The CSN Capitol Club is hosting its first annual dinner, in celebration of a wonderful year, the club’s great history, and her promising future.

We’ll hear from past and present members of the club, including former ASCSN and Capitol Club President, David Waterhouse, who currently works in Harry Reid’s campaign.

We also expect several guests from around the political scene in Clark County, including candidates for office in 2010.

The event is this Saturday, May 15th, 6:30PM, at Memphis Championship BBQ, 2250 East Warm Springs Road.

Minimum contributions are as follows and include a platter and beverages:

$20 for students
$25 for everyone else

If you have any questions, please call Justin McAffee at 374-6009 or email him at justin@csncapitolclub.com

You can RSVP Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119602174730466&ref=mf or by email.

Meet Scott Kelley.  He first attended a political/ community meeting as a member of the CSN Capitol Club back in 2005.  From there, he has gone far.

In 2008, he was elected to the Washoe County School Board for District E.  To my knowledge (Correct me if I’m wrong) he is the first member of the Capitol Club to obtain an elected office, outside of student government.

He ran for Reno City Council in 2006, losing in a close race.  He has been active in several community organizations since his days in the Capitol Club.

You can read more about him on his Facebook page here, or on the Washoe County School District site here.

He isn’t up for re-election this year, but says he is eager to get back out there and talk to people.  Scott told me, “I love campaigning, it’s such an exciting process and I’m getting better at it.”

The Capitol Club is proud to have one of its own out there serving the public.  Congratulations Scott!  You have set a good example for us.  Keep up the good work!

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Come join the Capitol Club for our next meeting at the Henderson Campus, room C-224, Sunday, February 7th, at 5PM.

Please note the room and building change.  We have secured a nice conference room for our meetings this semester.

The Capitol Club will be helping to raise awareness of the issue of budget shortfalls and how that affects CSN students.  A future event will be in the works and discussed at this meeting.  More to come on this.

The Capitol Club is also getting involved in encouraging students to register to vote, issue awareness, and political involvement.

Come join us and help make a difference!

The first meeting of the Spring Semester will be on January 24th, 2010, 5PM, at the Henderson Campus, B207.

We will be discussing the agenda for the semester, including our goals, projects, fund raising, meeting times, and our trip to D.C. at the end of May.

See you then!

Dr. Joe Heck paid a visit to the Henderson CSN campus on 10/27/09 and gave a brief lecture to students and community members.

See the rest of the videos here, or watch them in High Definition on CSN Capitol Club’s Youtube channel, here.

October 4th, 2009, this Sunday, 5PM, Henderson Campus, Room B-207. Be there or be square. This will be the last meeting before our big event of the semester, so be on hand to be part of the game plan. We’ll also be discussing other upcoming events, like a visit from gubernatorial candidate Joe Heck.

After business is conducted, we will have an open forum of political discussion. Bring your ideas, and something from the news you want to discuss. Professor Peplowski will be on hand to give expert insight into the situation.

There will most likely be an afterparty at Buffalo Wild Wings. Be prepared. Woot!

DOOR PRIZES ANNOUNCED!!

Be sure to drop your name in the hat as you come in so you can win some prizes. 

We plan to discuss club fundraising and recruitment efforts.  We’ll go over the success we had with Club Rush.  To help us fulfill funding requirements, PLEASE BRING A COPY OF YOUR STUDENT I.D.  Though this is not required to come. 

We also need to talk about two important guests we have coming next month.  In combination with the Student Government, we have invited Antonia Juhasz to come and speak at the campus.  That should be a big event.  Further details to come.

Former Nevada State Senator Joe Heck has agreed to come and speak to the club.  We need to discuss the best date to have him come.

Finally, we will have a big political discussion about one or two topics.  We will have Mark Peplowski there to give us some academic insight into 1.) THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE and if we have time, 2.) 2010 NEVADA ELECTIONS, especially the senate and gubernatorial races.

See you all this Sunday at 5:00 pm at the Charleston Campus.  We will be meeting in room K-132.

UPDATE: The Disclaimer is now in place and should be appearing beneath each post. If anyone finds an instance where this is not happening, please let me know.

I’m currently working on a CRM setup for our ongoing fundraising activities. If any club members have input or experience as to what free, open-source package would be best for our needs please feel free to either comment, shoot me an email at michael@csncapitolclub.com or let me know at the next meeting.

Also, Toni expressed concern over possible bad outcomes due to some of our content. Consequently, I’ll be adding verbiage to the site to disclaim all views as those of the author and not CSN Capitol Club. Originally this language was going to be placed on the About page. However to avoid any confusion and to make this position clear the text will be added beneath the Tags section, and above the comments.

Regarding content, at the most recent meeting I put out the call for authors. Several members expressed interest. To date none of those who expressed interest have made contact to establish their account. The procedure is simple: simply shoot me an email to michael@csncapitolclub.com with what you’d like your login name to be and an account will be created for you ASAP. Right now we only have two active writers on this site, if we are to be successful in this venture we need everyone interested to contribute.

Come meet with us next Sunday, September 6th, 5:00 pm at the Henderson campus, room B 207.

We will have discussions about upcoming club events, club trips, and other business. We will also have a stimulating conversation about current events in politics. There is always the possibility of a special guest speaker. We’ll have more details as they develop.

Also see us on Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace.

The Capitol Club meets the 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month at 5:00 pm. The 1st Sunday is always at the Henderson campus in room B 207. The 3rd Sunday is always at the Charleston campus in room K 132.