Virginia Tea Party

10th Anniversary Summer Summit
2019-06-22 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Delta Hotels Richmond Downtown, 555 E. Canal St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Its been 10 years since the tea party movement began in early 2009! Please join us to observe this milestone, to hear some great speakers/instructors, and to enjoy the fellowship of like-minded Virginians. More info on our developing program below, but you can reserve your tickets today!

Steve Moore, President Trump’s brilliant economic advisor and former Federal Reserve nominee will be there to speak about his experience facing down the radical left’s slanderous smear campaign, and to talk about the Trump economy.
Big League Politics will tell you about how they exposed racist Ralph Northam and accused rapist Justin Fairfax with their cutting-edge conservative journalism.
FreedomWorks will be joining us to explain how Twitter is the new battleground in conservative politics, and how you can influence thousands to make a difference. And they’re also sending John Tamney – an economics expert who will be speaking about how the left lies about “inequality” to push their backwards agenda.
And American Majority will host a one-of-a-kind hands-on workshop that will teach you the ins-and-outs of political campaigns – and how to win on our values.

We’re giving away three signed copies of Steve Moore’s new book, Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy.
And if you’re one of the first 10 patriots to register for our June summit (to mark our 10-year anniversary), you’ll be entered in for a chance to receive one.
AGENDA

NOW CANCELLED: Virginia Tea Party Winter Summit
2018-12-01 10:00 - 16:00
NOW CANCELLED – Dec 1st VATP SUMMIT

As the Virginia Tea Party ushers in the close of the year, we have a lot to look back on and celebrate. Thanks to supporters like you, our organization is stronger than ever. We held several successful conferences, and played a key role in facilitating thoughtful debate among Virginia’s conservative activists as they nominated candidates for public office across Virginia.
Our December 1st conference, coinciding with our annual meeting, was planned to be the latest in our string of successes. We put together a compelling program with issue leaders from all over America, and looked forward to seeing you on Saturday.

However, I am writing to let you know that at this time, the conference has been cancelled.

With each conference, we strive to achieve two goals: (1) develop an excellent educational program; and (2) facilitate networking and collaboration between the activists and organizations of Virginia’s conservative movement.
As frustrating as I know this is for you (and for all of us), due to factors outside of our control, we simply could not guarantee the experience that we strive to provide to our members and attendees. Accordingly, a full refund will be issued to all those who have purchased tickets.
We have an excellent group of new officers nominated to lead our organization, and I have no doubt that they will do an excellent job building the organization in the new year. Many exciting plans are already in the works, and we look forward to updating you with more information shortly.
Have a Merry Christmas, and a very Happy New Year.

