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Featured Guest
American columnist, commentator & political pundit.
July 17, 2025
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Golf Club at Newcastle
15500 Six Penny Lane
Newcastle, WA 98059
Featured Guest
American investment banker and former public official who served as managing director of Dillon, Read & Co. and, during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush, as United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing. She has widely written and commented on the subject of public spending and has alleged several large-scale instances of government fraud.
May 14, 2025
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
March 19, 2025
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
From Journalism to Counterterrorism
February 12, 2025
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
American Author and Journalist
Dr. Naomi R. Wolf is a graduate of Yale University. The thesis of her Oxford University PhD became the basis of her first bestseller. Wolf is renown in progressive feminist circles. Previously an active Democrat, in the 1990’s she was a campaign adviser to Clinton and Gore. At the beginning of the Covid pandemic, there was a group of very few voices using their connections and their platforms to gather medical information about Covid not generally available to the public. Many were not previously journalists, but they began to form the network of independent journalists we rely on today. Wolf was part of the group sharing early truths about Covid, the vaccines and the government’s large role in the whole assault. She met her husband, Brian O’Shea, when he became head of her security detail! Dr. Wolf is CEO of Daily Clout, a successful civic tech company. Learn more at https://dailyclout.io. WOW warmly welcomes Dr. Wolf as our Christmas Event Headliner!
We are going back to Overlake for our Christmas Event
Your DONATIONS will support our WOW Speaker Fund. Please bring cash or checks. If you've enjoyed our speakers this year, your generosity is appreciated!
Holiday Party Attire!
We know you love the WINE RAFFLE BASKETS! Please bring cash for tickets.
Tickets: 1 for $10, 3 for $20 and 5 for $40.
WOW's Annual Christmas Event is always special and will be especially so this year. We've planned a three-course dinner and an evening to remember.
This is Women of Washington’s Premier Annual Event and it sells out quickly! Please send your reservation in early so you don’t miss this great evening! Tables will be assigned as paid reservations are received. We will do our best to accommodate seating requests. Please send special meal or seating requests to [email protected].
The deadline to register is Wednesday, December 4, 2024. There are no refunds after this date.
December 11, 2024
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Member Cost
$125.00 (Member & 1st guest receive the member price for each person)
Non-Members
$150.00
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Our October 9th Speaker is Reporter Joe Hanneman, an expert on what happened on January 6th.
He’s a newsman of the old stripe who gets his stories the hard way. He personally interviews witnesses, he takes personal statements, he looks at photos and videos, he attends hearings and interacts with anyone with information to share regarding the story he’s working on.
Joseph M. Hanneman is an investigative reporter for Blaze Media. He previously worked as a senior investigative reporter for The Epoch Times. He co-wrote and appeared in three Jan. 6-related documentaries, “The Real Story of Jan. 6 Part 2: the Long Road Home,” “Jan. 6 Tapes,” and “The Real Story of Jan. 6.” He previously wrote for the Wisconsin State Journal, the Racine Journal Times, and the Chicago Tribune.
From December 2021 until June 2024 Joe was a senior investigative reporter for The Epoch Times. Shortly after his arrival he was assigned to cover Jan. 6 as a full-time beat. He likes to describe his time there as finding and telling the stories nobody else would.
Since coming to Blaze Media, Joe has gotten deeply involved in investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump.
**Please note this is a new event location**Hyatt House Seattle/Bellevue
3244 139th Avenue SE
Bellevue, WA 98005
(Click on the address link for a map to the location.) Easy parking.
Event Details:
Dinner Buffet and No Host Bar
5:30 pm Doors Open and Registration Begins
6:30 pm Dinner Buffet
7:30 pm Program Begins
The Deadline to Register is October 4th by 5:00 pm
As a matter of long-standing practice, there are no ticket refunds two weeks before our events. We commit to the venue for food quantities based on paid reservations two weeks ahead.
Please note that we are unable to accommodate any walk-ins the day of the Event.
If you have any questions or need help to register online, please email [email protected].
As a reminder, the ticket price is based on venue costs. Our speakers are funded through our dues.
Featured Guest
September 11, 2024
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Bellevue Club
11200 SE 6th St.
Bellevue, WA 98004
Featured Guest
Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Great U.S.-China Tech War and Losing South Korea, booklets released by Encounter Books. His previous books are Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World and The Coming Collapse of China, both from Random House. Chang lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as Counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie.
Chang has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, the BBC, and Bloomberg Television. He is a regular co-host and guest on The John Batchelor Show.
We will be at the Golf Club at Newcastle for our July Event!
July 24, 2024
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Golf Club at Newcastle
15500 Six Penny Lane
Newcastle, WA 98059
Featured Guest
May 8, 2024
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Maryhill Winery
14810 NE 145th St # A
Woodinville, WA 98072
Featured Guest
Sam Faddis is a former U.S. Army combat arms officer and retired CIA ops officer who spent 20 years undercover in South Asia and the Middle East working against rogue states, terrorist groups and WMD smuggling networks. Prior to joining CIA, Sam was a U.S. Army Armor and JAG officer (Captain), and then served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Washington.
In 2002 Sam took the first CIA team into Iraq almost a full year in advance of the invasion of that country. After his retirement from CIA, he spent another ten years building and running complex training courses for operatives employed by NSA, DIA, DOE, military counterintelligence units and other components of the IC. He has also taught for a number of academic institutions including the University of Maryland, King College and Tulane University.
He is the author of seven books and the senior editor for AND Magazine, an online publication focused on national security issues. Faddis is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland School of Law.
WE ARE BACK AT OVERLAKE FOR OUR APRIL EVENT.
Overlake Golf and County Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
5:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Heavy Hors d'oeuvres, Coffee, Tea and No-Host CASH Bar
5:30 pm Registration opens
6:15 pm Hors d'oeuvres Buffet opens
7:00 pm Program Begins
The Registration has been extended to Friday, April 5, 2024 by 5:00 pm.
Please note that we are unable to accommodate any walk-ins the day of the event.
For questions, please email [email protected].
April 10, 2024
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Author and journalist Michael Shellenberger is coming to WOW from Berkeley, California where he lives with his wife, Helen Lee and their two children. It’s also where he keeps his suitcases and where he periodically returns to refresh after traveling. He does a lot of traveling.
Shellenberger was born (1971) and raised in Colorado to Mennonite parents. He writes about politics, the environment, climate change and nuclear power. His work has won him high accolades. Shellenberger’s journalistic repertoire is wide. Lately, he has been in the news and in front of congressional hearings frequently. This visit with Tucker Carlson about the folly of climate change political policies is a great interview and a good introduction for us to Shellenberger.
This is an excerpt from his website that includes several active hotlinks to browse.
"Shellenberger is a leading investigative journalist who has broken major stories on crime and drug policy; homelessness; Amazon deforestation; rising climate resilience; growing eco-anxiety; the U.S. government’s role in the fracking revolution; and climate change and California’s fires. And he testifies and advises governments around the world including in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany."
On March 13, 2024 Women of Washington welcomes journalist Michael Shellenberger for a Special Event evening. We expect this to be a very popular event, so please book tickets early.
The Registration Deadline is Wednesday, March 6, 2024 by 5:00 pm.
Heavy Hors d'oeuvres, Coffee, Tea and No-Host CASH Bar.
5:30 pm Registration opens
6:15 pm Hors d'oeuvres Buffet opens
7:00 pm Program Begins
In addition to Member and Non-member standard pricing, we have two Special VIP levels. The VIP seating option includes a seat near the guest speaker's table, two drink tickets and a signed book by Michael Shellenberger. The $100 price is available to WOW members and one guest only. The $125 price is available to non-members and additional guests.
Please note that we are unable to accommodate any walk-ins the day of the event.
Parking is included.
For questions, please email [email protected].
March 13, 2024
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Bellevue
11010 NE 8th St
Bellevue, WA 98004
Featured Guest
Ari Hoffman is the host of the Ari Hoffman Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI every weekday afternoon from 3-6 p.m. live and streaming. Providing a current of common sense in a sea of insanity, with guests from all sides of the political spectrum, Ari is also known for his humor and pop culture savvy.
He has been featured on Fox News, Newsmax, 60 Minutes, The Dr. Drew Show, Glenn Beck, the KOMO News Documentary “Seattle is Dying,” and more.
Ari is also the West Coast editor for The Post Millennial.
Ari is a guest speaker at many college and high school campuses, including for organizations like Turning Point USA and Jewish on-campus groups.
Heavy Hors d'oeuvres, Coffee, Tea and No-Host CASH Bar.
5:30 pm Registration opens
6:15 pm Hors d'oeuvres Buffet opens
7:00 pm Program Begins
UPDATED: The Registration Deadline is Friday, February 2, 2024 by 5:00 pm.
If you have any questions or need help to register online, please email [email protected].
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February 7, 2024
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Retired American diplomat who served as a career ambassador within the United States Foreign Service and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
SOLD OUT EVENT!
WOW Christmas Event
Ambassador Crocker is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian award.
Crocker retired briefly from the foreign service in April 2009 after a 37-year career, but he was recalled to active duty by President Obama to serve as US Ambassador to Afghanistan in 2011.
The list of his affiliations with prestigious universities, including the War College, is long.
Ambassador Crocker grew up in an Air Force family attending schools in Morocco, Canada and Turkey, as well as the US. He graduated with a BA in English in 1971 from Whitman College, where he was honored with the Doctor of Laws degree in 2001. He has been similarly honored by several other prestigious universities.
He is the 2020 recipient of the prestigious Thayer Award at West Point. This quote is typical of the humility you will notice when you meet Ambassador Crocker: "To be honest, when I was in the (Thayer Award) Room and I looked at the portraits of the other award winners, (I thought) somebody made a terrible mistake."
We hope you will join us for this important Christmas Event with Ambassador Crocker.
This years' WOW Christmas Event is special for several reasons. You will arrive at the Event to the music of Cellovibes Duo of Seattle. A three-course sit down dinner prepared by the chef at Overlake Golf and Country Club will be served. A No-Host Cocktail Bar will open at 5:30 pm and remain open during the Event.
Our annual Christmas Event is a wonderful opportunity for you to invite family and friends to share this special evening with you. We expect this to be a sold out event, so please get your reservations early. Purchase your tickets online and give us the names of your preferred seatmates at that time. Please ask your family and friends to do the same when they purchase their seats online. All seating is assigned in the order received of paid reservations.
This will be a night to remember!
Contact Debbie Blodgett, Registration, to be put on the waitlist at [email protected]
Festive Holiday Attire is suggested!
5:30 Registration and Doors Open
6:30 Dinner is Served
7:30 Program Begins
Click on the "Register Now" button to make reservations and pay online. To access Member pricing, log in with your email address. To reset your password, click on "forgot password" and follow the instructions. This secure payment method is safer than mailing a check.
If you have any questions, need help to register online, or make us aware of any dietary issues, please email [email protected].
This year Women of Washington will be supporting the USO as our charity for our Christmas giving. Please bring a gift card, checks payable to the USO or cash to give to help support transitioning troops and deployed troops, military families, wounded warriors and families of the fallen.
Please note that we are unable to accommodate any walk-ins the day of the event.
December 6, 2023
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Jonathan Choe is a journalist and Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute's Center on Wealth and Poverty, covering homelessness issues for it's Fix Homelessness initiative. Prior to joining Discovery, Choe spent several years as one of the lead reporters at KOMO-TV, consistently the top rated television station in Seattle. His in depth stories on crime and deep dive investigations into the homeless crisis led to measurable results in the community, including changes in public policy.
Choe has more than two decades of experience in television news behind the scenes and in front of the camera for ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, and Tribune. He has also been been nominated and honored with multiple industry awards including an Emmy. Choe spent several years teaching classes on emerging media and entrepreneurship to under privileged youth in inner city Chicago.
As an independent journalist, Choe also contributes regularly to the Mill Creek View and Lynnwood Times and has reported on exclusive stories in the past year for Daily Wire and The Postmillennial. Choe is a New England native and Boston University journalism school graduate.
Hors d'oeuvres Buffet, no cocktails, a nice selection of wines from Maryhill Winery.
5:30 pm Registration opens
6:15 pm Hors d'oeuvres Buffet opens
7:00 pm Program Begins
9:00 pm Event ends
The Registration Deadline is Monday, October 9, 2023
If you have any questions or need help to register online, please email [email protected].
October 11, 2023
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Maryhill Winery
14810 NE 145th St # A
Woodinville, WA 98072
Featured Guest
Author, Journalist, Member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
WOW'S FALL KICKOFF EVENT
Kimberley Strassel is a member of the editorial board for The Wall Street Journal. She writes editorials, as well as the weekly Potomac Watch political column.
Ms. Strassel joined Dow Jones & Co. in 1994, working in the news department of The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels, and then in London. She moved to New York in 1999 and soon thereafter joined the Journal's editorial page, working as a features editor, and then as an editorial writer. She assumed her current position in 2005.
Ms. Strassel, a 2014 Bradley Prize recipient, is a Fox News contributor and appears on the Sunday political shows. She is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: The Intimidation Game and Resistance (At All Costs). Her newest book, The Biden Malaise: How America Bounces Back from Joe Biden's Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter Years, is on shelves July 18. She will be available to autograph your copy.
An Oregon native, Ms. Strassel earned a bachelor's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University.
WOW is excited to announce our Fall Kickoff Event is at The Golf Club at Newcastle. This spectacular venue makes a great setting for an important WOW event. Tickets are available now.
The Registration deadline is Friday, September 8, 2023 by midnight.
5:30 pm Registration opens
5:30 pm Sustaining Member Private Reception begins
5:30 pm No Host Bar Cocktail Hour on the Patio begins
6:15 pm Sustaining Member Private Reception ends
6:30 pm No Host Bar Cocktail Hour ends
6:30 pm Event begins with heavy hors d'oeuvres
7:15 pm Program begins
9:00 pm Event ends
To honor our Sustaining Members, there will be a special reception in the Muirfield Room. The main event will be held in the St. Andrews Ballroom.
For questions, please email [email protected].
September 13, 2023
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Golf Club at Newcastle
15500 Six Penny Lane
Newcastle, WA 98059
Featured Guest
WOW is pleased to announce a Pop-Up Event!
Ladies’ Night Out is a catered event in Redmond for our Members to bring their friends interested to learn more about WOW. This is a casual attire event.
Do you know a few ladies who would like to learn more about WOW? The recently remodeled Heywood Barn is a beautiful and relaxed setting for mingling with some current WOW members. There will be catered hors d'oeuvres and libation at Redmond's premier informal wedding venue. Wear your cowboy boots or just come in casual attire!
August 9, 2023
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Willowcrest Barn (Heywood Farms)
12053 154th Place NE
Redmond, WA 98052
Featured Guest
Biography
James O'Keefe is an American journalist and media innovator who uses undercover journalist footage and whistleblowers to create stories with his recognizable unconventional flair. He has founded three media organizations over his 15 year career.
O’Keefe is currently CEO of O’Keefe Media Group - OMG, which he founded in 2023. OMG is dedicated to empowering citizen journalists to replicate his model of exposing corruption and fraud. He’s unleashed hundreds of citizen journalists who bring back documented untold stories.
O'Keefe's investigations have led directly to the passage of new legislation, federal and state investigations, Congressional inquiries, the defunding of taxpayer-funded groups, and even jail time for some of the most corrupt.
Further, his 2009 ACORN investigation led to the group's collapse. Other investigations resulted in: a Planned Parenthood Vice President’s firing; NPR executives fired; an Enroll America director fired; Medicaid worker re-trainings; a formal investigation into the group Battleground Texas; Congressional field hearings into Obamacare navigator fraud. In 2017, his investigations into the DisruptJ20 movement led to the arrests of three people for conspiracy to commit assault at the National Press Club during the Presidential Inauguration.
James O'Keefe is a force for Truth.
O’Keefe tells Edward Welch in an interview for The Chronicles that when he was at Rutgers, his newspaper column was not renewed. O’Keefe’s response to that was to start a competing publication he called The Centurion. Fast forward to early 2023 for “déjà vu all over again” on a bigger scale. Since graduation, his career awards include the Robert Novak Award for Journalistic Excellence in 2011, and the Young Professional Conservative Leadership Buckley Award in 2014 for “significant achievements in advancing the Conservative cause." He’s been twice-named “Fox News Power Player of the Week.” Also, James O’Keefe was honored by Forbes as a "30 Under 30" Media Mogul.
O’Keefe’s latest undercover sting has FOX Producer Sean Langille recorded saying that Tucker Carlson’s firing was negotiated in a recent sealed lawsuit settlement. FOX News says it is “categorically false” that the Dominion settlement at all impacted the decision to terminate Carlson.
It is a great honor for Women of Washington to welcome James O’Keefe as the headliner for our Summer Gala Event.
Please RSVP by July 15, 2023
This is a Seated, Three-Course Dinner Event, No Host Cash Bar and WOW Speaker Fund Wine Raffle Event, so there are no refunds after July 14, 2023.
Regretfully, walk-ins cannot be accommodated on the day of the event.
5:30 Doors Open to the Regency Ballroom
6:30 Dinner is Served
7:30 Program Begins
FESTIVE SUMMER ATTIRE
This is Women of Washington’s premier annual event and it sells out quickly! Please make your reservation early so you don’t miss this great evening! Tables will be assigned as paid reservations are received. We will do our best to accommodate seating requests. You may make your seating requests during the online registration process.
