Pennsylvania
Pundits, Pollsters & Policy
Friday, April 25
2:00 - 3:00 P.M.
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Lowman S. Henry
Lowman S. Henry
Chairman/CEO – Lincoln Institute
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Lowman S. Henry, is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, Inc., a non-profit educational foundation based in Harrisburg, PA. He serves as host of the Lincoln Radio Journal, a weekly public affairs radio program syndicated on 86 Pennsylvania radio stations; and is host of American Radio Journal heard on radio stations nationwide.
Lowman began his career as a broadcast and print journalist, served as Political Director of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania, President of the Pennsylvania Leadership Council, Chief of Staff to State Senator Earl Baker, and as Executive Assistant to the Attorney General of Pennsylvania. He has served in elective office as a Dauphin County Commissioner and a Lower Paxton Township Supervisor. He was the Republican Party’s nominee for Pennsylvania State Treasurer in 1992.
Lowman serves on the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association (PMA), the Keystone Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Pennsylvania Association of Non-Profit Organizations (PANO), and on the advisory board of the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy in Pittsburgh. Mr. Henry is a member of the Charlton United Methodist Church and of the Colonial Park Rotary Club. He is a graduate of Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania. He is married to Carol Lynn Henry and they have three sons.
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Amanda Carpenter
Amanda
Carpenter
TownHall.com - Toggle bio
Amanda Carpenter is a National Political Reporter for Townhall.com, the leading online publication for news, opinion, and talk.
She is the author of "The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Clinton," published by Regnery in October 2006.
Miss Carpenter has made numerous media appearances that include segments on the BBC, Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes," "The Big Story with John Gibson," "The O'Reilly Factor," "Red Eye" and MSNBC's "Tucker" and "Hardball." She also blogs weekly for Glamour magazine's political blog "Glamocracy."
She is a graduate of Ball State University, where she founded a hard-hitting conservative news website, bsyou.net, and won honors as a national debate champion.
Carpenter is also a past intern at the Leadership Institute, where she taught college students how to start their own conservative publications. She was honored with the Campus Leadership Program's Investigative Journalism Award in 2005.
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Ryan Shafik
Ryan Shafik
Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research - Toggle bio
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Tony Phyrillas
Tony Phyrillas
Pottstown Mercury - Toggle bio
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Sue Henry
Sue Henry
WILK Talk Show Host - Toggle bio
A graduate of Villanova University, Ryan has worked extensively in politics since his days as a college student. He first became involved in George H.W. Bush's 1992 Presidential campaign. In 2000, Ryan served as an intern for U.S. Senator Rick Santorum while also working as a campaign staffer on a Congressional race. In 2002, Ryan went on to manage the campaign of Pennsylvania State Senator Stewart Greenleaf.
Ryan helped pioneer the online grassroots effort for Congressman Pat Toomey's 2004 U.S. Senate Campaign. Following the Toomey campaign, he teamed up with Chris Lilik and started the Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania (YCOP). It is there in the capacity of Executive Director that Ryan and Chris put the Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania on the political map.
In addition to working on many political campaigns, Ryan was a candidate for the Maryland House of Delegates in 2006. He also has experience in the business world where he previously worked as a financial advisor for Legg Mason Wood Walker in Baltimore.
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Tony Phyrillas is a veteran newspaperman with 25 years experience as a reporter, editor and columnist. Phyrillas received a first place award in 2007 for Best Opinion Column from Suburban Newspapers of America. He was recognized for column writing in 2006 and 2007 by the Society of Professional Journalists. His self-titled blog, launched in December 2005, is ranked among the most influential political blogs in Pennsylvania by BlogNetNews.com. A graduate of Penn State, Phyrillas is the city editor and political columnist for The Mercury, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper in Pottstown, Pa. He is a frequent guest on talk radio programs and has been a panelist on the "Journalists Roundtable" program on the Pennsylvania Cable Network seven times in the past two years.
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Sue Henry has been the midday host on WILK, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton/Hazleton for more than five years.
In spite of the incredible odds she faces as a left-handed, Republican Red Sox fan in blue, Yankee loving Northeastern Pennsylvania, she still manages to find people who tolerate her views.
Sue has spent more than 20 years working in the media. She was a radio reporter and anchor at WILK before accepting a job at The Citizens' Voice newspaper, Wilkes-Barre, in 1993. She was a reporter, columnist and assistant features editor at the paper before returning to WILK in 2002 as a talk show host.
She is a graduate of King's College, Wilkes-Barre, where she is an adjunct faculty member and general manager of WRKC, the campus radio station. She and her patient and kind husband, Mark, reside in Hanover Township with their three teenage children.
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