Lunch and Roundtable Discussion for RLC Regional Directors and State Leaders. Discussion topics include what has worked and not worked for states, membership growth and retention strategies, and PR strategies. Special presentation by RLC of Florida on how to host a successful Constitution Day Dinner.
Part 1: Intuition and Reasoning: Understanding how people judge and choose
Effective communications are built upon an understanding of the values driving the decision-making of individuals in the target audience. Unlike issues, values are deep-rooted and comparatively stable. Effective communicators understand the values driving individual decision making, then construct communications to tap into those values.
Part 2: Developing a Communications Strategy
A campaign’s communication strategy serves to achieve defined goals and compliments the campaign’s general strategy. This presentation provides insight in the classic elements of successful communications programs and step by step guidance in implementation.
Part 3: Relationship Building
In this training you will find out what motivates individuals to participate in politics and how to leverage those passions to create an effective political team.
Biennial Meeting Agenda
Examines how the U.S. media are controlled by a handful of corporations exercising extraordinary political, social, and economic power. Discussion topics to include media, censorship, and how news and information can be manipulated and skewed. Is it investigative journalism or controlled self-interests by media?
Impact of immigration on commerce and security. Discussion topics include economic issues.
Thomas Jefferson advised that we set limits on reelection to the Senate and to the Presidency, because, “Nothing is so essential to the preservation of a republican government as a periodic rotation.“ Discussion topics include the merits of the National Popular Vote plan versus the current system, and how term limits should be part of the system.
It’s not just Red state versus Blue state as much as rural (Red) values versus urban (Blue) values. Blue states tend to be liberal or inclined towards bigger government, while Red states vote in the interest of rural areas and smaller government. The Constitution is designed toward rural rather than urban values. Discussion topics include How can we win in a Blue State? Which states are most pro growth?
According to national polls, Affordable Care Act (ACA) regulations are reducing small business (20-99 workers) pay by at least $22.6 billion annually. In addition, ACA regulations and rising insurance premiums have reduced employment by more than 350,000 jobs nationwide. Small businesses have slowly started shedding jobs and reducing wages. Discussion topics include what do insurance rates really look like under Obamacare? Is the ACA more affordable, or have insurances prices increased dramatically as some people claim?
The widespread fear that Common Core is a guise for the centralization of education. This viewpoint is cause for great growth amongst conservatives and libertarians at the grassroots level. Discussion topics include how will the centralization of standards affect curricula, promotion of informational texts in English classes, and the gathering of student information tracking students through the entirety of their school and college education.
Join Frontiers of Freedom for a panel discussing emerging issues on the front lines of the battle for freedom and liberty. A free iPad will be raffled off at the end of the presentation. Enter a business card at the beginning of the presentation and the winner will be called during the presentation. You must be present to win.
Millennials represent an increasingly more influential portion of the American electorate and they view politics differently from their parents. Generally speaking, research has shown that the millennial generation cares more about personal liberty, social equality, and environmental consciousness. Discussion topics include how to identify and address these issues and “grab” the millennial vote.
The Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party began in 2007 as a grassroots group of frustrated libertarians and paleo-conservatives angry at the Republicans for their spending deficits, and debts, and the loss of civil liberties to name a few. The Liberty Movement is an offshoot of the Tea Party. Both groups believe that the Bill of Rights, a market economy, and a sound currency are the paths to prosperity. Discussion topics include how both groups bring important issues to the forefront, and how their principled, philosophical consistency can grow together
Part 1: Grassroots Engagement
Learn what motivates voters and how to effectively engage, recruit, and motivate people. Turn apathy into action using some of our time-tested techniques. Learn how to become a better recruiter for a candidate or cause of your choice.
Part 2: Voter Turnout Operations
Recognizing that the world is run by those who show up, the information in this lecture will help participants develop and implement voter turnout programs for select voters to maximize the rate at which supporters cast ballots in the election. Studies have demonstrated clear differences in the effectiveness of various types of programs on voter behavior, and this lecture differentiates effective from ineffective methods.
Legislators have long characterized copyright infringement as piracy. In the modern digital age, two rival camps dominate public discussion around the ethics of illegal downloading. One hand, there are “fundamentalist libertarians” who think that all ideas and artistic creation should be held in common and freely accessible to all. On the other hand there are “fundamental protectors” who think that illegal downloading is equivalent to theft. Discussion topics include illegal downloading as a victimless crime, how different rules are applied to different offences, and intangible forms of property
In general, government debt increases as a result of government spending, and decreases from tax and other receipts, both of which fluctuate during the course of a fiscal year. Debt and spending may also be impacted by monetary policies that are coordinated by the Federal Reserve independently of the Federal Government. Discussion topics include the ratio of debt to GDP, marketable or non-marketable securities, and measuring debt burden.
