NOTE:: Our meeting are held in the Fireside
Room at the Gateway Complex and begin with a social hour at 5:15 pm, with
beer, wine, soft drinks & hors d’oeuvres . Dinner is
served at 6:00 pm.
March 2010 Speaker
Producer, Director, Writer - Mario Pellegrini
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January 2010 Speaker
Conservative
California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore to speak to Republicans
The Republican Club's Speakers Program Committee, working months ahead,
secured the commitment of California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. He will bring
his brand of conservatism as featured speaker to the club's Wednesday, Jan.
13, dinner meeting in the Fireside Room at Gateway.
In the Republican race to take on Sen. Barbara Boxer next year, underdog
DeVore lacks the star power of GOP rival Carly Fiorina; however, he has the
strength of his conservative credentials.
DeVore has experience in political and military fields. He served as a
Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon from 1986 to 1988. As special
assistant for Foreign Affairs, his duties included working with Congress to
advance the president's foreign and military policies. DeVore is also the
author of the internationally acclaimed novel, “China Attacks.” Written in
1999, and translated into Chinese in 2000, the book, banned in China, sells
well in Taiwan.
A retired lieutenant colonel in the Army National Guard, DeVore was a
graduate of the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College. His awards
include the Meritorious Service Medal and the Army Commendation Medal.
Earlier this year, DeVore said he was dissatisfied with the change in Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and other Republican leaders who brokered deals that
called for higher taxes to help bridge a massive budget deficit.
At the conclusion of his remarks, DeVore will answer questions from the
audience.
The Republican Club Journal, which is mailed to all members monthly,
contains a reservation form and the details of the meeting. Cost of dinner
(which includes a well accepted hosted wine counter) is $25 for members, and
$27, for guests.
July 2009 Speaker
Jack
Citrin
Professor & Director, Institute of Governmental
Studies of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Professor Citrin teaches in the fields of political behavior and comparative
government and his research interests include political sociology and
nationalism. Professor Citrin received his B.A. and M.A. from McGill
University and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. His publications include Tax
Revolt, Something for Nothing in California (co-author, Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1982), "American Identity and the Politics of Ethnic
Change," Journal of Politics, 1990, and Crisis of American Identities: The
Politics of Multiculturalism (1996).
PAST SPEAKERS
June 2009 Speaker
Brad
Dacus
of the
Pacific Justice Institute
August 2008 Speaker
Bill
Jones served in the California State Assembly and later
served as California's 27th Secretary of State. Current California
Chair for the McCain campaign.
June 2008 Leadership Night
Don’t miss it. On this evening the Club will
recognize Republican standard bearers in the November general election and
meet the new Chairman of the Contra Costa Republican Party as well as the
County Party’s Executive Direor.
May 2008 Speaker
Rev. Jesse
Lee Peterson
Author
of “Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America,”
Syndicated Radio & TV Host and & Entrepreneur
April 2008 Speakers
Join us to meet the Republican candidates running in our area
in the June primary
March 2008 Speaker
Lynne
Leach
Businesswoman, Former State Legislator, Community
Activist and Leader
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our speaker
February 2008 Speaker
Tom
Campbell
Bank of America Dean and Professor of Business,
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
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January 2008 Speaker
New CEO of the Golden Rain Foundation
September 2007 Speaker
Bruce
A. McPherson (born January 7, 1944) is a California politician, who was
the 30th California Secretary of State, sworn in March 30, 2005. He was
nominated to replace former Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, who resigned
on March 4. McPherson, a Republican from Santa Cruz County, served his term
as Secretary until January 8, 2007. He was confirmed unanimously by both
Democratic-controlled houses of the California State Legislature after being
nominated to replace Democrat Shelley by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He
lost his bid for a first full term to Democrat Debra Bowen in November
2006.
Previously, McPherson was a State
Assemblyman from 1993 to 1996 and a State Senator from 1996 to 2004, when he
retired due to term limits. McPherson was defeated in the 2002 election for
Lieutenant Governor of California by incumbent Cruz Bustamante. Prior to his
political career, he worked as the editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, a
newspaper owned by his family.
