Upcoming Events for April 2010

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4/8/2010 Tea Party Express III in Ironwood at 6:30 pm.
Not sure of site

4/9/2010 Tea Party Express III in Escanaba at noon.
Not sure of site

4/9/2010 Tea Party Express III in the Soo 5-8 pm
at Bud Weber Park, 600 Ashmun

4/11/2010 Chippewa County Reagan Day Dinner
Featuring Dan Benishek who is running for the
seat Bart Stupak is about to lose.

4/11/2010 Walker Cisler Center, LSSU, Sault S...

Chippewa County Reagan Day Dinner - UPDATED

Type: Party - Dinner Party

Date: Sunday, April 11, 2010

Time: 2:00pm - 6:00pm

Location: Walker Cisler Center - Lake Superior State
University

Description
The 12th Annual Chippewa County Reagan Day Dinner

FEATURED SPEAKER - Jim Jacobson, Former Reagan
Adviser (complete bio below)

April 11, 2010 - 2:00 PM

$25 per person


more info and details to follow.
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Confirmed Candidates:

Terri Lynn Land - Bouchard for Governor

Daniel Benishek - 1st District US Congress

Linda Goldthorp - 1st District US Congress

Tom Stillings - 1st District US Congress

Rep. Paul Scott - SOS Candidate

Howard Walker - 37th MI Senate

Frank Foster - 107th MI House

Michael Patrick - 107th MI House

Alex Strobehn - 107th MI House



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BIO Mr Jim Jacobson:

* Jim Jacobson, President and Founder of Christian
Freedom International, has assisted the persecuted
church in many restricted countries around the world.
He has faced personal danger to deliver Bibles to
underground churches in China, care packs to
families in the brickyards of Pakistan, and medical
aid to refugees in the war zones of Burma
.
* Mr. Jacobson has testified and conducted
briefings before Congress, the White House
and the State Department on behalf of
Christians who are persecuted for their
faith each year.

* At the invitation of First Lady Laura Bush,
Mr. Jacobson participated in The Dialogue
on Burma, a roundtable discussion conducted
during the September 2006 U.N. General
Assembly that allowed activists and
government officials to speak openly about
the severe humanitarian crisis that has
plagued Burma for decades.

* Before founding CFI, Mr. Jacobson served
as a policy analyst in the Reagan White House,
a political appointee in the George Herbert
Walker Bush administration, and was a senior
legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate. He is
also Vice-President and Co-Founder of the
National Right to Read Foundation, an
organization dedicated to phonics-based
reading instruction in elementary schools
throughout America.

* Mr. Jacobson has also been a frequent guest
on radio talk shows and has appeared on
numerous television programs, including 60
Minutes, Fox News, and The 700 Club.

* Mr. Jacobson is a graduate of the University
of Michigan. He and his wife Karen have 12
children, 8 of whom have been adopted from
Burma, and have been married for more than
20 years.