Invitations were mailed on May 18, 2023 to WOW members who are current with their 2023 dues. If you are a WOW member who did not receive your invitation or you have other questions about registration, please contact us at [email protected].
Premium Pricing: In addition to Member and Non-member pricing, we have a Special Premium level. The Premium seating option includes a seat near the guest speaker's table, front & center, as well as wine at your table. This price is available to WOW members and one guest only.
July 19, 2023
5:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
900 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
Featured Guest
Los Angeles trial lawyer; Townhall Contributor; Author; Veteran; Comedian
Please note that this is a venue change from Bellevue Club to the Hilton Bellevue.
Kurt Schlichter has sent a personal message to WOW about his upcoming Townhall article video. “The primary elections should be a crucible,” he says. After the primary, he urges that everyone must come together with one goal: to win.
Biography
Kurt Schlichter is a Los Angeles trial lawyer who was personally recruited to write conservative commentary by Andrew Breitbart. He is a frequent contributor to Townhall and a conservative media personality with a devoted following on Twitter of 470,000 followers (@KurtSchlichter). He frequently guest hosts for such national radio talk show hosts as Hugh Hewitt, Seb Gorka, and Dan Bongino.
He is the author of the new Regnery non-fiction book We’ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America (2022), and his series of best-selling People's Republic conservative action novels. The latest, Inferno (2022), reached #1 on several Amazon bestseller lists.
Kurt retired as a United States Army Infantry Colonel who served in Desert Storm, Kosovo, and the Los Angeles Riots. He holds a masters of Strategic Studies degree from the United States Army War College.
Tickets for our Kurt Schlichter Event are now available. The change in venue for this event is to the Hilton Bellevue.
“No, I just refused to say that dumb things are smart things. I wish more people would do the same. Then we would have fewer dumb things.” Kurt Schlichter on 4/13/23 via Twitter.
Join us on May 17th at the Hilton Bellevue where we will learn how to win in 2024 and beyond.
Heavy Hors d'oeuvres, Coffee, Tea and No-Host CASH Bar.
5:30 pm Registration opens
6:15 pm Hors d'oeuvres Buffet opens
7:00 pm. Program Begins
The Registration Deadline is Monday, May 15, 2023.
If you have any questions or need help to register online, please email [email protected].
Featured Guest
Founder and Principal of Fortis Analysis
WOW is presenting April and May speakers back to back as Ross Kennedy's presentation builds upon Roger Robinson's. They're related. If you were unable to attend the presentation by Roger Robinson, Jr. recently, we are providing a shorter version of his talk. Roger W. Robinson Jr. speaking at the U.S. Congress on China. When you hear Mr. Robinson's message that more wars are imminent, you might have questions on how to prepare your family and your business. Similarly, we anticipate that Ross Kennedy, a supply chain expert, will also deliver an invaluable presentation on Wednesday, April 12.
Military supply chains are now snapping. Yours are next. We strongly urge you come to hear what logistics expert Ross Kennedy will advise you to do now, while you still can. Epoch Times link.
Here is some of what you will hear from Ross Kennedy. Please get your tickets before the April 10th deadline.
He says, "We live in terrifying times in one way, but it's also axiomatic that instability produces opportunities for those with the foresight and resolve to seek them out." Ross will explore what Russian-born American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged, got wrong, while also discussing what Karl Marx (The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital) got right. Global supply chains are affected by the Ukrainian war, and a realignment of geoeconomic order is underway. China is a big player. Here at home, food security is a concern. Ross says, "We are living through an epochal transition, and brighter days for the United States - and for our children and grandchildren - are just over the horizon."
Biography
Ross Kennedy is the founder of Fortis Analysis, a strategic consultancy that serves public-private sector clients who are operating at the nexus of geoeconomics and national security. Mr. Kennedy comes to us from Minneapolis, Minnesota; he is a logistics industry veteran with direct experience operating agribusiness, chemical, energy, humanitarian, food, defense, and water supply chains. He is also a panel speaker for Hillsdale College events, which is where we first heard him.
* Please note, this is a change of venue from the Overlake Country Club. Tickets are available now.
Heavy Hors d'oeuvres, Coffee, and No-Host CASH Bar
5:30 pm Registration Opens
6:15 pm Hors d'oeuvres Buffet opens
7:00 pm Program begins
The Deadline to Register is Monday, April 10, 2023.
If you have questions or need help registering online, please contact [email protected].
Featured Guest
Chairman and Co-Founder of PSSI (Prague Securities Studies Institute) in the Czech Republic and Executive Director of PSSI Washington Inc. He was formerly President and CEO of RWR Advisory Group, a research and software firm focused on China and Russia in the economic and financial domain.
OUR UPCOMING MARCH 22nd SPEAKER, Roger W. Robinson, Jr., has a storied career as a consultant to policy makers in the US; he's also a voice in Europe as a Co-Founder of PSSI CZ. Forced labor and banning the products created by Chinese companies who practice human rights violations are also major topics for Mr. Robinson. "It should be illegal" to do business with these companies in anyway, much less capitalize them by owning shares of stock. Incredibly, the exact opposite is happening every day. And, that's not all! The US Federal pension funds for civilian and military retirees are invested in dozens of these sanctioned Chinese companies.
"Moreover, it should be made illegal for the persons of EU countries to hold the securities (including bonds) of Chinese and other companies linked to forced labor." In the current proposal, banning such offending companies from accessing European capital markets is not even referenced, much less proposed to serve as a central pillar of this entire EU forced labor initiative. Permitting such a glaring policy inconsistency would fundamentally undermine this entire EU forced labor proposal."
Heavy Hors d'oeuvres, Coffee, Tea and No-Host CASH Bar
5:30 pm Registration Opens
6:15 pm Hors d'oeuvres Buffet opens
7:00 pm Program begins
The Deadline to Register is Monday, March 20, 2023.
If you have questions or need help registering online, please contact [email protected].
March 22, 2023
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Founder and President of Brownstone Institute
Senior Economics Correspondent for the Epoch Times
Topic: A Turning Point for Civilization
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. Today he manages Brownstone with the goal of creating a stable sanctuary for ideas in a time of intensifying control and censorship. Tucker is an economist who spent many years at the VonMises Institute. He’s a prolific author of ten books, including Liberty or Lockdown, he’s penned thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as maintaining a daily column on Economics at The Epoch Times. Mr. Tucker speaks widely on economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He’s been very focused on mismanaged policy issues at the center of the Covid pandemic, which he warns have not gone away.
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.
Heavy Hors d'oeuvres, Coffee, Tea and No-Host CASH Bar
5:30 pm Registration Opens
6:15 pm Hors d'oeuvres Buffet opens
7:00 pm Program begins
The Deadline to Register is Monday, February 13, 2023.
If you have questions or need help registering online, please contact [email protected].
February 15, 2023
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Special pricing and VIP tickets available for members only. Please log in to view.
Please note that this is an evening event.
Mr. Nigel Farage is an internationally recognized British politician who co-founded and led the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2016. As the leader of the Brexit party from 2019 to 2021, Mr. Farage accomplished what many said was impossible: he led the fight to withdraw the UK from the European Union.
Mr. Farage saw the dangers ahead as the European Union increasingly exerted its power and dominance over the member countries. In June 2016, British voters agreed to Brexit. The City of London, with so many elite global financial ties, were strongly against the UK leaving the EU. The financial newspapers and mainstream press were relentlessly against leaving, yet at the same time, quiet conversations with working people in London (like taxi drivers and hotel employees) made obvious the breadth of support for Brexit.
Outside London at the same time, there was enormous support and agreement that it was time to leave, and that is what they called the movement. All over the hillsides of England were huge signs proclaiming simply “LEAVE.”
In June 2016, British voters did vote to leave the EU. Even with that decision made, it fell to the political machinery of the Prime Minister to undertake the negotiations of the UK withdrawal. This remarkable political accomplishment earns Mr. Farage an important role in future history books, and he continues to be one of the most influential and inspiring figures in British politics today.
Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain now has a brand new Prime Minister as well as a new King. The European Union appears to be collapsing, and there are global financial and supply hardships everywhere. We are in historic times.
We have a unique opportunity to hear from Mr. Farage as he begins what may be the most demanding era yet of his career. Please arrange your tickets early.
The Registration Deadline is Wednesday, November 30, 2022.
Please note that we are unable to accommodate any walk-ins the day of the event.
Parking is included.
Festive Attire
Meal Choices: Braised Short Rib - Applewood Smoked Steelhead - Emerald City Risotto (vegetarian)
5:00 pm Doors Open and Registration Begins
5:30 - 6:30 pm VIP Reception
6:30 Doors Open to Dinner
7:00 Program Begins
In addition to Member and Non-member pricing, we have a Special VIP level. The VIP seating option includes a seat near the guest speaker's table and wine at your table. It also includes a photo opportunity with the speaker. This price is available to WOW members and one guest only.
For WOW Members:
1. When you click the Register" button on the website, the next screen will say "Standard".
2. Click on "Standard" and then log-in.
3. Go back to the Home page to Register again and the next screen will then give you the option to select "VIP" or "Standard" member pricing.
To Pay Online, click on the Register button. WOW members can get the special member price by logging in with their email address. If you have forgotten your password, please click on "forgot password" to re-set it.
When you register, you will be given the opportunity to enter your meal choice and with whom you would like to be seated.
To Pay by Mail, please email [email protected] to get the mailing address.
If you have any questions or need help to register online, please email [email protected].
December 7, 2022
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Meydenbauer Center
11100 NE 6th St.
Bellevue, WA 98004
Featured Guest
Lead plaintiff in Friedrichs v. California Teacher's Association; Author
Rebecca Friedrichs is part of a national movement to restore the voices and authority of parents and teachers in America's schools. As a twenty-eight-year public school teacher, she was forced to fund unions whose politics and divisive tactics degraded her profession, our schools, and our national character.
Her lawsuit, Friedrichs v California Teachers' Association, brought with ten other teachers, was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in January 2016, and blazed the trail for ending forced unionism for all teachers and government employees in the United States.
Her book, Standing Up to Goliath, told through dozens of powerful personal accounts, is Rebecca’s expose of corrupt and abusive unions. She is a producer on the seminal documentary Whose Children Are They? exposing the hidden agenda in America’s Schools.
Rebecca, along with her husband Charles, also founded For Kids and Country a national movement of parents, teachers and citizens uniting to restore our schools and culture. Rebecca’s editorials can be found in the Washington Times, Washington Examiner, FOX News, and other outlets. She appears regularly on radio and television outlets, and she is the host of a Prager University video on why good teachers want school choice.
Rebecca was front and center at the podium in the first ten minutes of opening night speeches at the 2020 Republican National Convention. WOW welcomes Rebecca, and we’re anxious to hear details of her journey since that exciting night in 2020. Please plan to join us. Most importantly, Rebecca is a lover of Jesus Christ, the wife of Charles and mother of two grown sons Kyle and Benjamin.
Heavy Hors d'oeuvres, Coffee, Tea and No-Host CASH Bar
5:30 pm Doors Open - Registration
6:00 pm Buffet opens
6:30 pm Program begins
The Deadline to Register is Friday, November 4, 2022 by 3:00 pm.
If you have questions or need help registering online, please contact [email protected].
November 9, 2022
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
New York Times best-selling author, journalist, film producer and director, standup comedian, and one of the world’s most successful crowd funders.
Most recently, Ann produced the movie, My Son Hunter, a biopic of Hunter Biden which has received universal praise on the right, while driving the left crazy. It was directed by Robert Davi and stars Laurence Fox, John James and Gina Carano. You may purchase and view the film HERE. The Epoch Times described My Son Hunter as a “brilliant Biden satire” that reaches “Shakespearean-level tragicomedy.”
She and her husband, journalist Phelim McAleer, have also written the New York Times Best SellerGosnell – The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer, published by Regnery and available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Books A Million. The book debuted at No. 3 on Amazon's Best Seller list, selling out three days after publication.
They have also produced and directed the documentaries FrackNation, Not Evil Just Wrong, and Mine Your Own Business.Ann produced Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer, a true crime movie based on the crimes of Kermit Gosnell and his abortion clinic. The movie was screened in more than 700 theaters across the country and was the only movie screened in the White House during the Trump presidency.
Additionally, she recently released a six episode true crime podcast about Kermit Gosnell. Serial Killer True Crime Podcast Click hear to listen for free and leave a 5 star review. The podcast reached No. 10 in all true crime podcasts worldwide.
Ann is highly entertaining and brilliant. She spoke to WOW for the first time in 2010.
Heavy Hors d'oeuvres, Coffee/Tea. Iced Tea
and No-Host Cash Bar
The Registration Deadline is Wednesday, October 5, 2022 by 3:00 pm.
5:30 Doors Open - Registration
5:30 - 6:15 VIP reception with speaker
6:15 Hors d'oeuvres served
6:45 Program begins
VIP Option: The VIP option includes a seat near the guest speaker's table, front & center, as well as a hosted wine reception with the speaker, prior to the event. This price is available to WOW members and one guest only.
If you have questions or need help registering online, please contact [email protected].
October 12, 2022
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Senior Fellow at the American Conservative Union Foundation and former Assistant to President Trump and Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications
WOW Fall Kick-Off
Mercedes Viana Schlapp is a prominent Latina national leader and a political media commentator. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the American Conservative Union Foundation and regularly hosts the online show America UnCanceled on CPAC NOW. She worked in The White House for two different presidential administrations in senior level positions. In 2017, Mercedes was Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications where she advised on messaging and served as one of the top communicators. She also developed and executed communication policy rollouts in coordination with the White House offices and the Cabinet. During President George W. Bush’s term, she worked as the Director of Specialty Media in The White House where she was a spokesperson and created communication strategies that reached out to Americans of all backgrounds.
Mercedes also has extensive experience and insight into presidential campaigns. In 2020, she was Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications for the Trump Pence campaign. She was the architect for building a successful Hispanic communications and political outreach campaign in both English and Spanish, which produced historic Hispanic support for the President. She also created and produced the Team Trump online programs that reached over 3 million viewers nightly. She also hosted The Right View, a weekly on-line talk show that focused on policies impacting American women. She traveled across America on the campaign trail where she listened to the stories of everyday Americans, participated in local media interviews, and worked with the grassroots to expand the voter base. Her experiences on the campaign trail date back to 2000 when she worked in communications for the Bush Cheney campaign and the Republican National Committee.
Before joining The White House in 2017, Mercedes was a contributor on Fox News. She frequently appears on Fox News, Fox Business, Univision, Telemundo, CNN en Español, and other networks. She is interviewed on local and national Spanish and English radio. Mercedes has also published op-eds in FOXNews.com and The Hill and was a columnist for The Washington Times and U.S. News & World Report. Along with her husband Matt, they hosted a weekly radio show on Sirius XM for several years.
She is also a first generation Cuban American whose father fought against the Castro dictatorship and was a political prisoner for six years. Mercedes was inspired by her father’s story and has dedicated her life to promoting civil discourse, fighting against socialism, and defending freedoms in the United States and across the globe.
A Miami native, Mercedes earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida International University and a master’s degree in public administration from George Washington University. Mercedes, her husband Matt, and their five daughters currently reside in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
Light Buffet Dinner, Coffee, Iced Tea, No-host Bar
5:30 Doors Open - Registration
6:30 Light buffet dinner
7:30 Speaker
If you have questions or need help registering online, please contact [email protected].
September 7, 2022
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University. Co-Author of the "Great Barrington Declaration" which advocates an alternative approach to the COVID-19 pandemic
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
Dr. Bhattacharya is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and at the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute. He holds courtesy appointments as Professor in Economics and in Health Research and Policy. He directs the Stanford Center on the Demography of Health and Aging. Dr. Bhattacharya’s research focuses on the economics of health care around the world with a particular emphasis on the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. Dr. Bhattacharya’s peer-reviewed research has been published in economics, statistics, legal, medical, public health, and health policy journals. He holds an MD and PhD in economics from Stanford University.
Please RSVP by July 5, 2022 No refunds after June 27th
5:30 Doors Open to the Regency Ballroom
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Speaker
No Host Bar
We will have a raffle to benefit the WOW Speaker Fund.
FESTIVE SUMMER ATTIRE
This is Women of Washington’s premier annual event and it sells out quickly! Please make your reservation early so you don’t miss this great evening! Tables will be assigned as paid reservations are received. We will do our best to accommodate seating requests. Please send special meal or seating requests to [email protected].
Regretfully, walk-ins cannot be accommodated on the day of the event.
Premium Pricing: In addition to Member and Non-member pricing, we have a Special Premium level. The Premium seating option includes a seat near the guest speaker's table, front & center, as well as wine at your table. This price is available to WOW members and one guest only.
Questions? Call Debbie Blodgett at 206-979-2709 or email [email protected].
July 13, 2022
5:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
900 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
Featured Guest
Independent Journalist
The Deadline for our June 15 event was June 8, 2022. However, we do have a few seats available so please register online now.
WOW is pleased to welcome local media personality Brandi Kruse as our June speaker. Click HERE to see her in action (scroll down to view her video): you'll see why we chose her to speak to us.
