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November Meeting!

Saturday, November 15, 2025

10:00 am

We will be meeting at the Montgomery County Republican Party Headquarters:
Montgomery County Republican Party
1817A Madison Street, Suite 1
(There is additional parking in back.)

If you plan to attend please RSVP to Corinthia Elder by noon on Thursday prior to the meeting so we know how many chairs we need. You can reach her at 931-624-0898 or email at cpelder70@gmail.com (Text is best, just be sure to tell her who you are in case she doesn’t recognize the number). Meeting starts at 10:00 but many people come early to socialize.

Please bring a canned or packaged food product to donate to our neighbors in need this month!

SPEAKER INFORMATION

Dean Wegner

Founder and CEO of Authentically American

Dean is the Founder & CEO of Authentically American, a Veteran owned, American made premium apparel brand that was founded in 2017. They are a company that celebrates patriotism, believes in the American worker, and honors our American heroes by intentionally donating 10% of profits to Veteran and First Responder charities.

A West Point graduate, Dean served 7 years as a helicopter pilot and Army Ranger. The majority of his business career was spent in business development, marketing, and strategy with Mars and

Procter & Gamble.

Dean and Authentically American are riding a wave of national media exposure having been featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, FOX News, MSNBC, Nasdaq, Newsmax TV, and SiriusXM Radio. In 2024, Authentically American was selected by the Small Business Administration (SBA) from 8000+ businesses in the state of Tennessee as the Veteran Owned Business of the Year.

Dean is happily married to his bride of 31 years and they have 4 children, with the youngest being adopted from Ethiopia. As a former Division I ice hockey player, Dean is highly competitive, possesses a tireless work ethic, and he still plays in a Men’s “Beer League” every week. Dean is active in his church and has served on the boards of many for-profit and non-profit companies and organizations.

July Meeting!

Our July Meeting

Saturday, July 19, 2025

We will be meeting at the Montgomery County Republican Party Headquarters:

Montgomery County Republican Party

1817A Madison Street, Suite 1

(There is additional parking in back.)

If you plan to attend please RSVP to Corinthia Elder by noon on Thursday prior to the meeting so we know how many chairs we need. You can reach her at 931-624-0898 or email at cpelder70@gmail.com (Text is best, just be sure to tell her who you are in case she doesn’t recognize the number).

Speaker – Chelsea Rose

Chelsea Rose is the proud wife of Congressman John Rose and mother of two young boys, Guy and Sam. Together, with her husband, she owns and operates the Rose Family Farm in Smith and DeKalb Counties comprised of more than 2,000 acres, primarily raising beef cattle. The farm was settled in 1790 and is recognized by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture as a Pioneer Farm, predating the founding of the State of Tennessee. The Rose’s sons represent the ninth consecutive generation in the family to live and farm there.

Chelsea was raised in Rutherford County in the Eagleville community. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture Communications from Tennessee Tech University and earned a master’s degree in Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She was State President of the Tennessee Future Farmers of America (FFA) Association and was National Vice President for the National FFA Organization, the only female to ever be elected from Tennessee.

Chelsea formerly worked in Government Affairs for the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association, which represents the electric co-ops that power homes and businesses in rural and suburban Tennessee. She went on to spend 10 years as Executive Director for the non-profit Tennessee FFA Foundation. As the leader of the FFA Foundation, she led fundraising to all-time highs, enabling FFA members across Tennessee to receive more scholarships and experience more special events and recognition than ever before.

Now, she and her family are busily working to elect her husband John as the next Governor of Tennessee. Chelsea is a founding member and former officer of the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women chapter known as the Republican Women of the Upper Cumberland.

RRRW February Meeting

Our February Meeting,

Saturday, February 17, 2024

We will be meeting at the Montgomery County Republican Party Headquarters: 

Montgomery County Republican Party
1817A Madison Street, Suite 1

(There is additional parking in back.)

We will start as usual at 9:45 am, with the business meeting to start at 10:00.  Breakfast will not be served but there will be a coffee bar and donuts.

If you plan to attend please RSVP to Corinthia Elder  by noon on Thursday prior to the meeting so we know how many chairs we need.  You can reach her at 931-624-0898 or email at cpelder70@gmail.com (Text is best, just be sure to tell her who you are in case she doesn’t recognize the number)

Our Speakers This Month!

It’s Candidate Speed Dating!

It’s February, the month of love and St. Valentine’s Day, so what a great time to do some political speed dating!  We’ll be hosting various candidates running in the Republican primary so it’s our hope you’ll find one to fall in love with and share your precious vote at election time. It won’t involve chocolates and champagne but it should involve some Q & A and you can find yourself a chocolate donut if the craving hits!  At press time we don’t have a full list of confirmed speakers so you’ll just have to think of it as a blind date and you just might find The One. (Just a reminder, The Red River Republican Women Club does not endorse candidates for any contested races in a GOP Primary.  If someone is speaking at our club running in a contested primary, rest assured that his/her opponent was given the option to speak as well.)

January 2024 Meeting Information

Our January Meeting, Saturday, January 20, 2024

We will be meeting at the Montgomery County Republican Party Headquarters: 

Montgomery County Republican Party
1817A Madison Street, Suite 1

(There is additional parking in back.)

We will start as usual at 9:45 am, with the business meeting to start at 10:00.  Breakfast will not be served but there will be a coffee bar and donuts. If you plan to attend please RSVP to Corinthia Elder  by noon on Thursday prior to the meeting so we know how many chairs we need.  You can reach her at 931-624-0898 or email at cpelder70@gmail.com (Text is best, just be sure to tell her who you are in case she doesn’t recognize the number)

Our Speaker This Month!

Sharon Boreing, President Tennessee Federation of Republican Women

Sharon is currently serving as the President of the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women for the 2024-2025 term.  She has served on the Executive Committee of the TFRW for a total of six years, previously as the TFRW First Vice President and Recording Secretary.  Also, she has sat on the National Federation of Republican Women’s Program Committee two terms and is the Tennessee State Chair for Maggie’s List, a Federal PAC. Sharon was the President of the Washington County Federated Republican Women 2016-2019. She has managed and worked on many campaigns. She had the privilege of working with the Florida GOP to get President Donald J. Trump elected and has worked in numerous areas of the Washington County Republican Party.

Sharon is retired from Sprint where she worked in seven positions and previously had her own business.  She has served on numerous boards.

She belongs to Boone Trail Baptist Church where she coordinated the ladies’ ministry, the Five L’s, for 16 years.  Sharon has traveled on many mission trips within the United States and out of the country.

She is married to Forrest Boreing, one daughter Heather and one grandson Wyatt William.