NALEO 27th Annual Conference Highlights

Dear NALEO Members and Friends:

We want to thank our panelists, sponsors and attendees for making the NALEO 27th Annual Conference a huge success in Denver! Some of the nation's leading Fortune 500 companies representing all sectors of the private industry came to support the NALEO Annual Conference, such as: BP, Walmart, Comcast, Anheuser-Busch Companies, AT&T, Community Financial Services Association, PepsiCo, Southwest Airlines, State Farm Insurance Companies, Toyota, Univision Communications Inc., The Walt Disney Company, and numerous others. The significant support received by the private sector speaks not only to the quality and caliber of the work of NALEO, but of the quality and trust of our corporate partnerships.

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A very special thanks to our keynote speakers and distinguished guests, including U.S. Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano, U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., Colorado Lt. Governor
Barbara O'Brien, Denver Mayor John Hickenlopper, U.S. Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet and U.S. Assistant
Attorney General Thomas Pérez.



NALEO CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Dear NALEO Members and Friends: We want to thank our panelists, sponsors and attendees for making the NALEO 27th Annual Conference a huge success in Denver! Some of the nation's leading Fortune 500 companies representing all sectors of the private industry came to support the NALEO Annual Conference, such as: BP, Walmart, Comcast, Anheuser-Busch Companies, AT&T, Community Financial Services Association, PepsiCo, Southwest Airlines, State Farm Insurance Companies, Toyota, Univision Communications Inc., The Walt Disney Company, and numerous others. The significant support received by the private sector speaks not only to the quality and caliber of the work of NALEO, but of the quality and trust of our corporate partnerships. ...................... A very special thanks to our keynote speakers and distinguished guests, including U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., Colorado Lt. Governor Barbara O'Brien, Denver Mayor John Hickenlopper, U.S. Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet and U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Pérez.
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Over the three-day Conference, we had vigorous discussions on Arizona's SB 1070 law, redistricting, Latino voter attitudes, education and healthcare policies, energy and sustainable communities, and the use of social media for constituency outreach, among others. ....................... We had beautiful weather for NALEO's Eighth Annual Presidential Golf Classic, sponsored by ING and held this year at Denver's City Park Golf Course, named by Golf Digest as The 2009 Best Municipal Golf Course in Colorado. Hundreds also turned out for the first-ever NALEO 5K Run/Walk and Expo for Healthy Communities at Civic Center Park in beautiful downtown Denver. Sponsored by PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson, The ServiceMaster Company, AARP, Adventist Health System, Colorado Health Foundation, Denver International Airport, and ING, the event brought many together for a morning of exercise and health screenings, and furthered the NALEO Educational Fund's commitment to educate Latino policymakers and develop their governance skills to address the epidemic of chronic disease and its effects on communities across the country. It was a privilege to have all of you join us in Denver and we look forward to seeing everyone next year in San Antonio! The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) is the leadership organization of the nation's more than 6,000 Latino elected and appointed officials. The NALEO Educational Fund is the nation's leading non-profit, non-partisan organization that facilitates full Latino participation in the American political process, from citizenship to public service.