Brandi Kruse is an Emmy award-winning journalist and political commentator. After nearly a decade covering politics for Seattle's FOX affiliate, she left to launch [un]Divided - a podcast that she characterizes as "political coverage for the anti fringe." [un]Divided seeks to foster a return to reasoned debate by encouraging moderate Americans to make their voices heard.
Brandi is a Minnesota native who received her degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska. She lives in King County with her boyfriend, two dogs, and an old cat named Edison.
Hors d'oeuvres - Hosted Wine, Beer & Soft Drinks
5:30 pm Doors Open
6:00 pm Program Begins
The Registration Deadline is Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Seating is limited so be sure to register today.
If you have questions or need help registering online, please contact [email protected].
June 15, 2022
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
(6 tickets left)
Willowcrest Barn (Heywood Farms)
12053 154th Place NE
Redmond, WA 98052
Featured Guest
Journalist, Political Commentator, Opinion Editor of The Washington Times, Fox News Contributor
Charles Hurt is Fox News contributor and Opinion Editor for The Washington Times. He is a frequent guest on the network’s premiere nightly news show Special Report as part of the program’s “All Star Panel.” As Opinion Editor, Hurt edits the Commentary Section of The Washington Times, the lone conservative voice in the nation's capital going back 35 years. Even in today's crowded media environment, The Washington Times remains the only full-service, daily printed newspaper committed to hard news in its news section and a conservative voice on its opinion pages.
Hurt also writes the Nuclear Option column for The Times, focusing on the current state of national politics, fiascos of media bias and the various criminal activities of politicians and bureaucrats. In addition, he has covered Washington for a variety of newspapers for nearly 15 years. He traveled extensively with the presidential campaigns of John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Before joining The Washington Times as Opinion Editor, Hurt was an editor for five years at the Drudge Report. Prior to that, he was DC Bureau Chief for the New York Post, where he covered the White House, traveled with Presidents Bush and Obama and wrote a weekly column about national politics for the tabloid. A column he wrote about then-Sen. Barack Obama's position on the Iraq war got him thrown off the 2008 Obama campaign plane.
Prior to working for The Post, Charlie was Chief Congressional Correspondent for The Washington Examiner after serving several years as Capitol Hill Bureau Chief for The Washington Times. His first job in Washington was working for the Charlotte Observer, covering the emerging political "superstar" John Edwards -- who at that time was only famous for NOT being picked by Al Gore for VEEP in 2000.Prior to moving to Washington one week after 9/11, Charlie worked for The Detroit News for seven years covering the city’s fire department, city schools and political corruption.
Hurt lives in Chatham, Virginia, a small tobacco town in southside Virginia, where he grew up and his entire family still lives. His brother, Robert, represented Virginia’s vast, mostly rural Fifth District in the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms.
Heavy Hors d'oeuvres coffee/tea, and No-Host Wine, Beer & Soft Drink Bar
6:00 pm. Doors Open
6:30 pm. Program Begins
The Registration Deadline is Wednesday, May 4, 2022.
If you have questions or need help registering online, please contact [email protected].
May 11, 2022
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
900 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
Featured Guest
Co-founders of The Silent Majority Foundation
THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AT AN UPCOMING EVENT.
As you have likely observed, WOW has an uncanny knack for bringing great speakers just before they hit the Big Stage. With our April speakers, Eric Marchant and Pete Serrano from the Silent Majority Foundation, it looks like we’ve done it again.
Eric and Pete are two of the three Co-founders of Silent Majority Foundation; Vincent Cavaleri is the third. (silentmajorityfoundation.org)
SMF has exploded onto the scene in Washington state since their inception in August 2021. Their mission is to fight government overreach through education, advocacy and litigation. They've provided legal representation to Washington state residents who have been harmed by the Inslee executive overreaches of mandates that cost livelihoods, impaired educational opportunities for students, and unconstitutionally infringed on personal (medical, et al) freedoms. Each of us knows a personal story from our family or our friends who have been wounded during the apparently never-ending Inslee executive powertrip of unscientific mandates and proclamations.
Eric will explain how the group coalesced so quickly and explain their future plans to fight government overreach in our state. Pete will elaborate on the many lawsuits they've filed against the government and potential future litigation. You will be as excited as we are to learn what they are doing. Finally, there is something to celebrate for those of us in Washington state who believe in the rule of law, and while we’ve waited silently for justice, Eric and Pete with SMF are doing something about it.
There’s not much any of us can do about national or international events, but there is plenty we can do right here at home. You will not want to miss hearing this exciting story of Americans taking back the American way right here in Washington state.
Please plan to join us for this great (more casual) event.
Hors d'oeuvres - Hosted Wine, Beer & Soft Drinks
5:30 pm Doors Open
6:00 pm Program Begins
The Registration Deadline is Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Seating is limited so be sure to register today.
If you have questions or need help registering online, please contact [email protected].
April 13, 2022
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Willowcrest Barn (Heywood Farms)
12053 154th Place NE
Redmond, WA 98052
Featured Guest
Former Acting United States Attorney General, Attorney, Author
Matthew G. Whitaker was acting Attorney General of the United States (2018-2019). Prior to becoming acting Attorney General, Mr. Whitaker served as Chief of Staff to the Attorney General. He was appointed as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa by President George W. Bush, serving from 2004-2009. Whitaker was the managing partner of Des Moines based law firm, Whitaker Hagenow & Gustoff LLP from 2009 until rejoining DOJ in 2017. He was also the Executive Director for FACT, The Foundation for Accountability & Civic Trust, an ethics and accountability watchdog, between 2014 and 2017.
Mr. Whitaker is the author of the book--"Above the Law, The Inside Story of How the Justice Department Tried to Subvert President Trump".
Mr. Whitaker graduated with a Master of Business Administration, Juris Doctor, and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa. While at Iowa, Mr. Whitaker was a three-year letterman on the football team where he received the prestigious Big Ten Medal of Honor.
Mr. Whitaker is now a Co-Chair of the Center for Law and Justice at America First Policy Institute, a Senior Fellow at the American Conservative Union Foundation and Of Counsel with the Graves Garrett law firm. He is on the Board of Directors of America First Legal and MAGA Again Super PAC. Whitaker appears regularly to discuss legal and political issues on Fox News, Newsmax and other news outlets. He splits his time between Iowa, Florida and Washington, D.C.
Don't let the serious 'official photo' fool you. Mr. Whitaker has a great sense of humor. He is very intelligent and well informed.
Heavy Hors d'oeuvres coffee/tea, iced tea and No-Host Wine, Beer & Soft Drink Bar
6:00 pm. Doors Open
6:30 pm. Program Begins
The Registration Deadline is Wednesday, March 2, 2022
If you have questions or need help registering online, please contact [email protected].
March 9, 2022
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Former U.S. Army Intelligence Captain, Afghanistan Veteran, Election Data Expert
All of us saw things that just did not make sense during the 2020 Presidential Election. We are not talking about Dominion servers or votes being changed by someone hacking into a system - although that may have happened. There are many prominent leaders whose careers have been severely impacted because they spoke up or just entertained the idea that the results of the election did not add up or make sense.
Many of us first heard of Seth Keshel when he presented at a cybersecurity summit held this past summer.
https://electionfraud20.org/seth-keshel-reports/
Seth's focus is not on the cyber aspects of the election and what happened. Instead it is a fresh look at the data. He analyzes the facts behind the numbers - the trends, algorithms, statistics - based on years of election data, state results, and other pertinent factors. It is important. It is fascinating.
Seth now travels continuously around this country, welcomed by folks everywhere who are thirsty for the facts. Please join us.
Captain Seth Keshel is a former Army Captain of Military Intelligence and Afghanistan veteran. His analytical method is known worldwide and has been recognized by President Donald Trump. Captain Keshel accurately predicted the outcome of every state in the 2016 presidential election. Seth is active in conservative grassroots efforts in Texas and lives in Fort Worth.
Hors d'oeuvres and No-Host Wine, Beer & Soft Drink Bar
5:00 pm. Doors Open
5:45 pm. Program Begins
The Deadline to Register is Friday, January 28, 2022
If you have questions or need help registering online, please contact [email protected].
February 2, 2022
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Featured Guest
Veteran, Author, Fox News Contributor
Pete Hegseth is the co-host of FOX & FRIENDS WEEKEND--America's #1-rated cable morning television show. He also hosts multiple programs on FOX NATION and provides commentary across all FOX NEWS and FOX BUSINESS programming.
In May of 2020, Hegseth's second book--AMERICAN CRUSADE--was published by Center Street and makes the case for a political and cultural crusade to fight for America's freedom. Hegseth's first book--IN THE ARENA--was published in 2016.
Pete is an Army veteran of Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay who holds two Bronze Stars and a Combat Infantryman's Badge for his time overseas. He still serves as an Army Major.
Pete is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy's School of Government. Pete and his wife Jennifer have seven kids, all future Crusaders.
Hegseth previously served as the Chief Executive Officer for Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) from 2012-2015, the largest conservative veterans and military families organization in America.
The Registration Deadline is Wednesday, December 1, 2021.
Invitations for the luncheon were mailed on October 27 to WOW members who are current with their 2021 dues. Priority seating will be given to WOW members.
Festive Attire.
Please bring a Safeway Gift Card, in any amount, to support the military families or a Starbucks Gift Card to support the Volunteer Staff at Fisher House, a “home away from home” for our military families while loved ones receive care at the VA Hospital.
In addition to Member and Non-member pricing, we have a special Premium Level for WOW Members.
The Premium seating option includes a seat near the guest speaker's table, front & center, as well as wine at your table. This price is available to WOW members and first guest only.
1. When you click the RSVP" button, the next screen will say "Standard".
2. Click on "Standard" and then log-in.
3. Go back to the Home page to Register again and the next screen will then give you the option to select "Premium".
To Pay Online, click on the RSVP button. WOW members can get the special member price by logging in with their email address. If you have forgotten your password, please click on "forgot password" to re-set it. This is a very fast and secure way to make your payments, even more so than mailing a check.
To Pay by Mail, please email [email protected] to get the address to mail it to. If you have any questions, need help to register online or want to tell us who you want to be seated with, please email [email protected]. Please note that we are unable to accommodate any walk-ins the day of the event.
December 8, 2021
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Lynnwood Convention Center
3711 196th St. SW
Lynnwood, WA 98036
Featured Guest
State Department Senior Advisor in the George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump administrations
A Return to Our (Grass) Roots!
Women of Washington is excited to bring you a new and fun venue for our November event.
We will be having our November event with Christian Whiton at the Heywood Farms Barn in Redmond.
Please dress warmly and be prepared for mud and wet weather - boots and jackets are perfect!
We will have hosted wine, beer and soft drinks - and appetizers provided by your WOW Board.
We hope you will join us and bring your friends. This is an opportunity for us to unite even further.
Please register as soon as possible so we have an idea of headcount.
Christian Whiton is Senior Fellow at the Center for the National Interest, and a principal at DC International Advisory. Previously, Mr. Whiton was a State Department senior advisor during the Trump and George W. Bush administrations. He advised on public diplomacy, media, and East Asia issues. On the presidential transition, he served as the media advisor for the incoming Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during their Senate confirmations.
Mr. Whiton was a member of the board of directors for Radio Free Europe, Middle East Broadcasting Networks, and Radio Free Asia. He has held communications and policy roles on several presidential campaigns. Outside of government, he has focused on trade, public affairs, corporate communications, and political risk analysis. He previously worked for the corporate finance practice of KPMG LLP.
Mr. Whiton is the author of “Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War” (Potomac Books), appears frequently on Fox Business and Fox News, is a Newsmax contributor, and has also appeared on BBC, CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, NHK, Sky News, and other networks. His articles have been published by the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Time, Daily Caller, National Interest, and numerous other publications. He edits “Super Macro” on Substack.
Hors d'oeuvres and Hosted Wine, Beer & Soft Drink Bar
5:30 pm. Doors Open
5:45 pm. Program Begins
The Deadline to Register is Tuesday, November 9, 2021.
To Pay Online, click on the RSVP button below. WOW members can get the special member price by logging in with their email address. If you have forgotten your password, please click on "forgot password" to re-set it. This is a very fast and secure way to make your payments, even more so than mailing a check.
If you have questions or need help registering online, please contact registration@womenofwa.com.
November 10, 2021
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Willowcrest Barn (Heywood Farms)
12053 154th Place NE
Redmond, WA 98052
Featured Guest
Director of the Center for Government Reform at Washington Policy Center
This event is also being recorded. If you wish to view this event at a later date, please register for the event and a link will be emailed to you following the event.
Jason Mercier is the Director of the Center for Government Reform at Washington Policy Center and is based in the Tri-Cities. He serves on the boards of the Washington Coalition for Open Government and Verify More, and was an advisor to the 2002 Washington State Tax Structure Committee.
Jason is an ex-officio for the Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce. In June 2010, former Governor Gregoire appointed Jason as WPC’s representative on her Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Panel.
The fee for this event is $25.00 per household.
Please note - this is an online event & it begins at 5:30 pm PDT. We hope you can join us!
We use BigMarker as our webinar platform. When you click on the Register button, you will be directed to the Women of Washington website where you will register on the BigMarker platform. This is a safe and secure site. After you have registered, you will receive a confirmation email from BigMarker which includes the log in information for this event.
If you have any questions or need help to register online, please email [email protected].
Featured Guest
Venezuelan Freedom Activist, Economist
Daniel Di Martino is a Venezuelan freedom activist and economist. He was born and raised in Venezuela, where he experienced the terrible consequences of socialism firsthand. After fleeing Venezuela for the United States in 2016, he has dedicated himself to explaining how socialism destroyed his homeland, advocating for its freedom, and stopping this ideology from ever being implemented in America and elsewhere. He graduated with a BA in Economics from Indiana University in Indianapolis and is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics at Columbia University.
Daniel has appeared dozens of times on national TV channels such as Fox News and CNN, written for the USA Today and other news outlets, and spoken at college campuses and events such as CPAC 2020 and the Heritage Foundation’s Resource Bank and Gala.
Hors d'oeuvres, Beverages & No-Host Bar
The Deadline to Register was Tuesday, August 24, 2021.
Invitations for a special pre-reception with our Speaker, Daniel Di Martino, were emailed on July 15 to WOW Members who have renewed their 2021 membership at the Sustaining Member level.
If you have any questions, please contact: [email protected].
September 1, 2021
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Golf Club at Newcastle
15500 Six Penny Lane
Newcastle, WA 98059
Featured Guest
An Expert on China and Southeast Asia Affairs
Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Great U.S.-China Tech War and Losing South Korea, booklets released by Encounter Books. His previous books are Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World and The Coming Collapse of China, both from Random House.
Chang lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as Counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie.
His writings on China and North Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The National Interest, The American Conservative, the International Herald Tribune, Commentary, National Review, and Barron's. He also writes for The Daily Beast.
He has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities and at The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, RAND, the American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other institutions. He has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the Pentagon. He has also spoken before industry and investor groups including Bloomberg, Sanford Bernstein, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia. Chang has appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Chang has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, the BBC, and Bloomberg Television. He is a regular co-host and guest on The John Batchelor Show.
Outside the United States he has spoken in Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, The Hague, London, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver.
He has served two terms as a trustee of Cornell University.
June 30, 2021
6:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
900 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
Featured Guest
Charlie Hurt is an American journalist and political commentator. He is currently the opinion editor of The Washington Times, Fox News contributor, Breitbart News contributor, and a Drudge Report editor.
Topic: Navigating the High Seas of Disinformation — How patriots cut through the lies and save our country
This event is also being recorded. If you wish to view this event at a later date, please register for the event and a link will be emailed to you following the event.
Charles Hurt is Fox News contributor and Opinion Editor for The Washington Times. He is a frequent guest on the network’s premiere nightly news show Special Report as part of the program’s “All Star Panel.” As Opinion Editor, Hurt edits the Commentary Section of The Washington Times, the lone conservative voice in the nation's capital going back 35 years. Even in today's crowded media environment, The Washington Times remains the only full-service, daily printed newspaper committed to hard news in its news section and a conservative voice on its opinion pages.
Hurt also writes the Nuclear Option column for The Times, focusing on the current state of national politics, fiascos of media bias and the various criminal activities of politicians and bureaucrats. In addition, he has covered Washington for a variety of newspapers for nearly 15 years. He traveled extensively with the presidential campaigns of John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Before joining The Washington Times as Opinion Editor, Hurt was an editor for five years at the Drudge Report. Prior to that, he was DC Bureau Chief for the New York Post, where he covered the White House, traveled with Presidents Bush and Obama and wrote a weekly column about national politics for the tabloid. A column he wrote about then-Sen. Barack Obama's position on the Iraq war got him thrown off the 2008 Obama campaign plane.
Prior to working for The Post, Charlie was Chief Congressional Correspondent for The Washington Examiner after serving several years as Capitol Hill Bureau Chief for The Washington Times. His first job in Washington was working for the Charlotte Observer, covering the emerging political "superstar" John Edwards -- who at that time was only famous for NOT being picked by Al Gore for VEEP in 2000.Prior to moving to Washington one week after 9/11, Charlie worked for The Detroit News for seven years covering the city’s fire department, city schools and political corruption.
