Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/07/2014
12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Location
The Oxford Hotel - Sage Room
Address
1600 17th St
Denver
CO
80202
The Denver Forum Proudly Presents:
Nancy Sinnott Dwight – Former Executive Director, Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Joe Gaylord – Former Senior Counselor to Speaker Newt Gingrich
Speaking on: “The Republican Party: Today & Tomorrow”
12-Noon Luncheon
Oxford Hotel
Sage Room
1600 17th Street
$35 for Members & Guests
Phone Reservations: 303-832-9030
Event Sponsor:
Biographical Brief – Nancy Sinnott Dwight
Nancy Dwight, chairman of Dwight Partners, a New England consultancy specializing in strategic communications and organization building, has over 40 years of experience in professional politics and nonprofit leadership.
In the early 1980s, she was Executive Director of the National Republican Congressional Committee in Washington, D.C., after serving as the committee’s Campaign Director for the historic 1980 election cycle. Prior to her years in Washington she served as Vice Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party and as campaign manager for a highly competitive congressional contest in eastern Massachusetts.
Nancy has advised numerous local and national campaigns, candidates and incumbent members of Congress. She was a delegate from New Hampshire to the 2004 and 2008 Republican National Conventions and served on the Bush-Cheney Steering committees in New Hampshire for the 2000 and 2004 Presidential campaigns and the Romney for President Committee in 2008.
In addition to her work in politics and public service, Nancy has a parallel career in communications. She is a longtime director of Newspapers of New England, Inc., publisher of daily and weekly newspapers serving Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. And she is the Republican on-air analyst for WBUR-FM’s “Political Roundtable” on its daily afternoon show, “Radio Boston.”
Nancy has an abiding commitment to museums, libraries and schools. In 2003 President George W. Bush appointed her to the National Museum and Library Services Board of the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington, D.C. and she served on the National Finance Committee for the Bush Presidential Library and Institute in Dallas, Texas. She was a trustee and former Chair of the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vermont, and is a former member of the board and program lecturer for New Hampshire’s Vesta Roy Series. In 2008 she received a national award from the Excellence in Public Service Series, in Washington, D.C., “honoring women who have demonstrated sustained leadership and excellence in public service.”
In 2012, she was a Fellow at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas where she jointly conducted a study group of the 2012 Presidential campaign.
Nancy and her husband Don have two grown children, Christopher, 29, a law student in North Carolina where he lives with his wife Emily, a KIPP School Leader, and Helen, 27, Senior Legislative Assistant for New Jersey Congressman Leonard Lance. Nancy is a magna cum laude graduate of Wheaton College in Massachusetts but spent her youth in America’s heartland – Illinois.
Biographical Brief – Joe Gaylord
Joe Gaylord ranks among the nation’s most experienced political consultants. His thirty years of experience have given him a unique perspective and expertise in strategic message development, media, grass roots, party coalition building, and campaign organization.
He served the National Republican Congressional Committee for eight years between 1981 and 1989, including six years as its Executive Director. In that role, he oversaw its political communications and management, including its national advertising campaigns, and in providing direct strategic assistance of hundreds of GOP Congressional campaigns.
Serving as the senior counselor to Speaker Newt Gingrich, the Speaker dubbed him the “irreplaceable man” for his work as principal architect for the House leadership in mapping out and leading the effort to execute a blueprint to elect a Republican Majority in the House in 1994. For his achievement, his peers in the American Association of Political Consultants named him Co-Campaign Manager of the Year.
He led the successful effort for the House leadership to re-elect the Republican House majority in 1996 and 1998 – a feat not accomplished since the days of Herbert Hoover.
Mr. Gaylord was the person who developed the Campaign Management College for the Republican National Committee. He supervised the program for the 1994-1998 cycles and the 2002 cycle. He also founded the American Campaign Academy, a school offering professionals an eleven week training course in campaign management and fund raising. He served as its Board Chairman for five years.
Mr. Gaylord began his career with the Republican State Central Committee in Iowa. During his seven years with the committee, he worked his way through the ranks from field representative to Executive Director. In 1975, he joined the Republican National Committee. He served with the RNC for six years through the chairmanship of Mary Louise Smith and Bill Brock. In 1977, he became the Eastern Director of the Local Elections Campaign Division. He served as National Director of that division until 1981. During this period, Republicans won a net gain of nearly 600 state legislative seats and doubled the number of legislative chambers in which Republicans gained a majority.
Mr. Gaylord also served on the Board of Directors of GOPAC, the preeminent GOP organization for the generation of ideas and training of the GOP farm team from 1989 to 1999.
He is the author of two books to guide GOP candidates and incumbents, Flying Upside Down and Flying Right-Side Up, as well as numerous audio training tapes for candidates and campaign professionals.
He has worked with the International Republican Institute, and has lectured not only across the United States but around the world in Brazil, Chile, Norway, Belgium, Russia, Croatia, and Hong Kong.
He is Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Advisory Board Member for the Political Science Department at the University of Iowa. He has been a Fellow of the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University and a Fellow at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at The University of Kansas.
Mr. Gaylord and his wife Molly reside in Belleair, Florida.
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