Citizen Outreach and KDWN 720 AM cordially invite you to join us for 2012’s first First Friday Happy Hour with a new attitude and NEW LOCATION:

The Swingers Club at the newly-renovated Plaza Hotel in downtown Las Vegas.

The Swingers Club advertises indoor mini-golf – hence, the name (what did you *think* swingers meant?) – live entertainment, dueling pianos, hot girls and cold drinks!

Also new: A happy hour drink special sure to please the nostalgic cheapskate in everyone: Early Bird 50-CENT PABST BLUE RIBBONS (until 6 p.m.)!

And to kick off the new year/new venue “right,” we’ll be joined by not one, not two…but three VIP special guests of honor:

• United States Sen. Dean Heller
• United States Congressman Joe Heck
• Plus…former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman (whose new steak house would be a GREAT place to dine after First Friday – but make a reservation!)

And of course, our Master of Ceremonies will be the master of local conservative talk radio, KDWN’s Alan Stock!

SPECIAL BONUS: If you’re lucky, there might even be an informational picket line by Carpenters Local 1977 out front that you can cross!

WHAT
First Friday Happy Hour is a public monthly conservative/libertarian gathering – key word being “happy.” And all the political banter you can stand!

As always, there’s no cover charge…and there’s plenty of FREE parking in the garage (or valet) just off Main Street on the south end of the hotel.

WHEN
Friday, January 6, 2012
5:00 – 7:00 pm

WHERE
Swingers Club
Plaza Hotel
One Main Street (at the west end of the Fremont Street Experience)
Downtown Las Vegas

Bring a friend. Heck, bring TWO friends. And their friends, too! We’re happy to welcome them. For additional information, please visit: www.FirstFridayNevada.com

YOU CAN ALWAYS GO…DOWN-TOWN

On January 6 we’ll be moving our First Friday Happy Hourto the Swingers Club in the newly renovated Plaza Hotel at 1 Main Street – just at the western foot of the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas.And before you single folks get too excited, it’s called the Swingers Club because there’s a miniature golf course inside.  Sheesh!

Better yet for the frugal-minded, Swingers will feature 50-cent Pabst Blue Ribbons (!) and $2 John Daly’s (think of an Arnold Palmer, but with sweet tea and vodka).

There will also be a number of fast-food (pizza!) outlets where you can grab something to nosh on (Swingers will let you bring snacks into the bar), as well as some post-Happy Hour restaurants – including Hash House a Go Go and Oscar’s Steak House.

Then walk dinner off with a short trip down the street to the First Friday Arts Festival.  And, hey, if you want a nightcap afterwards…Swingers features dueling pianos at 9:30 pm.

But back to Oscar’s Steak House for minute:

That’s the new restaurant of former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman up on the second floor looking out over the Fremont Street Experience which will be opening tonight.  And Oscar his own self will again be our First Friday Happy Hour VIP guest-of-honor in January to usher in the new year/new venue/new attitude – though I suspect he’ll be drinking something other than a 50-cent PBR.

Joining Oscar at this extra special January  First Friday Happy Hour will be Senator Dean Heller and Representative Joe Heck.  This will be the event of the New Year!

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Join us December 2nd for our Annual First Friday Christmas Party!

Once again this year we will “charge” an entry fee for our First Friday Christmas Party.  Please bring an unwrapped toy for the U.S. Marine’s Toys for Tots toy drive.

We will not have a special guest this year but we understand the Grinch and Peewee Herman have expressed an interest in our party and have made time in their busy schedules to stop by and say “Hi.”

In addition we will have door prizes and a raffle for some special treats!

Please join us Friday, December 2 for two hours of frivolity and fun.

WHAT
First Friday Happy Hour is a public monthly conservative/libertarian gathering – key word being “happy.” And all the political banter you can stand!

WHEN
Friday, November 4, 2011
5:00 – 7:00 pm

WHERE
Mundo:
A Latin Chic Restaurant
World Market Center Downtown
495 South Grand Central Parkway
Las Vegas, Nevada 89106
(702) 435.2855

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In honor of the many veterans who live in Las Vegas, the Citizen Outreach Foundation is sponsoring a food drive at First Friday – November. For this, we would appreciate anyone/everyone who is coming to First Friday – November at Mundo to bring unopened canned or bagged food in support of our veterans.

