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LI’s Summer Interns Arrive Next Week with Already 474 hours of LI Training
Next week the Leadership Institute will welcome 12 conservatives hailing from nine American states and two countries as interns for the summer 2012 semester.
Already these 12 young people have taken 474 hours of Leadership Institute trainings in topics as various as public speaking, youth leadership, campaign management, public relations, campus elections, TV training, and fundraising.
As interns, they will have the opportunity to take additional free LI trainings for the next year, be mentored by LI’s staff in their departments as they complete 40-hour work weeks, stay rent-free in the Sacher Intern House just blocks from the office, attend private dinners with conservative leaders, and host a weekly conservative book discussion.
Please help us welcome our newest members to the team!
Click to read the full story to the right to read each of their bios and know them personally.
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Career Path for Recent College Grad: Get Elected and Serve Community
This is a busy time of year as college students around the country graduate and begin their careers.
With cap and gown, Carla Shutrop walked across the stage three years ago at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota and received her B.A. in political science.
However, unlike many her age, she was elected to public office just five short months after graduation.
Carla was elected to the school board in her hometown of Shakopee, Minnesota in November 2009, where she spent her first year of the four-year term as treasurer, her second year as vice-chair, and now serves as the elected chair of the board, a post she’s held since January.
As chair of the school board, Carla chairs the twice-a-month board meetings, appoints the standing and ad hoc committees and chairs, serves as the board liaison to the superintendent, and assumes the role of spokesperson to the public at large.
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Ohio Teen “Ticked” at Government Now Joins the Fight, Not the Club
Timothy Hershner, now 25, still vividly remembers the story “Big Jim,” his best friend’s father Jim Gerwin, shared with him.
In the 1970s Henry and Fern, two people who worked in his Ohio shoe factory, both were hard workers, working 40 hours each week plus 10 hours each of overtime. However, they owed the government more than 30 percent of their pay in income taxes.
“It is solely this story that got me ticked off with the government and eventually led to my political activity,” Tim said.
