Sonoma Valley Republican Women, Federated

Luncheon Meeting Speakers

SVRWF presents high profile speakers at our luncheon/evening meetings:

2011

February '11 - Peter Friedman - a student of the Koran - Topic... "The Koran and it's effect on Western Civilization"
March '11 - Sally Zelikovsky - Founder of the "Bay Area Patriots" and the coordinator of the "San Francisco Tea Party"
April '11 - August Sebastiani
May '11 - Eric Golub
June '11 - Gilberta Guth - Author of The Fighter Pilot's Wife
September '11 - Elissa Wadleigh - Member of the Sonoma County Central Committee
October '11 - Luis Buhler
November '11 - Lt Col Joann Danner
December '11 - Muriel Oles

2010

February 2010 - Chuck DeVore - Republican candidate for US Senate in 2010 running against Barbara Boxer.
March 2010 - Jim Judd - Republican candidate running against Lynn Woolsey in the 2010 6th Congressional District race.
April 2010 - Dana Walsh - Republican candidate for US Congress in California's 8th District to run against Nancy Pelosi.
May 2010 - Ward Connerly - Founder of the American Civil Rights Institute - a national, not-for-profit organization aimed at education the public about the need to move beyond race and, specifically, racial and gender preferences.
June 2010 - Sharon Hughes -
September 2010 - Leonard A. Semas - Publisher and Editor of the Sierra Sage, a monthly community magazine with a readership of 20,000 in northern Nevada and subscribers in all 50 states. He is the author of Reason, Justice and Common Sense.
October 2010 - Roseann Slonsky-Breault - 2010/2011 CFRW Northern Division Second Vice President. Roseann is also the Women for Carly Bay Area Surrogat Speaker Chair.
November 2010 - Lt Col Joann Danner - A Veteran. Joann is an RN, MSN and is Special Projects and Programs Director at Sutter Medical Center, Santa Rosa. She has served in the Air Force Reserves for 15 years and has been deployed to Afghanistan twice.
December 2010 -

2009

February '09 - Liz Froelich - CFRW Northern Division President
March '09 - Fred LaCosse - 'Your American Freedoms: Protect them or Lose them". Fred is owner of LaCosse Productions, a former news anchor, reporter, talk show host, floor director, production manager, booth anouncer, news writer/prducer and news director.
April '09 - Dr. Charlie Self, AKA "Dr. History" - A regular guest on the Brian Sussman talk-radio show on KSFO-AM.
May '09 - James Fisfis - President of Chariot LLC, a research and public opinion polling company based in San Francisco.
June '09 - Captain, USN Paul Anthony "Tony" Laird. Tony heads the Navy ROTC program at the University of California at Berkeley.
September '09 - John den Dulk
October '09 - TBD
November '09 - Tom Del Beccaro
December '09 - Lynn Leach

2008

January '08 - Dana Walsh, Candidate in the '08 congressional elections vs Nancy Pelosi
February '08 - Major Eric Egland, counter-terrorism consultant and military intelligence officer
March '08 - Michelle Connor, CFRW Legislative Advocate
April '08 - Mike DeNunzio, Chairman of the San Francisco Republican Assembly, California Commission on Aging
May '08 - Ward Connerly, Founder and Chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute
June '08 - Tom Del Beccaro, Vice Chairman of the California Republican Party, Chairman of the CRP's Golden State Leadership Team and Chair of the CRP's Strategic Planning Committee and the Volunteer Committee. He also serves on the CRP Operations and Budget Committees. Author of "The New Conservative Paradigm".
September '08 - Peter Friedman. Peter is owner of Friedman Aviation Enterprises in Concord, which is under a maintenance contract by the U.S. Navy for the C9 transport aircraft , including 3 aircraft in Air Force One fleet. Peter has been in the U.S. Defense Industry since 1965. He has worked many undercover operations for over 20 years with the FBI and Department of Defense targeting crooked Defense Contractors.
October '08 - Local Candidates from Sonoma County Speak at an evening event.
November '08 - James Henderson. James is the president of the Tulare County Young Republicans and is the Tulare County Chairman for McCain.
December '08 - David Donnelley. David teaches Economics at Sonoma Valley High School and is the Sponsor the the Political Awareness Club, made up of mostly conservative teens from the school.

2007

February '07 - Paul Kelley, Board of Supervisors, 4th District

March '07 - Melanie Morgan (KSFO-AM) and Catherine Moy. Co-Authors of American Mourning, a story about 2 soldiers who fought together and died together, Justin Johnson and Casey Sheehan.

April '07 - Marianne Haydon, President CRFW

May '07 - Rosie Parks, M.O.M.S. Representative. Mothers of Military Servicemembers was founded in Sonoma County in February of 2003 by a Mother of a young soldier attached to the 173rd Airborne who was injured in his efforts to prepare for the first deployment of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

June '07 - Celebrate FLAG DAY with us as we view the movie, "Many Faces of Old Glory" by Vane Scott.
September '07 - Sheriff Bill Cogbill, Sonoma County Sheriff. Bill is a 28 year veteran of Law Enforcement, beginning in 1975 with the Petaluma Police Department. Since then, he has served in the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department as a Deputy Sheriff, Detective, Sergeant, Lieutenant, Police Chief for the contracted town of Windsor, and Patrol Captain. Bill was elected to the position of Sheriff-Coroner for the County of Sonoma.