Posted on 05/06/2003 5:23:59 PM PDT by chicagolady
Conference for conservative thinkers coming to Chicago
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
By The Leader-Chicago Bureau
Conference website is www.conservativeconference.com. CHICAGO -- Conservatives in Illinois will be meeting together with national speakers such as Grover Norquist, Morton Blackwell and Janet LaRue next Saturday, May 17 at the Palmer House in downtown Chicago.
"Winning with Ideas," the theme of the conference, reflects the mood of Illinois conservative political activists who suffered loss at the statewide level last November, but achieved political victories at the national level.
The conservatives of Illinois say that they are not represented by the leaders in either of the political parties in Illinois, and agree that their ideas are "winning."
This year's Chicago Conservative Conference organizers and sponsors include:
American Conservative Union Americans for Tax Reform Concerned Women for America Family Taxpayers Network The Federalist Society The Heartland Institute The Howard Center Leader Media Co. Lincoln Legal Foundation National Taxpayers Union United Republican Fund
John Lott, the author of More Guns, Less Crime, will be addressing the topic of The Gun Bias, the topic of a newly-published book revealing the censorship of what he considers negative facts resulting from advocating gun control measures. Lott, most recently a senior research scholar at the School of Law, Yale University, is now working with the American Enterprise Institute.
Morton Blackwell, President of Leadership Institute, an organization which equips grassroots activists and political candidates with tools to use in their movements and campaigns, will address the conference on Saturday afternoon on "Movement Building."
Blackwell's nationally-renowned group has spearheaded several successful political and issue-oriented campaigns since 1979.
Also on the speakers' list is Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a coalition of taxpayer groups, individuals and businesses opposed to higher taxes at both the federal and state levels.
Norquist served on the National Commission on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service and writes the monthly column "Politics" for the American Spectator.
Another speaker, former Detroit School Board president and attorney Larry Patrick, will be addressing the topic of "School Reform."
Patrick was elected to the Detroit Board of Education in 1988 and served from January 1989 to November 1995, when he resigned. He served as president of the Board the first three years of his term.
Patrick is president of the Cass Tech Alumni Association and chairman of the North End Community Development Corporation.
Janet LaRue, Chief Counsel to Concerned Women for America, will be speaking about the topic of pornography and crime. LaRue is a frequent guest on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" on the topic of obscenity and child pornography.
She is the co-author of the book Protecting Our Children.
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