August 2007 Speaker
Ken Anderson, President & CEO of John Muir
Health
Ken
Anderson joined John Muir Memorial Hospital in 1974. He became the
President/CEO in 1981 and has served in that same position with the
organization (including through a merger and several name changes) ever
since. Today John Muir Health is a not-for-profit organization with
two medical centers, a behavioral health facility, a physician managed care
network and two offsite outpatient facilities, in addition to four urgent
care centers.
He has served as the Past Chair of the Board for The California Endowment,
the Hospital Council of Northern California, Voluntary Hospitals of
America/West Coast and the California Hospital Association. He is also
active in community organizations.
Anderson received a Bachelor of
Arts in Psychology from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon and a Masters
Degree in Healthcare Administration from Washington University in St. Louis,
Missouri. He served as a Captain in the United States Air Force.
June 2007 Speaker
Executive Editor of Contra Costa Times
Kevin
Keane will address the Republican Club of Rossmoor at their monthly
dinner meeting on June 13th. Mr. Keane will discuss the past history and
future outlook for old line newspapers and major network TV channels such as
ABC, CBS and NBC. Much has changed in the past decade or so in the news
industry, with the advent of 24 hour cable news channels, bloggers and the
internet, as well as talk radio. He will also explore the ways that both
Republicans and Democrats have adapted to this new status and how the two
parties and specific candidates have benefited—or been hurt by the changes.
Mr. Keane is Vice President/News for the California
Newspaper Partnership, North and Executive Editor of the Contra Costa Times.
Keane oversees the MediaNews papers in the East Bay and Solano County,
including the Times and ANG Newspapers, such as the Oakland Tribune. He was
appointed to his current position in August 2006.
Keane has worked for 25 years for daily newspapers,
starting as a reporter and working his way through the editors’ ranks. He
grew up in suburban Philadelphia, one of 13 children, and earned a
bachelor’s degree in journalism from Penn State University. He worked as a
reporter and editor at various daily publications in Philadelphia and South
Jersey, covering local and state politics.
He has worked for Media News Group since 1997, when
he was named editor of the Lebanon Daily News in Lebanon, PA. He was named
editor of the Lowell (MA) Sun in 2000. Kevin was previously Executive Editor
of ANG Newspapers beginning in February 2004.
He lives in Alameda with his wife, Mary McInerney,
and their four children.
February 14, 2007 Speaker
Per F. Peterson, Professor Department of Nuclear
Engineering, UC Berkeley
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Dr. Peterson will speak about alternative energy
sources as opposed to our present heavy reliance on petroleum. He will
stress the nuclear energy field as the cleanest and (this is my prediction)
the quickest way to provide significant alternate energy for this nation.
November 8, 2006 Speaker
Michael O'Brien, Commander (Ret.) USCG
"Security Measures Against Terrorism for the Port of Oakland"
October 11,
2006 Annual Oktoberfest
Meet Republican candidates
running for office AND
Bring items for Treats for the Troops the Blue Star Mom's collection of
holiday items for our troops.
September 13, 2006 Speakers
The Sentinels of Freedom & Blue
Star Moms
August 9, 2006 Speaker
The Hon. Charles A. Legge (Ret.), U.S.
District Judge Northern District of California, "Tells All."
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HERE to learn more about his past. Click
HERE to learn more about his present..
July 12, 2006 Speakers
Darcy Linn, Republican
candidate, 10th Congressional District (opponent Ellen Tauscher)
Mike DeNunzio, Republican candidate, 8th Congressional District
(opponent Nancy Pelosi)
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his bio
Darcy Linn was born in Denver, Co at Fitzsimons
Army Hospital. Her dad, a West Point graduate and WWII fighter pilot,
was career Air Force, so Darcy lived in Colorado, New York, Spain, and
Nebraska until the age of
13, when her family settled in Orange Co, California. Darcy comes from a
family of five girls and considers her parents and her sisters her best
friends. She moved to the Bay Area in 1992 for work purposes. For more than
two decades Darcy Linn been a successful business women, having worked her
way up the ranks in corporate finance for Fortune 500
organizations such as The Gap, Discovery Channel, and Federated Department
Stores. Her experiences also include sales, marketing, and information
systems.
