CPR invites you to a discussion on ‘US Presidential Elections: View from the States’ with Representative Jay Kaufman (Massachusetts House of Representatives) and Senator Curtis Bramble (Utah State Senate).
The discussion will be chaired by Partha Mukhopadhyay. There will be a question and answer session with Representative Jay Kaufman and Senator Curtis Bramble after their presentations.
Jay Kaufman has served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives since January 1995 and, for the past eight years, has chaired the legislature’s Committee on Revenue. He is leading the committee through a comprehensive review of state and local taxes with an eye to a major simplification and modernization initiative.
He had, for four years before this, chaired the Committee on Public Service and led the effort to develop and pass major pension reform initiatives. His monthly “OPEN HOUSE” public policy forum, now in its twenty-first season, has been recognized with the prestigious Beacon Award as the nation’s best televised government relations series.
Jay also served as the founding director of Northeastern University’s Center for Leadership and Public Life, and is now launching Beacon Leadership Collaborative, a new non-profit organization to offer leadership development workshops for those in or aspiring to public life. He serves on the National Conference of State Legislature’s Executive Committee, having previously chaired NCSL’s Budget and Revenue Committee. He has offered leadership development workshops for NCSL legislators and legislative staff, and served on the faculty of NCSL’s democracy-building workshops in Kosovo, South Africa, and Mozambique.
Curtis S Bramble was elected to the Utah State Senate in November 2000. Bramble is in his fourth term in the Utah Senate, where he previously served as Senate majority leader and currently serves as Senate president pro tempore. Bramble, a CPA, is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Utah Association of Certified Public Accountants. Bramble was elected as vice president of the National Conference of State Legislatures in August 2013. He served as co-chair of the NCSL Standing Committees 2012-2013. He is a member of the State and Local Taxation Task Force, a member of the Immigration and the States Task Force, and the International Affairs Task Force.
He has participated in forums addressing issues like education, transportation, energy, and taxation. Bramble began his college career at the University of Notre Dame, and earned his bachelor’s and masters degree in accounting from Brigham Young University. Bramble is a fixed wing and hot air balloon pilot and owns Stars & Stripes Inc., a hot air balloon company, with former Utah House Majority Leader Jeff Alexander. He and his family live in Provo and are actively involved in motorcycle touring, mountain climbing, scouting, antique automobiles, skydiving, skiing, backpacking, fishing, hunting, scuba diving, and boating at Lake Powell.
Please RSVP to president.cpr@cprindia.org.