The Conservative Revolution

Here is the video from last night’s Glenn Beck Show on CNN. FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey discussed our website AngryRenter.com and the looming mortgage bailout.

This weekend I attended the 20th annual Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in Harrisburg. I have to say that compared to many other conferences I attend each year, this one was one of the best.

The panelists and speakers were high quality, delivered important and useful messages and were accessible after their speeches to discuss how attendees could work with them to move their ideas forward.

FreedomWorks was able to recruit new chapter leaders, sign up new members and talk about our federal and state priorities. We made some great local contacts that will be great to work with on both local and federal issues. And our field coordinator, Joe Hilliard, is proving to be a good leader and a great representative of our organization. I left the conference excited and optimisitic about our ability to make a difference in a state that is somewhat hostile to our ideas. The Republican Party in PA has been working against conservatives in many instances, and we hope that we can help put an end to this disgraceful behavior by working with groups like The Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania, PA Club for Growth and the Commonwealth Foundation.

Keep an eye out on these groups and FreedomWorks Pennsylvania in the months to come. It’s going to be fun to watch, and hopefully we will be able to tap into the anger among conservatives in the state and channel that anger into moving our ideas forward in Harrisburg.

FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe is asking whether the candidates for president are planning to address to coming retirement crisis as they campaign in Pennsylvania.

Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review previews Pope Benedict’s visit to the U.S. I actually lucked out and will be at the White House arrival ceremony next week.

Today I joined a group of FreedomWorks activists for our “Take Back the Commonwealth Day” in Richmond, Virginia. We lobbied the general assembly on the budget, taxes, transparency and regulations. Below is a short video from our breakfast at Becky’s diner in downtown Richmond. We got a good reception from most of the Republican delegates and senators. Many of the staffers knew about FreedomWorks and said that they liked our work.

VIDEO HERE

Well, last week started out great, but then I ended coming down with the flu and then a sinus infection. It was a tough weekend, and I spent most of my time in bed trying to recover. I will be glad to get some rest this weekend.

CPAC was a lot of fun. We signed up hundreds of new members for FreedomWorks, recruited for our internship program and hung out with old friends. Leader Armey gave a good speech on the power of principle, and even took a shot at loudmouth Ann Colter. He said that her decision to campaign for Hillary Clinton against John McCain was the “dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”

This week, although a bunch of folks have been slowed down by the flu, we are back in the office. Unfortunately, Jeff Flake did not get the open seat on the House Appropriations Committee, but we put up a good fight! We are planning our next move now.

It was good to see everyone at CPAC last week, and I am looking forward to working with all the students we met on our campus outreach program. If you want some more information about this, just drop me a line.

This will be a busy week for me. Today I fly to Los Angeles for Super Tuesday. Most of my attention will be on campaigning against a tax increase on the ballot there. I am also looking forward to seeing the circus surrounding Super Tuesday in L.A.

When I return on Thursday I’ll be introducing FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. FreedomWorks will also have a table for recruiting new members and interns.

It will be interesting to see whether Senator John McCain gets a cold reception at CPAC this year. Last year he refused to attend the conference and has shown little regard for conservatives over the years.

I just watched David Bossie’s new film, “Hillary The Movie.” It was a good reminder of the corrupt and power-hungry Clinton political machine. I highly recommend it to conservative opinion leaders who want to spread the word about the threat her presidency would pose to our national security, individual freedom and economic prosperity.

The film also has a cameo by my boss, FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey, which is cool. So get the dvd, watch it and pass it along to someone else.

Congrats to Citizens United and David Bossie for a key tool in the arsenal of truth against the Clinton propaganda machine.

Today’s Washington Post has a piece by Jackson Diehl about human rights activists from Egypt who recently came to Washington to meet with American organizations about community organizing and new media strategies. I had the opportunity to meet these activists and offer my own advice and experience in a training session hosted by Freedom House, a human rights organization in Washington. There is a young generation of Egyptians that wants to move beyond the authoritarian ways of Hosni Mubarak and the Egyptian government. These activists deserve our support and friendship. Hopefully I helped them out a little in their efforts to bring human rights and democratic reforms to Egypt. Here is a quote from the Post article about one of the most energetic young activists from the group, Ahmed Samih.

“The majority of Egyptians are like us, under the age of 35,” said Ahmed Samih, the 28-year-old director of the Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies in Cairo.

Samih, a fearless man who says he has been a political activist since age 17, founded a Facebook group called “What happens when Hosni Mubarak dies?” Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt under “emergency law” since 1981, is 79. But he is noticeably fading. And Samih’s group has attracted 2,741 members, almost all of them Egyptian.

Ahmed and his fellow activists are a brave group of people. They are also very creative in applying new technologies to spreading the word about their cause. I wish Ahmed and his fellow freedom fighters luck in their noble pursuit of liberty for all Egyptians.

Next week FreedomWorks is hosting its fall 2007 Liberty Summit.

This is the event where we bring in our top activists from all over the country to meet each other, lobby Congress and get grassroots leadership training from our staff.

You can rsvp on Facebook or visit http://www.freedomworks.org/conference

Looking forward to seeing everyone next week!

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