Congressmen Jim Jordan won’t attend conservative conference

Dan82 · Feb 7, 2011

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/n...t-attend-conservative-conference-1055049.html

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, who was recently selected to chair the U.S. House of Representatives’ conservative Republican Study Committee, has refused to attend a major conservative conference next month where a gay GOP group is participating.

Organizations including the Family Research Council and the Heritage Foundation have decided to skip the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., because they’re upset by participation from a gay Republican group called GOProud, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

Jordan spokeswoman Meghan Snyder said her boss hadn’t attended the event in previous years and declined the invitation he got after being elected Republican Study Committee chairman. Although Jordan decided not to attend, Snyder said he isn’t urging others to avoid the conference and “respects other people who are attending...

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Congressmen Jim Jordan won’t attend conservative conference

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