November 12th Speaker Forum
Oct 30, 2009

Thursday, November, 2009

Soldiers', Sailors', Marines' & Airmen's Club
283 Lexington Ave (btw 36th & 37th St)
Second Floor South Lounge

7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Guest Speaker Info:
John Wilson is an editorial writer with the New York Post,
where he covers a wide range of local and national issues, from cigarette taxation to the rise of the Working Families Party. He's been with the Post since 2007, when he won the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in College Journalism. John Wilson will discuss his coverage on the Ashok Chandra campaign as well as the candidates who ran on the Working Families Party line.

Councilman-elect Dan Halloran. Republicans had some hard fought victories in Queens on Election Day and the one that was covered the most was District 19. Dan will join us and discuss how he was able to run a winning strategy and reclaim this middle class district from the Democrats.
Please RSVP to this meeting.

Susan Konig was a Westchester legislator candidate , whose battle is still on going, because her loss was less than 200 votes! A recount of the machines has narrowed her gap to 130 votes with nearly 400 paper ballots yet to be counted. Konig is also a mother of four, columnist for the NY Post, Washington Post, National Review Online, and Catholic Digest. She is also author of I Wear the Maternity Pants in This Family and Why Animals Sleep So Close to the Road (and Other Lies I Tell My Children).

Afterwards, we will continue political discussions over food and drink at:
Margarita Murphy's
591 3rd Ave (btw 38th & 39th St)

This will be our last Speaker Forum for 2009.
Our December Date will be our 2009 Christmas Party.