Heading Into The Tuesday, November 5th Election Day The Republican Agenda And Campaign Strategy Will Provide A Real Time Update From A Senior Advisor To The Trump Presidential Committee Days Before The 2024 Presidential Election
Overview
CSPEN is pleased to announce that the morning Keynote speaker on Wednesday, October 30th will be the Honorable Stephen Stepanek – Senior Advisor to the Donald J. Trump for President 2024 Committee and Co-chairman of the 2024 Republican Platform Committee.
Throughout his distinguished career Stephen has always been a supporter of education and in particular higher education and workforce policy at all levels – local, state, and national, Most recently Stephen worked with Tom Netting in support of the development and implementation of federal student financial aid revisions providing additional support for student borrowers. A strong relationship was formed and Stephen and Tom have continued to remain in touch, speaking periodically on the latest developments in higher education and workforce development and ways to enhance, revise, and promote strong policies.
Heading into our 10th Annual Conference, Tom, on behalf of CSPEN, reached out to New Hampshire Republican Committee Chairman to see if he would be willing to share his insights with our community given his substantial knowledge and access at the highest levels of the Republican party.
CSPEN was thrilled to learn that Chairman Stepanek was willing to carve out literally twenty-four hours in his scheduled less than a week before the 2024 Presidential election to come off the campaign trail and share a real-time, up-to-the-minute, update on the elections, the Republican Party’s platform/positions related to higher education, workforce education, and more, and talk about what the post-election world would look like based upon a Republican or Democratic controlled White House, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House.
We are so pleased to have Stephen joining us! We hope that you are too!
Excerpts From Chairman Stepanek’s Bio
Chairman Stepanek’s political background embraces positions on the local and state level. He served as Amherst Town Selectman before being elected as New Hampshire State Representative. Over the duration of five terms, he held numerous positions including Vice Chairman of the Commerce Committee, House Minority Whip, Deputy Majority Leader, and Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
Specifically in terms of building New Hampshire Republican efforts, Chairman Stepanek co-founded along with former Speaker of the House William O’Brien the Center Right meetings, organized and run by the Pine Tree Public Policy Institute. As a 501C4 organization these meetings are affiliated with Grover Norquist, and his Americans for Tax Reform organization and are currently in their 8th year, meeting the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month.
Chairman Stepanek also served as the New Hampshire Co chair of the Rudy Giuliani for President Committee, as well as co chair of the Donald Trump for President Committee in 2016. He was then appointed as the regional administrator of the GSA for New England. From there he went on to be elected and served 2 terms as the Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party. Stephen served on the RNC Platform committee in 2016, 2020 and 2024.
As Chairman of the NH GOP Stephen Stepanek organized a skilled team to expand New Hampshire Republican efforts and significantly increased the fundraising of the NH GOP as well as building an extensive grassroots organization throughout New Hampshire.
At the 1/28/23 annual Republican meeting, where Chairman Stepanek’s successor was elected, President Donald J Trump, the keynote speaker, announced that he was appointing Chairman Stepanek as a Senior Adviser to the Donald J Trump for President 2024 Committee.
