Phillip Chen was elected to represent California’s 55th Assembly District in 2016. He is a successful small business owner of a property management company, and has previously served as health deputy to Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich, and as an adjunct professor at Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California. In addition to this work, Phillip served on the Walnut Valley...

The United States Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach runs from Dana Point to Morro Bay. It is an extremely busy sector with many different Coast Guard assets deployed here. Missions include interdiction and apprehension of drug traffickers and human smugglers, search and rescue, boating safety, port security, and other tasks. Our speaker this month will be USCG LT Matt Hurtt, Commanding Officer of the 87′ Coast Guard...

Craig Missakian is a well-known trial lawyer and former state and federal prosecutor. During his 15 years in law enforcement, he earned national and international attention for prosecutions that included terrorism and environmental crimes, software piracy, organized crime, and public corruption. His cases have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, the Washington Post, the National Enquirer, and...

Dante Acosta was elected in November 2016 to represent California’s Santa Clarita based 38th Assembly District. Acosta is Vice-Chair of the Natural Resources Committee as well as to the highly influential Committee on Governmental Organization. Before joining the Assembly, Dante served as Mayor Pro Tem on the Santa Clarita City Council. In the private sector, he worked as the General Sales Manager of a car dealership, and in a number...

Steve Frank has been the Energizer Bunny of the conservative wing of the California GOP for over 50 years. He was on the Nixon for Governor Speakers Bureau in 1962 (!). In 1968, he was California State Chairman of Youth for Nixon for President. Steve then served his country in Vietnam in the Army’s First Infantry Division, and came home to co-found the POW-MIA Bracelet campaign along with former Congressman Bob Dornan. Very active in...

R. Duke Blackwood was appointed as the Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum effective June 19, 2000. He is the longest serving director of all of the presidential libraries within the National Archives. From October 2003 to April 2009, Mr. Blackwood also served as the Executive Director for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. During the 2008 Presidential Campaign, the Library hosted two of the...