I am thrilled to announce our special keynote speakers of the 2010 American
Bakers PAC Dinner, Bill Kristol and Eugene Robinson, said ABA PAC Chairman
Steve Avera, Flowers Foods. These are two of the most prominent and
well-respected political strategists and commentators in the nation, and we are
fortunate to have them join us at the ABA Convention in Boca Raton.
Bill Kristol is editor of the Washington-based political magazine, The Weekly
Standard and regularly appears on Fox News Sunday and the FOX News Channel.
Before starting The Weekly Standard in 1995, Kristol led the Project for the
Republican Future, where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994
Republican Congressional victory. Kristol is a former chief of staff to Vice
President Dan Quayle during the Bush administration and to Secretary of
Education Bill Bennett under President Reagan.
Eugene Robinson uses his twice-weekly column in The Washington Post to pick
American society apart and then put it back together again in unexpected and
revelatory new ways. To do this job of demolition and reassembly, Robinson
relies on a large and varied tool kit: energy, curiosity, elegant writing and
the wide-ranging experience of a life that took him from childhood in the
segregated South to the heights of American Journalism. Robinson was awarded the
2009 Pulitzer Price for his commentary on the 2008 presidential race that
resulted in the election of America’s first African- American president.
Thanks to the leadership of Chairman Avera and the support of the ABA
membership, the PAC Dinner has become the premiere event of the ABA Convention,
said ABA Chairman Chip Klosterman, Klosterman Baking Company. This important
event will broaden the success and strength of ABA’s political arm and well
position the industry as we approach the crucial 2010 mid-term elections this
November.
The 2010 American Bakers PAC Dinner is a ticketed event and serves as the
primary fundraiser for the political action committee of grain-based foods.
Invitations and ticket order forms will be mailed to authorized ABA members this
week. To learn more about the PAC Dinner and ABA’s political involvement
programs, please contact Kelly Knowles, ABA Director of Political Affairs at
kknowles@americanbakers.org or by calling 202-536-8236.
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About the American Bakers Association:
ABA is the Washington D.C.-based trade association that has been the voice of
the wholesale baking industry since 1897. ABA has a long and dedicated history
of representing the interests of the wholesale baking industry before the U.S.
Congress, federal agencies, state legislatures and international regulatory
authorities. ABA represents approximately 80 percent of the wholesale bakeries
in the U.S. and their suppliers.
Source:
The American Bakers Association