All of the food donations will go to the American Legion #10. The American Legion is the nation’s largest veterans service organization, committed to mentoring and sponsorship of youth programs in our communities, advocating patriotism and honor, promoting a strong national security, and continued devotion to our fellow servicemembers and veterans.

Let’s use this opportunity to pay back and show our thanks to the thousands of veterans for their service to our country!

The Citizen Outreach Foundation cordially invites you to join us for this month’s First Friday Happy Hour!

This month’s Special Guest…Lt. Governor Brian Krolicki!

Brian Krolicki is a familiar face to most Nevadans as result of his manyyears of distinguished public service, and his many accomplishments have not gone unnoticed by the citizens of Nevada. In 2006, after having successfully served as State Treasurer for two terms, Brian Krolicki convincingly won his election to serve as Nevada’s 33rd Lieutenant Governor, and was re-elected to his second term in November 2010.

As Lieutenant Governor, Krolicki serves as President of the State Senate, Chairman of the Commission on Economic Development, Chairman of the Commission on Tourism, and Vice-Chairman of the State Board of Transportation. He also serves as the Chairman of the Reno-Tahoe Winter Games Coalition – comprised of a distinguished group of private and public sector leaders from both Nevada and California dedicated to bringing the Winter Olympic Games back to the Lake Tahoe region, Chairman of the Nevada Economic Development Inter-Agency Task Force, and as a member of the Executive Branch Audit Committee. Earlier this year, Krolicki was honored to be selected by his peers around the country to serve as the Chairman of the National Republican Lieutenant Governors Association.

First Friday’s Master-of-Ceremonies will be the master conservative talk-show host: Alan Stock

First Friday Happy Hour will be at Mundo: A Latin Chic Restaurant downtown.

Special happy hour appetizer menu and drink specials

FREE parking

No cover charge

FREE shuttle service back-and-forth to the Arts District

Persons under 21 are welcome, but are not allowed in the bar area

WHAT

First Friday Happy Hour is a public monthly conservative/libertarian gathering – key word being “happy.” And all the political banter you can stand!

WHEN

Friday, November 4, 2011

5:00 – 7:00 pm

WHERE

Mundo:
A Latin Chic Restaurant

World Market Center Downtown

495 South Grand Central Parkway

Las Vegas, Nevada 89106

(702) 435.2855

Make sure to bring a friend or two to the Best Conservative Happy Hour in Las Vegas!

What is more exciting than conservative happy hour? Conservative happy hour with race cars!

Dylan Kwasniewski, the young racing phenom, will be bringing his race car to First Friday – October. Dylan (15), who is the youngest racer on the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, just recently wrapped up the Sunoco Rookie of the Year Award with two races left – quite an accomplishment.

Join Dylan, and Citizen Outreach, for a wonderful kickoff to fall.

First Friday’s Master-of-Ceremonies will be the master conservative talk-show host: Alan Stock

First Friday Happy Hour will be at Mundo: A Latin Chic Restaurant downtown.

Special happy hour appetizer menu and drink specials

FREE parking

No cover charge

FREE shuttle service back-and-forth to the Arts District

Persons under 21 are welcome, but are not allowed in the bar area

WHAT

First Friday Happy Hour is a public monthly conservative/libertarian gathering – key word being “happy.” And all the political banter you can stand!

WHEN

Friday, October 7, 2011
5:00 – 7:00 pm

WHERE

Mundo: A Latin Chic Restaurant
World Market Center Downtown
495 South Grand Central Parkway
Las Vegas, Nevada 89106
(702) 435.2855

Make sure to bring a friend or two to the Best Conservative Happy Hour in Las Vegas!

The Citizen Outreach Foundation cordially invites you to join us for this month’s First Friday Happy Hour!

This month’s Special Guest…Rich Galen!

Rich Galen has been described as “what you get when you cross a political hack with a philosopher.”

His career includes work in and out of politics, in and out of the United States.

In 2003-2004, Rich did a tour of duty in Iraq where he went at the request of the White House. The assignment – which was to have lasted about eight weeks, stretched into six months. While there, he was responsible for bringing the message of the positive aspects of what the coalition was doing in Iraq back to Middle America.

Rich has been press secretary to Dan Quayle, when the former Vice President was a Congressman and a U.S. Senator; and to Newt Gingrich when Gingrich was House Republican Whip and, in 1996 became the communications director of the political office of Speaker Gingrich.

