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CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT LEADERS TO ISSUE “THE MOUNT VERNON STATEMENT,” DEFINING CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES, BELIEFS AND VALUES
Fifty Years After The Sharon Statement Helped Launch The Conservative Movement, Today’s Leaders Will Unveil And Sign Declaration Of Leadership
WHAT: A Who’s Who of the conservative movement’s leaders will unveil and sign the Mount Vernon Statement: a document defining the movement’s principles, beliefs and values in light of the challenges facing the country and the need for Constitutional Conservatism since the Obama administration came to power. The unveiling and signing of the Mount Vernon Statement comes on the eve of CPAC, the largest annual gathering of conservative activists from across the country.
WHO:The proceedings will be led by former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese, senior statesman of the conservative movement. He will be joined by more than 80 national grassroots conservative leaders representing tens of millions of conservative activists including: Edwin Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council; Becky Norton Dunlop, president of the Council for National Policy; Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center; Alfred Regnery, publisher of the American Spectator; David Keene, president of the American Conservative Union; Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America; David McIntosh, co-founder of the Federalist Society; T. Kenneth Cribb, former domestic policy adviser to President Reagan; Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform; William Wilson, President, Americans for Limited Government; Elaine Donnelly, Center for Military Readiness; Richard Viguerie, Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com, Kenneth Blackwell, Coalition for a Conservative Majority; Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring and Kathryn J. Lopez, National Review and many others.
BACKGROUND: The Sharon Statement, signed at the home of William F. Buckley, Jr., in Sharon, Connecticut in September 1960, helped launch and define the conservative movement that led to the recruitment, development and election of numerous conservative leaders who have held positions in public office and public trust at all stations from town councils to President of the United States. The Sharon Statement can be viewed here. The Mount Vernon Statement will be signed by conservative leaders who represent all major elements of the conservative movement – economic, social and national security.
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2010 AT 2:30PM
WHERE:Collingwood Library and Museum, 8301 East Boulevard Drive, Alexandria, VA (off the George Washington Parkway between Old Town Alexandria and Mount Vernon). The Collingwood estate was an original part of George Washington’s Mount Vernon real estate holdings.
CONTACT: For more information contact Keith Appell (703)-683-5004, ext, 112; kappell@crcpublicrelations.com or Anne Marie Moran, ext. 115; amoran@crcpublicrelations.com.
There are no “LEADERS”.
Only “ADHERANTS”
These same people have been around the halls of power for an awful long time. Where were they:
when Glass-Steagall was rescinded,
when the Community Reinvestment Act was expanded,
when the SEC allowed banks to leverage up to 40 to 1 and turned a blind eye to derivatives,
when Bush was spending money like Ted Kennedy on a bender?
Why do they have to define their beliefs now? Didn't they know their beliefs before?
They were and are toothless watchdogs. The people are the only ones who can turn things around, not these "conservative leaders" who fiddled while Rome burned.
Let us hope this is a tribute to President Washington’s vision for this country.
Don’t want him rolling in his grave.