Two top leaders of FreedomWorks, Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe, will speak — and listen — during a town hall meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 26 in the Humanities Lecture Hall at UNC Asheville.

Armey is chairman and Kibbe is president and chief exeuctive officer of the FreedomWorks, a group that seeks Social Security reform, repeal of the Death Tax, tax cuts in general, and limiting the size and scope of government.

Both men will be signing their latest co-authored book titled “Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto” after the meeting.
“UNCA is not known to be friendly to conservative principles, so please come out to be supportive and to ask thought-providing questions,” Bill Lack, program organizer, noted. He added that “this is not a political event.”

Armey is a former U.S. representative from Texas’s 26th congressional district (1985–2003) and House Majority Leader (1995–2003). He was one of the engineers of the “Republican Revolution” of the 1990s, in which Republicans were elected to majorities of both houses of Congress for the first time in four decades.

Armey was one of the chief authors of the “Contract with America.” He is also an author and former professor. After his congressional career, Armey worked as a consultant and advisor.

Kibbe has been with the organization (previously known as Citizens for a Sound Economy) for over 12 years. An economist by training, Matt Kibbe is a well-respected national public policy expert.

Before joining FreedomWorks, Kibbe’s career spanned the worlds of academia, business, and lawmaking. He served as chief of staff and House Budget Committee associate for U.S. Rep. Dan Miller, R-Fla.; director of Federal Budget Policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; senior economist for the Republican National Committee during Lee Atwater’s tenure as chairman; and managing editor of Market Process, an academic economics journal published by the Center for the Study of Market Processes at George Mason University.