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Protect Our Gun Rights Yes on 591

Dear Fellow Gun Rights Supporter, You’re invited to attend Tech Roanoke happening this Saturday, June 7th at the Embassy Suites in Bellevue, WA. Tech Roanoke is the Pacific Northwest’s essential political technology networking and training event of 2014. It’s a full 9:00 AM 5:00 PM (lunch included in price of registration) that includes tracks on candidate training, political strategy, social media, data & analytics, general tools, and more … There’s something for everybody. Check out the Top 7 Reasons to Attend Tech Roanoke, find out more at TechRoanoke.com, and join us on Facebook for a steady stream of conference updates and posts about what’s happening in campaign tech. But space is limited and with Tech Roanoke just a week away, we urge you to register today! You’ll hear from a carefully chosen slate of speakers pulled from the worlds of technology and politics. Some of the confirmed speakers and topics include: “Dueling gun initiatives: technology and initiatives,” with Phil Watson, Director of Special Projects, Second Amendment Foundation Phil Watson is the director of special projects at the Second Amendment Foundation, a reporter and editor for TheGunMag, and executive director for the International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights. Recently Phil helped unite 29 gun rights groups from 21 different countries to oppose and lobby against the UN Arms Trade Treaty. His project "Meet the Mayors" gained national recognition in highlighting the hypocrisy of Michael Bloomberg's Mayor's Against Illegal Guns. His public records requests on the Seattle gun buyback were recognized and given Key Award by the Washington Coalition for Open Government. The records request helped uncover the much written about Gun Control Playbook and resulted in a $38,000 settlement and apology from the city of Seattle for not disclosing public records. Phil also appears frequently in media interviews and public gatherings in support of Second Amendment rights. His online debate against state Senator Adam Kline was the second most viewed debate in the history of the Seattle Times chat sessions. "National developments," with Mike Shields, Chief of Staff at the RNC Mike Shields is Chief of Staff at Republican National Committee. Mr. Shields has a wealth of political experience and worked on the Hill and in the field, for national committees and at the state level. Mr. Shields served at National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) as Political Director, as Communications Director for the US House Speaker, and Chief Political Spokesman to the Speaker. He served briefly in the Bush administration at the US Labor Department and served as Campaign Manager and Operative in Alabama and Pennsylvania. He served as Research Director of the NRCC, Director of Special Projects, and Director of the committee's Independent Expenditure unit at NRCC. “Messaging in a digital world,” with Matthew Dybwad of CRAFT   Matthew heads up the digital practice at CRAFT, leading a team of designers, developers, and communicators specializing in digital presence, email marketing, advocacy, fundraising, SEO, UX, and other fun acronyms. Matthew has designed and built websites for countless political candidates, including Mia Love, Senator Mitch McConnell, Senator Pat Toomey, and Speaker John Boehner, as well as organizations including The Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, Club for Growth, the Pickens Plan, the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the Republican State Leadership Committee, and the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Memorial Foundation. “How can data empower individual citizens?” With Safouen Rabah, Vice President of Product at Socrata Socrata was found in 2007 on the idea that “public data made available in the cloud – and thus accessible to anyone with a web connection – would serve researchers, public policy experts, entrepreneurs, and busy citizens to better understand their government services”. “What does a modern campaign look like?” With Chad Magendanz, State Representative 5th Legislative District Chad serves as the ranking member on the House Education Committee as well as being assigned to the Higher Education, Technology and Economic Development, and Rules committees.  In June he was elected by his caucus peers to serve as Assistant Floor Leader, and is currently the only freshman legislator in caucus leadership. “Technology for Candidates,” with Mike Stall, Principal Architect at Microsoft Mike is a Principal Software Architect at Microsoft. He has spoken frequently about technology and politics, co-organized several technology conferences, and taught technology for candidates at the Jennifer Dunn Leadership Institute. He has volunteered on a fair number of campaigns and has built a variety of tools. “Informing voters with technology” with Scott Roberts, Citizen Action Director at the Freedom Foundation Scott Roberts, the Citizen Action Network Director at the Freedom Foundation, is experienced at organizing grassroots activist and building effective coalitions. Formerly the Property Rights Director at the Freedom Foundation, he built Stop Taking Our Property (S.T.O.P.) Thurston County to find common sense solutions to managing the Mazama Pocket Gopher and relieving private property owners from harmful regulations. Looking forward, Scott is using his experience to equip citizens who are motivated to take action and make substantial change in their own communities. And many more! We hope to see you there, so register today while space lasts for Tech Roanoke on June 7th! Sincerely, The Protect Our Gun Rights Team www.WAGUNRIGHTS.org