Leon Panetta Returns as Moderator for Lecture Series Focusing on 2013 – Gridlock or Action?
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Leon E. Panetta has returned as moderator for the Panetta Institute’s highly acclaimed lecture series, bringing national leaders, policy experts and journalists to the Monterey Peninsula. This year’s theme is 2013 — Gridlock or Action?
Speakers appear before a live theater as well as television audiences. During that afternoon the speakers meet with students from the Central Coast and Northern California high schools, colleges and military installations. Dates and speakers for 2013 are listed below.
At the beginning of the season, a subscription is sold to all four events in the Lecture Series for $340. Periodically during the season, single reserved seats become available at a cost of $85 each. Standby tickets for each event are $40.
To see a list of past speakers, click here.
Speakers and dates for the series are as follows:
| Monday, April 8, 2013, 7:00 p.m. | |
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“Immigration: Compromise or Conflict?” with Tom Ridge, former head of the Department of Homeland Security; Doris Meissner, former commissioner for the United States Department of Immigration and Naturalization Services and senior fellow and director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute; Howard Berman, former United States representative and author of immigration legislation and Simón Salinas, Monterey County supervisor and son of farmworkers |
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Monday, May 6, 2013, 7:00 p.m. |
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| “The Budget Blame Game,” with James Carville, presidential advisor and political consultant and William Kristol, founder and editor of The Weekly Standard and panelist for FOX News Sunday |   |
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Monday, May 27, 2013, 7:00 p.m. |
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| “Gun Control: The Second Amendment — Are There Limits?” with Sarah Brady, chair of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, and Asa Hutchinson, former United States representative and former task force director, National Rifle Association. |   |
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Monday, June 10, 2013, 7:00 p.m. |
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| “Middle East Turmoil: Chaos or Reform?” with Ehud Barak (invited), former Israeli prime minister and minister of defense; Richard Lugar, former United States senator for Indiana and former chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Olympia Snowe (invited), former United States senator for Maine and Joe Lieberman, former United States senator for Connecticut. |
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2013 Lecture Series Sponsors
The Panetta Institute would like to salute our sponsors of the 2013 Lecture Series for their extraordinary public service in supporting this important event:
| Sue and Bob Antle Arnof Family Foundation Laurie and David Benjamin Roger W. Coleman Debra and George Couch Sherry DeBoer Gail and Jim Griggs |
Sara and Bill Morgan & Chrissi and Mike Morgan Mike and Mary Orradre Louise and Ed Trout Anthony Varni Welton Foundation Rhonda and Myles Williams |
Co-Sponsors |
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William Anton Carmen and James Courter Catherine C. Brock Stephanie Hulsey Richard Marriott |
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