This past weekend Youth for Western Civilization was a co-sponsor at the College Republican National Convention. We were in the company of several other organizations like the David Horowitz Freedom Center, FairTax.org, GOProud, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Young America’s Foundation, and others.
While we are a non-partisan organization, the College Republicans have a number of hard working conservatives in their ranks and a number of our members are College Republican members, officials, or chapter chairmen. For example, both our Vanderbilt President and Vice-President will be serving as VP's of the Vandy College Republicans chapter. A member of the American chapter is Vice-President of the College Republicans there. We have chapter chairmen in Massachusetts and officials in other states.
Therefore, we decided to take our message to the students.
We received a great response and received new contacts that will allow us to grow our organization. We enjoyed ourselves throughout the weekend as we had many great conversations with other conservatives about such pressing issues such as illegal immigration, affirmative action and leftist indoctrination on college campuses. During the convention's dinner, we even had the honor of meeting Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota.
Even though we as an organization are a 501c3 and thus do not support specific candidates, legislation or political parties, our members' individual involvement with the Grand Old Party made it necessary for us to show our link to the College Republicans. As we have established contact with possible new chapter leaders and made ourselves known to those who weren't that familiar with Youth for Western Civilization yet, the weekend was very successful. We are looking forward to increasing our presence, especially in the Midwest.