Sincerely,
Rick Buchanan
VATP Chairman
Agenda

Time
Session

10:00
Call to order – Pledge of Allegiance / Prayer

10:05
Opening remarks

10:10
Morning Session

12:00
Lunch

1:00
Afternoon Session

3:00
Business Meeting
– Election of officers
– Other business items as required

4:00
Event Close

SpeakersJEFF THOMAS
Virginia Politics and Government in A New Century: THE PRICE OF POWER
“In Virginia Politics and Government in A New Century: THE PRICE OF POWER Jeff Thomas demolishes the state’s conceits that it operates by the honorable principles of gentlemanly cavaliers [known as ‘the Virginia way’]. As his richly reported work reveals, the state is run entirely opposite to the Jeffersonian values it pretends to embrace.”
-Peter Galuszka, reporter at Style weekly
DAVID LUSK
Session 1: Combating Advocate Fatigue: Practical Tips for Boosting Engagement
Recruiting advocates for your cause isn’t easy. It requires time, energy, and sometimes, financial resources. Now that you have these valuable activists, don’t risk losing them to disengagement.
Learn how organizations like yours are making the most of their advocates’ participation to build organizational value while growing subsets of ambassadors to champion their causes.
This session delivers tips and best practices for recruiting advocates, maintaining momentum, and boosting engagement for your cause, helping you avoid advocate fatigue and disengagement. PODCAST
Session 2: Key Interests-Based Advocacy
How to be most effective in influencing legislators.
DAVID T STEVENSON
Fighting State Carbon Taxes – The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
Dave has spent the last seven years as the Director of the Center for Energy Competitiveness for the Caesar Rodney Institute. Dave has published over 100 analytic studies including a major peer reviewed paper published in the Cato Journal this year titled “A Review of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative”. He has worked on such issues as the EPA Clean Power Plan, electric grid reliability, the public policy drivers of energy cost, and climate change. Dave has been a leader on energy and environmental policy in the State Policy Network. He served on President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency Transition Team, and has become a resource for national energy and environmental issues.
DAVID A. HYMAN
Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Healthcare
David A. Hyman is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a Professor of Law at Georgetown University. A doctor as well as a lawyer, Hyman served most recently as the Ross and Helen Workman Chair in Law and Professor of Medicine at the University of Illinois, where he directed the Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy. He focuses his research on the regulation and financing of health care and has taught insurance, medical malpractice, law and economics, professional responsibility and tax policy in addition to civil procedure. (PODCAST) (BIO)
STEPHEN D. HANER
“Yes Virginia, There Are Four Tax Hikes in Your Future”
Each of these tax increases has been recognized on its own, and debated on its own, but they are not widely recognized by the voting public. The fourth and largest of them, the windfall from federal conformity, is still easy to prevent. (LinkedIn)
Stephen is a Senior Fellow, State and Local Tax Policy, Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy.
CHRISTOPHER C. HORNER
Law Enforcement for Rent
Mr. Horner will detail a donor-funded scheme of law enforcement for hire, using public office to expend resources not appropriated or approved by the AGs’ legislatures, which raises statutory and significant constitutional issues as well as ethics concerns.
See: VIRGINIA AG HERRING HIT WITH LAWSUIT OVER LEGALITY OF PRIVATELY FUNDED CLIMATE PROSECUTORS
Healthcare Solutions for the 2019 General Assembly
Panel Members

Jeff Ryer – Exec. Director of Senate Republican Caucus
Craig DiSesa – President, The Middle Resolution
Nancy Piotter – Former Director of Virginian’s for Quality Healthcare

The panelists in this session will discuss the upcoming 2019 General Assembly legislation that will address the challenges with Healthcare affordability, quality and access.
Follow Your Representatives’ Money: HANDS ON WORKSHOP
CAROL STOPPS, VATP CoLA Chair.
Learn to navigate the VPAP.org money trail. Where does your Representative’s money come from; how is it spent? YOU MUST BRING A LAPTOP or SMART PHONE to this workshop.
REAGAN G. GEORGE
President, Virginia Voters Alliance
Illegal Voting and Fraudulent Elections 2018
Poll watching Strategy for 2019
KRIS ALLEN
President Education United
DR. KAREN HILTZ
Franklin County School Board Member and author
MS. BETH SMITH
former Henrico and Hanover County high school principal.
Excellence vs. Average: Delivering Outcome-based Education in a Politically Divided Commonwealth
Education drives culture and culture drives politics. This breakout session explores paths forward for breaking public education’s stranglehold on delivery of sub-standard K12 education that ill prepares students to enter the workforce or become engaged citizens. Both legislative and non-legislative solutions are presented and the status of each is discussed.
SponsorsTBD
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Hotel: Discounted room rate of $129 available: Book here
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Registration Walk-in ticket price (without preregistration) is $45; pay at the registration desk upon arrival.
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If you wish to register today and pay online with a credit card, select the first General Admission registration option, listed with the notes to “Pay Online“.
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2018 Fall Summit Meeting
2018-09-22 09:30 - 16:00
The Virginia Tea Party is pleased to announce that registration for our fall summit meeting is now open, and that we are excited to announce that we’ll be joined by American Majority for training!

The full agenda is being finalized now, but we can share that American Majority will be providing training in the areas of campaign communications, social media, and information about becoming a candidate. If you are planning to run for office, or will be helping someone else in his/her campaign, then this training is for you! Details about the other portions of the program will be released soon.
To stay informed as to event happenings, and to register for the event, please visit the event page.

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2018 Senate Candidate Debate and Spring Conference
2018-03-17 10:00 - 17:00
In addition to our normal business meeting, our spring conference will feature a debate between the US Senate candidates for the upcoming election in November. Block your calendar and reserve your tickets today!
Event Registration

Do you have a question you’d like to pose to the candidates? Please visit our question submission page to get engaged and have your voice be heard!