Hurt lives in Chatham, Virginia, a small tobacco town in southside Virginia, where he grew up and his entire family still lives. His brother, Robert, represented Virginia’s vast, mostly rural Fifth District in the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms.
The fee for this event is $25.00 per household.
Please note - this is an online event & it begins at 5:30 pm PST. We hope you can join us!
We use BigMarker as our webinar platform. When you click on the red button, you will be directed to the Women of Washington website where you will register on the BigMarker platform. This is a safe and secure site. After you have registered, you will receive a confirmation email from BigMarker which includes the log in information for this event.
If you have any questions or need help to register online please email [email protected].
Featured Guest
Alex Berenson is a former reporter for The New York Times and the author of twelve thriller novels.
Please join us as former New York Times reporter and prominent lockdown critic Alex Berenson provides a necessary counterweight to media hysteria pertaining to COVID-19.
This event is also being recorded. If you wish to view this event at a later date, please register for the event and a link will be emailed to you following the event.
Alex Berenson was born in New York in 1973 and grew up in Englewood, N.J. After graduating from Yale University in 1994 with degrees in history and economics, he joined the Denver Post as a reporter. In 1996, he became one of the first employees at TheStreet.com, the groundbreaking financial news Website.
In 1999, he joined The New York Times. At the Times, he covered everything from the drug industry to Hurricane Katrina; in 2003 and 2004, he served two stints as a correspondent in Iraq, an experience that led him to write The Faithful Spy, his debut novel, which won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel. He left the Times in 2010 to devote himself to writing fiction. But conversations with his wife led him to begin researching the science around cannabis and mental illness, a project that became the book Tell Your Children, published in January 2019.
He has now written twelve John Wells novels and two non-fiction books, The Number and Tell Your Children. Alex lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, Dr. Jacqueline Berenson, a forensic psychiatrist, and their children.
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April 7, 2021
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Featured Guest
Director of Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty; Filmmaker; Writer
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Christopher F. Rufo is the director of Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty. He has directed four films for PBS, Netflix, and international television, including his latest film, "America Lost", that tells the story of three "forgotten American cities". He is currently a contributing editor for City Journal, where he covers homelessness, addiction, mental illness, crime, and other afflictions.
Christopher graduated from Georgetown University and was a Claremont Institute Lincoln fellow.
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Featured Guest
President of the American Strategy Group; Sr. Fellow of the Claremont Institute; Chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger: China
Brian T. Kennedy is President of the American Strategy Group, a think tank dedicated to understanding the strategic threats to the United States. Mr. Kennedy is also a board member and senior fellow of the Claremont Institute where he served as president from 2002 to 2015. During his 25-year tenure at the Claremont Institute, he directed their Golden State Center in Sacramento, their National Security Project, and served as publisher of the Claremont Review of Books.
Mr. Kennedy is the chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, founded in March of 2019. He is also a member of the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense. Mr. Kennedy is the author of Communist China’s War Inside America by Encounter Books (June 2020). His articles on national security affairs and public policy issues have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Investor's Business Daily, and Hillsdale College’s Imprimis. He is a regular on The Bill Bennett Show Podcast. Mr. Kennedy was a National Security Surrogate for Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July 2016. Mr. Kennedy is a native Californian and a graduate of Claremont McKenna College.
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Featured Guest
Two Amazing Guests:
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)
Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio was first elected to the United States Senate in 2010, and set one objective for himself while in office: to help bring the American Dream back into reach of those who feel it is slipping away. That’s the goal line Senator Rubio strives toward with his every effort, and it’s the measure he uses to keep score.
Senator Rubio is passionate about the American Dream because he’s lived it himself. His parents came to America from Cuba in 1956 and earned their way to the middle class by working humble jobs. Through their loving and powerful example, he learned the importance of work and family, and developed the belief that all things are possible in America. Now more than two years into his second term, he continues that important work to make the American Dream achievable for all.
Senator Rubio is Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, where he has advocated for modernizing and reforming the federal government’s programs that help small businesses grow and succeed in the 21st century economy.
As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issue, Senator Rubio continues to fight for human rights and to uphold democracy around the globe.
Senator Rubio is also Acting Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which provides oversight over the U.S. government’s intelligence community and national security apparatus.
Additionally, Senator Rubio is a member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, which is responsible for allocating funding for the federal government.
Senator Rubio has spent most of his life in West Miami, and lives there today with his wife Jeanette and their four children. Prior to being sworn into the Senate in 2010, Senator Rubio served as a City Commissioner for West Miami before serving in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008.
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Kimberley Strassel is a member of the editorial board for The Wall Street Journal. She writes editorials, as well as the weekly Potomac Watch political column, from her base in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Strassel joined Dow Jones & Co. in 1994, working in the news department of The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels, and then in London. She moved to New York in 1999 and soon thereafter joined the Journal's editorial page, working as a features editor, and then as an editorial writer. She assumed her current position in 2005.
Ms. Strassel, a 2014 Bradley Prize recipient, is a regular contributor to Sunday political shows, including CBS's "Face the Nation," Fox News Sunday, and NBC's "Meet the Press." Ms. Strassel is the author of "Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America" which makes the case that it is Trump's critics, in their zeal to oppose the president, who are undermining our foundations.
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Featured Guest
Veteran, Author, Fox News Contributor
Whether it's the battlefield, the media, the Ivy League, or national politics -- Pete Hegseth is a passionate fighter for America and the freedoms we love. Pete is a decorated war-fighter, Princeton and Harvard graduate, a veterans and military advocate, a highly-acclaimed author, and now a FOX NEWS host and political analyst -- but above all, he is a patriot.
Hegseth is the co-host of FOX & FRIENDS WEEKEND and also frequently guest hosts for FOX & FRIENDS during the week. He is also a FOX NEWS Senior Political Analyst, providing analysis and commentary across all FOX NEWS and FOX BUSINESS programming.
In May of 2016, Hegseth's first book--IN THE ARENA--was published by Threshold Editions of Simon & Schuster. The book, which channels a famous Teddy Roosevelt speech, makes an impassioned argument for gritty citizenship at home and American strength aboard.
Hegseth has deployed three times since 9/11, most recently returning from Afghanistan where he was the senior counterinsurgency instructor at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul from 2011-2012. Hegseth previously served in Iraq with the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division for their 2005-2006 deployment, serving as an Infantry Platoon Leader in Baghdad in 2005, and as a Civil-Military Operations officer in Samarra in 2006. He also served in Guantanamo Bay for a year guarding detainees. Hegseth holds two Bronze Stars and a Combat Infantryman's Badge for his time in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hegseth previously served as the Chief Executive Officer for Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) from 2012-2015, the largest conservative veterans and military families organization in America. Prior to joining CVA, Hegseth was Executive Director for Vets for Freedom from 2007-2011, an organization committed to victory on the battlefield.
Hegseth graduated from Princeton University in 2003 with a degree in Politics and completed a Masters in Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2013. Hegseth has four young children--Gunner, Boone, Rex and Gwendolyn--who, he prays, will someday be "IN THE ARENA" for God and country.
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Featured Guest
Partner, Dhillon Law Group; Founder of civil rights nonprofit Center for American Liberty; Fox News contributor
Harmeet Kaur Dhillon, the founder and senior partner of Dhillon Law Group Inc., is a lawyer who fights passionately for her clients in all walks of life.
Harmeet’s practice, in addition to business and employment litigation, includes a substantial amount of constitutional litigation, including numerous free speech, due process, equal protection, and other fundamental rights issues. She founded civil rights nonprofit Center for American Liberty in 2018, which also handles civil rights cases involving speech and other liberty interest throughout the country.
Harmeet is presently suing the governments of four states for violating civil rights during the COVID crisis. She is also a frequent legal and media commentator on high-profile litigation and policy issues, including technology censorship issues. She is seen often on Fox News. When not fighting for her clients in the courts of law and public opinion, Harmeet can be found hiking, knitting, and sailing on the northern California coast.
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Featured Guest
Author; Fellow at The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization.
When is the last time you read a high school or college American History textbook? Have you been wondering what they are teaching in American history classes? Have you seen evidence of negative attitudes toward America in the young people you know? A loss of love for America? A lack of knowledge of the same ideas and historical facts that you learned? It might even be worse than that.
Mary Grabar has taken on the task of examining a popular textbook – The Peoples History of the United States, which is used in many high schools and colleges – and also the life of its author Howard Zinn. Over the last 40 years, 2.4 million copies have been sold. Many answers to your questions become obvious with her examination. What motivates Mary?
Mary Grabar was born in Slovenia when it was still part of the communist Yugoslavia and grew up in Rochester, New York. After earning her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia in 2002, she taught at a number of colleges and universities in Georgia, most recently Emory University. In 2011 she founded the Dissident Prof Education Project, Inc., a 501(c)3 education reform initiative. She writes frequently for such outlets as the Federalist, Epoch Times, American Spectator, Front Page Magazine, American Greatness, and Real Clear Politics.
Mary’s talk should motivate us all to conversation with historical corrections found in her book Debunking Howard Zinn to influence the hearts and minds of younger Americans who have experienced Zinn’s negative propaganda regarding the country we love.
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Featured Guest
Former Executive V.P. & Counsel to The Trump Organization for 13 years working alongside Donald Trump; Currently the Chief Compliance Officer for the business and close friend of President Trump
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With decades of demonstrated experience, George A. Sorial is an attorney, author and consultant. He is the former Executive Vice President and Counsel to The Trump Organization and its affiliated companies with respect to its global portfolio. He is currently a partner at the Lucas Compton firm in Washington D.C.
Mr. Sorial has managed a variety of high profile legal and business affairs, negotiating with numerous domestic and foreign government officials, politicians and other prominent members of the international business community. Following the 2016 Presidential election, Mr. Sorial was appointed as the first Chief Compliance Counsel to The Trump Organization and was responsible for the implementation and supervision of the global company wide corporate compliance program.
With frequent public speaking engagements and media appearances, Mr. Sorial is a highly sought after contributor to print, radio and television including Fox, CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post as well as many others.
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Featured Guest
Judicial Watch Director of Investigations & Research
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Christopher J. Farrell joined Judicial Watch in 1999 as the organization’s Director of Investigations & Research, and has been a member of the Board of Directors since September 2003. Chris is a native of Long Island, New York. He was a Distinguished Military Graduate from Fordham University with a B.A. in History, whereupon he accepted a Regular Army Commission and served as a Military Intelligence Officer – specializing in Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence.Chris is a graduate of the Military Intelligence Officers Basic and Advanced Courses, the U.S. Army Advanced Counterintelligence Training Course, the Combined Arms Services Staff School of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Military Operations Training Course, and the Haus Rissen Institut für Politik und Wirtschaft in Hamburg, Germany. He is a specialist in national security matters, specializing in unconventional warfare and terrorism.
Following command and staff assignments that included three tours of duty in the Federal Republic of Germany, and one tour at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Chris returned to civilian life as a contractor to the defense and intelligence communities. He also provided management and training consulting services to non-profit organizations, and was active in the establishment of a small, private, co-ed Christian high school where he both taught and served as director.Chris has appeared on numerous national TV and radio shows, and has authored dozens of articles. He contributed a chapter on terrorism to Dr. Irwin Redlener’s book “Americans at Risk” (Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 2006). Chris maintains a busy lecture schedule on both government corruption issues and intelligence matters. He served as a Senior Staff Associate of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Mailman School of Public Health (2005 – 2008).He was an adjunct professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia (2013 – 2018). Chris is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers; the Society of Professional Journalists; Investigative Reporters and Editors; the National Military Intelligence Association; and is a constituent member of the State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council. Chris serves as the Judicial Watch main representative to United Nations Headquarters in New York.
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Featured Guest
"National Review" columnist, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, author
Andrew C. McCarthy is sponsored by the National Review Institute. Website
He is a former top federal prosecutor, is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, a contributing editor at National Review, a Fox News contributor, and a well-known commentator on legal, national security, and political affairs.
McCarthy is a former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York, best known for leading the prosecution against the Blind Sheik (Omar Abdel Rahman) and eleven other jihadists for waging a terrorist war against the United States—including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a plot to bomb New York City landmarks. After the 9/11 attacks, he supervised the U.S. attorney’s command post near Ground Zero. He later served as an advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Willful Blindness: A Memoir of Jihad (2008) and The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America (2010), as well as Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy (2013) and Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment (2014). His new book, Ball of Collusion, was released on August 13, 2019.
About NRI: National Review Institute is a non-profit, journalistic think tank established to advance the conservative principles William F. Buckley Jr. championed, and complement the mission of National Review magazine including by supporting and promoting NR's best talent.
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Featured Guest
Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center Columnist, “The Washington Post”
Columnist focusing on politics, populism, and American conservative thought
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Henry Olsen is a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Olsen began his career as a political consultant at the California firm of Hoffenblum-Mollrich. After three years working for the California Assembly Republican Caucus, he returned to school to become a lawyer. Following law school he clerked for the Honorable Danny J. Boggs on the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and as an associate in the Philadelphia office of Dechert, Price & Rhoads.
He then joined the think tank world where he spent the next eighteen years as an executive at a variety of institutions, serving as the President of the Commonwealth Foundation, a Vice President at the Manhattan Institute, and as Vice President and Director, National Research Initiative, at the American Enterprise Institute.
He left AEI in 2013 to pursue a career in political analysis and writing at EPPC. During that time his work has appeared in variety of leading publications in America and the United Kingdom. He is the author or co-author of two books, “The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism” and (with Dante J. Scala) “The Four Faces of the Republican Party”.
His biennial election predictions have been widely praised for the uncanny accuracy, and he is a frequent guest on television and radio programs. Olsen regularly speaks about American political trends and global populism in the United State, Europe, and Australia.
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Featured Guest
Talk Radio Host KVI 570
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May 27, 2020 7:00 pm
Please email any questions you'd like Kirby to answer in advance of the event to [email protected]. We will also be able to entertain additional questions during the event via the chat function.
Kirby was born in Washington DC and moved with his family to the Seattle area at the age of eight. He graduated from Queen Anne High School and the University of Washington with a degree in history.
He has been active in politics since high school and has served in various positions, including state chairman of the Young Republicans ( 1979-1981 ) and has been a delegate or alternate delegate to eight national Republican conventions.
He began working for KVI in 1993, doing the 9PM - 12 Midnight shift, moving to morning drive, 5-9 AM in January, 1995, where he was until leaving the station in November, 2009. After leaving KVI, he worked as state director of Americans for Prosperity and was elected state chairman of the Republican Party from 2011 - 2013. He returned to the airwaves on KVI on January 4, 2016.
He and his wife Trina have been married since November, 1980. They met on the Reagan campaign. They have two sons, Nathan and Adam. He loves his country and is unapologetically American.
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Featured Guest
Founder and President of the "Clare Booth Luce Center for Conservative Women"; completed twelve years of service in the Administrations of Presidents Reagan and Bush.
This event has been postponed until further notice.
Michelle Easton is the president of the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women (CBL), an organization she founded in 1993, which puts forward conservative women role models who promote traditional family values and prepares young women for conservative leadership.
Prior to founding CBL, Michelle received Presidential appointments from both Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush with Senate confirmation for her position at the U.S. Department of Education, serving the full 12 years of their administrations. During the Reagan Administration she also served as Private Voluntary Liaison of the Agency for International Development’s Africa Bureau and as the first Director of President Reagan’s new Missing Children’s Program at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Beverages & No-Host Wine Bar
6:30 pm Doors Open
7:00 pm Program Begins
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April 15, 2020
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Author; Radio Host
We are sorry but this event has been canceled. Refunds will be given to those of you who have signed up already. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Born into an Islamic Egyptian family, Amani Mustafa’s journey to freedom in Christ is a compelling story of faith, hope and courage. She credits the miraculous hand of God for her escape from the Middle East. Amani and her children, all practicing Christians, were relentlessly pursued and terrorized by Muslims in the U. S. and were forced to live their lives as fugitives for years.
As producer and host of an exciting TV show, "The Muslim Woman", it is the first Christian television program started specifically targeting Muslim women in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula. It now reaches 300 million households globally with 50 million actual viewers per live program. This courageous woman is a popular speaker who knows first-hand the suffering inflicted by the tyrannical hand of Islam.
Small Bites, Beverages & No-Host Wine Bar
6:30 Social Time
7:00 Program Begins
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March 11, 2020
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Author; Radio & TV Talk-Show Host
A “firebrand libertarian” according to “Daily Variety,” best-selling author, radio and TV talk-show host Larry Elder has a take-no-prisoners style, using such old-fashioned things as evidence and logic. Larry shines the bright light of reasoned analysis on many of the myths and hypocrisies apparent in our system of government, our society, and the media itself. He slays dragons and topples sacred cows using facts, common sense and a ready wit.
Larry, the recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, hosted the longest-running afternoon drive-time radio show in Los Angeles, beginning in March, 1994. In 2016 “The Larry Elder Show” became a nationally syndicated daily talk show.
In his best-selling books, "The 10 Things You Can’t Say in America", and "Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies and the Special Interests That Divide America", Larry skewers the crippling myths that dominate the public agenda, takes on the “victicrats,” trashes accepted “wisdom” and puts everyone on notice that the status quo must be shaken up. His third book, "What’s Race Got to Do with It? Why it’s Time to Stop the Stupidest Argument in America", is praised as an important, groundbreaking must-read for the future of race relations in America.
