The Yankee Institute cordially invites you to a

Reception and Dinner

featuring John Fund

August 19, 2010
Stamford Plaza Hotel
2701 Summer Street
Stamford, CT

About The Event

John Fund of The Wall Street Journal will offer his analysis of the 2010 elections, both in Connecticut and with an eye to the national scene. Coming just a week after the Connecticut state primary, the timing of his visit could not be better.

The reception opens at 6:30pm and dinner will start at 7:30pm.

The cost to attend is $50, which includes reception, dinner, and free parking.

About John Fund

John Fund (born April 8, 1957) is an American political journalist and conservative columnist for the website of the Wall Street Journal. He also writes for the Journal’s Political Diary newsletter and is a senior editor and columnist for The American Spectator, a conservative monthly publication.

Fund was born in Tucson, Arizona. He joined The Wall Street Journal as a deputy editorial features editor in 1984 and was a member of the editorial board from 1995 through 2001. The articles he has written have appeared in Esquire, Reader’s Digest, Reason, The New Republic, and National Review.

Fund co-wrote a 1992 book, Cleaning House: America’s Campaign for Term Limits with James Coyne. He also collaborated with Rush Limbaugh on another 1992 book, The Way Things Ought to Be. In 2004, Fund wrote Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy in which he strongly criticizes the American election system, describing it as “befitting an emerging Third World country rather than the world’s leading democracy.”