John Gizzi of Newsmax to Headline PLC 2024 Breakfast

John Gizzi to be PLC 2024 Breakfast Speaker

John Gizzi, Paul Kengor & Jeff Lord will present the

State of the Conservative Movement

Registration NOW OPEN at ‘Early Bird’ Rates

(Harrisburg, PA) – John Gizzi of Newsmax, a perennial favorite of attendees, will be the Saturday breakfast speaker at the 2024 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference to be held April 4-6, 2024 at the Penn Harris Hotel & Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), PA. The breakfast session will also feature a State of the Conservative Movement panel discussion moderated by Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring, USA featuring John Gizzi, Dr. Paul Kengor, editor-in-chief of the American Spectator, and Jeff Lord a Newsmax and American Spectator contributor.

Judge Jeanine Pirro of The Five on Fox News will be the conference’s featured dinner speaker on Friday, April 5, 2024.

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.)

John Gizzi is Newsmax’s chief political columnist and White House correspondent. He is “the man who knows everyone in Washington” as well as many who hold elected positions and party leadership roles throughout America. For many years he held a similar position with the venerable conservative publication Human Events. He has appeared on countless radio and TV shows in America and in Europe. He is the recipient of the William A. Rusher Award for Journalistic Excellence and was named Journalist of the Year by the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Dr. Paul Kengor is editor-in-chief of the American Spectator and professor of political science at Grove City College, a four-year, private Christian liberal arts college located in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He is executive director of the Institute for Faith & Freedom, a Grove City College think-tank/policy center. He currently services as Editor-in-Chief of the American Spectator.

Kengor has done work for a number of think tanks, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Heritage Foundation, and has served on the editorial board of Presidential Studies Quarterly. He received his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and his master’s degree from American University’s School of International Service. Kengor, a native of Western Pennsylvania, lives with his wife Susan in Grove City, PA, along with their children Paul, Mitch, Amanda, and Abigail.

Jeffrey Lord is a Newsmax TV contributor, columnist, and author. He is a contributing editor to The American Spectator magazine, writing as well for the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters blog. He has written for a variety of publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Caller ,Penn Live, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and several other journals. He has also been a guest host on the Sean Hannity radio show, and is the host of “The Word of the Lord With Jeffrey Lord” podcast. His website is The Jeffrey Lord.com.

After graduating from Franklin & Marshall College in 1973, he began his career on the staff of the Pennsylvania State Senate Republican Leaders Richard Frame and Henry Hager, then moved to Washington to work for Pennsylvania Congressman Bud Shuster, Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Heinz, Reagan-Bush campaign co-chair Drew Lewis and as a White House Associate Political Director for President Ronald Reagan. In the George H.W. Bush administration he worked for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp. He lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania in suburban Harrisburg

Colin A. Hanna is President of Let Freedom Ring, a public policy non-profit promoting Constitutional government, economic freedom and traditional values. He is a tri-weekly guest on American Radio Journal airing on over 200 stations nationwide.

Colin was a Chester County Commissioner from 1995 to 2003. Let Freedom Ring was founded in 2004 and has executed several major projects on such diverse subjects as immigration, the national debt, the original intent of the Constitution, alerting the American public to China’s plans for a blue-water Navy, production-ready script development for a major motion picture on Frederick Douglass and many more. His television appearances include MSNBC’s Hardball, Fox News Hannity, Glenn Beck, Fox & Friends and many others. Colin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a U.S. Navy veteran and lives in West Chester with Pricie, his wife of 54 years.