Susan Staub is President and Treasurer of Pennsylvanians for Right to Work, Inc. and the Pennsylvania Right to Work Defense and Education Foundation, Inc. and serves on the Boards of Directors and Trustees of each organization. She is also the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Right to Work Political Action Committee.

She is a former Vice President of the National Right to Work Committee and Founder of the Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism.

Mrs. Staub is First Vice President and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Foundation and the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. She serves as Secretary and Treasurer on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Free Enterprise Education, the sponsor of Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week (PFEW).

She serves on the Board of Directors of the Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, the Commonwealth Good Government Political Action Committee, and on the Advisory Board of the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. Additionally, she has served three 3-year terms on the West Shore Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and received the 2004 Les Ginanni Business and Community Connection Award from the Chamber.

Mrs. Staub is among the founders of the Pennsylvania Leadership Council and currently serves on its Board of Directors. She has been a presenter at each Pennsylvania Leadership Conference since its inception in 1989.

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Brian M Johnson is the Federal Affairs Coordinator at Americans for Tax Reform. He is also the Director of Policy of the Alliance for Worker Freedom (www.workerfreedom.org), an organization dedicated to combating anti-worker, pro-union legislation and command-and-control policies which skew the labor market toward one group over another, and to educate the public about the plight to protect workers rights. Johnson is the author of the 2007 Index of Worker Freedom: A National Report Card.

Johnson, as the Federal Affairs Coordinator, represents ATR on federal education, postal service and privatization issues.

Johnson's previous employment includes working as the 2004 Bush/Cheney North Carolina grassroots campaign manager and as a contributor to the John Locke Foundation.

Brian Johnson is a graduate of the University of North Carolina - Wilmington, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Minors in both International Affairs and English. Johnson also holds a Certificate of Specialization in International Political Economics & International Trade from ICHEC Brussels Management School in Brussels, Belgium.

Currently, Johnson is completing his Masters in Public Administration with a concentration in Public Policy Analysis at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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Jake Haulk, Ph.D., President, Allegheny Institute for Public Policy received a BS in Chemical Engineering from N.C. State, MA and Ph.D. in economics from Duke University. Experience includes chemical process engineering, teaching at the university level, senior business economist with the Federal Reserve, head of regional research for Mellon Bank, research consultant, research director and managing director of the Allegheny Institute. Dr. Haulk is the author of many reports on issues affecting western Pennsylvania's economy as well as analyses of the role and value of the nation's inland waterways system.

In his tenure at the Allegheny Institute, Dr. Haulk has been successful in bringing a free market, small government approach to key local issues. These include helping defeat a referendum to raise sales taxes to fund stadiums, getting Allegheny County to include a taxpayers bill of rights in its home rule charter which requires a two-thirds majority of Council votes to raise taxes, limiting the new taxes Pittsburgh is able to levy, stopping egregious misuse of eminent domain and tax increment financing. Dr. Haulk has been able to focus the public's attention to the gross overspending of Pittsburgh Schools, the Port Authority, and the City of Pittsburgh.

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Senator Jeffrey E. Piccola was born and raised in Susquehanna Township, where he graduated from the public school system in 1966. He is also a graduate of Gettysburg College and Washington University Law School, and served as a first lieutenant in the United States Air Force.

Piccola won a special election for the 15th Senatorial District in November 1995 and was reelected three times. From 2001 through 2006, he served as Majority Whip, the third ranking member of the Senate Republican Leadership Team. Prior to his Senate service, Piccola served 19 years in the House of Representatives.

In the Senate, Piccola currently serves as Chairman of the State Government Committee. He also serves as a member of the Committees on Community and Economic Development, Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, Education, Judiciary, and Rules and Executive Nominations.

Piccola's legislative priorities include education, health care, improving our business climate, property tax elimination, revitalizing our cities, and government reform including reducing its cost.

Most recently, he authored the "Property Rights Protection Act," historic legislation designed to prevent the abuse of eminent domain powers.

He secured passage of the Educational Empowerment Act, landmark legislation for poorly performing school districts in the state, including the Harrisburg School District.

He has championed efforts to pass meaningful tort reform including the successful passage of joint and several liability reform and medical malpractice relief.

He has also worked diligently on issues of importance to urban areas, spearheading passage of the first laws in decades to fight absentee and slum landlord abuses.

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Gene Barr is Vice President, Government and Public Affairs for the PA Chamber of Business and Industry. He has over thirty years of government and public afffairs and business experience including thirteen years with BP America where he worked in State Government Relations, Refining, and Retail Marketing and seven years with Associated Petroleum Industries of Pennsylvania where he served as executive director. Prior to his Chamber duties, he started a government relations practice at the Harrisburg law firm of McNees Wallace & Nurick. Barr also served ten years as a local elected official in the Philadelphia area. He has a B.A. degree in Political Science from St. Joseph's University.

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Robert N. Reeves, Jr. serves as a board member for the Pennsylvania Club for Growth and was state chairman of the Associated Builders & Contractors of Pennsylvania (ABC) from 2005 thru 2005. He has served in numerous leadership positions with ABC at both the state and national levels. He has been a member of the National Federation of Independent Business for over 20 years; is active in the Society for Marketing Professionals, the Bucks County Historical Society, Friends Hospital, Carpenters Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, the Rotary Club of Jenkintown, the Gundaker Foundation, TPC at Jasna Polana, and the Ambler YMCA Board of Managers. He is a member of the Abington Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Reeves is President of E. Allen Reeves, Inc. in Abington, Pennsylvania. He is a 1974 graduate of Duke University and a 1970 graduate of the William Penn Charter School. He is married to Jean Wintersteen Reeves. The couple have three children: Robert III, Jamie, and Peter.

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