Rich also has extensive non-US business and political experience. At the time of the dissolution of the Communist governments in Eastern Europe, he was one of a select number of Americans sent over to help build a democratic political infrastructure. He spent a significant amount of time in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and what was then Czechoslovakia.

In 1992, Mr. Galen went to work for Electronic Data Systems as the director of a new organization known as the Emerging Markets Group where he designed and implemented a plan to help EDS expand its service offerings into new geographic areas.

Under Mr. Galen’s guidance, EDS established operations in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Turkey, Israel, and Egypt. He managed a staff which was located on three continents, in four time zones, covering three work weeks, and which spoke four languages.

Since, March 1998, when he assumed the position of Executive Director of GOPAC, Mr. Galen has written a three-day-a-week political column – Mullings – which reaches some 400,000 people per month and is considered required reading by senior reporters and political operatives on both sides of the aisle.

In Washington, DC, Mr. Galen is an often quoted source for many of the major American news outlets. He has maintained excellent contacts with all of the networks, major daily newspapers, major news weeklies as well as the Associated Press and Reuters wire services.

Mr. Galen is a frequent guest on television shows on FOX, CNN, the “Today” show, on “Good Morning America,” on ABC “World News Tonight” and on “Larry King Live.”

First Friday’s Master-of-Ceremonies will be the master conservative talk-show host: Alan Stock

First Friday Happy Hour will be at Mundo: A Latin Chic Restaurant downtown.

Special happy hour appetizer menu and drink specials

FREE parking

No cover charge

FREE shuttle service back-and-forth to the Arts District

Persons under 21 are welcome, but are not allowed in the bar area

WHAT

First Friday Happy Hour is a public monthly conservative/libertarian gathering – key word being “happy.” And all the political banter you can stand!

WHEN

Friday, October 7, 2011
5:00 – 7:00 pm

WHERE

Mundo: A Latin Chic Restaurant
World Market Center Downtown
495 South Grand Central Parkway
Las Vegas, Nevada 89106
(702) 435.2855

Make sure to bring a friend or two to the Best Conservative Happy Hour in Las Vegas!

CAMPAIGN COMMUNICATIONS  101

Your Professor: Chuck Muth

The Citizen Outreach Foundation is offering another great training event next week and we want you to be there. Please join us on September 2, 2011 at 2:30 – 4:30 inside Mundo: a Latin Chic Restaurant for a Campaign Communications 101 workshop. We’re offering this training free of charge to the first 40 who register by contacting Felecia at felecia@citizenoutreach.com.

Campaign Communications 101

When it comes to dealing with the press, conservative candidates, party leaders and activists generally stink on ice.

Yet getting your message out through the mainstream media – where most voters get their news – is absolutely critical, especially for underfunded campaigns. The key is in learning how to do it properly and professionally. And when it comes to stump speeches, they’re not much better. Tom Lehrer, one of our nation’s greatest satirical songwriters from the 50s and 60s, once said, “I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.” How many times have you thought the same thing when listening to most political candidates?

Whether you’re running for office or managing a campaign; whether you’re a party leader or conservative activist trying to get your message out, Campaign Communications 101 is a must-attend workshop where you’ll learn important tips and inside secrets to developing an effective campaign message and delivering it to the masses on a shoestring budget, including…
• The all-important, little-known Strategic Message Grid
• Inside secrets to great political speeches – from an Israeli political consultant
• The red pen/blue pen test for the “I-disease”
• The essential components of a media list
• How to use the right “form” when submitting news releases
• A 10-point checklist for getting news releases covered by the news
• The seven most common subjects for campaign news releases
• Tips on how to get the media to notice your media release
• Ten ways to make your press releases more “newsworthy”
• The 12 Immutable Laws for dealing with the press
• Nightmare examples of how NOT to deal with the press

SPECIAL BONUS WORKSHOP: BLOGGING 101

A blog is not like the Field of Dreams; just because you build it, doesn’t mean they’ll come. At this workshop, you’ll learn secrets for publishing a blog that not only will people want to read every day, but how to use your blog and other “new media” for political activism that will make a difference, including…
• The little-known power of “Google Alerts”
• The four “B’s” of an effective blog
• The single, most important thing you better never lose…or else turn out the lights; your blog party will be over
• Where to find the “textbook” that will teach you all you’ll ever need to learn about writing killer headlines
• How to use the power of “short”
• The eight keys to writing blog posts that people will actually want to read
• How to use Twitter to boost your blog’s e-presence and gain new readers
• The most imporant “plug-in” that can make you a one-man (or woman) e-activist extraordinaire
• How to robo-call your way to fame and fortune…or at least effective political action

Space is limited to the first 40!
RSVP Now to felecia@citizenoutreach.com

Make sure to join us for First Friday September! This month’s special guest… Christine O’Donnell.