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7:00 pm. Program Begins
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February 12, 2020
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Founder and President of the "Center for Urban Renewal and Education" and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creator's."
Star Parker is the founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a Washington D.C. based Public Policy Institute that fights poverty and restores dignity through messages of faith, freedom and personal responsibility.
She consulted on federal Welfare Reform in the mid-90s and then founded UrbanCure to bring new ideas to policy discussions on how to transition America's poor from government dependency. Today, Star regularly consults with both federal and state legislators on market-based strategies to fight poverty.
Her organization UrbanCure has three programs:
1. A Policy Program that works directly with the White House and the Congress on Welfare Policy ideas;
2. Media Program that includes rapid response and the daily news blog, blackcommunitynews.com;
3. And a Clergy Program that umbrellas a national network of more than 850 clergy who serve in various hard-hit zip codes around the country.
She has authored several books; is a regular commentator on national television and radio networks including the BBC, EWTN, and FOX News; and is a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators, which carries in some of the largest newspapers and news websites in the country, reaching 7 million readers weekly.
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Festive Attire.
Please bring a gift card for Safeway, QFC or Starbucks to benefit Fisher House.
December 11, 2019
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Author, Journalist, Member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
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Kimberley Strassel is back by popular demand. She is a member of the editorial board for The Wall Street Journal. She writes editorials, as well as the weekly Potomac Watch political column, from her base in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Strassel joined Dow Jones & Co. in 1994, working in the news department of The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels, and then in London. She moved to New York in 1999 and soon thereafter joined the Journal's editorial page, working as a features editor, and then as an editorial writer. She assumed her current position in 2005.
Ms. Strassel, a 2014 Bradley Prize recipient, is a regular contributor to Sunday political shows, including CBS's "Face the Nation," Fox News Sunday, and NBC's "Meet the Press."
An Oregon native, Ms. Strassel earned a bachelor's degree in Public Policy and International Affairs from Princeton University.
Ms. Strassel is the author of "Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America" which makes the case that it is Trump's critics, in their zeal to oppose the president, who are undermining our foundations.
This book will be on sale at the event for $25.00 and Ms. Strassel will be autographing them.
Light Hors d'oeuvres, Beverages & No-Host Wine Bar
6:30 Social Time
7:00 Program Begins
Cost is $50.00 for WOW Members, $50.00 for WOW Member's First Guest, $75.00 for Non-members and additional guests, $25.00 for Young Professionals
November 20, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Justin Haskins is the Editorial Director and a Research Fellow and Donny Kendal is a Graphic Designer and the Host of "In the Tank" podcast at the Heartland Institute
As Editorial Director, Justin Haskins is responsible for managing Heartland’s op-eds and serial publications — Budget & Tax News, Environment & Climate News, and Health Care News, and Research & Commentaries — are ready for publication. He also directs the production of Heartland books, policy studies, and other publications.
Haskins has been published hundreds of times in major digital and print publications, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Forbes, FoxNews.com, Newsweek, and National Review, among many others. His writing has also been featured or discussed by The Rush Limbaugh Show, Glenn Beck Radio Program, the Fox News Channel, The New York Times, Drudge Report, PolitiFact, and Newsmax, which named Haskins one of "Top 30 Republicans Under 30" in 2017. In 2016, Haskins was named to MediaDC’s “30 Under 30” list of young and influential leaders on the right.
Donny Kendal is responsible for the layouts of Heartland's four monthly newspapers, "Environment & Climate News", "Budget & Tax News", "School Reform News" and "Health Care News". He is also responsible for laying out other various Heartland publications. In addition, Kendal also produces other graphics, designs, and advertisements for heartland.org.
He is also the host of Heartland's “In the Tank Podcast,” uploaded to the Heartland Daily Podcast iTunes feed every Friday.
Small Bites, Beverages & No-Host Wine Bar
4:30 Social Time
5:00 Program Begins
Special Event: WOW members can bring first time guests for free. Just email us at [email protected] to let us know who you are bringing.
Deadline to sign up is Tuesday, October 1, 2019 before the price increases.
To pay by mail, please send your check by October 1 to:
WOW, P. O. Box 1771, Mercer Island, WA 98040.
Questions? Email [email protected]
October 9, 2019
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Fellow at the Manhattan Institute; Political Commentator; Author; Attorney; Editor
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has covered a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, and race relations.
Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and The New Criterion. Mac Donald's newest book, The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture (2018), argues that toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture.
Hors d'oeuvres, Beverages & No-Host Wine Bar
Please note that this event is on a THURSDAY.
Invitations were mailed to WOW Members who renewed their 2019 membership at the Sustaining Member level for a special pre-reception with our Speaker, Heather MacDonald.
Deadline to sign up is Thursday, August 29, 2019
To pay by mail, please send your check by August 29 to:
WOW, P. O. Box 1771, Mercer Island, WA 98040.
Questions? Email www.womenofwa.com
September 5, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Senior Fellow in Residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College; Columnist, Author
Dr. Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, columnist and farmer. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for National Review, The Washington Times and other media outlets. He is a professor emeritus of Classics at California State University, Fresno, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute and visiting professor at Hillsdale College. He was a presidential appointee in 2007–2008 on the American Battle Monuments Commission.
He is a supporter of Donald Trump, authoring a 2019 book A Case for Trump. Hanson defends Trump's insults and vile language as "uncouth authenticity", and praises Trump for "an uncanny ability to troll and create hysteria among his media and political critics. This book will be available for sale and autographed at the event.
July 2, 2019
6:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
KOMO News 4 reporter; Executive Producer
The recent documentary, "Seattle is Dying" has created a great conversation about the homeless and addiction problems in Seattle. This is the third video in a trilogy. The first one "There But For the Grace of God" explored homelessness from the inside out in 2016. The second was called, "Demon at the Door" and was about the hellish existence of heroin addiction.
"Seattle is Dying" (View HERE) is about everyone else. It's about citizens who don't feel safe taking their families into downtown Seattle. It's about parents who won't take their children into the public parks they pay for. It's about filth and degradation all around us. And theft and crime. It's about people who don't feel protected anymore, who don't feel like their voices are being heard.
This program is not about demonizing those who are struggling with addiction and homelessness and mental illness. Instead, it asks the questions, "Why aren't we doing more? Why don't we have the courage to intervene in lives that are, in the face of a grave sickness, reeling out of control?"
Matt Markovich was the Executive Producer of this documentary and is a man who wears many hats. He began reporting for KOMO 4 News in 1994, but he also reports and produces for several nationally syndicated programs and networks including The Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, Learning Channel, PBS, Lifetime and ABC.
Light Hors d'oeuvres and No-Host Wine Bar
Please note that we are meeting at the Red Lion Hotel in Bellevue.
6:30 Networking
7:00 Speaker Begins
The deadline to RSVP is Thursday, May 30, 2019, before the price increases.
To pay by mail, please send your check by May 30 to:
WOW, P. O. Box 1771, Mercer Island WA 98040.
Questions? Email [email protected]
Featured Guest
Attorney, Author, Former Assistant United States Attorney
Sidney Powell wrote "LICENSED TO LIE: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice" after seeing a core group of federal prosecutors break all the rules, make up crimes, hide evidence, and send innocent people to prison. The book reads like a legal thriller, but it names the prosecutors who then rose to positions of great power and the judges who turned a blind eye to their abuses of unfettered power including Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissman.
"You just heard SidneyPowell on my radio show, check out her book, the definitive reference on Robert Mueller's pitbull Andrew Weissman"— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity)
Sidney represents individuals, corporations, and governments in federal appeals in complex commercial litigation. She has practiced law, primarily in the Fifth Federal Circuit for decades. S
She continues to write articles on government misconduct and prosecutorial misconduct for The Daily Caller, the Observer, the Hill, Fox News, and other outlets. She frequently appears on Lou Dobbs Tonight, Shannon Bream’s show, Hannity, NewsMax TV, One America News, and countless radio shows.
Her book, "LICENSED TO LIE: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice" will be available for sale at this event and she will autograph them.
Light hors d'oeuvres and No-host wine bar.
The deadline to RSVP is Thursday, May 16, 2019, before the price increases to $45.00.
To pay by mail, please send your check by May 16 to:
WOW, P. O. Box 1771, Mercer Island WA 98040.
Questions? Email [email protected]
May 22, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy
Former Chief of Staff for President George W. Bush
Andrew Card has held numerous positions at senior levels of government under three Presidents throughout the years, including Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush, where Card became the second longest tenured White House Chief of Staff. Card served as Deputy Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush, as well as U.S. Secretary of Transportation, and served President Ronald Reagan as a Deputy Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs.
While Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush, Card coordinated the priorities of the Administration’s agenda, the development of policies, and appointments of Cabinet Secretaries and senior officials. On September 11, 2001, Card is the one who whispered in President Bush’s ear while the President was sitting in a classroom in Florida, that terrorists had attacked the United States. Card then led a government-wide reorganization to best allocate resources to deal with the aftermath of 9-11 and the new terrorist environment.
He has served in the Navy, as an elected official at the local and state levels, as Vice President-Government Relations for General Motors Corp, a University President and much more.
He and his wife, The Reverend Kathleene (Bryan) Card have three children and six grandchildren.
Light hors d'oeuvres and No-host wine bar.
April 17, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Journalist, Property Rights Activist, Executive Director of the Citizens Alliance for Property Rights
Glen Morgan is currently the Executive Director of the Citizens Alliance for Property Rights. Glen was the Grassroots Director and the Property Rights Director at the Freedom Foundation from 2011 until 2015. He enjoys creating videos documenting Big Government’s abuses of citizens – particularly on property rights issues.
He is a frequent writer and speaker on property rights, the environmental movement, Big Government, and the importance of citizen activism. Go to his website wethegoverned.com to view his work and support his efforts.
Glen’s articles have been reproduced in publications ranging from the Heritage Insider to local blog sites. He has also appeared on King 5 News, KOMO News, Fox News (Q13), KUOW (NPR), The David Boze show, Todd Herman (Seattle - KTTH AM 770), and a variety of other television and radio programs. He frequently testifies on property rights issues at local government hearings and at the Washington State Legislature. Glen is also known for writing opposition statements in the official voter’s guide for voter-approved tax increases, challenging inaccurate and misleading ballot titles created by the AG for some initiatives, among other civic activity.
Glen has also been involved in attempting to address campaign finance reforms to make the process easier and simpler for political beginners. As part of his effort to study Washington State’s campaign finance laws, he has filed over 400 Public Disclosure Campaign Finance complaints (from late 2016-2018). These complaints have resulted in over 50 lawsuits against state legislators, state senators, county Democratic Party committees, labor unions, judges, and other politicians who violated the Washington State’s campaign finance laws. This includes 19 lawsuits filed by the Washington State Attorney General based on Glen’s reporting – 18 of which have been settled with judgments.
Glen is also an investigative citizen journalist who frequently meets with anonymous whistleblowers from various state agencies, local governments, and political parties who want to expose wrongdoing where they work.
As a fifth generation Washingtonian, Glen’s roots run deep in Washington State. His great-great grandmother helped start the Pike Place Market. He currently lives on a small tree farm in Thurston County with his wife and their four children.
March 13, 2019
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Author, Columnist (Spengler column) for Asia Times, Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Hillsdale College
David P. Goldman is president of Macrostrategy LLC, an adviser to institutional investors. He also is a principal of Asia Times, where he has written the "Spengler" column since 2001. He writes regularly for "PJ Media", "Claremont Review of Books", "Standpoint" (UK), "Tablet" Magazine, and other media. His work has appeared in "The Wall Street Journal", "Forbes", "The American Interest", "Commentary", and "First Things", where he was a senior writer during 2009-2011. His book How Civilizations Die appeared in 2011.
Mr. Goldman previously directed research departments at leading investment banks, including Credit Suisse and Bank of America, and was the recipient of several industry awards. Between 2013 and 2016 he was a partner at a Hong Kong investment bank. He consulted for the US National Security Council during the 1980s and more recently for the US Department of Defense.
He is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research, a member of the advisory board of SIGNAL (a non-profit organization devoted to Sino-Israel relations) and a member of the board of advisers of "The Journal of American Affairs".
February 13, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Political and Foreign Affairs Analyst for Fox News, Senior Fellow with the London Center for Policy Research
"After the Midterms: What's Next for the Trump Era"
Monica Crowley is a Senior Fellow with the London Center for Policy Research, appears regularly as a political and foreign affairs analyst for the Fox News Channel, and writes for the New York Post and The Hill, among other publications, including The Washington Times, where she also served as the Online Opinion Editor. She has also been a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group, an anchor on MSNBC, and the host of the nationally syndicated radio program, "The Monica Crowley Show".
She is the author of The New York Times bestseller, "What The (Bleep) Just Happened? The Happy Warrior's Guide to the Great American Comeback". She served as Foreign Policy Assistant to former President Richard Nixon from 1990 until his death in 1994, and wrote two bestsellers about her experiences, "Nixon Off the Record" and "Nixon in Winter". She has also written for The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times and Newsweek, and has lectured at Yale, Columbia, and MIT.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she graduated from Colgate University and holds two Master's degrees and a doctorate in International Relations from Columbia University.
Registration is closed. There are a few seats available. Please email www.womenofwa.com for additional information.
Invitations were mailed to WOW members on October 17. Priority seating will be given to current WOW members. Parking is included.
Premium Seating option includes a seat in close proximity to the guest speaker's table, front & center, as well as a complimentary glass of wine or champagne. This price is the same for members & non-members.
To Pay by Mail, please send your check made payable to WOW by November 14 to:
WOW, P.O. Box 1771, Mercer Island, WA 98040
If you have any questions, or want to tell us who you want to be seated with, please email [email protected].
Featured Guest
Co-founder, President & CEO of INRIX, a leading provider of traffic information, connected car services and transportation.
For 100 years, the automobile didn’t change much, but now technology is reinventing transportation.
ACES is devoted to accelerating the widespread adoption of autonomous, connected, electric, and shared vehicles. ACES vehicles will improve the lives of all our residents by reducing congestion, reducing traffic accidents and deaths, improving our environment and improving social equity by increasing transportation availability and reducing costs.
In this talk, Bryan will show how technology is already impacting how we think of transportation, and what it will mean for the future. Bryan will discuss how computing technology, connected vehicles and big data is enabling new solutions to some of society’s biggest problems.
Considered to be one of the nation's leading experts on the future of automotive transportation, Bryan has served as a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Transportation Policy Project, as a member of the United States Department of Transportation’s ITS Advisory Committee, and as a board member of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. Bryan currently serves on the board of the Discovery Institute, a leading think-tank in the Pacific Northwest. He's passionate about boating, politics and Christianity.
You won't want to miss this illuminating discussion about how we can usher in a new era of transportation.
Deadline to sign up is Thursday, November 8, 2018.
To pay by mail, please send your check by Thursday, November 8, 2018 to:
WOW
P.O. Box 1771
Mercer Island, WA 98040
Questions? Email [email protected]
November 14, 2018
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
American conservative blogger, political commentator, director, screenwriter, editor, pilot, author and the voice of "The Common Sense Resistance".
BILL WHITTLE has not got the slightest idea of how he became one of the most eloquent, inventive and funny defenders of modern-day principled Conservatism. He never gave a serious thought to politics of any kind until he was 42 years old.
In the summer of 1976, he and his friends made three films in super-8mm. He began to realize he could tell a good story, get people’s attention and also make them laugh. This turned into a Theatre Major at the University of Florida, and complete immersion in the most liberal ideas which pervaded and continue to pervade entertainment and academia.
Thirty years of hardship and anonymity managed to beat some humility into this fellow. Slowly, Bill began to find out – the hard way – what was true and what was not. Eventually, he had fallen into a comfortable position as a TV editor. In 2000, Bill Whittle realized he was a man with a great future behind him.
In 2008 he took a job at PJTV, where he and a few others began to develop the idea of political videos. Here, at last, his knowledge of history, his love of country, his rhetorical talents and his warrior spirit coalesced, and his Firewall, Afterburner, and literally thousands of other videos have been seen around 40 million times.
Bill Whittle has written for National Review Online; hosted a daily show for the National Rifle Association and won great praise for his commentary.
Hors d'oeuvres, Beverages & No-Host Wine Bar
Please note that this event is on a FRIDAY.
Deadline to sign up is Friday, September 28, 2018
To pay by mail, please send your check by September 28 to:
WOW, P. O. Box 1771, Mercer Island, WA 98040.
Questions? Email [email protected]
October 5, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Science Director at the Heartland Institute
Women of Washington is excited to bring you a speaker on Environment and Climate Change who is not only intelligent and well-regarded but also engaging and interesting. You will walk away with a firm understanding of Global Warming & environmental issues and how they are affecting our country and the world.
Jay Lehr is an internationally renowned speaker, scientist, and author who has testified before Congress on dozens of occasions on environmental issues and consulted with nearly every agency of the national government, as well as many foreign countries.
Lehr is a leading authority on groundwater hydrology. After graduating from Princeton University at the age of 20 with a degree in Geological Engineering, he went on to receive the nation’s first Ph.D. in Groundwater Hydrology from the University of Arizona.