THE VIRGINIA TEA PARTY PRESENTS:

Tickets are limited – claim yours now
When: March 17, 2018 (10:00 AM to 5:00 PM)
Where: Delta by Marriott Hotel
& Conference Center
555 East Canal Street, Richmond, VA
Click HERE to Register
AGENDA:
2018 U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE DEBATE
(11:30 AM – 1:30 PM)
GENERAL SESSION
STRAW POLL: PICK YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATE!
Pick up your ballot at the registration table to cast your vote
FIGHTING FOR CONSERVATISM IN 2018
Presented by Jack Morgan (Founder, OurVirginia)
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: What the Left Doesn’t Want You to Hear
Presented by Susan Tully
(National Field Director, Federation for American Immigration Reform)
VIRGINIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY & BUDGET OVERVIEW
Presented by Del. Ben Cline (VA-54), Ken Peterson (Chairman, Goochland County BOS),
Carol Stopps (Chair, Cooperative Legislation Action)
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & NORTH KOREA
Presented by Rep. Rob Wittman
(U.S. Congress, VA-01)
2018 SENATE MIDTERMS: A LOOK AHEAD
Presented by Ken Cuccinelli
(President, Senate Conservatives Fund)
CONVERSATION ON THE FEDERAL BUDGET
Presented by Justin Bogie (Senior Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation)
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
CONSERVATISM ONLINE: Politics in the Social Media Era
Presented by Emily Stack (FreedomWorks)
HANDS OFF MY FOOD: Free-Market Solutions to Food Safety
Presented by Dr. Sina McCullough
FIGHTING LIBERALISM ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
Presented by Cabot Phillips (CampusReform)
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Tickets are limited – purchase yours today!
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Fall Conference 2017 - Mission: Possible
2017-11-18 10:00 - 16:00
The fall statewide fall conference will be on November 18th, 2017, at Delta Hotels Richmond Downtown (the old Crowne Plaza Hotel)
Register Now!
Tickets are $35 if you preregister, or $40 at the door
WHEN: November 18th (10am – 4pm)
WHERE: Delta by Marriott (Formerly Crowne Plaza), 555 E. Canal St., Richmond, VA 23219
HOTEL & PARKING:
Book by 11/15/17 – $119.00 per night plus tax. Reservations here
Hotel garage parking: $2 (pay at front desk)
Doors open: 9:15am
Registration: 9:15am – 10:00am
PROGRAM

– ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING –
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION
Official Launch of the
Local Government Evaluation and Comparison Project*
Speaker: Mark Daugherty (Chairman Emeritus, VTP)
*Does your local government collect $30 Million in annual taxes per square mile? One Virginia city does. Join our local government project!
FINANCIAL CLOUDS GATHERING IN VIRGINIA
Speaker: Ken Peterson
(Author, In Search of Good Government: The Goochland Revolution; Supervisor, Goochland County)
CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE
Speaker: Rep. Tom Garrett (VA-05)
THE DEMOCRAT’S ELECTORAL ‘LAW’FARE COMES TO STAFFORD COUNTY
Speaker : Steve Albertson

– MORNING BREAKOUTS –
DRAINING THE ENERGY SWAMP
Facilitated by CoLA Team Leader A.G. “Randy” Randol, PhD(co-founder, VA Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment)
“McAuliffe’s Green Kool-Aid Ration and Tax scheme”
Panelists Include:
Thomas Wysmuller, International speaker on Global Warming,
Is Virginia’s Sea-Level Rise a “Shore Thing?”
Ken Cuccinelli, Former VA Attorney General; President, Senate Conservative Fund,
“Dominion and APCo: Do they own the General Assembly, or merely rent it?”

