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A new study by the Washington, DC-based Leadership Institute highlights how companies divvy their political dollars. The Leadership Institute has released its study of the largest corporate and business-related Political Action Committee (PAC) contributors. The study is more or less a compilation of publicly available data from the 2005-2006 election cycle. Institute spokesman Ian Ivey says, although they do not draw any conclusion from the data, it is published on their website so browsers can see whether companies line up with their political views. "People who visit our website and take a look at this can examine what companies that...

Youth Leadership School Radisson Hotel Chatsworth Chatsworth, CA May 3rd – 4th, 2008 Since 1979, no other organization has prepared as many people with the nuts-and-bolts techniques necessary to be effective youth leaders as the Leadership Institute. The Institute was founded in 1979 by Morton C. Blackwell to train the next generation of conservative leaders; to date we have trained over 59,000 conservatives. Attend the Youth Leadership School and join the ranks of Morton Blackwell’s notable graduates: • Karl Rove, Former Deputy Chief of Staff for President Bush • United States Senator Mitch McConnell, Kentucky • United States Congressman Patrick...

Virginia National Committeeman Supporting Thompson MCLEAN, Virginia, Dec. 11 /Standard Newswire/ -- Today the Fred Thompson campaign announced that conservative leader and Virginia Republican National Committeeman Morton Blackwell is endorsing Senator Thompson for President of the United States. "Of all the candidates who have a chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination, Fred Thompson is my choice," said Morton Blackwell. "Senator Thompson has the most conservative instincts on the public policy issues that are important to America." Morton Blackwell is well known in conservative circles as the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute, an educational foundation, which trains young...

Virginia Sen. John W. Warner has said little about whether he will run for re-election, but the 80-year-old Republican is giving clear indications that he will not return for another term and that his coyness is merely an attempt to help Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, a fellow Republican, replace him. "There has been considerable discussion about the possibility that [Mr. Warner] might delay an announcement of candidacy, then announce he wasn't going to run, to allow Congressman Tom Davis to build up at the beginning of the campaigns, which would give Davis an advantage," said Morton C. Blackwell, chairman...

www.gunowners.orgJun 2006 Rep. Stockman Helping GOA Start Gun Clubs On Campus -- Do you know someone who can help win the hearts and minds of the next generation? Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 Tuesday, June 20, 2006 Do you know someone who is pro-gun, who likes working with college age kids, and who is in need of a full-time job in the fall? Well if so, former Rep. Steve Stockman (R) has a deal for him. Stockman is the Director of the Campus Leadership Program (CLP) in northern Virginia. The CLP is...

2006: Turning point for young conservatives Posted: January 5, 2006 By Hans Zeiger Something big is going on in America, but few are yet aware of it. It is a generational shift comparable to that of the infamous '60s, and it will involve as much revolt and upheaval. In this case, revolution is desperately needed, for the previous revolution has almost destroyed the country. The new revolution will repair the country. Yet 2006 will not be the beginning of the revolution – it has already been gathering steam now for several years. But it will, I predict, commence the vigorous...

News media reports from meetings organized by billionaire George Soros say he and some rich allies are now funding groups intended to counter the efforts on college campuses of the Leadership Institute and other conservative educational organizations. Although Soros and his allies hope through their spending to increase the effectiveness of the left on campus, I do not fear that activities they bankroll will significantly increase the left's campus influence. Nor can Soros stop the growth of campus conservative activities. My Leadership Institute's Campus Leadership Program, for example, grew its number of active, independent, conservative campus groups from 216 in...

If John Kerry is elected president, he will have many people to thank, but the list may start with Michael Whouley. A legendary Democratic field operative, the reclusive Mr. Whouley is in charge of the thousands of Democratic grassroots organizers who are charged with getting out the vote. Similarly, if George W. Bush wins he will owe a great deal to Morton Blackwell, a GOP national committeeman from Virginia, who helped persuade the party to supplement its paid advertising with a ground game that worked so well in Senate races in 2002 that it became the model for this year's...

Fellow Conservatives, I'm writing to ask you to join me in doing something effective against the leftist organizations and liberal media who have launched truly vicious attacks on U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. They attack Tom DeLay for just one reason: Congressman DeLay is one of the most effective fighters for conservative principles. Time and again, Majority Leader Tom DeLay manages the strategy which wins for conservatives in the narrowly divided House of Representatives. I know personally that Tom Delay is almost obsessively careful to get good legal advice before he takes any step which might conceivably be questioned...

My right-wing degree How I learned to convert liberal campuses into conservative havens at Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute, alma mater of Karl Rove, Ralph Reed, Jeff Gannon and two Miss Americas.   - - - - - - - - - - - - By Jeff Horwitz   May 24, 2005 | One recent Sunday, at Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute, a dozen students meet for the second and final day of training in grass-roots youth politics. All are earnest, idealistic and as right wing as you can get. They take careful notes as instructor Paul Gourley teaches them how to...

DEEP BLUE CAMPUSES John Kerry v. George W. BushGiving To 2004 Presidential Campaigns From Employees at U.S. News & World Report’s  Top-Ranked National Universities  USN&WR’s 2004School Rankings Kerry/Bush Dollar Ratio Kerry/Bush Dollar %  Number of Donations         Harvard 25 to 1 97% to 3%    406 to 13 Princeton 302 to 1 99.7% to 0.3    114 to 1 Yale 20 to 1 95% to 5%    150 to 3 Penn 32 to 1 97% to 3%    93 to 5 Duke 9 to 1 90% to 10%    98 to 7         MIT 43...

