John Locke Foundation experts’ speeches at Tea Party rallies and other public events continue to generate media attention. The Carteret County News-Times reported on a Morehead City Tea Party rally featuring Becki Gray, JLF Vice President for Outreach, and Troy Kickler, N.C. History Project Director. Gray spoke with Lockwood Phillips of WTKF’s “Viewpoints Radio” in connection with that rally. Gray also addressed the Chapel Hill Sunshine Rotary Club this week. Returning to Tea Party events, the Shelby Star noted that Joseph Coletti, Director of Health and Fiscal Policy Studies, spoke at a Cleveland County rally. Coletti’s speech at a Goldsboro Tea Party event is now featured in a YouTube video. Coletti served as a panelist this week for a Heritage Foundation panel discussion in Chapel Hill on the federal government’s inflated spending and debt levels. WCHL Radio promoted that appearance. The Macon County Shopping & News reported on a recent speech in Franklin from Terry Stoops, Director of Education Studies. The Winston-Salem Journal, WRAL Television, and Yes! Weekly reported on Stoops’ participation in a Civitas Institute-sponsored education budget workshop. The Charlotte Observer and Mooresville Weekly promoted Stoops’ speech to Iredell County Young Republicans. Campbell University highlighted a speech this week from Kickler for the Politics, Law, and Economics Lecture Series. Daren Bakst, Director of Legal and Regulatory Studies, discussed the federal individual health insurance mandate for a Campbell law school class. Roy Cordato, Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar, took the longest recent road trip. Cordato served on a panel for the Association of Private Enterprise Education’s annual conference in the Bahamas. He discussed his September 2010 Freeman article on the value-added tax.