Lehr is the author of more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. He is editor of Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns, McGraw-Hill’s Handbook on Environmental Science, Health and Technology (2000), the six-volume Water Encyclopedia (Wiley Interscience, 2005) and many more.
Lehr has spoken in front of thousands of audiences on topics ranging from global warming and biotechnology to business management and health and physical fitness. He invariably receives the highest scores for entertaining and energizing even the largest audiences.
He was featured in Parachute Magazine in March 2010 for setting a new world record, having jumped from an airplane each and every month for 32 years.
Hors d'oeuvres, Beverages & No-Host Wine Bar
Please note that this event is on a THURSDAY.
Invitations were mailed to WOW Members who renewed their 2018 membership at the Sustaining Member level for a special pre-reception with our Speaker, Jay Lehr.
Deadline to sign up is Thursday, August 30, 2018
To pay by mail, please send your check by August 30 to:
WOW, P. O. Box 1771, Mercer Island, WA 98040.
Questions? Email www.womenofwa.com
September 6, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Author, Journalist, Member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
Kimberley Strassel is a member of the editorial board for The Wall Street Journal. She writes editorials, as well as the weekly Potomac Watch political column, from her base in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Strassel joined Dow Jones & Co. in 1994, working in the news department of The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels, and then in London. She moved to New York in 1999 and soon thereafter joined the Journal's editorial page, working as a features editor, and then as an editorial writer. She assumed her current position in 2005.
Ms. Strassel, a 2014 Bradley Prize recipient, is a regular contributor to Sunday political shows, including CBS's "Face the Nation," Fox News Sunday, and NBC's "Meet the Press." She is the author of "The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech," which chronicles recent attacks on conservative nonprofits, businesses and donors.
An Oregon native, Ms. Strassel earned a bachelor's degree in Public Policy and International Affairs from Princeton University. She lives in Virginia with her three children.
July 18, 2018
6:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Former Deputy National Security Director under the Trump Administration
This is a Private Event for Women of Washington Members and Their Guests
Dr. Nadia Schadlow is an accomplished strategist and practitioner of national security who has served with distinction in leadership positions in government and the private sector for over 25 years. The principal author of the Trump Administration’s widely praised National Security Strategy (NSS) and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy to the President, Dr. Schadlow is recognized for her deep knowledge of geopolitical trends and ability to develop and implement innovative solutions.
Dr. Schadlow’s U.S. government experience includes senior leadership positions at the National Security Council and the Department of Defense. As the architect of the National Security Strategy, Dr. Schadlow coordinated strategic analysis and forged consensus across multiple government departments at the most senior levels. The resulting strategy paper was the first since the end of the Cold War to identify the return of great power rivalry as a central feature of global geopolitics. She completed the administration’s NSS in nine months and delivered it to Congress within the first year of an Administration, an accomplishment without precedent. While at the National Security Council, Dr. Schadlow also advanced the need to develop a National Security Innovation Base (NSIB) and assessed the potential impact of disruptive technological developments for U.S. national security and defense policy. She also oversaw the development of regional and functional strategies to deal with the most complex national security challenges facing the United States, including Iran, Russia, North Korea, China, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and transnational threats. Earlier in her career, Dr. Schadlow served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as the first Country Director for Ukraine.
Dr. Schadlow has written frequently on national security matters. Her most recent book, War and the Art of Governance, has been described as a “critically crafted must read” by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis. Her writings have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Armed Forces Journal, The American Interest, War on the Rocks, Parameters, and several edited volumes.
Dr. Schadlow was elected as Chair of the Army War College Board of Visitors, served on the Defense Policy Board, and is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has lectured widely including appearances at the United States Military Academy, National Defense University, Naval War College, and other Professional Military Educational institutions. She served as an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. Dr. Schadlow received a B.A. degree in Government and Soviet Studies from Cornell University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Premium seating is available as described on the invitation that was mailed to all Women of Washington members. If you would like premium seating, you will need to pay by check to: WOW, P. O. Box 1771, Mercer Island, WA 98040 by May 10, 2018.
May 24, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The W Hotel
10455 NE 5th Street
Bellevue, Washington 98004
Featured Guest
Keynote Lunch Speaker: Stephen Hayes
- Editor-in-Chief, The Weekly Standard
- FOX News contributor and regular member of the “Fox News All-Stars”
- New York Times bestselling author
WPC’s Solutions Summit combines WPC’s popular center specific events into a half-day policy conference held statewide in two locations featuring a high-profile keynote speaker. The event brings together over 800 policymakers, business owners, community leaders, and concerned citizens to what has become our state’s premier annual policy conference. The conference features a keynote lunch speaker, and discussion on: the environment, agriculture, education, transportation, budget and taxes, health care, and business & labor reform issues. The Solutions Summit includes prominent local and national speakers on each of these important issues to help shape the public debate by educating policymakers and informing citizens.
Deadline to sign up is Tuesday, May 15, 2018.
To pay by mail, please send your check by May 15th to:
WOW, P.O. Box 1771, Mercer Island, WA 98040
If you have any questions, please email [email protected] or view our website www.womenofwa.com.
May 22, 2018
7:30 am - 1:30 pm
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
900 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
Featured Guest
Premier Analyst, Political Strategist, Talk Radio Host 570 KVI,
John Carlson is synonymous with Washington State Politics. Simply put, he is THE conservative voice in Seattle. John is the premiere analyst, political strategist and one of the most successful talk radio hosts in America and now, he's heard daily on Talk Radio 570 KVI, weekday mornings 6 to 10am.
In politics, John has led three successful statewide initiatives, including America's first "Three Strikes, You're Out" ballot measure in the early 90's. Violent crime tumbled by nearly 30% in the decade after its passage. John worked briefly in the Reagan Administration in the early '80's before serving as Communications Director for Republican Washington State Chairman Jennifer Dunn.
In the 80's and 90's, John founded and led a successful think tank, The Washington Policy Center, which has received praise from several Presidents and Governors in both political parties for the quality and influence of its work.
Before radio, he was a television commentator on KIRO-TV (CBS) for seven years, for KCTS-TV (PBS) and has written a newspaper column for 18 years. John graduated in 1981 with a B.S. in Political Science Honors Program at the University of Washington. He is listed as one of the University's 100 most influential alumni of the 20th century.
April 12, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Professor, Senior Editor, Columnist, Author
Public corruption is the silent killer of our economy. We’ve spawned the thickest network of patronage and influence ever seen in any country, a crony capitalism in which business partners with government and transfers wealth from the poor to the rich. This is a betrayal of the Framers’ vision for America, and of the Constitution they saw as an anti-corruption covenant. Most Americans get it, and this explains the otherwise improbable rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
When a country is corrupt, legislative efforts to make things better can actually make them worse. That’s what has happened with our campaign finance laws. We’ve criminalized political speech and sent the message that it’s unsafe to get involved in politics without a lawyer at one’s side. Donor disclosure requirements have also unleashed Internet mobs that attack political opponents.
Frank Buckley is a Foundation Professor at George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law. He is a frequent media guest and has appeared on CNN, Rush Limbaugh, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, China’s CGTN, Newsmax, and many more. He is a Senior Editor at The American Spectator, a columnist for the New York Post, and has written for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, US News, National Review, and many more.
Buckley was a contributing speechwriter to Donald Trump Jr.'s July 19 address to the 2016 Republican National Convention, and defended Trump against accusations of having misappropriated phrases from Buckley's published work. He lives in Alexandria VA with his wife, Esther, two German Shepherds and two cats (the good one and the evil one). His daughter, Sarah, and her husband Nick Mark, are fellows at the University of Washington Medical Center.
March 14, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Lt. Col Roy White, "Truth in Textbooks"
Sharon Hanek, Parent Activist
Do you think since your children are grown, education is no longer an issue for you? Think again! After decades of indoctrination and a deliberate dumbing down, our schools have produced citizens (including legislators, journalists, and tens of millions of voters) who believe America is oppressive, socialism is cool. and science is based on consensus!
We are proud to host two wonderul speakers for this event who will show us how to be a voice in our community.
Lt. Col. Roy White is a retired Air Force fighter pilot of 20 years service. Roy, a former school teacher, began what has become the largest national grass-roots organization dedicated to returning truth to our children’s social studies textbooks "Truth in Textbooks" (TNT). Organizing and training over 150 volunteers from 20 states and disseminating their research has resulted in millions of children now having more historically-accurate information within their classroom walls. He will be addressing Truth in Textbooks, and the success which has come from dedicated citizens who do the tireless research.
Sharon Hanek is an accountant, community volunteer, wife, and mother who became active in the political arena when she became involved in education issues. Sharon has spent the past decade researching and analyzing bills, working with legislators, and testifying on issues related to budget, taxes, transportation and education. Over the years, Sharon has been a guest on local and national radio programs. She believes that citizens getting involved can change our state, and is committed to helping others learn to be a strong voice in their community and in politics. Sharon will be addressing Truth and Deception in Washington schools.
February 14, 2018
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
America's Premier Editorial Cartoonist
Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner
At this most wonderful time of year, please join us for a humorous look at our country and political landscape through the eyes of Michael Ramirez, America’s premier editorial cartoonist whose work is seen world-wide in over four hundred newspapers and magazines. Ramirez is a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard Magazine and The Daily Signal. Ramirez says of his work, “An editorial cartoon is not just a funny picture. It is a powerful instrument of journalism, sometimes sharp and refined, its message cutting quickly to the point, and other times, blunt and overpowering….”
In a world of textual information, Ramirez combines an encyclopedic knowledge of the news with a captivating drawing style to create consistently outstanding and highly incisive satirical cartoons. Mr. Ramirez is the author of "Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion" and "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Obamacare". Both books will be available for purchase.
Ambassador John Bolton, describes Ramirez, "Through his wry humor, understatement and unmatched sense of irony, Ramirez captures our recent history in ways professional historians should envy. Nobody does it better."
Let’s end 2017 with a chuckle or two because it certainly has been a year for the history books.
Registration Deadline is Friday, November 24, 2017.I
nvitations for the luncheon were mailed to WOW members who are current on their dues on October 27 Priority seating will be given to WOW members.
To pay by mail, please send your check by November 24 to:
Women of Washington, P O Box 1771, Mercer Island, WA 98040
Please include the name(s) of who you would like to be seated with.
Questions? Email [email protected]
December 13, 2017
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
USAF, Retired
Colonel Gregory S. Marzolf (USAF, Retired) was commissioned in 1988 from the University of Tennessee and recently retired after almost 29 years of service. During this time, he commanded the 53d Test and Evaluation Group, the 414th Combat Training Squadron (i.e., RED FLAG), the 64th Aggressor Squadron, and an Air Force ROTC Detachment. Colonel Marzolf is a command pilot with over 3,000 flight hours—the vast majority of it in the F-16. He has served as an instructor pilot, flight examiner, mission commander, and weapons officer to include flying combat missions in Operations DENY FLIGHT, PROVIDE COMFORT, and IRAQI FREEDOM.
He is the brother of WOW member, Laura Walton. He currently resides in Fort Collins, CO with his wife, four daughters, dog, rabbit, turtle, and two fish.
During his visit with us in November, Colonel Marzolf will address past, present, and future warfighting capabilities to include emerging complex multi-domain operations. As part of this discussion, emphasis on education, knowledge, leadership, and diversity come to the forefront.
Light Hors d'oeuvres and No-Host Wine Bar
Deadline to sign up is October 27, 2017 before the price increases.
We would love to honor our veterans with a special price for this event. Please invite someone you know who has served our country and register them with the special ticket price below. When you give us their name on the checkout page, please add the branch of service that he/she served with.
To pay by mail, please send your check by October 27 to:
Women of Washington, P.O. Box 1771, Mercer Island, WA 98040
Questions? Email [email protected]
November 1, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Represents the 25th Legislative District, Small Business Owner
"She Reads, She Stands, She Leads "
Representative Stambaugh will share about the importance of standing and leading from the truth. Unfortunately politics capitalizes on confusion, when the most effective influence on government occurs when individuals are empowered with clarity. As the youngest female legislator, I have been on a journey for clarity and found the power of information to be the strongest foundation to stand and lead. I will share personal experiences and provide insight to help WOW women Read, Stand and Lead in their own circles of influence.
Melanie is currently the youngest legislator serving in the Washington State House of Representatives. In 2014, at the age of 24, Melanie made history when she became the youngest female elected to the State House since 1934. She represents the 25th District for the Washington State House of Representatives, which encompasses the Pierce County communities of Puyallup, South Hill, Fife, Summit-Waller, Midland, and Parkland.She serves on the Transportation and Higher Education Committees.
Melanie graduated from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business and has used her entrepreneurial skills to build multiple family businesses.Melanie currently co-owns You Impression, LLC which specializes in professional and leadership development. As a Confidence Consultant, Melanie works with organizations, business teams, and individuals enabling them to achieve their personal and professional goals.
During her time in the legislature, Melanie’s leadership has made an immediate impact on our community and state. Her ability to listen and lead with an open mind and work with all people has been demonstrated in her ability to obtain bipartisan results. Melanie has been called “a champion for students across the state” working for college affordability, protecting children’s privacy, and working to expand career and technical education funding opportunities. Melanie was named the ‘2015 Legislator of the Year’ by the Washington Student Association and she sits on the Homeless Youth Advisory Council, the School Safety Summit Advisory Committee, and the Education Accountability System Oversight Committee. Melanie has worked across the aisle to pass legislation that provides stability for our state’s homeless youth, increases rehabilitation and reintegration efforts in our juvenile justice system, and improves our transportation infrastructure.
Outside of the legislature, Melanie is a self-taught graphic designer and avid percussionist who enjoys playing four-mallet classical pieces on the marimba. For fun, Melanie likes to watch animated movies, eat froyo, and support her UW Husky football team (go Dawgs)!
October 11, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Fox News Contributor, Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School, Institute of Politics
Former Congressman Jason Chaffetz shares insights from his experiences as Chairman of Oversight & Government Reform Committee. Deep conversations with non-partisan tech leaders, healthcare insiders, privacy experts and industry leaders have given Jason high-level knowledge on coming trends and changes.Tomorrow's challenges will serve as catalysts for new opportunities in a wide range of areas. And, while politics inform DC's decision-making, Rep. Chaffetz shares his data and insights from a unique perspective above the political fray.
Jason Chaffetz was elected to Congress in 2008 and selected by his peers to be a Chairman in the House of Representatives—only the fifth time in 100 years a three-term Representative ascended to such a position.
As Chairman of the powerful Oversight & Government Reform Committee, he led investigations into the United States Secret Service, the Department of Education I.T. vulnerabilities, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Benghazi terrorist attack, misuse of classified information by Hillary Clinton, Fast & Furious, and the IRS scandal. Congressman Chaffetz left Congress in June, 2017.
Previous to Congress he was Chief of Staff to the Governor of Utah. A former placekicker on the Brigham Young University Football Team, he earned his BA in Communications in 1989 and then joined the local business community for 16 years before entering the public sector.
September 12, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Golf Club at Newcastle
15500 Six Penny Lane
Newcastle, WA 98059
Featured Guest
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations (2005-2006).
John R. Bolton was appointed as U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations on August 1, 2005, and served until his resignation in December 2006. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador Bolton served as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security from 2001 to 2005.
Throughout his distinguished career, Ambassador Bolton has been a staunch defender of American interests. While Under Secretary of State, he repeatedly advocated tough measures against the nuclear weapons programs of both Iran and North Korea, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction worldwide. During his tenure at the United Nations, he was a leading voice on the need for the Security Council to take strong and meaningful action against international proliferation and terrorism. Ambassador Bolton was also an advocate for human rights while serving at the U.N.
Ambassador Bolton is an attorney with Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He is the author of Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad (Simon & Schuster, November 2007) and How Barack Obama Is Endangering Our National Sovereignty Encounter Books, May 2010). Ambassador Bolton currently serves as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit public policy center dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of freedom through research education and open debate. He is also a contributor to Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and his op-ed articles are regularly featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
This is Women of Washington's premier annual event and it sells out quickly! Please send your reservation in early so you don't miss this great evening! Priority will be given to WOW members. Regretfully, walk-ins cannot be accommodated on the day of the event.
Please bring a donation to benefit the USO.
We will have a raffle to support the WOW Speaker Fund.
Registration Deadline is Wednesday, July 12, 2017.
Questions, email [email protected]
To pay by mail, please send your check by July 12 to:
WOW, P. O. Box 1771, Mercer Island, WA 98040
Please specify your guests' names and all meal choices: Steak, Salmon or Vegan Vegetable Tower
July 19, 2017
6:00 pm - 9:30 pm
The Golf Club at Newcastle
15500 Six Penny Lane
Newcastle, WA 98059
Featured Guest
Show up in RED, WHITE and BLUE and save room for Apple Pie ala mode, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Root Beer Floats! All ages welcome!
Join us for a fun evening that will challenge and sharpen your Constitutional IQ! We'll learn what the Founders were considering when they established the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches of our Federal Government which gave Americans these Founding Principles and Core Values:
Free Markets - Limited Government - Strong National Defense - Personal Responsibility
The creators of Constitution Quest®, Dave and Pam Barret from Southern California, will be here to teach us how to play and learn with their entertaining board game.