Across the heartlands and hinterlands of conservative America, many doubters and desponders wake up every morning to retrieve their newspaper, a product of the downtown Left. And so it shall remain, they say. But for America's growing army of young conservatives, there are no boundaries to the battle for the future. Even the newspapers of America must stand to reckon with a new generation of conservatives. Two students at Seattle Pacific University named Matthew McCleary and Benjamin Williams are launching a publication called the Seattle Sentinel at www.seattlesentinel.com . The sophomores have a long-term goal no less than turning the...

The Free Republic Activism Seminar in New York City is this coming Saturday, June 5, 2004 Place: Women's National Republican Club, 3 West 51st Street, NYCTime: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.Tuition: $70 without scholarship; $35 with scholarshipTime is getting short now, so act right away if you want to come to this. Go to PAYPAL and send your tuition to the e-mail address nancy2003@sluggy.net or freepmail me for other ways to pay.See the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd threads below in the replies.We have 20 enthusiastic participants and 2 enthusiastic leaders from the Leadership Institute to make this day one of...

OK! It has finally come together. The Tri-State Chapter of Free Republic will be hosting a Leadership Institute Activism Seminar from 9 a.m. to 3 or 4 p.m., Saturday, June 5, 2004, at The Women's National Republican Club 3 West 51st Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, at Rockefeller Center) New York, NY We will be in the lovely Lincoln Room, which you can view at the WNRC site. The club has rooms available for overnight stays, if anyone should decide to make a weekend of it. Los Angeles and Friva Las Vegas have already had these seminars, and the...

<p>The anonymous posters began to speckle the campus of St. Lawrence University in upstate New York last month. They carried an eye-grabbing message--"Republicans: The Other White Meat."</p> <p>Elizabeth Wardell, a senior, thought she knew who was responsible for their appearance: a certain assistant professor with the reputation of a provocateur. Surfing around her school's Web site, she landed on the sociology department's homepage and read a paragraph about Robert J. Torres. Then she clicked on his name and was transported to his personal blog. There, Ms. Wardell--who is president of the local College Republicans--discovered an entry headlined "Fascist, Racist College Republicans."</p>

PlatonNot your father's coterie of campus conservatives: from top, Charles Mitchell, a founder of the Bucknell University Conservatives Club, and his fellow members Denise Chaykun, Allison Kasic and Michael Boland. The temptation, upon entering Charles Mitchell's dorm room at Bucknell University, is to assume that he's kidding. The doormat features a picture of Hillary Clinton and the injunction, ''Wipe Liberally.'' A vast American flag festooned in red, white and blue Christmas lights adorns one wall, along with a faded Reagan-Bush '84 poster and a small photograph of the cowboy-hatted Gipper himself. The sole concession to any interest outside right-wing...

Recently, I was voted to head a communications committee by the College Republicans at my university. One primary goal of this committee is to see how we may go about getting our conservative message into the only school news paper on campus, the U-News. Right now, the papers writers and editors are anti-republican Michael Moore types who jump on any opportunity to slam Bush. They have refused to run any op-ed pieces written by the College Republican writers like myself and others. They do however give access to the Campus Greens and College Democrats. In addition to being very bias,...

Which political action committees give more to Republicans? Leadership Institute recently released its 2001-2002 PAC study, which covers the 2003 election cycle, and it shines the light on who gives what to whom. Here are just some of those PACs that gave 100 percent of their contributions to Republicans: Ruby Tuesday Good Government Fund Waffle House Inc. Weyerhaeuser company specialty shareholders AK Steel (Armco Inc.) of Arkansas Colonial BankGroup Inc. fed Pac Cooper Industries of Houston ($186,500) First National of Nebraska Independent Electrical Contractors PACs that forked over 99 percent of their funds to Republicans include: American Bakers Assoc. Assoc....

Campus Conservatives Take Lead to Remember Sept. 11 By Robert B. Bluey CNSNews.com Staff Writer September 11, 2003 (CNSNews.com) - When Andrew Simon returned to Bates College this fall, he was surprised the college was planning only a moment of silence to commemorate the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. So he decided to take it upon himself to make sure that fateful day wouldn't be forgotten. The Lewiston, Maine, campus is one of at least 150 colleges and universities across America planning memorial events Thursday, thanks in part to the efforts of conservative students who are leading...

The Free Republic Network and The Los Angeles Chapter of Free Republic are proud to announce the first regional scheduling of "Activism 101" Conference! When - April 26, 2003 8am-5pm! Where - LAX Hacienda Hotel, 525 N. Sepulveda Blvd, El Segundo, CA 90245 - 800-421-5900 Price - $69! This conference was rolled out at last year's "FRiva LAS VEGAS" event to rave reviews by the attendees! Partnering with the Leadership Institute, the premiere training ground for conservatives and republican activists and candidates, this conference is a "must do" for all conservatives interested in learning the basics about activism! LA Chapter...

When the Word Trade Organization (WTO) announced its meeting in Seattle, we were asked by a pro-trade organization to coordinate an Internet campaign to encourage conservatives to attend a rally, and to also educate the public and to demonstrate that the people of Washington State support open markets. Conservative groups in Washington State and national pro-trade organizations with members in Washington were contacted. The goal was to build an on-line coalition by establishing links on their sites, and to have them e-mail their members about the projects. These pro-family and pro-trade groups were reluctant to help; some ignored the request,...