Please purchase tickets only for the events you will be attending. The Full pass includes the Friday training, Friday night keynote dinner, Saturday session and the Sunday Citizen Watchdog/Investigative Journalism training.

 While there is a discount for purchasing the entire package, it is still more economical to purchase individual tickets if you do not plan on attending all events.

 Please note that the Friday Get Out the Vote Training includes Lunch, and the Saturday session includes a light continental breakfast as well as lunch. The Sunday training does not include a meal.

 

You Must Register by May 14th to take advantage of special pricing

May 14-16

Hickory Metro Convention Center

Hickory, North Carolina

In North Carolina limited government and conservative/libertarian ideas do not have any chance to be heard in the General Assembly. We are the highest taxed state in our region. Our schools are failing. We can not get a vote to stop forced annexation, stop eminent domain abuse, limit spending, add more charter schools reduce taxes, and much more. This summit hopes to help channel the tea party energy towards some of these issues, while continuing to grow the movement even stronger.

Cost for the 3-day event is just $99.00 and will include several meals. You may also purchase tickets on an event-by-event basis, as well as student pricing.

Schedule

The three day event will focus on training, education, motivation, and mobilization of grassroots activists involved in conservative, libertarian and tea party issues.

 Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Grassroots Get-Out-The-Vote Workshop
Training included in the workshop
 Precinct Organization
 Door-to-Door
 Organizing Telephone Banks
 Recruiting and Motivating Volunteers
 Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV)
 Targeting and Identifying Voters

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Networking Social (Cash Bar)

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM - Dinner with Conservative Keynote Speaker
Stephen Hayes, Fox News Contributor and writer for the Weekly Standard

9:00 PM -10:00 PM - Free Market Short Film Screening and discussion:
“Let Me Rise” a mini-documentary about the fight for school choice in Washington, DC

Saturday
8:15 AM – 9:00 AM - Continental breakfast

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM - Morning Session: Let’s Get Motivated in North Carolina in 2010.
With Mary Katherine Ham from Fox News and other Speakers to be announced.

Topics to be covered
 Year of the Tea Party Movement
 Future of the Tea Party Movement
 Tea Party Movement going forward
 What resources are available to you?
 North Carolina Electoral landscape 2010/Redistricting
 What can we do? What should we do? Electioneering and get out the vote.
 Agenda for Change in North Carolina

11:15 AM -12:30 PM - Breakout Sessions 1

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM - JWP Civitas Institute: State of the People Luncheon

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM - Breakout Sessions 2

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM -Tea party Town Hall

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM - Social (optional with no additional cost)
Note* Hickory – social is at Blue Ridge Harley Davidson

Sunday
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Citizen Watchdog/Investigative Journalism Training
Over the past several years, more and more citizen journalists have been
successfully investigating fraud, waste and government abuse and reporting
results to burgeoning community blogs and Internet sites devoted to government
transparency. This class will give you the tools.

What is Investigative Journalism?
 Story Writing
 Making Request for Public Records
 Investigating City Hall and State Government
 Investigating Campaigns
 Investigating Schools
 Interviewing and Developing Sources
 Investigative Journalism Helps
 Investigative Journalism Ethics
 Successful Investigations in North Carolina

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