We are also honored to host Veteran Bob O'Neal from the Washington State Society Sons of the American Revolution. He will make a very interesting visual presentation of the history of the American flag prior to the Betsy Ross 5-star flag adopted by George Washington. Mr. O'Neal, dressed in an authentic Revolutionary War uniform, will explain the history of the times as he presents each flag.
You won't want to miss this fun & entertaining evening with other WOW members and their guests. The deadline to sign up is only two weeks away!!
Featured Guest
Keynote Lunch Speaker: Dr. Tom Coburn
Former U.S. Senator and "...leading advocate for bringing innovative ideas to health care..."
WPC's annual Solutions Summit is our state’s largest policy event that will be attended by hundreds of lawmakers, business and community leaders, media, and civic-minded citizens from across the state. The conference features a keynote lunch speaker, and discussion on: the environment, agriculture, education, transportation, budget and taxes, health care, and business & labor reform issues. The Solutions Summit includes prominent local and national speakers on each of these important issues to help shape the public debate by educating policymakers and informing citizens.
Keynote lunch speaker, Dr. Coburn, will speak about making health care more affordable and accessible for Americans, the overall cost of health care, and the challenges facing providers, consumers, and Congress. He is the Nick Ohnell Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Dr. Coburn served as a U.S. Senator for two terms from 2005–2015 representing the state of Oklahoma and is a leading health care expert.
Deadline to sign up is Tuesday, May 9, 2017.
To pay by mail, please send your check by May 9th to:
WOW, P.O. Box 1771, Mercer Island, WA 98040
If you have any questions, please email [email protected] or view our website www.womenofwa.com.
May 15, 2017
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
900 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
Featured Guest
Members of Women of Washington subscribe to and live by our foundational principles: Limited Government; Free Markets; Strong National Defense; and Personal Responsibility. These values bring us together, through our informative monthly guest-speaker events, weekly newsletter, and other educational events. We have members who are engaged in careers, as well as other significant activities such as, community-based volunteering or hobbies, which they might like to share with our membership, in a small-group setting. WOW Member Spotlight will periodically provide opportunities for this type of gathering.
Families are the foundation by which our nation & world are based. No one is untouched by divorce, its effects causing “ruinous ripples” throughout the lives of spouses, children, friends, family and community. Over the last decades, acceptance of divorce has soared, in line with an underlying sea change in values from “do your duty” (the Greatest Generation) to “follow your heart” (the Disney mantra). This new elevation of heart over head fueled the ‘80s divorce boom, and has since led to extension of adolescence and deferral of marriage until close to age 30. It also continues to fuel a burgeoning Divorce Industry which profits from family dissolution—realtors, therapists, lawyers, financial managers, life coaches.
What can be done? Diane Medved’s new book "Don’t Divorce: Powerful Arguments for Saving and Revitalizing Your Marriage", says it’s time to use facts and common sense to recognize the damage divorce wreaks, and stand up against the subtle and often blatant pressures in our culture that cause dissatisfaction in the best of marriages, and push couples over the brink in precarious ones. She tears apart the most common reasons couples offer for divorce, and describes research showing that if unhappy couples just stick it out, they’ll most likely find themselves happy in those marriages five years later.
Dr. Medved also highlights the damage to children of divorce, requiring dual identities, and causing them to fear commitment to avoid the pain they and their parents endured. Two out of three divorces occur in low-conflict homes, where children are blindsided by the split, learning not to trust the evidence of their own experience. While divorces spurred by addiction, abuse or abandonment are necessary, with strong commitment, the low-conflict two-thirds of troubled couples might have tackled their problems, sparing themselves, and their children, lifelong repercussions.
7:00 Wine & Cheese Social
7:30 Speaker presentation
Deadline to sign up is Monday, May 1, 2017.
To pay by mail, please send your check by May 1st to:
WOW, P.O. Box 1771, Mercer Island, WA 98040
If you have any questions, please email [email protected] or view our website www.womenofwa.com
May 4, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Featured Guest
Esteemed political commentator & author.
From high school dropout and teenage mother to highly accomplished university professor and public intellectual, Dr. Carol M. Swain is passionate about empowering others to confidently raise their voices in the public square. Dr. Swain’s education and experiences make her a credible and powerful force for change in today’s social and political climate where conservatives are intimidated to champion an often-unpopular message.
Dr. Swain is a professor of political science and professor of law at Vanderbilt University, a widely recognized expert on race relations, immigration, black leadership and evangelical politics and is the author of six books. Her opinion pieces have been published in CNN Online, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, and USA Today. She has appeared on ABC Headline News, BBC Radio, NPR, INT News, CNN’s AC360, Fox News’ Hannity, Fox and Friends, Lou Dobbs Tonight, Judge Jeanine, Michael Smerconish, The PBS NewsHour, and The Washington Journal, and ABC’s Headline News.
Dr. Swain's commentary on current social and political issues can be heard nationally on Bott Radio and American Family Radio’s Two Minutes to Think About it with Dr. Carol M. Swain. She was interviewed in Dinesh D'Souza's film, "Hillary's America".
A Democrat turned Republican, she is an articulate speaker on many current issues. Click HERE to read more about Dr. Swain, her Foundation and her "Be The People" TV show.
Heavy hors'doeuvres buffet, beverages & no-host wine bar
Featured Guest
38th Director of the United States Mint
The Honorable Edmund C. Moy is a public servant, senior executive, commentator, author, and director of both publicly and privately held companies.
Mr. Moy has also participated in 5 presidential transitions efforts: 41 to 42, 42 to 43, 43 to 44, the Romney Readiness Project, and 44 to 45.
He has served in three different presidential administrations. From 2006-2011, he was Director of the United States Mint, which is the world’s largest manufacturer of coins and medals. From 2001-2006, he served in the White House as a Special Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel, where he was responsible for recommending candidates to the President to serve in his administration. From 1989-1993, he served at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he regulated managed health care organizations and managed the Medicare managed care programs.
Mr. Moy is a frequent commentator on economic policy, gold, and currency for the national financial media. He has been featured on CBS (including 60 Minutes), PBS (including the Jim Lehrer News Hour), and appears regularly on CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business Channel, MSNBC, and Bloomberg TV. The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Fortune, Forbes, Dow Jones, and Thomson Reuters also quote him frequently. He is also a regular contributor to Newsmax.
He lives in Arlington, VA with his wife Karen and his two daughters, both adopted from China.
SPECIAL EVENT: BRING A FIRST-TIME GUEST FOR FREE!!! WOW MEMBERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO BRING SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER BEEN TO A WOW EVENT BEFORE. Email [email protected] to give us your guest's name.
Featured Guest
Founder and President, True the Vote
True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht talks about the integrity of the 2016 election, separates the facts from the fiction, and discusses what it all means for the future of voters' rights.
Catherine is a mother, business owner, native Texan, and lifelong practitioner of common sense.
What became a full-time call to grassroots activism first started in 2008, when she could no longer watch silently as government made decisions that stood in stark contrast to America’s principles of personal liberty and economic freedom.
In 2009 she started True the Vote, a citizen-led effort to restore honor and integrity to our electoral system. True the Vote educates voters, researches the veracity of voter rolls, trains and mobilizes citizens to work at the polls,and advocates for election code reform legislation. In just a few short years, True the Vote has become the nation’s leading voters’ rights organization.
Catherine believes when government isn't held accountable, it inevitably abuses the rights of American citizens. So, when she learned the Internal Revenue Service was targeting her organization and others, Catherine stood her ground and took action. Under her leadership, True the Vote launched a precedent-setting lawsuit against the IRS and its top leadership.
As a nationally recognized spokesperson on voters’ rights, Catherine has appeared on television and talk radio, testified before Congress and state legislatures, and spoken to grassroots activists across the nation.
Catherine may still be a newcomer to politics, but she’s rolled up her sleeves, put on her waders, jumped in to defend the Country – and she believes she’s right where she’s supposed to be.
Heavy hors'doeuvres, beverages and no-host wine bar
Deadline to sign up is Friday, February 10, 2017. Cost increases to $40.00 & $45.00 after this date.
Featured Guest
POWER FOR CHANGE THAT MOST DID NOT KNOW WE HAVE
It was inspiring to learn that our Founding Fathers, through Article V of the US Constitution, provided a right for WE THE PEOPLE, through our State legislatures, to vote for a Convention of States, This would amend the Constitution in order to check the power of the Federal Government who have usurped their constitutional limits, and to impose fiscal restraints, and term limits on all Federal Elected Officials.
WOW members choosing to actively support the Convention of States Project here in Washington State, are using our only Constitutionally granted avenue to create this much needed change to check and trim the powers of what has become a behemoth, misdirected- extra- constitutional cancer on our nation. We the People have that power through Article V of our Constitution.
The Washington State Convention of States Rally is on Wednesday, January 18th, at noon on the steps of the Capitol building. We need you there! Please pass the word --by email, Facebook, and word of mouth. We need as many people at the rally in Olympia as possible to send a strong message to our legislators.
You can amplify your presence in several ways. One way is to make an advance short appointment on the day of the rally with one or all three of your legislators where you can personally advocate for our mission. If you can't secure an appointment, you should still stop by the offices of your three legislators and drop off a letter of support for COS with the legislative assistant.
Another way to amplify your presence is to bring a supportive homemade sign: "We Support COS", "Limit the Federal Government", or something similar...be creative. Finally, you might consider wearing some Convention of States paraphernalia. You can find COS branded hats, t-shirts, etc. at www.conventionofstates.com/store.
If you haven't RSVP'd for the event on the WA COS-meetup page or to carpool with WOW, see the links below in the WOW COS January Event Notice and sign up. We need you in Olympia.
WOW members are planning to carpool to this Rally. Please email us at [email protected] to RSVP by January 14 for the carpools or to ask questions. If this link does not work, please copy & paste it into a new email page.
RSVP deadline is Saturday, January 14, 2017
January 18, 2017
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Featured Guest
FOX News Contributor, New York Times Best-selling Author, 44th Governor of Arkansas
Mike Huckabee was the 44th Governor of Arkansas from 1996 until 2007, becoming one of the longest serving Governors in his state’s history, and was only the fourth Republican elected to any statewide office since Reconstruction, serving longer than the other three combined. He left a legacy of tax cuts, job creation, the reconstruction of his state’s road system, K-16 education reform, and a nationally heralded and duplicated health initiative that focused on the less expensive approach of prevention than the costly big-government approach of intervention. His administration fought long-standing corruption in the state’s political machine, resulting in numerous indictments and convictions of powerful legislators and other elected officials.
Governing Magazine named him as one of its “Public Officials of the Year” for 2005, and Time Magazine honored him as one of the five best governors in America. He has been honored by numerous organizations for his commitment to music education. He served as the Chairman of the prestigious National Governors Association as well as the Education Commission of the States, the Southern Governors Association, and the Interstate Oil and Gas Commission.
Huckabee had been Lieutenant Governor for 3 years in July 1996 when his predecessor was forced to resign due to felony convictions.
After his 2008 campaign for President, Governor Huckabee launched the top rated weekend show on the Fox News Channel for 6 1/2 years, and hosted a nationally syndicated radio commentary on over 700 radio stations.
He left his media platforms in 2015 to seek the Republican nomination for President. He ended the race in February of 2016, and in April re-joined the Fox News Channel.
Governor Huckabee is also a New York Times bestselling author, having written 12 books. Huckabee, an avid musician since age 11, is a bass player. His hobbies include hunting, fishing, and music. He was named one of the “25 Most Influential People” for Conservation by Outdoor Life Magazine, and was named "Man of the Year" by the American Sportfishing Association in 1997. The former governor and his wife, Janet, have three grown children and five grandchildren.
December 1, 2016
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
900 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
Featured Guest
Conservative activist, long-time broadcaster
Join us for an election recap and analysis with David Boze, former radio 770 AM talk show host, to find out what the election results mean going forward. David promises to provide thoughtful analysis and deep insight on the November election. Stay informed!
We will also have a presentation on the Convention of States. Our precious Constitution has been eroding! The bulging Federal Government has grabbed powers and control explicitly designated as "States Rights." The Executive branch passes laws continually without mention in the Legislature! The Judicial Branch, sworn to defend and uphold the Constitution, is rewriting it without restraint. The whole design around Individual Sovereignty is disappearing.
As Mark Levin explains in his book "The Liberty Amendments," the Founders wrote into this magnificent document, its own protection! Article V instructs people to push back and PROTECT this timeless unique rule book on Freedom! The US Constitution has improved the lives, opportunities, creations and prosperity of the greatest part of it's population ever experienced by a society. WOW is pleased to announce a discussion about this Article V and its impact as presented by Eric Minor, president of Convention of States Action.
Prior to our speakers, you can meet, mingle, sip wine, and nibble on munchies with fellow WOW members and their guests. Don't miss this great opportunity to connect with new, interesting women that share your conservative values.
6:00 pm Wine & nibbles reception with members & guests
7:00 pm Presentation on Convention of States
7:45 pm Election Re-cap with David Boze
Featured Guest
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr's. topic is "The War on Guns". He is an economist and a world recognized expert on guns and crime, and he is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. Lott has held research or teaching positions at various academic institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, and Rice University, and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988-1989. Nobel laureate Milton Friedman noted: “John Lott has few equals as a perceptive analyst of controversial public policy issues.”
Lott has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and written nine books, including “More Guns, Less Crime,” “The Bias Against Guns,” and “Freedomnomics.” He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.
His current book is “The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies.” Mark Levin, New York Times bestseller & host of "The Mark Levin Show" writes “John Lott is the nation’s preeminent expert on guns, and in The War on Guns he has done it again. Do mass shootings occur more in the U.S. than other developed countries? No. Did Australia’s gun laws make them safer? Hardly. Will background checks on private transfers of guns make us safer? No. He destroys one myth after another. John Lott is a national treasure."
Professor David DeWolf's topic is "Are Positive Rights Better Than Negative Rights?".
Professor DeWolf is one of our state’s most respected constitutional scholars, and is Washington’s leading authority in both contract and tort (liability) law. His books on tort and contract law have been cited over 100 times in Washington appellate cases as an authority on Washington law.
David graduated from Stanford University with a double major, then attended Yale Law School. Upon graduation, he was the law clerk to Justice Stephen Bistline of the Idaho Supreme Court. He then joined Lukins & Annis, the largest law firm in Spokane.
David recently retired after 28 years as a Professor at Gonzaga University Law School, where he taught his love of the law and respect for the constitution to nearly two generations of students. When it was suggested that he become a candidate for a seat on the Washington Supreme Court, David realized that he had a unique opportunity to combine several things he loved – immersing himself more deeply in the law of our state, writing accurately and clearly about it, and serving the people of this State.
October 8, 2016
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Featured Guest
Author of the politically-incorrect-free-thinking-stereotype-busting blog "conservativeblackchick.com"
"Is It 2016 or 1964 in America? How the Left's politics of division, lies and distortions is driving America apart and impacting the race to the White House."
Crystal Wright is author of the new book, published by Regnery, titled Con Job: How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering and Racial Division. She is also a political pundit, editor of the popular blog, www.conservativeblackchick.com and principal owner of the Baker Wright Group, LLC a full service public relations firm. Crystal can be found on Twitter @GOPBlackChick.
Crystal Wright is a black conservative woman living in Washington, D.C. Some would say she is a triple minority: woman, black and a Republican living in a Democrat dominated city. She’s contemplating moving back to her home state of Virginia, where her vote would count for something. Her goal is to get Americans thinking about whom and what they are voting for on the local and national level.
Crystal also has contributed articles to Toronto Sun News, CNN.com, the Telegraph, the Guardian, and Townhall. She regularly provides political commentary to several major news outlets, including CNN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Channel, and conservative talk radio shows. In 2014, Crystal enjoyed becoming a regular guest co-host for conservative talk radio and Cumulus owned station WMAL’s Washington Mornings and hosting WMAL’s Saturday show.
When she’s not in DC writing away, Crystal enjoys speaking to conservative groups like the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute. She was honored to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference’s 2014 meeting in a featured panel Why Conservatism is Right for Women. Crystal also spoke in 2013 at CPAC’s 40th anniversary in a featured panel The Right View and the REAL Issues with four other distinguished conservative women. In 2012, Crystal was honored to speak about the rise of GOP women in politics to a group of Minnesota Republicans and joined other Republican women at CPAC Colorado in a panel discussion about the False War on Women. She also had the pleasure of speaking to students at the University of Tennessee, George Washington University, American University and Furman University and to numerous conservative groups around the country.
Crystal joined other panelists in a town hall discussion on state Voter ID laws hosted by the 2012 Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference. During the 2011 Congressional Black Caucus ALC, Crystal moderated a panel discussion hosted by Congressman Allen West entitled Blacks in the Military: Past, Present and Future. Crystal also joined the World Journalism Institute’s 2011 CPAC panel discussion on New Media & the Tea Party. She shared her perspective on how social media gave rise to the Tea Party and helped the Republicans sweep the 2010 mid-term Congressional elections and gain control of the House of Representatives. Crystal actively donates to conservative candidates.
Crystal earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Georgetown University and holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Featured Guest
The 64th Sheriff of Milwaukee County, WI
March 25, 2002 - present
This event is sold out. If you would like to see if any seats have become available, please contact [email protected].
Invitations were mailed on June 14, 2016 to WOW members who are current with their 2016 membership dues.
