Young America Foundation

I've got a bit of exciting site news. Mark spilled the beans in the comments yesterday, but if you haven't yet heard, I've accepted a spot as a weekend front-page writer for MyDD. That means that I'll be posting less here on the weekends, or what I write will first get posted to MyDD, and then reposted here a short while later.

This does not mean that Future Majority will not have content on the weekends.

AliceCheshireCat will still be blogging, along with Alex UA, and Josh Gorman will soon be back from hiatus to write on the weekends. And I'll be here blogging everyday during the week. This could mean a lot more traffic for Future Majority, and I hope y'all are as excited as I am about it. My first post will be tomorrow, I'll let y'all know when it goes live.

Now for some news:

• Hillary has launched her first youth outreach program - Club 44. It's aimed at young woman - one of the primary constituencies of Hillary's campaign to date (Women for Hillary is the only affinity group prominently displayed on her campaign website).
• The Young Democrats are ridiculing the latest temper tantrum thrown by their counterparts at YAF.
• Young Voter PAC is holding a fundraiser next week. They support candidates friendly to young voters. You should support them. Plus there's an open bar . . .

Finally getting around to reading this month's edition of Harpers, and I came across a great expose on the National Conservative Student Conference - The Kids Are Far Right: Hippie Hunting, Bunny Bashing, and the New Conservitism. I'd link you to the article, but it's Harpers, so it's not online yet (if it will ever be).

You can get all the creepy cultural details over at Mahablog. I'd like to focus on the purely infrastructural revelations.

According to the Harper's article, Campus Progresses budget last year was $650,000 (it's unclear whether this is purely operational or includes adminstrative costs. I've heard in other places that Campus Progress's 2005 budget was twice that number). In comparison, the article pegs the combined budget of Young America's Foundation - which sponsors the conference - and affiliated conservative organizations at around $35 million. It costs the NCSC $2,000 to host a student, yet attendees are only required to pay $375 of that cost.

Also noted in the story - College Republican chapters have risen from 650 to 1,775 in the last six years. By contrast, the College Democrats wouldn't reveal the number of chapters they have for "fear of provoking a war with the college Republicans." I'm going to take that lame excuse as confirmation that their chapter list doesn't even approach that of their conservative counterparts.