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"2014 Election Analysis: What Do the Results Mean for RIMS Members? "

When

Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Program Time:11:30 A.M.
Adjourn Time:1:30 P.M.

Cost

Risk Manager Members of the Society:	$25
Members registered in advance:	$49
Members at the door:	$100

Non-Members registered in advance:	$65
Non-Members at the door:	$100

Venue

Brookside Golf Club
1133 N. Rosemont Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103

Guest Speaker(s):
Dan Schnur, Director, Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics-University of Southern California

Event Details:
Please join us for our first meeting of 2015 where we welcome Dan Schnur, the Director of the Unruh Institute of Politics at USC and for years one of California's leading political and media strategists (see bio), to discuss the results of the November 2014 election and what they may mean to businesses and to average citizen from both a state and national perspective, including: What might the next two years look like? Can anything get done in Congress? Is there any major legislation that could move forward? How is the 2016 election shaping up? What is the long term political outlook for both California and the Nation?

Speaker(s):

Dan Schnur
Director, Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics-University of Southern California
Dan Schnur is the Director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California, where he works to motivate students to become active in the world of politics and encourage public officials to participate in the daily life of USC.

For years, Dan was one of California's leading political and media strategists, whose record includes work on four presidential and three gubernatorial campaigns. Schnur served as the national Director of Communications for the 2000 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator John McCain and spent five years as chief media spokesman for California Governor Pete Wilson. In 2010, Schnur was appointed as Chairman of the California Fair Political Practices Commission, a position he held through that year's elections and until spring of 2011.

In addition to his position at USC, Schnur is an Adjunct Instructor at the University of California at Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies. Schnur has also held the post of Visiting Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics at Harvard University and taught an advanced course in political campaign communications at George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management. In addition, he was the founder of the Center for Campaign Leadership, a non-partisan effort to equip young people with the skills essential for professional involvement in political campaigns.

He has served as an advisor to the William & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Broad Education Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Stuart Foundation on a variety of K-12 education, college and workforce preparedness, governance and political reform efforts. He is also the Co-Chairman of the Voices of Reform project, a bi-partisan statewide organization devoted to making state government more responsive to the needs of California voters.

Schnur writes a regular column for the New York Times' political opinion website, Campaign Stops. His commentaries have appeared in several California newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Sacramento Bee. In addition, he has been an analyst and political commentator for CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and National Public Radio.

Schnur is a graduate of the American University in Washington, D.C