This special edition podcast features PRI’s panel of former speechwriters offering their perspectives on Pres. Biden’s first State of the Union Address. On the panel: Lance Izumi, a former speechwriter to Gov. George Deukmejian and former Attorney General Edwin Meese, and now PRI’s senior director of the Center of Education; Tim Anaya, former speechwriter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Congressman Kevin McCarthy when he was in the California Assembly, and is now senior director of communications at PRI; and Rowena Itchon, former speechwriter to Gov. Pete Wilson, a research assistant in Pres. Reagan’s speechwriting staff, and is now senior vice president at PRI.
