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Reed to speak to Fayette GOP

Ralph Reed will be the featured speaker at the Fayette County Republican Party’s monthly breakfast meeting Saturday, May 14.

A successful small businessman, Reed is founder and president of Century Strategies, a public relations and public affairs firm with offices in Duluth and Washington, D.C. He advises numerous Fortune 500 companies.

As chairman of the Georgia Republican Party in 2002, he helped elect U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, Sonny Perdue as the first GOP governor in 130 years, and helped the party gain control of the State Senate for the first time since Reconstruction. During his tenure, the state party budget increased from $5 million to $10.7 million, the donor base increased from 12,000 to 34,000 and the grassroots network grew to more than 3,000 volunteers.

Reed has worked on several presidential campaigns and served as chairman of the Southeast Region for Bush-Cheney ‘04 and campaign manager in Georgia.

He has been named one of the top ten political newsmakers in the nation by Newsweek, one of the 20 most influential leaders of his generation by Life magazine, and one of the 50 future leaders of America by Time magazine. As executive director of the Christian Coalition (1989-1997), he built one of the nation’s most effective grassroots organizations.

Reed grew up in Toccoa and has a B.A. from the University of Georgia and Ph.D. in American history from Emory University. He and his wife Jo Anne have four children and reside in Duluth. They attend Perimeter Church.