Daily News Update, Jan. 31, 2008
Barnes, Rove,
Samuelson headline TSCRA convention
Fred Barnes, Karl Rove and Orion Samuelson
will be among the featured speakers at the Texas and Southwestern
Cattle Raisers Association Annual Convention
and Trade Show, to be held March 14-17, in Corpus Christi.
Fred Barnes,
executive editor of The Weekly Standard and FOX News commentator
joined the FOX team in 1996 as a political contributor. He is co-host of
The Beltway Boys and a regular contributor to Special Report
with Brit Hume, the No. 1 weeknight political program on cable.
After 10 years as senior
editor and White House correspondent for The New Republic, Barnes
founded The Weekly Standard with William Kristol and John
Podhoretz.
In addition, Barnes hosts
two weekly radio shows, Issues in the News on Voice of America
and What’s the Story. He also appears as chief correspondent on
the PBS Series, National Desk. From 1988 to 1998, Barnes was a
regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group public affairs
television program.
The Media Guide
has given Barnes four stars—its highest rating—and called him "a great
political reporter-columnist" whose material is "exquisitely timed."
As a long-time Washington
observer, Barnes will provide insight into the 2008 election and what
may happen to the political landscape in D.C.
He will speak at the
first general session, Sunday, March 16, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
On Saturday evening, March
15, Karl Rove will highlight the TSCRA Political Action Committee
(PAC) dinner at the Omni Bayfront Hotel.
Rove is a former deputy chief of staff and
senior adviser to President George W. Bush and has been both a witness
to history and a key figure in shaping it. A trusted member of the
president's inner circle, Rove is among the most powerful White House
advisers in American history.
Widely hailed
as a master political adviser, Rove has earned the respect of even
Democrats like James Carville and President Bill Clinton. Rove has
overseen two successful presidential elections and played a vital role
in the major policy decisions made during the Bush Presidency.
He previously served as top
political adviser for the Bush for President Campaign and for 18 years
before that, president of Karl Rove & Co., an Austin, Texas-based public
affairs firm that worked for Republican candidates, non-partisan causes,
and non-profit groups.
He has taught at the LBJ School of Public
Affairs and in the Journalism Department at the University of Texas at
Austin and was also faculty member at the Salzburg Seminar.
He will address the
audience on the importance of getting involved in the political process
and the value of political action committee activities.
Orion Samuelson is heard
six days a week on WGN Radio in Chicago, where he has served as
agribusiness director since 1960. Samuelson is also heard daily on 260
radio stations with his syndicated National Farm Report and on
110 stations with his syndicated Samuelson Sez. He is also seen
weekly on RFD-TV as co-host of This Week in Agri-Business.
In 1998, the American
Farm Bureau Federation honored Samuelson and Senator Bob Dole with the
AFBF Distinguished Service Award. In 2003, he became the first
agribusiness broadcaster to be inducted into the National Radio
Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
Samuelson has
traveled with his television crew to 43 countries to cover agriculture;
four of his trips were official agricultural trade missions with the
Secretary of Agriculture. During his 1989 trip to Taiwan, Orion was
presented the International Communicator of the Year Award by the
President of the Republic of China.
Samuelson is the featured speaker at the
TSCRA convention luncheon, Sunday, March 16. His experience of almost
four decades provides the foundation for his observations on how
agriculture has changed from the days of the reaper up to the modern use
of satellites, and will give a prediction of what lies ahead for
American agriculture.
For more information on
the TSCRA Annual Convention and Trade Show, visit
http://www.texascattleraisers.org/corpusconvention2008.
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