LI Trains Newly Elected New Mexico State House Member

January 11, 2011, Arlington, VA— The Leadership Institute trained 9,646 students in 2010 and over 91,000 since 1979.  One 2010 student is Alonzo Baldonado, a real-estate salesman, who having never run for office attended LI’s week-long Campaign Manager School.  On January 3, 2011 Mr. Baldonodo was sworn in as a newly elected representative in the New Mexico State House.
 
“This was my first time running for public office, and it was against a political veteran,” Mr. Baldonado said. “It was a tough race, but LI gave me the education needed to run a successful campaign.”  

His campaign was filled with LI trained volunteers and staff.  

His volunteer Carolyn Chavez took LI's campaign manager school and decided to run for a school board seat. Additionally, four of Mr. Baldonado’s youth volunteers attended LI's youth activist school and have now formed a conservative youth group called Expand The Leadership.

Mr. Baldonodo is just one of hundreds of winning candidates in the 2010 elections who took advantage of Leadership Institute’s 40 types of training.  The Leadership Institute looks forward to identifying and training thousands of more conservatives in 2011.

The Leadership Institute is an educational foundation whose mission is to increase the number and effectiveness of conservative activists and leaders in the public policy process. To accomplish this, LI identifies, recruits, trains, and places conservatives in government, politics, and the media.  Since the Institute’s 1979 founding, more than 90,000 people have been trained (with half of those being in the last six years) in one or more of the 40 current programs offered in all 50 states and across the globe. For more information, please visit: http://www.leadershipinstitute.org

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