Dave McCormick to Address 2024 PA Leadership Conference
‘Early Bird’ Rates Expire FRIDAY – Register TODAY!!
(Harrisburg, PA) – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick will address to the 2024 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference and then will engage in a question and answer session to be moderated by Joel Natalie of TalkErie.com. McCormick is competing in what is considered to be one of the most hotly contested and crucial U.S. Senate races in the nation.
The 2024 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will be held April 4-6, 2024 at the Penn Harris Hotel & Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), PA.
John Gizzi of Newsmax will be the conference breakfast speaker and will then be joined by Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring USA, Dr. Paul Kengor, editor-in-chief of the American Spectator, and Jeff Lord a Newsmax and American Spectator contributor for the annual State of the Conservative Movement panel. Additional speakers include Thomas D. Homan who was Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Trump Administration, state Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman, Heritage Foundation President Kevin D. Roberts, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity, Daniel Garza of the LIBRE Initiative, commentator Mary Catherine Ham, and Congressman Scott Perry. Additional speakers will be announced over the coming weeks.
The 2024 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference to be held April 4-6, 2024 at the Penn Harris Hoten & Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania will include four policy panel presentations including: A Legislature Divided, moderated by Greg Moreland from the National Federation of Independent Business-PA; Securing Pennsylvania’s Energy Future, moderated by Carl Marrara of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association; Data Driven Approach to Mobilizing Millions, moderated by Emily Greene from Americans for Prosperity-PA; and Pregnancy Centers: Protecting Pregnancy Help Statewide moderated by Cheryl Allen from the Pennsylvania Family Institute.
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 three days of speeches, panel presentations, workshops, and networking.
Registration for the 2024 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is NOW OPEN at www.paleadershipconference.org. The Early Bird discount rate is built into the registration so there is no need to enter a discount code as it will be automatically applied. (The PLC web site also includes a brief video tutorial to help you navigate Cvent.)
Dave McCormick was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, and raised in Bloomsburg by two lifelong educators. Growing up, Dave played football and wrestled, trimmed Christmas trees and delivered newspapers.
Dave was nominated to the United States Military Academy by a Pennsylvania Senator, becoming the first Bloomsburg student to attend West Point in decades. Dave went on to serve in the 82nd Airborne Division as a paratrooper and was deployed to the Middle East during the First Gulf War. He received the Bronze Star for his service before retiring as a Captain.
After the Army, Dave earned his Ph.D. in international relations before moving to Pittsburgh. He worked to become the CEO of FreeMarkets, a tech startup employing hundreds in Western Pennsylvania.
In 2005, Dave was called to service again, this time as Deputy National Security Advisor and then Under Secretary of Treasury. Following the administration, Dave joined Bridgewater Associates, one of the largest, most successful investment firms in the world. He served as CEO until 2022.
He and his wife Dina have six daughters.
Joel Natalie is an award-winning 40-year broadcast and communications professional, and Station Manager and Host at TalkErie Radio.
Joel grew up in Erie’s Little Italy neighborhood, and was educated in local parochial schools and at Gannon University. He has worked as an on-air personality and broadcast executive in various music formats, as well as a Communications Director for a large Erie County church, before launching Talk Erie radio. His goal on his daily radio talk show is to have the crucial conversations Erie needs to advance the regional narrative and move the community forward. Hundreds of local and national newsmakers and opinion-leaders have been guests on his radio show over the past five years. He and his wife Debbie live in the City of Erie.
The 2024 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will include an expanded menu of workshop opportunities. Please note that admission to the workshops is INCLUDED in the conference registration fee and no additional registration is required. A complete description of each workshop along with information on the workshop presenters is available at www.paleadershipconference.org.
Workshops to be presented on
Thursday, April 4th from 9 A.M. until 4 P.M. include:
Leadership Institute
Grassroots Lobbying
The Real Nature of Politics
Grow Your Organization
Engaging With School Boards
Messaging to the Middle
Voter Registration
Freedom Works
Navigating Political Divisions: Innovative Strategies for Grassroots Leaders to Expand their Base in a Polarized Climate
Save Our States
State Action: Protect Elections, Stop the CCP, Save the Constitution
American Majority
Five Steps to a Successful 2024
Workshops to be presented on
Friday, April 5th from 8 AM until 11 AM:
Pennsylvania Family Institute
Books, Bongs & Abortion: Protecting Children from the Left’s Agenda in PA.
CO2 Coalition
Indoctrination or Science? The State of Science Education in America and Pennsylvania
Americans for Prosperity
Building an Effective Grassroots Operation
Register for the 2024 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference TODAY at www.paleadershipconference.org