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL is a former U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware. She was the Republican nominee in 2008 against then six-term Senator Joe Biden. She’s been dubbed the “Tea Party Darling” and a leader of the “Second American Revolution” by the foreign press. O’Donnell has appeared in a variety of media outlets from Good Morning America to the Wall Street Journal, The Rush Limbaugh Show to Hannity, and maintains a robust national speaking schedule. She lives in Delaware

Photo Credit: Richard Getz

And as always, our special guest Master-of-Ceremonies will be the master conservative talk-show host Alan Stock.

September’s First Friday Happy Hour will be celebrated at Mundo: A Latin Chic Restaurant downtown.

Special happy hour appetizer menu and drink specials

FREE parking

No cover charge

FREE shuttle service back-and-forth to the Arts District
Persons under 21 are welcome, but are not allowed in the bar area

WHAT

First Friday Happy Hour is a public monthly conservative/libertarian gathering – key word being “happy.” And all the political banter you can stand!

WHEN

Friday, September 2, 2011
5:00 – 7:00 pm

WHERE

Mundo:
A Latin Chic Restaurant
World Market Center Downtown
495 South Grand Central Parkway
Las Vegas, Nevada 89106
(702) 435.2855

Bring a friend. Heck, bring TWO friends. And their friends, too! We’re happy to welcome them.

Citizen Outreach Foundation cordially invites you to join us for this month’s First Friday Happy Hour!

This month’s Special Guest… Christine O’Donnell!

Christine O’Donnell will be signing copies of her new book Troublemaker: Let’s Do What it Takes to Make America Great Again.

As a woman of principled determination, with a governing philosophy centered on the core values of the great American tradition and a wide experience in taking on the liberal establishment, Christine O’Donnell was a candidate for U.S. Senate from the First State.

Christine has served as a marketing and media consultant to various clients, including: Icon Pictures’ The Passion of The Christ, Natalia Tsarkova, the Vatican’s first female portrait painter, and non-profit organizations such as the World Education and Development Fund, a charity that provides scholarships to children in poor communities throughout Latin America.

After attending Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ, Christine was awarded a 2002 Abraham Lincoln Graduate Fellowship in Constitutional Government from the Claremont Institute in Claremont, CA. She resides in Wilmington, DE.

Christine O’Donnell is a nationally recognized political commentator and marketing consultant. She has appeared on national news outlets such as the Fox News Channel, CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC and ABC, including major ratings hits like “The O’Reilly Factor,” “Sean Hannity Show,” “The Glenn Beck Show,” “Hardball with Chris Matthews” and “Entertainment Tonight.” Christine has also been a radio talk show guest-host on WGMD in Rehoboth Beach and WDEL in Wilmington.

As part of a delegation of journalists, Christine toured the middle-eastern country of Jordan as a guest of the Royal Jordanian government. Having witnessed firsthand the oppression in the Middle East, Christine describes this journey as truly a life changing experience and says it deepened her commitment to the women’s movement.

An effective communicator, Christine is known for her skill in winning over even those who disagree with her most. Liberal Bill Maher stated, “I don’t know how many times you’ve been here but it’s always a good show when you’re on.” Even Democratic strategist James Carville was forced to admit of Christine O’Donnell “Now, this is one hip woman,” on CNN’s “Crossfire.”

During her 20-year career, Christine has served as a social advocate in Washington, D.C., participating in regular White House and Capitol Hill strategy meetings and leading delegations to the United Nations to lobby on behalf of pro-family global policies. She’s successfully debated Cabinet members, lawmakers and international leaders.

In the early 1990’s Christine worked for the Republican National Committee (under then Chairman Haley Barbour) helping to develop the marketing strategy credited with having had a key role in the historic ’94 Republican Congressional sweep.

Make sure to bring a friend or two to the Best Conservative Happy Hour in Las Vegas!