Posted on 11/18/2014 11:03:50 AM PST by iowamark
U.S. Rep. Steve King is planning a caucus 2016 kick-off featuring at least three potential Republican presidential candidates in January.
King, who earlier this month was re-elected to a seventh term, will team with Citizens United to host the inaugural “Iowa Freedom Summit” in Des Moines Jan. 24.
Among the confirmed speakers are Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Also in the line-up are Utah Sen. Mike Lee; Tennessee U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn; former Ambassador John Bolton and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.
Additional speakers are expected to be announced in the near future.
“Midterm elections gave our country a dramatic shift in possibilities,” King said. “It is exactly the right time to bring our national leaders to Iowa to hear them cast a conservative vision for our Nation’s future.”
Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses have “created an informed, engaged and active electorate all eager to begin the evaluation process of potential leaders of the free world,” he said.
The Iowa Freedom Summit is modeled on the New Hampshire Freedom Summit earlier this year, and “will only build on that success and bring grassroots conservatives together in the Hawkeye State,” said David Bossie, president of Citizens United.
“This free event will focus on how America can get back on the right track” with speeches on “the importance of pro-growth economics, social conservatism, and a strong national defense.”
The speakers at the one-day summit won’t be the first potential presidential candidates to visit Iowa in the 2016 election cycle. Others, such as conservative commentator Ben Carson and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, are scheduled to visit before the end of the year.
Carson will speak at a Family Leader fundraiser Nov. 22 ion Des Moines. Sanders will speak at Progress Iowa’s holiday party Dec. 16 in Altoona.
For more information on the Freedom Summit, visit www.IowaFreedomSummit.com
Please, Rick...stay home.
/johnny
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
The GOPe strategy is to split the conservatives so we can have another McLame or Mitt.
Huck and Santorum have about a 0% chance. Why would anyone throw dollars behind them and hurt conservatives?
I should be used to it by now, the name similarity. We are speaking about Steve King the Congressman, NOT Steven King, the writer of horror novels and die-hard liberal from Portland, Maine. Never cared for most his books anyway, but I digress.
http://www.iowafreedomsummit.com/
“Speaker List:
Senator Ted Cruz
Gov. Mike Huckabee
Senator Mike Lee
Senator Rick Santorum
Ambassador John Bolton
Congressman Marsha Blackburn
Carly Fiorina
We will be announcing more speakers in the coming weeks! Please stay tuned for updates.
“
Again, I repeat, I don’t see how a Huck or Santorum can really catch fire with voters.
Cruz, Rand Paul, Walker and Perry are pretty much in the public eye every day.
Steve King planning to endorse a candidate early this cycle. It is not difficult to see who his most likely candidate is.
How does that negate Perry being in the public eye??
Governors really have to stick out their necks every day, not like some Senators who haven’t even passed a bill like Rand Paul.
/johnny
Doesn't, but I don't want freepers to forget who he is.
Vitter (Kingmaker and conservative) and Cruz make Jindal and Perry look like RINOS. Those 2 are going nowhere. What have any of the governors done? Sign or veto bad or good ideas; and their only opposition has been far left lunatic rats.
Walker supports open borders, Paul Ryan and thinks Tea Party should stop primarying RINOS.
Santorum can make huge gains in opposing legal immigration. Tancredo and NumbersUSA endorsed him. No one else spoke about legal immigration levels or working people like Santorum has.
Perry has been rejected by the 2014 Texas GOP. He won’t even win his home state primary.
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