PHC CR Kickoff

The PHC College Republicans are pleased to announce it's 2009 kickoff.

The event will be on August 27, and will run from 5:00-6:00pm. We will hold it in Townhall. We will have pizza and you will have a chance to hear about different ways you can help in the critical fall campaign effort.

We are pleased to be joined by Sen. Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican nominee for Attorney General. He is a rising conservative star, and will discuss the election cycle and why he is running.

If you are a PHC student, please join us as we kickoff this critical election cycle. Let's celebrate the conservative values that bring us together and remember why it is that we are proud to be Republicans.

2009 CRFV State Convention

Last Saturday, January 26th was the College Republican Federation of Virginia (CRFV) State Convention. Matt Wolking, Nicole Forcine, Joe Catoe, Daniel Davies, and myself, Willie Deutsch, all attended the meeting from PHC. The purpose of the meeting was to elect a new board for the CRFV.

Before the elections got under way, we heard from representatives of all the Republican campaigns for statewide office. John Brownlee spoke first talked about his background as a prosecutor and a military man, and Dave Foster spoke about his ability to win elections in NOVA and his desire to work on issues like voter fraud. Senator Cuccinelli was unable to speak so I spoke on his behalf, and shared why I am supporting him in this nomination contest. Bob McDonnell's daughter talked about efforts the campaign will be doing with the young people. She discussed a number of creative ideas. The McDonnell for Governor team seems to be running a very smart and creative campaign. A representative for Bill Bolling also spoke briefly about ways we could help with that campaign as well.

The elections were a very positive affair. All the candidates talked of their desire to grow the CRFV: strengthen the chapters we have, create new ones, and ways the CRFV could assist the local CR chapters.

Our new CRFV Board is:

Chairman: Kate Maxwell

1st Vice Chair: Matt Wolking

2nd Vice Chair: Ray Boyce

Treasurer: Jadan Horyn

Secretary: Kelly McCain

Kate Maxwell already has connections with a number of VA state officials including to Bob McDonnell, and Chris Saxman, and plans on using her connections to do a number of creative things for the local chapters.

Congratulations to Matt Wolking on winning 1st Vice Chair. PHC now has a member on the CRFV board. His technological abilities and connections will be a valuable asset to improving the CRFV.

I am looking forward to this upcoming year as the CRFV and its local chapters works to involve more college students in the political process, and get all three of our state wide officials elected in November.

(While Willie Deutsch is actively supporting Ken Cuccinelli for Attorney General, this post should not be construed in anyway to be an endorsement of any candidate by the PHC CR club in the Attorney General race.)