  {"id":14401,"date":"2005-07-26T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T13:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=14401"},"modified":"2023-12-15T12:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:50:50","slug":"republican-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2005\/07\/26\/republican-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Student elected to statewide Republican leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href="https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2005\/07\/natewalton.jpg"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2005\/07\/natewalton.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"Nathaniel Walton &#039;08\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Walton &#8217;08, president of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Republicans, was elected state chairman of the Maine College Republicans on July 16.<\/p>\n<p>Walton, of Marblehead, Mass., was unanimously elected by the statewide organization&#8217;s executive board during a meeting in Bucksport. He succeeds Daniel Schuberth, a rising senior at Bowdoin College, who was elected national secretary of the College Republican National Committee in June.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am honored to lead the nation&#8217;s finest state college Republican federation into what will surely be an exciting future for the Republican Party in Maine,&#8221; Walton said. &#8220;We remain determined to continue energizing an interest in politics among young people in Maine and helping to elect Republican candidates to office at the local, state and national levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am proud to lead a team of officers who are committed to bringing conservative principles to college campuses and delivering great Republican victories in Maine in the months and years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Walton previously served as communications director of the Maine College Republicans and was elected president of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Republicans during his first year at the college. His accomplishments in the latter capacity include organizing a lecture by Weekly Standard editor William Kristol and introducing an &#8220;Academic Bill of Rights&#8221; passed by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ student government.<\/p>\n<p>Active in student government at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he became president of the Class of 2008 during his first year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am pleased to see the Maine College Republicans look to Nate&#8217;s proven leadership to ensure the continued success of their organization,&#8221; said Maine Republican Party Chairman Randy Bumps, a member of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ class of 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Boasting a membership of more than 2,000 students on 23 campuses, the Maine College Republicans gained earned national prominence last November when the organization was recognized as the &#8220;Best State Federation in America&#8221; for 2004 by the College Republican National Committee. The organization produces Maine&#8217;s only statewide conservative student publication, <em>The Pachyderm Press<\/em>, and is the first state college Republican organization with a board of governors. Board members include Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Maine College Republicans, please visit the organization&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mainecr.org\/\">Web site.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/communications-marketing\/\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden;width: 1px;height: 1px\">\n<p>Nathaniel Walton &#8217;08, president of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Republicans, was elected state chairman of the Maine College Republicans on July 16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Walton &#8217;08, president of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Republicans, was elected state chairman of the Maine College Republicans on July 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[30,32,195,17],"tags":[1372,11302],"class_list":["post-14401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-maine-and-new-england","category-news-politics","category-partners-public","tag-bates-college-republicans","tag-business-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159613,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401\/revisions\/159613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}