Conference HighLights

March 3-4, 2000
Salt Lake City, Utah

Our third National Conference was very special with presidential candidates Howard Phillips (in person) and Earl Dodge (on audio tape) as our chief speakers.

Evening Social

We kicked off our National Conference with a Friday evening social at Home Town Buffet restaurant in Taylorsville (Salt Lake) Utah.  None of our Saturday speakers were able to attend the social, but those of us who came enjoyed dining and visiting with each other. 

Business Meeting

Saturday morning, we held our National Committee business meeting in a board room at the Salt Lake County Offices, in Salt Lake City, Utah.  We discussed plans for our upcoming National Convention, considered proposals for a future National Platform by Lee McKenzie (of Utah), and adopted a resolution by Dan Hansen (of Nevada) on land-use.

For our National Convention, we decided that if Howard Phillips won the Utah presidential primary, that we would hold a brief convention as early as possible (at Howard's request) and in conjunction with the Utah IAP nominating convention.  If Earl Dodge won, we would hold our convention in conjunction with our next National Conference in July.

We also voted by acclamation to retain the current national officers for a full two-year term.  They had been serving a partial term from when the National Committee was first seated in January 1999.

Freedom Forum

Saturday afternoon we held our Freedom Forum in the Salt Lake County Commission Chambers in Salt Lake City, Utah.

We began with a press conference for presidential candidate Howard Phillips, which was covered by the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper and KTVX Channel 4 television.

We then held opening ceremonies.  We heard from candidate Howard Phillips live for 35 minutes.  And we listened to an audio tape of presidential candidate Earl Dodge for 20 minutes.  (Howard is also the presidential nominee of the Constitution Party and Earl is also the presidential nominee of the Prohibition Party.)

We heard from Dan Hansen (the IAP Chairman of Nevada).  We had a question-and-answer period with Howard and with Lee McKenzie (acting as a surrogate for Earl).  We heard from Will Christensen (the IAP Chairman of Utah).  We then adjourned the conference.