Conservative Leadership Conference

The 2008 Conservative Leadership Conference (CLC) announced today that conservative talk-show host Roger Hedgecock will be a speaker at the conference to be held in Las Vegas this September.

Roger Hedgecock has long made a career out of holding people accountable…in his earlier years as a politician and for the past 22 years as the number one radio host in San Diego, CA. Roger hosts the Roger Hedgecock Community Forum, from 3-7 pm Monday-Friday, on KOGO in San Diego. The show can also be heard live on-line, worldwide, at www.rogerhedgecock.com

In addition, Roger hosts a nationally syndicated show on Saturday mornings, heard live at www.rogerreport.com and on stations around the world including XM Radio. In addition to hosting his own radio broadcast, Roger has been a frequent guest host of the Rush Limbaugh Show. He has also broadcast regular news commentaries on several San Diego TV stations.

Well known as “The Radio Mayor of San Diego,” Roger is a former Mayor of the City of San Diego. He served as a member of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors for six years and before that as City Attorney for Del Mar.

Roger has received numerous local awards for broadcasting including, most recently, the 2004, 2005, and 2006 awards for Best Talk Show, and the 2002 and 2004 Excellence in Journalism Award from the San Diego Press Club; and the Best Talk Show Award given at the 4th Annual Achievement in Radio ceremonies in October 2002.

Roger has also received the Gold Medal for Broadcast Excellence at the New York International Radio Festival and the Silver Medal for International Radio Programming at the New York Festival for World Media. He has been twice nominated for the prestigious Marconi Award…and has been named one of the 100 Top Talk Show Hosts in America by Talkers Magazine for nine consecutive years.

Roger attended San Diego State University and is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his law degree from U. C. Hastings College of Law and is a member of the California Bar Association. He is married to Cindy Hedgecock. They have two sons, James and Christopher and a brand new grandson, Nathaniel Hedgecock.