Registration deadline: July 15, 2016
For questions, please email [email protected]
If you register online, then please mail your RSVP card to indicate your guest names, meal choices & who you would like to be seated with. Or email these items to [email protected].
July 26, 2016
6:00 pm - 9:30 pm
The Golf Club at Newcastle
15500 Six Penny Lane
Newcastle, WA 98059
Featured Guest
WPC’s Solutions Summit will be the policy conference of 2016! This event combines their popular center-specific events into a half-day policy conference in Bellevue, concluding with a national keynote lunch speaker. With the huge success of last year’s Solutions Summit, which brought together over 600 policymakers, business owners, community leaders and concerned citizens to discuss solutions to our state’s most pressing issues, we are sure to have another informative and high-quality event in 2016.
One of America’s most successful public-sector executives and one of the boldest innovators in health care and education, Gov. Bobby Jindal will bring to life the lessons learned from a career in leadership and public service, engaging audiences with in-depth analysis on the hot-button issues of today and his thoughts about the future of our country as the lunch keynote speaker.
2016 Solutions Summit Agenda
7:30am Opening Keynote Breakfast with Kimberley Strassel, "Wall Street Journal" Editorial Board member.
8:30am Transportation: “Redefining transit: What works and what doesn’t”
Education: “How Education Savings Accounts can improve schools”
9:30am Health Care: “Meaningful health care reform”
Small Business: “How the Friedrichs Supreme Court case would protect worker
rights”
10:45am Government Reform: “How a state capital gains tax would affect businesses and
workers”
Environment: “Energy and water: Current problems and future solutions”
12:00pm Keynote Lunch with Governor Bobby Jindal, Former Louisiana Governor
Registration deadline: May 13, 2016. Cost increases to $80.00 after this date.
Questions, email [email protected]
View our NEW website at womenofwa.com
COST: Half day conference & Lunch - Member $70.00
Half day conference & Lunch - Non-member 80.00
Lunch only Member 35.00
Lunch only Non-member 40.00
To pay for the conference & lunch, sign up below or mail your check.
To pay for the lunch only, please mail your check to the address below. You will not be able to sign up online for the "lunch only" selection.
To pay by mail, please send your check by May 13 to:
WOW, P O Box 1771, Mercer Island, WA 98040
May 19, 2016
7:30 am - 1:30 pm
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
900 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
Featured Guest
Moderated by Jason Rantz, KIRO Radio
Seattle is the 7th most traffic congested city in the nation. This is not a surprising statistic to any of us who navigate the highways, bi-ways, and arterials on a daily basis. Billions of dollars are proposed for transit solutions that many are skeptical will actually solve the problem.
Join us to hear three transportation experts in a panel discussion, moderated by Jason Rantz of KIRO Radio, discuss the I-405 Express Toll Lanes, Sound Transit, and the 520 Bridge lanes that will be opening this Spring, as well as answer your questions and address your concerns.
Bob Pishue is the Director of the Coles Center for Transportation with the Washington Policy Center.
Victor Bishop has worked as a professional traffic engineer in public transportation for 41 years & is the Chair-Elect for Eastside Transportation Association.
David Hablewitz is an activist who led the grass roots effort to stop the 405 Express Toll Lanes. He gathered 31,000+ petition signatures to stop the tolling and was invited to appear before the Washington State legislature to speak.
April 13, 2016
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Professor, Author, Expert on Terrorism
Ever since Muriel Degauque, a Belgian convert to radical Islam, blew herself up in Iraq in November 2005, questions have surfaced about the growing role of women in terrorism. Women are now taking a leading role in conflicts by becoming suicide bombers — using their bodies as human detonators for the explosive material strapped around their waists.
This apparent growing trend of women bombers has the general public and counterterrorism specialists concerned because of its implication that women will be key players in future terrorist attacks. Yet ISIS, an offshoot of Al Qaeda in Iraq (the group that sent both Degauque and Rishawi) refuses to engage women in front line activities and instead, treat women like a commodity that they lure and gift to male foreign fighters. To add to this complexity, Boko Haram, ISIS’ affiliate in Africa primarily uses women (including some girls as young as 8) as suicide bombers against soft targets in Nigeria (markets, restaurants, schools).
Dr. Bloom will cover the history of women’s involvement in terrorism, why women join terrorist groups and why they use them; the talk will have a particular focus on how Jihadi groups encompass more women and what we can expect for the future.
Mia Bloom is the author of "Bombshell: Women and Terrorism" & "Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror". She is currently a Professor of Communication at Georgia State University. Previously, she was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati and a consultant for the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office of Counter Terrorism.
She completed a year in the overseas program at Tel Aviv University and a semester at the Arab Language Institute (ALI) at the American University of Cairo. She has held research or teaching appointments at Rutgers, Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, and McGill Universities. She regularly appears on Fox News, CNN, CSPAN, and has been interviewed by Jim Lehrer for PBS, Ted Koppel for Nightline, and Jesse Pearson for MTV. She is currently completing articles on child terrorists, the radicalization of Muslims in Europe, and the 1990 "proxy bombing" campaign in Northern Ireland.
March 10, 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Chairman of "Founded on Truth", Teacher, Citizen Activist
Dr. Peg Luksik is a citizen activist and former Pennsylvania teacher with over 35 years of experience in both special education and elementary education. While in graduate school, Peg worked at the university’s psychometric testing center, where she administered, scored and interpreted the educational assessments used to diagnose both gifted and challenged children and determine their educational programming. She has taught at every level from pre-school to college in regular classrooms, resource centers, self-contained special education classes, and in alternative educational settings. She has trained teachers in curriculum and classroom management, written and evaluated curricula, authored several books on education issues, and hosted a nationally syndicated television program dealing with education in America. Peg has also worked for the U.S. Department of Education, where her task was to review and evaluate education reform initiatives.
Visit Dr. Peg's website for more information at www.foundedontruth.com.
February 10, 2016
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
CEO OneAccord Partners & Founder of KIROS
So often we hear that we should separate our value and/or faith from our political discourse and that our passions must be suppressed in favor of what is currently deemed politically correct. President Reagan, as well as both of the Bush presidents, stressed the importance of embracing America’s traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Reagan felt that the absence of these values robs us of our tiller, our moral compass, and sets us adrift as a nation. But, what does embracing our values and faith look like in today’s culture where the loud voices of the few are trying to squelch the quieter voices of the masses? Join us as Jeff Rogers explores the value of engagement to a cause and how to effectively pursue that effort.
Our speaker, Jeff Rogers, is a living example of the intersection of passion and commitment in the service of something greater. His involvement with KIROS, Doingood Foundation, Youth Transition Network & C3 Leaders proves this.
Jeff is Chairman and CEO for OneAccord Partners and OneAccord Capital. OneAccord helps build value in both operations and revenue for businesses. OneAccord Capital focuses on the acquisition of privately held companies. In addition, Jeff is the founder of KIROS (read more) which created an intersection between personal faith and the workplace, encouraging, equipping, and connecting people. His family founded the Doingood Foundation with outreach in Uganda and Jeff is also involved in Youth Transition Network and C3 Leadership.
January 13, 2016
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Dinesh D'Souza has had a 25-year career as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual.
A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, D'Souza also served as John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Called one of the "top young public-policy makers in the country" by Investor's Business Daily, D'Souza quickly became known as a major influencer on public policy through his writings. D'Souza has been named one of America's most influential conservative thinkers by the New York Times Magazine. The World Affairs Council lists him as one of the nation's 500 leading authorities on international issues. D'Souza's articles have appeared in virtually every major magazine and newspaper & he has appeared on numerous television programs includding The Today Show, Nightline, The O'Reilly Factor, & Moneyline.
Invitations were mailed to WOW members on November 2. If you haven't received yours, please contact [email protected].
Deadline to sign up for WOW members & their guests is NOVEMBER 20, 2015.
Registration will be open to the public on November 21.
December 3, 2015
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
U. S. Navy Veteran and Washington State Representative Chad Magendanz, 5th Legislative District
Our world is a dangerous place and failure to prepare for potential threats is the best way to ensure that they become real threats.
The U.S. Constitution requires the federal government to provide for the common defense and their primary task is to protect the nation’s vital interests.
Join us this Veteran’s Day to hear Representative Chad Magendanz address the importance of a strong national defense. Chad has an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degree from Cornell University. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy for 12 years, 5 of them as a nuclear submarine officer. Following his service to our country, he worked at Microsoft for 10 years as a program manager and for the last 10 years he has been a freelance software design consultant for Microsoft, and national firms like Nike and Panasonic. He is currently serving his 2nd term in the 5th Legislative District.
He is the ranking Republican on the House Education Committee and also serves on the House Appropriations and House Technology and Economic Development committee. We would love to honor our veterans with a special price for this event. Please invite someone you know who has served our country and register them with the special ticket below. When you give us their name on the checkout page, please add the branch of service that he/she served under.
November 11, 2015
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Action Team Director for the Freedom Foundation
Unions support big government. Big government supports unions. But what about the rest of us?
Government unions fund more than half of the left's political machine. Scott Roberts will present what the Foundation is doing to neutralize the undue influence of government unions on politics.
If you have been wondering how to maximize your own impact on politics, then you don't want to miss this event. Scott has been helping citizens make change in local governments for over 15 years, and will be sharing 3 of his most effective techniques.
Do you want to make a change in your community? Do you often wonder how you can make the most impact in politics? Do you want to help Washington get back on the right political track? Then you don't want to miss our October meeting. Scott will talk about what we can do to ensure a legacy of opportunity and prosperity for all Washingtonians. Scott is experienced at organizing grassroots activist and building effective coalitions. Prior to joining the Freedom Foundation, Scott was a small business owner for 15 years during which he built expertise in residential land development and represented clients throughout the Puget Sound region.
Scott's own experiences with local governments drew him into politics. He understands first-hand the frustration citizens have with their government—and, more importantly, how they can effectively ignite positive change. Scott has been active in politics for over 15 years. During that time, he has built numerous coalitions on a variety of environmental policy issues including People for Responsible Environmental Policy (PREP), which united 600 people to successfully stop a critical areas update in Thurston County.
Featured Guest
Economist, Wall Street Journal Contributor, Policy Analyst, Fox News Commentator, Author
Mr. Moore is chief economist & the Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Project for Economic Growth, at the Heritage Foundation, the largest private research institute in Washington, D.C. He is also a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and a daily Fox news economics commentator where he provides analysis on the economy, fiscal policy and politics. From 2005 to 2014 Moore served as the senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial page and was a member of the Journal's editorial board. From 1999-2004 Moore served as founder and President of the Club for Growth, a 25,000-member organization dedicated to helping elect free market, tax cutting candidates to Congress. He can also be seen regularly on CNN and CNBC TV and has authored several books.
September 15, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Marji Ross, President & Publisher of Regnery Publishing
Marjory Grant Ross (Marji) Ross, President and Publisher of the nation's leading conservative book publisher, Regnery Publishing, will discuss the challenges and opportunities for conservative women as we approach the 2016 election. She will share stories from publishing, politics and motherhood as she explores the difficulties that conservative women face in speaking up. Additionally, you will learn how the nation's premier conservative publisher has succeeded in publishing frequent best selling books while emphasizing the power of conservative media.
Marji joined Regnery in 1999 as vice president and general manager, and took over as President and Publisher in 2004, making her the first person outside of the Regnery family to hold that post. During her tenure, Regnery has placed more than 75 books on the New York Times bestseller list, including 11 titles at #1.
Prior to joining Regnery, Marji worked as senior group publisher for the large newsletter publisher, Phillips International, where she ran several business units, including investment newsletters, business newsletters and health newsletters. In her early career, Marji was a business editor and writer.
Marji graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in English, and earned her Masters in Journalism from The American University in Washington, DC. She is a frequent speaker for both the conservative movement and the publishing industry. She serves on the boards of the New Dominion Chorale and the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, and was named the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute's Woman of the Year in 2005. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and three daughters.
July 21, 2015
6:00 am - 9:30 am
The Golf Club at Newcastle
15500 Six Penny Lane
Newcastle, WA 98059
Featured Guest
Learn how to eloquently introduce a speaker by our own WOW expert, Kathi Lehr. These skills can carry over to making a great toast, impromptu introductions at social gatherings, or a more formal speaker introduction at an event. As conservatives, we need to be articulate in the public square. Join us to hone your public speaking skills.
Come for a glass of wine, we'll review what makes a good introduction, and practice introducing another WOW person.
Then you may want to join our WOW Introducers Team to be able to introduce one of our WOW speakers.
We hope you will join us.
Location: Home of WOW member, Laurie Lyford's House whose address will be sent upon registration
June 3, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Featured Guest
Glen Morgan, Freedom Foundation Adjunct Fellow
"Ultimately, property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
˜Calvin Coolidge
Join us to hear Freedom Foundation Adjunct Fellow, Glen Morgan, discuss why one of the most fundamental requirements of a successful capitalist economic system - and one of the most misunderstood concepts - is a protective system of property rights. Property rights are tied directly to individual freedoms and affect everyone whether you own a home, rent, or use public streets and parks.
Glen Morgan is a frequent speaker and writer on property rights, the environmental movement, big government and the importance of citizen involvement. He has been featured on King5 News, KOMO News, and local Fox News, as well as The David Boze show. Frequently he testifies on property rights issues at local government hearings and at the Washington State legislature.
Registration deadline Friday, May 11, 2015
May 13, 2015
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Education expert, Jay Mathews, from the Washington Post.
Our youth are our future, and we need to understand the arguments about Common Core and how to make our schools better. Join us to hear.
"What makes for effective and successful education and how do we get there; including an analysis of the current Common Core standards. Are we preparing our young people to be effective and contributive in the workforce?"
Who should attend this event? Everyone. Why? Education is one of the key foundations for developing successful productive adults and, as a country, we are not succeeding in this realm. Our youth deserve better. If you have grandchildren, bring one of their parents as your guest. If you know a teacher that you feel would benefit from this dialogue, invite them to join you.
Jay Mathews is an education columnist and blogger for the Washington Post, his employer for 40 years. He is the author of seven books, including three about high schools and his current book due out this April, "Question Everything: The Rise of AVID as America's Largest College Readiness Program." He has won several awards for education writing and was given the Upton Sinclair award as "a beacon of light in the realm of education."
Liv Finne, Director of the Center for Education from the Washington Policy Center will be with us to answer your questions about Charter Schools & education in Washington State.
Registration deadline Friday, April 10, 2015
April 15, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
Congressman, Dave Reichert, representing the 8th Congressional District and a 33 year veteran in the King County Sheriff's Office.
U.S. Congressman Dave Reichert will address our current turmoil in the law enforcement community and how we can work together to maintain the rule of law. In addition, he will discuss what lies ahead in the current session of Congress. Congressman Reichert is a champion for free trade, tax reform, improving education and healthcare, as well as a continued leader on law enforcement issues.
Congressman Reichert is in his 6th term serving Washington's 8th Congressional District. He is a senior member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. In that capacity, he sits on the Trade Subcommittee and is Chairman of Select Revenue Measures. His record of public service is long, having served in the Air Force Reserves as well as 33 years in the King County Sheriff's Office, becoming the first elected sheriff in 30 years in 1997. In 2004, he received the prestigious National Sheriff's Association's "Sheriff of the Year" award and is a two-time Medal of Valor recipient from the King County Sheriff's Office and is a recipient of the Washington Policy Center's Champion of Freedom award.
Lunch will be catered by Panera Bread.
Registration deadline Friday, March 6, 2015
Featured Guest
Kemper Freeman is principal owner and hands-on leader of Kemper Development Co.
Kemper Freeman is a third-generation resident of Bellevue, Washington. He is principal owner and hands-on leader of Kemper Development Co., which has played an important role in Bellevue's growth from the early days of the strawberry fields to the economic force the city is today. Several well known projects are Bellevue Square, Bellevue Place and Lincoln Square.
Best known as a businessman, Kemper is also a community builder and strong supporter of transportation policies he believes will benefit the City of Bellevue and the Seattle region. In 1972, Kemper went to work for those in Bellevue by serving two terms in the Washington State House of Representatives. In addition to his support for expanding health and education opportunities and the arts, he is a strong promoter of smart, cost-effective transportation.
The Puget Sound Business Journal says "it would be hard to overstate Freeman's impact on the Eastside".
Light appetizers & no-host wine
Registration deadline Friday, February 6, 2015
February 11, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Overlake Golf and Country Club
8000 NE 16th St.
Medina, WA 98039
Featured Guest
WOW will be joining Washington Policy Center at their first event of 2015, WPC's 2nd Annual Solutions Summit! WPC will once again combine their individual center events into a half-day statewide policy conference in January featuring policy experts, thought leaders and elected officials from our state and around the country and keynote speaker Gov. George Pataki. Additional confirmed speakers include former Starbucks COO Howard Behar, Forbes Opinion Editor Avik Roy, Hon. Rob McKenna, State Sen. Andy Hill, State Sen. Curtis King and State Rep. Reuven Carlyle, among others.
The conference will be attended by policy makers, elected officials and business leaders, and will consist of a breakfast program, breakout sessions in the morning, and will conclude with the keynote luncheon with Gov. Pataki.
January 7, 2015
7:30 am - 2:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
900 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004