Wednesday Morning Club

The Wednesday Morning Club is a lunch forum that provides a platform in the entertainment and media industry for conservative speakers and ideas. In 1999, then Governor George Bush made his first public speech in California at the Wednesday Morning Club. Other speakers have included Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senator Joseph Lieberman and George Will. The steering committee of the WMC includes actor Robert Duvall and Icon executive Steve McEveety who produced Braveheart, The Patriot and We Were Soldiers.

Thus far speakers have included author Christopher Hitchens, David Frum, former Israel Ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold and U.S. Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona and author Tammy Bruce. Past speakers include:

Dick Cheney
Former Secretary of Defense

Fred Barnes
Editor, The Weekly Standard

Jack Kemp
Vice Presidential Nominee

Judge Robert Bork
Author, Slouching Towards Gomorrah

Sam Brownback
Senator (R-KS)

William Bennett
Author, The Book of Virtues

Dinesh D’Souza
Author, The End of Racism

Newt Gingrich
Speaker of the House

Dore Gold
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations

Larry Elder
KABC Radio Talk Show Host

Chris Cox
Representative (R-CA)

Sonny Bono
Representative (R-CA)

Dan Coats
Senator (R-IN)

Spencer Abraham
Senator (R-MI)

Sky Dayton
Founder and Chairman of the Earthlink Network, Inc.

David Dreier
Representative (R-CA)

Victor David Hanson
Author/Historian

Dennis Prager
Radio Show Host/Author

 J.C. Watts
Representative (R-OK)

Bill Kristol
Political Consultant and Editor, The Weekly Standard

Fred Thompson
Senator (R-TN)

Joe Lieberman
Presidential Candidate and U.S. Senator (D-CT)

Christine La Monte
Executive Vice President of Motion Picture Group, Rogers & Cowan

Frank Luntz
Political Consultant

Les Moonves
President of CBS Entertainment Division

Frank Riggs
Representative (R-CA)

Dana Rohrabacher
Representative (R-CA)

Ed Royce
Representative (R-CA)

Arlen Specter
Senator (R-PA)

Jeremy Verba
President, E! Online

Sriram Visuanathan
Director of CAA Intel Media Lab

Anne Volokh
President & Executive Publisher of Movieline Magazine

Walid Phares
Author/Terrorism Expert

Nathan Sharansky
Deputy Prime Minister of Israel