Tea party patriots invited

Tickets are available in advance see www.gorgepatriot.com or call Jerry Smith, 493-1934; Darlene Johnson, 493-3662; or Mike Calloway, 541-300-0453, for more information.

Keene is the current national president of the National Rifle Association of America and currently serves as chairman of the Legislative Policy Committee and vice chairman of the Meeting Site Selection Committee. He is also a member of the President's Committee on Advancement.

Keene served as chairman of the American Conservative Union, a volunteer position, from December 1984 to February 2011. ACU is the nation's oldest and largest grassroots conservative lobbying organization, and during his tenure their main conference, CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), grew from a few hundred to more than 11,000 attendees.

Keene is an attorney, columnist, political activist and lobbyist who has written, spoken and lobbied on behalf of hunters, shooters and firearms owners for decades. He has worked in the White House and Congress and has been involved in nearly every congressional battle over gun rights since the early 1970s.

Wiesner Keene is the Washington liaison for theTeaParty.net, a senior fellow with the Independent Women's Forum and the CEO of BrainTrain, a business specializing in marketing and communicating political ideas and projects.

BrainTrain works with executives and lobbyists to propel ideas toward policy-makers and ordinary citizens. In the 107th Congress, Wiesner Keene lobbied for fundamental tax reform for the Coalition for Fundamental Tax Reform, a coalition she helped grow to represent more than 8 million citizens. She has held positions in the Reagan, Bush and Bush Administrations, for the U.S. House when the Republicans took over the House for the first time in 40 years in 1994, and in Richmond, Va., was an aide to a then-unknown but well-respected House of Delegates member now the Governor of Virginia.