NEWS
Haley Barbour is Featured Speaker for Friday Night Tue, Jan 29 2008
Your heard it here first! The MRP is honored to have Governor Haley Barbour as our guest speaker honoring Governor Matt Blunt on Friday, February 8th, 2008, at the Missouri State Lincoln Days celebration.
Governor Barbour is keynoting our evening’s banquet. Governor Barbour is most recognized as the Governor who in the face of the worst natural disaster in American history – Hurricane Katrina, which struck on August 29, 2005 – took the lead early on helping Mississippians rebuild and recover. He created the Governor’s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal to develop a broad vision for opportunities to help South Mississippi rebuild bigger and better than ever.
For his leadership after Katrina, Governor Barbour was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award, which is presented by the bipartisan American Legislative Exchange Council to a nationally recognized public sector leader who has an extraordinary record of successfully advancing Jeffersonian principles. He was also named Governor of the Year by Washington, D.C.-based Governing magazine.
The Missouri Republican Party Banquet is held in conjunction with Lincoln Days at the University Plaza Hotel in Springfield, MO. The social hour begins at 6 p.m. and the dinner and program will begin at 7:00 p.m. This is an event that you don’t want to miss and seating is limited. Tickets are $50.00 in advance and $60.00 at the door.
