A group of more than 80 leaders are looking to solidify the direction of the conservative movement by putting their ideas into an official statement of belief this week.<\/p>\n
Conservative activists\u00a0will gather Wednesday just outside Washington at a library that was an original part of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and sign what they\u2019re calling \u201cThe Mount Vernon Statement.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The group describes the document as \u201cdefining the movement’s principles, beliefs and values in light of the challenges facing the country and the need for Constitutional Conservatism since the Obama administration came to power.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The event will take place at the Collingwood Library and Museum on the eve of the large yearly gathering called the Conservative Political Action Conference (or CPAC) happening in Washington this weekend.<\/p>\n
Those involved with the signing compare the new manifesto to \u201cThe Sharon Statement\u201d signed at the home of William F. Buckley, Jr. in Sharon,\u00a0Connecticut in 1960. The \u201cSharon Statement\u201d was signed and formed by the Young Americans for Freedom.\u00a0\u00a0 Read the original “Sharon Statement” here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Organizers say the event will be presided by U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese, whom they call \u201csenior statesman of the conservative movement.\u201d<\/p>\n Other participants include Edwin Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, and Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.\u00a0<\/p>\n As of now,\u00a0grassroots leaders and not elected politicians are expected to sign the statement this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A group of more than 80 leaders are looking to solidify the direction of the conservative movement by putting their ideas into an official statement of belief this week. Conservative activists\u00a0will gather Wednesday just outside Washington at a library that was an original part of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and sign what they\u2019re calling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}