The Free State Foundation invites you to join us in person to celebrate the Fifteenth Anniversary of our founding on Friday, October 15, 2021, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. While adhering to all COVID-19 safety protocols (see note below), we are pleased to be able to hold an in-person celebration so we can share our excitement at reaching this important milestone! Speakers include FCC Commissioners Brendan Carr and Nathan Simington, former FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly, and former FCC Cable Bureau Chief Deborah Lathen. In addition to the speakers, we will be showing a special commemorative video with brief remarks by former FCC Chairmen Richard Wiley, Mark Fowler, William Kennard, Michael Powell, and Ajit Pai, and former Acting FCC Chairman and Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, along with Senator Marsha Blackburn, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Congressman Bob Latta, former Congressmen Greg Walden and Tom Tauke, former FCC Commissioners Henry Rivera, Harold Furchtgott-Roth, Kathleen Abernathy, Meredith Baker, and Robert McDowell, former Register of Copyrights Karyn Temple, former Acting Attorney General of the United States Jeffrey Rosen, former Ambassador David Gross, former Executive Director of the National Broadband Plan Blair Levin, and many other very special friends! And there will be a "blast from the past" photo montage! As we look back with pride at the past fifteen years, we will look forward, with confidence, to the years ahead, knowing that there is much work yet to be done in the cause of advancing free market, property rights-protective, and rule of law-oriented principles and policies. A complimentary plated lunch will be served, subject to space limitations and reservations. IMPORTANT NOTE: Please click here to see all the COVID-19 actions the National Press Club is taking to ensure a safe environment for everyone, including requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result taken within 72 hours of an event. So, to be admitted to the Club, please make sure you bring a vaccination card or a photo of it on your phone or proof of a negative COVID-19 test result taken within the last 72 hours. Tweet: #FSF15Anniversary REGISTER NOW FOR OCTOBER 15, 2021! * * * The Gala Lunch is complimentary with no payment required. But we would certainly welcome any donation you care to make in honor of this important Free State Foundation milestone and, importantly, to help sustain our work going forward! |