K-12 EDUCATION REFORM NOW:
TURNING IDEAS INTO ACTION
Facilitated by CoLA Team Leader Kris Allen
(Virginia Education Coalition)
Panelists Include:
Antione M. Green, Foundation for Excellence in Education
Michelle McSweeney, President of VB Spark
Dr. Karen Hiltz, Franklin County School Board
Vicky Manning, Virginia Beach School Board
Nancy Smith, Middle Resolution

EXPOSING REGULATORY DARK MATTER:
A SERIOUS WORKSHOP
Facilitated by CoLA Team Leader Kathleen McCarthy
Panelists Include:
Clyde “Wayne” Crews, Vice President of Policy, Competitive Enterprise Institute,
“Exposing Regulatory Dark Matter”
Denver Riggleman, REF-PAC, Silverback Distillery, Former Candidate for Virginia Governor,
VA’s Regulatory Nightmare
Martha Boneta: “Freedom Fighter”

– AFTERNOON BREAKOUTS I –
REINING IN GOVERNMENT OVERREACH, “JUST SAY NO”
Part I
Facilitated by CoLA Director Carol Stopps
Panelists Include:
Ken Cuccinelli, Former VA Attorney General; President, Senate Conservative Fund,
Big Brother is Watching: What it knows. What you should know.
Richard Rothschild, Commissioner, Carroll County, MD,
Illegal Immigration Sanctuaries: Taking away the sanctity.

HEALTHCARE REFORM IN THE FACE OF LIBERAL SENSATIONALISM
Facilitated by CoLA Team Leader Deb Giffin
Panelists Include:
Senator Amanda Chase, Virginia General Assembly,
Transparency in Healthcare Pricing
Delegate John O’Bannon, Virginia General Assembly.
Repeal of the Certificate of Public Need (COPN)
Nancy Piotter, Executive Director, Virginians for Quality Healthcare,
“What to expect next from the federal Government”

– AFTERNOON BREAKOUTS II –
REINING IN GOVERNMENT OVERREACH: “JUST SAY NO”
Part II
Facilitated by CoLA Team Leader Dale Taylor
Panelists Include:
Mark Fitzgibbons, President of Corporate and Legal Affairs, American Target Advertising,
“Inherently Unreasonable Administrative Subpoenas Advance Police State, Violate the Constitution”
Claire Gastanaga, Executive Director, ACLU of Virginia,
Asset Forfeiture: “Policing for Profit”
Caleb Taylor, Tertium Quids,
“A bite as bad as it’s bark: installing the teeth of the 2012 VA Property Rights Amendment”
Delegate Nick Freitas, VA House of Delegates district #30 ,
Asset forfeiture legislation
VOTER FRAUD: THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Facilitated by CoLA Team Leader Susan Lascolette
(Supervisor, Goochland County)
Panelists Include:
Reagan George, Executive Director, Virginia Voter Alliance
AND Special Guests!
Breakout sessions subject to change to accommodate speakers!
Register Now!

“Behind the Scenes” With Matt Schlapp Chairman of the ACU
2017-06-10 18:00 - 19:00
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Summit Meeting - 25 Feb 2017
2017-02-25 10:00 - 16:00
The spring 2017 statewide summit meeting will be held on Saturday, Feb 25th.
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More details will be forthcoming, but mark your calendars now!
DRAFT working agenda
9:15-10:00 Event Registration

Activities include:
10:00 Invocation / Pledge of Allegiance
10:05 Opening Remarks
Thanks to sponsors
10:10 Engaging Millennials – Elliot Harding
11:00 Morning Break
11:10 CoLA Report – Carol Stopps
11:35 Victory stories:

Dale Swanson / Michael Hirsch – Defeated tax payer funded baseball stadium
Nelson Valez – Norfolk TP – Got referendum to change appointment of school board to being elected.

12:00 Lunch and networking
1:30 More Victory Stories:

Diana Howard – Va. Beach TP – Got referendum on ballot to defeat light rail.
Ralph Carter – Chester Patriots TP – Meals tax defeat and Comprehensive Plan.
Mark Hile / Anita Hile – Linwood Cobb and Eric Cantor defeat. “But wait, there’s more!”

2:00 The Philosophy Behind the Republican Creed – Nick Freitas
2:50 Afternoon Break
3:00 Private Business Meeting (Member organizations only)

Summit Meeting - 19 November 2016
2016-11-19 10:00 - 16:00
“Stepping Forward into 2017”
For tickets and meeting agenda/information, please visit the event ticketing site.

We hope to see you there!
