Grover Norquist and Patricia Phillips at Premier Ronald Reagan Lecture
Big Speakers Draw Big Crowds
From the ashes of the 2008 elections arose the concept of the Ronald Reagan Lecture series.
Like many hard working political volunteers, I reflected on the election result for weeks afterward. Loudoun County had defeated the meals tax by almost 70% and yet voted for Obama by a 6 point spread with 53% of the vote. The statistics seemed so contradictory that I concluded that the election did not present voters with clearly defined solutions from which to chose, but vague generalities. I searched for a way to get people focused on the issues and away from people and political parties.
Hence the Ronald Reagan Lecture Series of five discussions (February - June) was conceived. Ronald Reagan is known as the great communicator because of his ability to explain political ideas in a way that mattered to people's every day lives. That is the goal of the Ronald Reagan lecture series: to present topical lectures with quality speakers to reach out the way Ronald Reagan did. The Loudoun GOP agreed to sponsor the series, and I am pleased to chair the committee to bring it about. Ronald Reagan reached out to Democrats and independents, and we want to do the same with this lecture series. We set out to address the basic values reflected in the Virginia Republican Creed
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