Palladian View’s women did what most women do every hour of every day—we multitasked. While part of our team was at the Catherine Templetonstate Senate committee confirmation hearing, the other part of the team was at CPAC 2012 (the Conservative Political Action Committee) presented by the American Conservative Union.
Both occasions were important and historic for Palladian View. Templeton is currently the Director of South Carolina’s Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation and has been tapped by the DHEC Board to be their Commissioner. She is a well-qualified conservative woman who was being attacked in the media and by senate Democrats based on issues that were not job performance-related, and things not asked of her male counterparts in their hearings. Palladian View pointed out this inequity in our Patch.com article last week and in an op-ed run in The State newspaper. The team of conservative women coalesced and attended the hearing. It was standing room only as Catherine responded to questioning for more than four hours from a Senate panel. She was formidable. The result? Catherine Templeton received unanimous support from the full committee with the abstentions from three Democrat Senators.
Palladian View also received media credentials to cover CPAC. 110 days into our new venture and we were covering the largest conservative gathering of the year (over 12,000 attendees—55% of them students) sitting side by side and standing in front of the cameras of CNN, C-Span, WND and over 1,300 other media outlets from around the world. The media aspect was certainly standing room only, but so was the conference itself. This year boasted their largest attendance ever, and that is not counting the Occupiers! Getting to know such conservative icons as Jerome Corsi (WND writer and author of The Obama Nation and Unfit for Command) and Concerned Women of America (CWA) was a particular highlight.
