NH Primary Awards Dinner

We are pleased to announce this year’s honorees to be recognized Monday, March 30th at the 2009 New Hampshire Primary Awards:
 
Mr. Paul Begala: a senior strategist for President Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign and currently political contributor for CNN and Affiliated Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute;

Mr. Mike Murphy: a senior strategist for Senator John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign and currently political contributor for NBC and MSNBC News; and

Ms. Kelly O’Donnell: NBC News correspondent covering the presidential campaigns of Senator Bob Dole in 1996, Senator John Kerry in 2004 and the Republican field in 2008 and currently Capitol Hill Correspondent.
 
Click here to view the invitation and learn event details. 
 
The 2009 New Hampshire Primary Awards will take place Monday, March 30, 2009 at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Manchester.  Dinner Table Sponsorships begin at $2,500 and admission for individual guests is $125. 
 
 
About the Primary Awards:
 
The Political Library’s largest fundraising event, the New Hampshire Primary Awards annually recognizes and honors individuals who have demonstrated strong support for the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire Presidential Primary.  The event also draws attention to the important role this national political tradition plays in the presidential selection process. 
 
Past honorees include former primary candidates including Senator Bill Bradley, Patrick Buchanan, Senator Gary Hart and Governor Mitt Romney; members of the media including Candy Crowley (CNN), George Stephanopoulos (ABC), Helen Thomas (Hearst Newspapers), and Jill Zuckman (Chicago Tribune); presidential staff including former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and former White House Press Secretaries Marlin Fitzwater and Mike McCurry; and New Hampshire leaders including Ambassador Gerald Carmen, Governor Walter Peterson, and Neil Tillotson. 
 
New Hampshire’s Congressional Delegation and Governor John Lynch have agreed to serve as Honorary Event Chairs for this important annual event.  Planning efforts for the Primary Awards are being led by a bipartisan Dinner Committee comprised of more than twenty volunteers from leading businesses and organizations from across the Granite State and Committee Chair Jim Merrill, Managing Director of Devine Strategies in Concord. 
 
For more information about attending, please call the Political Library at 225-4617, extension 11.