Freedom Foundation shares special evening with Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Ashley Varner
October 14, 2020

Last Friday was a special evening for the Freedom Foundation.

While King Inslee has effectively kept the state closed to public events, the Freedom Foundation held its annual event with keynote speaker, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

The event was very different this time, as it was streamed live over the Internet with Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivering her remarks in the Freedom Foundation TV studio.

In a way, the livestream actually opened Freedom Foundation’s message to more people than it could have hosted in a hotel ballroom. Thousands joined together online to enjoy Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ remarks.

As expected, Sanders was engaging, emotional, funny and glowing in her praise of the Freedom Foundation. She regaled the audience with stories of her days as White House press secretary, some of the antics her children perpetrated in front of the president and gave a moving story of her visit as a young girl with her father to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel.

She also recalled that Freedom Foundation California director Bob Wickers hired her for her first real job.

Thank you to Sarah Huckabee Sanders for a wonderful evening, and for the thousands who joined the Freedom Foundation family for an incredible evening celebrating our freedoms.

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Ashley Varner

Vice President of Communication and Federal Affairs

Ashley Varner brings a variety of public affairs experience and a tough skin to the Freedom Foundation team. Prior to joining the Freedom Foundation, Ashley spent many exciting, turbulent and wonderful years as a media spokesperson and state government liaison at the National Rifle Association. Following her tenure at the NRA, Ashley joined the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where she worked with state and local lawmakers across the country on a diverse set of policy and communications issues. A grassroots activist from a young age, Ashley joined her first of many political campaigns before graduating high school and organized protests across the street from her own professors at the University of Missouri. When not rabble-rousing against Big Government, Ashley enjoys cooking, mafia movies, and has seen most of the 1970s and 80s classic rock bands still on tour. She loves the Chiefs, hopes someday she can love her Mizzou Tigers again, and she was a Kansas City Royals fan and Patriot Act opponent before either was cool.