The Gorge Constitutional Tea Party presents special guest speakers David A. Keene, the current National President of the National Rifle Association and Donna Wiesner Keene, the Washington liaison for theTeaParty.net on Friday August 26 from 6 pm to 8 pm at the Hood River Inn Gorge Room.  Come out and bring your friends and family to hear these dynamic conservative speakers.  Seating is limited to 450.  We are unable to sell tickets on our website, but we can provide you will call tickets by contactingl Jerry Smith justanothersmith@gorge.net 509-493-1934, Darlene Johnson darlenej@embarqmail.com 509-493-3662 or Mike Calloway mike@schuemann.com 541-300-0453 for more information.   You will need to pick up your tickets by 5:30 on Friday. Note:  Extra parking is available at the Marina parking lot.

David A. Keene is the current national president of the National Rifle Association of America and currently serves as chairman of the Legislative Policy Committee and vice chairman of the Meeting Site Selection Committee. He is also a member of the President’s Committee on Advancement.  Keene served as Chairman of the American Conservative Union, a volunteer position, from December 1984 to February 2011.  ACU is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative lobbying organization, and during his tenure their main conference, CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), grew from a few hundred to more than 11,000 attendees. ACU rates Members of Congress, helps maintain fair military voting, and lobbies Congress on a host of conservative issues.  Keene is an attorney, columnist, political activist and lobbyist who has written, spoken and lobbied on behalf of hunters, shooters and firearms owners for decades. He has worked in the White House and Congress and has been involved in nearly every congressional battle over gun rights since the early 1970s. 

Donna Wiesner Keene is the Washington liaison for theTeaParty.net, a Senior Fellow with the Independent Women's Forum and the CEO of BrainTrain, a business specializing in marketing and communicating political ideas and projects. BrainTrain works with executives and lobbyists to propel ideas toward policy-makers and ordinary citizens. In the 107^th Congress, Mrs. Keene lobbied for fundamental tax reform for the Coalition for Fundamental Tax Reform, a coalition she helped grow to represent more than 8 million citizens. She has held positions in the Reagan, Bush and Bush Administrations, for the U.S. House when the Republicans took over the House for the first time in 40 years in 1994, and in Richmond, Virginia was an aide to a then-unknown but well-respected House of Delegates member now the Governor of Virginia.