2012 Texas Red Conference

Alice Linahan is an active Real Estate blogger turned online newspaper owner, having launched Voices Empower. Alice has played an integral part in holding politicians and the progressive/liberal media accountable by getting real stories out to Americans across the country. She is on track to train boots on the ground, citizen journalists and activists in key battle ground states using social media techniques to find and promote the real stories on the ground. Currently Alice is working on projects at both the state and national level to save our Country from attacks from within our own borders. As a leader with the Nationwide Tea Party coalition, Alice helped implement the ‘Take the Town Halls to Washington’ and led the social media campaign for the highly successful Election Day Tea Party.com. As a fundraising consultant she was part of a team of grassroots activists that were very successful in bringing candidates from outside of Texas in to raise much-needed campaign funds.

Alice is currently on the Advisory Board for a new series of e-books by Harper Collins entitled “Voices of the Tea Party”. Alice has been published in such publications as Focus on the Family’s Citizen Magazine and is also a board member of WomenOnTheWall.org an organization working on building a safe and prosperous Texas and America for the next generation.

Keri Mason began working in politics in 2004 in Colorado.  Her first entry into politics was focused mostly on the political side of campaigning.  In 2006 she moved to Southern California where she oversaw the Victory effort for a multi-million dollar state senate campaign.  Afterwards, she moved to Washington, D.C. to begin work at the Republican National Committee (RNC) and transition into political fundraising.

Keri served as the finance director for two major donor programs while at the RNC.  A main responsibility was to travel around the country and help execute fundraising events with President Bush and the McCain / Palin presidential campaign.  Keri Moved to Texas in 2009 and went to work as Attorney General Greg Abbott’s finance director.  Following her time with Attorney General Abbott, Keri went to work as the finance director for the Republican Party of Texas, where she is currently employed and is responsible for executing all aspects of the Party’s fundraising initiatives.

Since then, he has seen the political world from every angle. He has served as a staffer in the Texas House and Senate, worked as a senior correspondent for the highly-respected Lone Star Report, and has worked on races for the Texas Senate, U.S. Congress and U.S. Senate.

Bernsen was working for Sen. Gramm on Sep. 11, 2001, when the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon forced the Senate offices to close. He was the sole staffer called to return to the Dallas office and coordinate media responses to the attack. It was while sitting there alone and watching the coverage that Bernsen decided to join the military. So, at the late age of 32, Bernsen was commissioned as an Intelligence Officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. And on Sep. 11, 2007, he arrived in Iraq for a tour of duty at Camp Victory, Baghdad. He returned to the United States on the Fourth of July, 2008. He was awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal.

When not working on campaigns, he is pursuing a Masters Degree in History at Texas State University. Bernsen is an 8^th-Generation Texan and a member of the Sons of the Republic of Texas. He continues to serve as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve and is a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.