happiest Life. He American Institute, devoted to “elevating the perception of Hispanic spoke at WCS12. immigrants among the American population.” Among her books is An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal. THE WASHINGTON TIMES TED CRUZ is a United States senator from Texas. Since winning BOBBY JINDAL is serving his second term as the 55th Governor of election in what called “the biggest upset Louisiana. Born in Baton Rouge to immigrants from India, Jindal of 2012,” he has become one of America’s most influential graduated from Brown University in biology and public policy at the conservatives. A graduate of Princeton and then of Harvard Law age of 20 with honors, later attending Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. As School, Cruz previously served as the Solicitor General of Texas. He Governor of Louisiana, Jindal has championed comprehensive ethics spoke at WCS13. reform, education reform, and reducing burdensome regulation. Jindal has three young children with his wife, Supriya. | Thursday • July 17 • 2014

JIM DEMINT, formerly a U.S. congressman and senator from South MIKE LEE was elected to the U.S. Senate from Utah in a Tea Party Carolina, is now president of The Heritage Foundation, one of the upset. The son of former Reagan Solicitor General Rex E. Lee, Lee’s nation’s largest and most influential public policy think tanks. A childhood was an education in constitutional jurisprudence. After businessman prior to entering politics in 1998, DeMint is the author graduating from BYU Law School, he served as general counsel to of several books including Saving Freedom, The Great American the governor of Utah and spent several years in private practice. Lee Awakening, and most recently, Falling in Love with America Again. lives in Alpine, Utah, with his wife, Sharon, and their three children. He and his wife Debbie have four grown children.

A Special Report Prepared By The Washington Times 13 BETSY MCCAUGHEY served as Lieutenant Governor of New York RALPH REED is the founder and chairman of the Faith & Freedom from 1995-1998. As a constitutional scholar, author, columnist, and Coalition, an organization devoted to mobilizing values voters. From political commentator specializing in healthcare policy, she was a 1989 to 1997 he was executive director of the Christian Coalition, leading voice against Hillarycare in 1993 and has played a similar which he helped found with Pat Robertson. Reed was also a senior role in the critique of Obamacare since 2010. McCaughey has been a advisor to the Bush-Cheney campaigns in both 2000 and 2004. His fellow at such prominent think tanks as the Manhattan Institute and fifth books, Awakening, (Worthy) came out in March. He has four , and holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. children with his wife, Jo Anne.

JENNY BETH MARTIN is the co-founder and national coordinator BEN SHAPIRO is a political commentator, radio host, author, of the Tea Party Patriots, the nation’s largest tea party organization attorney, and editor-at-large at . Shapiro entered with more than 3,400 locally affiliated groups nationwide. Martin UCLA at 16, graduating summa cum laude, and completed Harvard was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential Leaders in Law School at 23. At age 17, he became the youngest nationally 2010. She lives in Georgia with her husband, Lee, and their twins. She syndicated columnist in the U.S. In a noted CNN appearance last year, spoke at WCS13. the young rhetorical sharpshooter bested in a debate on gun control.

K.T. McFARLAND is seen frequently on Fox News as an expert on TIM SCOTT became South Carolina’s junior senator in January foreign policy and national security. She is the host of DefCon 3 2013, taking a vacancy appointment after having served in the on FoxNews.com, the most widely viewed web show on national U.S. House since 2011. Raised by a single mother in who worked security. Starting from a typist’s job in the White House Situation 16-hour days to support the family, he graduated from Charleston Room as a college freshman, McFarland went on to hold national with a degree in politics in 1988. Scott was a security posts in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations. She small-business owner before entering politics to serve as a county holds degrees from George Washington University, Oxford, and MIT. councilman and then as a state legislator. She spoke at WCS12 and WCS13.

SARAH PALIN shot to prominence with her 2006 election as governor of DeFOREST “BUSTER” SOARIES is the senior pastor of First Baptist Alaska after defeating the incumbent in a Republican primary. She had Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, NJ. He was New Jersey’s previously been mayor of Wasilla, then an anti-corruption reformer as secretary of state under Gov. Christine Todd Whitman in 1999-2002. chairman of the state oil and gas commission. When GOP presidential Soaries graduated from Fordham University, Princeton Seminary, nominee John McCain chose her as his running mate in 2008, she and United Theological Seminary. He is a leading national voice for electrified the nation with her free-swinging frontier style and was credited community-based solutions to poverty and violence. with adding percentage points to McCain’s showing against Barack Obama. His book on the “dfree” strategy for personal financial responsibility Since leaving the governorship in 2009, Palin has remained a political force is on sale at WCS14. and an active conservative voice, authoring three best-sellers.

DENNIS PRAGER is an author, columnist, and host of the nationally ALLEN WEST is a former United States Representative from syndicated Salem Radio show, The Dennis Prager Show. He Florida’s 22nd congressional district and a current Fox News graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in Middle East contributor. During his 22-year army career, West rose to the rank Studies and went on to study at Columbia University’s Russian of Lieutenant Colonel, was honored with numerous commendations School. Prager is a Media Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover and honors for valor, and served in Operations Desert Storm and Institution, and his weekly column is widely available in print and Iraqi Freedom. An avid motorcyclist and master scuba diver, he online. He spoke at WCS10 and WCS11. resides in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, with his wife and two daughters. He spoke at WCS13.

KATIE PAVLICH is the news editor at Townhall.com and a regular ROBERT WOODSON is the founder and president of the Center for Fox News contributor, most notably as an alternate co-host on The Neighborhood Enterprise, a group founded in 1981 to help address Five. Her coverage of the “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal the problems faced by low-income neighborhoods. Woodson has earned the youthful reporter Blogger of the Year honors at CPAC in been the recipient of numerous awards, including the John D. 2013. A New York Times bestselling author, she recently published and Catherine T. MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the Lynde Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on and Harry Bradley Foundation Prize, and is a regular television Women. commentator on political talk shows such as Meet the Press. THE WASHINGTON TIMES THE WASHINGTON

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