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Political commentator Pete Wehner to speak tonight at Whitworth

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Political commentator Pete Wehner will speak at Whitworth University tonight about the current election season.

Whener has written about political, cultural, religious and national security issues for The Weekly Standard, National Review, The Washington Post, The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. He also appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN and the BBC.

In 2011 Forbes magazine featured Wehner on a  list of conservatism’s leading “educators and practitioners of first principles.”

Wehner served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations and was the deputy director of speech writing for President George W. Bush. He was also a senior adviser to the Romney-Ryan 2012 presidential campaign.

His presentation will be in the Hixson Union Building (HUB) at 7 p.m. on the Whitworth campus.

 

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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