Gov. John Kasich to Speak at PLC

Member Group : PA Leadership Conference

(Harrisburg, PA) – Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich will address the 2016 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference. A native of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania Mr. Kasich was re-elected Governor of Ohio in 2014 in a 30-point landslide election. The conference will be held April 1-2, 2016 at the Radisson Penn Harris Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), PA.

Announced speakers for the conference include Republican Presidential candidate U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Fox News Channel (FNC) senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano, Stephen Moore of Fox News, former U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, President of the Heritage Foundation; State Senator Scott Wagner; Daniel Garza of the LIBRE Initiative; Congressman Mike Kelly; John Gizzi of Newsmax, Jeff Lord of the American Spectator and CNN; Anita MonCrief of Americans for Prosperity and John Fund of National Review. There will also be four interactive panel presentations and three workshop sessions.

The Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is the premiere gathering of public policy conservatives each year in the Keystone State. It is the largest and longest-running of the state-based conservative conferences regularly attracting a long list of conservative elected officials, scholars, journalists and activists for two days of speeches, panel presentations, workshops and networking.

John Kasich was elected Governor of Ohio in 2010 and re-elected in 2014 by a 30-point margin. He worked with his fellow Ohioans to turn an $8 billion shortfall into a $2 billion surplus, cut taxes $5 billion and made Ohio one of the top job-creating states in the nation. As chair of the Budget Committee in Congress he led the effort to balance the federal budget for the first time in a generation and served 18 years on the House Armed Services Committee where he was a strong ally of President Reagan and his national security agenda.

He has also had a successful career as an investment banker, New York Times best-selling author and at FOX News. The governor is originally from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, a blue-collar town outside Pittsburgh where his father delivered mail for 30 years. He and his wife Karen have twin teenage daughters.

The 2016 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will feature four interactive panel presentations including Tax, Borrow & Spend: How Wolf’s Agenda Harms Pennsylvanians and Enriches Unions; Restoring the American Dream; All Politics Are Local and Litigating for Liberty. There will be three workshop sessions including: Going Viral: Make Social Media Work for You; Faith of Our Founding Fathers; and, Campaigning Like It’s 2015, Not 1999.

Seating for the Friday evening dinner with Judge Andrew Napolitano is sold out. However, a limited number of tickets for individuals to attend all other conference activities are available at [L]www.paleadershipconference.org[EL].

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