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Conn Carroll

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Conn Carroll came to the Washington Examiner in April 2010, after serving for more than three years as The Heritage Foundation's Assistant Director for Strategic Communications.

While at Heritage, Conn created Heritage's rapid response blog, The Foundry, and its morning email product, The Morning Bell.

A native of Oakland, California, Conn first moved to Washington in 1996 to attend the George Washington University. Since that time he has worked/interned for a member of Congress, a polling firm, a lobbying firm, a media firm, a federal agency, a federal court, and a litigation firm. Conn first entered journalism in 2006 when he joined National Journal's The Hotline.

Conn is a graduate of the George Mason University Law School and was a member of the D.C. Bar.

He lives in Fairfax with his wife and two children.

Contributions

  • Unions and rich environmentalists unite to kill jobs in California again

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

    Last month, The Washington Examiner‘s California in Crisis series detailed how the California Environmental Quality Act has become a job-killing “morass of uncertainty” for private developers and government agencies alike. Today, The San Jose Mercury News, shares such a story: Take the...

  • Why does Marco Rubio want to kill Latinos?

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

    Yahoo News‘ Chris Moody has obtained an “overview” of the immigration legislation that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., will soon be attempting to sell his fellow Republicans, and he passes along this nugget: There also is language in the bill that would prohibit those currently in the country...

  • Morning Examiner: Why Obama will lose on guns

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

    “If there is even one thing we can do to protect our kids, don’t we have an obligation to try?” President Obama asked rhetorically yesterday in Hartford, Connecticut. “If there is even one step we can take to keep somebody from murdering dozens of innocents in the span of minutes,...

  • 10 questions for the Gang of Ocho

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Mon, Apr 8, 2013

    There seems to be a little bit of disagreement among the Gang of Ocho about when exactly their immigration reform bill will be released. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is promising a bill by the end of this week. Sen. Lidsey Graham, R-S.C., says it may be more like “in the next couple of...

  • Margaret Thatcher, R.I.P.

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Mon, Apr 8, 2013

    Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, died today following a stroke according to Sky News. Along with Ronald Reagan, she was one of the brightest voices for freedom and prosperity in last quarter of the 20th century. Here she is on the floor of the House...

  • Morning Examiner: Obama’s latest gun push

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Mon, Apr 8, 2013

    President Obama will lead another anti-gun public relations push this week, but it is far from certain the campaign will produce any votes in the Senate. Today, Obama will return to Connecticut for the first time since he first addressed Sandy Hook Elementary School parents last December....

  • Why conservatives should welcome state gas tax hikes

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Sat, Apr 6, 2013

    Conservatives have a healthy aversion to all tax hikes, and that is a good thing. Higher taxes generally mean bigger government and less freedom. But sometimes tax hikes can be good, especially when they shift power from the federal to state governments and allow voters to hold their leaders...


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