A life-long Republican and one of the Bay Area's most
active Republican leaders, Ms. Linn has been instrumental in numerous
political campaigns having served the 2000 Bush/Cheney Presidential
campaign, held the position of Bay Area Events Chair for the Simon for
Governor campaign
and was a San Francisco County Co-Chair for the Bush-Cheney reelection
campaign.
Often a media spokesperson for the Party, specifically
regarding women's issues, Ms. Linn has served for years on the board of the
SF County Republican Women's Federated and the California Women's
Association. In 2004, Ms. Linn was elected President of the San Francisco
County Republican Women's Federated and was re-elected to the post in 2005.
Prior to moving to the 10th District Ms. Linn served the
Party as an elected official when she was elected to the San Francisco
County Republican Central Committee. It was here where her colleagues took
note of her leadership skills and financial background and voted her to the
Executive Committee as Treasurer.
Ms. Linn has earned his B.A. degree in history from the
University of California at Los Angeles. In her spare time she is an avid
reader, marathon runner, and also enjoys golf and tennis.
Mi
ke
DeNunzio serves on several community boards and organizations. .They
include; The Handicapables, The Columbus Day Committee, a trust for Seniors,
and a foundation for the developmentally disabled.
Mike is a graduate of St. John’s University, N.Y. He taught law and economics
and served six years as a Personnel Specialist in the U.S. Army Reserves. He
is married to Annette DeNunzio, an Advisor to the National Shrine of Saint
Francis of Assisi.
Mike DeNunzio,
Chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party, is the Republican Candidate
for the House of Representatives in San Francisco's 8th Congressional
District. San Francisco Republicans gave Mike the nomination with 76% of the
vote in the June 6th primary to take on House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi
Mike is Chairman of Development Services Group consultants to non-profit
organizations.. He has guided major funding projects for health care,
educational, social, cultural, civic and religious organizations throughout
the US and in Canada and Europe.
Democrat Mayors Brown and Newsom have appointed Mike to city
commissions. Mike and also serves on several advisory boards, and civic
organizations. In 2004 he was a delegate to the National Convention in NY
June 14, 2006 Speaker
Daniel C. Helix
Daniel C. Helix retired as a major general in 1989, after a
41-year career in the U. S. Army. He enlisted as a private in January, 1948,
was commissioned as a second lieutenant of Infantry in 1951, and served as a
platoon leader and company commander of a rifle company with the 45th
Infantry Division during the Korean War
He earned a bachelor’s degree in History from
the University of California at Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Political
Science at the San Francisco State University. Both degrees conferred magna
cum laude. He is a graduate of the Army’s Command and General Staff College
and the War College.
General Helix’s decorations and awards include:
The Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Army Distinguished Service Medal, Silver
Star, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star with “V” device, Purple Heart with oak
leaf cluster, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, and others
He is a member of the U.S. Army’s Infantry Hall
of Fame located at Fort Benning, Georgia, authorized to wear the Secretary
of Defense Identification Badge, and the parachutist badge, which he earned
at the age of 50.
General Helix has served as Mayor and
Councilman of the City of Concord, California, was a Director of the Bay
Area Rapid Transit District. He lives in Concord with his wife, Mary Lou.
They have two children and five grandchildren.
He is a published author of an award-winning
novel set in the Korean War era and has several published articles and short
stories that have been published in military journals.
He is a past president of the Rotary Club of
Concord and the Mt. Diablo Hospital Foundation and current Chairman of the
Board. Helix is active in numerous philanthropic and military organizations.
March 8, 2006 Speaker
Yeh Ling-Ling
Executive Director
Diversity Alliance
for a Sustainable America
1904 Franklin St. # 517
Oakland, CA 94612
510-835-5017
yehlingling@diversityalliance.org
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