{"id":5463,"date":"2005-03-04T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T15:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2024-07-08T14:55:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T18:55:44","slug":"maine-college-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2005\/03\/04\/maine-college-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine College GOP to host Youth Leadership School at college"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine College Republicans will host the Leadership Institute&#8217;s flagship program, the Youth Leadership School, at Bates College from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, March 12 and 13, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. The school is the only training available for young conservative activists in Maine.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The program is sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/mainecr.org\/\">Maine College Republicans<\/a> and the Leadership Institute, an Arlington, Virginia-based organization that trains aspiring conservative leaders. The Youth Leadership School is open to high school and college students for a $60 registration fee, which includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, course materials and optional local hotel accommodations for Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1979 by conservative activist Morton Blackwell, the organization uses quick-paced multimedia presentations and experienced instructors to share with students the organizational and campaign techniques necessary to effective leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great opportunity to host the Leadership Institute in Maine,&#8221; stated Nathaniel Walton, a Bates freshman from Marblehead, Mass. Walton is vice president of the Bates College Republicans and primary organizer of the event. &#8220;The skills we will learn will help motivate students to spread the Republican message of self-reliance and free enterprise to campuses across the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Famous graduates of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leadershipinstitute.org\/training\/Schools.cfm?School=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youth Leadership School <\/a>include Karl Rove, senior strategist to President George W. Bush; James Gilmore, former Virginia governor and chairman of the Republican National Committee; Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky; and Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist.<\/p>\n<p>College Republicans from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire are also expected to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine College Republicans will host the Leadership Institute&#8217;s flagship program, the Youth Leadership School, at Bates College on Saturday and Sunday, March 12 and 13, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[32,195],"tags":[1372,5195,6164,9421],"class_list":["post-5463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine-and-new-england","category-news-politics","tag-bates-college-republicans","tag-leadership-institute","tag-muskie-archives-and-special-collections-library","tag-youth-leadership-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164306,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions\/164306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}