Below is a tentative schedule, with confirmed speakers, for AFP Arizona’s Defending the American Dream Summit, which will take place Saturday, December 6th, 2008, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., at the Shriner Auditorium on 40th Street in central Phoenix, just south of 202.

If you have not registered already, please do so TODAY, so that we can get an accurate count for the caterers. http://defendingthedream.org/AZ/

Cost of Hot Air Launch 8:00-10:00 a.m.

8:00-9:30 a.m. Cost of Hot Air free tethered balloon rides
Breakfast--doughnuts and coffee
9:30-10:00 a.m. Cost of Hot Air news conference
Featuring AFP's Phil Kerpen
and WSJ columnist Steve Moore

For a picture of the Cost of Hot Air balloon, go to this URL:
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/tell-your-elected-officials-no-cli...

Policy Speakers & Friend of the Taxpayer Awards Luncheon
10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Policy speakers in tentative order of appearance:

• Hon. Ron Gould, Arizona Senator
• Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
• Phil Kerpen, Americans for Prosperity (on national tax and budget issues)
• Clint Bolick, Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation
• Matt Ladner, Goldwater Institute (on getting more education for our dollars)
• Eric Novack, Benjamin Rush League (on free-market health care reform)
• Michael Kelly, Arizona School Choice Trust (on the future of the school choice)
• Len Gilroy, Reason Foundation (on transportation policy)
• Jen Perkins, Institute for Justice (on free-market litigation)

(Break for lunch at approximately 11:30 a.m.)

• Steve Moore, columnist, The Wall Street Journal
• Dean Martin, Arizona State Treasurer

(Friend of the Taxpayer Awards at approximately noon.)

• Dinesh D’Souza, bestselling author and biographer of Ronald Reagan.

Blogger & New Media Training 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Speakers include:

• Rachel Alexander of Intellectual Conservative AZ
• Greg Patterson of Espresso Pundit
• Shane Wikfors of Sonoran Alliance.

Again, if you have not registered already, please do so TODAY:
http://defendingthedream.org/AZ/