I need everyones help in the room for the sake of the common good. Take this device and silence it, please. That way we wont get any nycalls from our children or grandchildren taking us out of the meeting. So i want to welcome you this evening on behalf of the board of directors of the reformed institute of metropolitan washington. My name is larry goldman, im interim director of the institute. We are dedicated as an institute to the education of techurches and the community in the reformed tradition and enhancing theological discourse related to religious life and to the common good. I want to thank the session of National Presbyterian church for providing the venue for this evenings event. National is one of 10 sponsoring congregations of the reforminstitute and a fantastic place. Youll find the names of our other sponsoring communities in the brochure that you have at your seat and if you do not have one, please let us know, were going to get one to you. The reformed institute serve
You paired welcome to the silver elephant gala. We are engaged and involved in the business of politics in some capacity or another because we care about various principles. We all share some common core conservative tuples. Many may care more about one issue or the other we have a solid conservative lat form we rally around and we are in this because we know that politics matters when it comes to policy. Ronald reagan once said that personnel is policy. The type of people we hire are the type of policies we will have. If that is the case, then elections of our personnel and elections matter and if elections matter than our party matters. You involved in what we do makes a difference about the care of things that get you resolved. Asalt of your efforts, a result of your efforts, we have had another year of incredible successes. We kept every statewide office in republican hands again. Give yourself a round of applause. We maintained the statehouse authority again. We picked up more loc
Ronald reagan said that personnel is policy. The type of people that we hire for the type of policies that were going to have. And if thats the case, then that means that elections are about personnel. And elections matter. And if elections matter, well, then that means that our party matter. Your being involved in what we do makes a difference, makes a difference of the things that you care about that actually get you involve. As a result of your efforts for the last, you know, year, year and a half especially as we close this last election season, weve had another year of incredible successes, 2018 election cycle. Office very statewide in republican hands again. Again, give yourselves a round of applause. We maintained our state House Majority again. We picked up more local and county offices all around the state again in 2018. And not only that, but we more than doubled more than doubled the number of people who voted absentee republican statewide in the last cycle. And the statisti
All right. Well, welcome again yall continue to eat. Welcome to the 52nd silver elephant gala event. Thank you for being here. We want to dedicate this event to you. I wanted to get just a few comments and talk about the party, and you know, obviously, you are here tonight because this stuff matters. Were all engaged and involved in this business of politics in some capacity or another because we care about various principles. We all share some common core conservative principles. Many may car more about one issue than the other. But weve got a solid con serve active platform and were in this because we know that politics matter when it comes to policy. Ronald reagan said that personnel is policy. The type of people that we hire are the type of policys that were going to have. And if thats the case that means that elections are about personnel. And election matters. And if elections matter, well, that means that our party matters. Your being involved in what we do makes a difference, m
All right. Well, welcome again yall continue to eat. Welcome to the 52nd silver elephant gala event. Thank you for being here. We want to dedicate this event to you. I wanted to get just a few comments and talk about the party, and you know, obviously, you are here tonight because this stuff matters. Were all engaged and involved in this business of politics in some capacity or another because we care about various principles. We all share some common core conservative principles. Many may car more about one issue than the other. But weve got a solid con serve active platform and were in this because we know that politics matter when it comes to policy. Ronald reagan said that personnel is policy. The type of people that we hire are the type of policys that were going to have. And if thats the case that means that elections are about personnel. And election matters. And if elections matter, well, that means that our party matters. Your being involved in what we do makes a difference, m