SILVERDALE — Kirby Wilbur of 570 KVI Talk Radio will interpret national and state politics in a post-election summary at 7 p.m. Nov. 28 at the Silverdale Beach Hotel.
The event is sponsored by the Kitsap Patriots Tea Party and is free and open to the public.
According to Joan Gorner of the Kitsap Patriots, “Kirby will also discuss the meaning of the Trump victory and analyze our Washington state election results.”
According to Wilbur’s bio on KVI.com: Wilbur was born in Washington, D.C. and moved with his family to the Seattle area when he was 8. He graduated from Queen Anne High School and the University of Washington with a degree in history. He has also took summer courses at Georgetown University and Hillsdale College.
He has been active in politics since high school. He served as chairman of the Young Republicans (1979-1981) and has been a delegate or alternate delegate to eight national Republican conventions.
He worked for the King County Assessor and owned his own real estate appraisal firm, Liberty Consultants. He began working for KVI in 1993, doing the 9 p.m. to midnight shift, moving to 5-9 a.m. in January 1995. He left the station in November 2009 and worked as state director of Americans for Prosperity. He was elected state chairman of the Republican Party in 2011, and left that position in July 2013 to become executive director of the National Journalism Center in Reston, Virginia.
He returned to KVI on Jan. 4, 2016.
He and his wife, Trina, have been married since November 1980; they met on the Reagan campaign. They have two sons, Nathan and Adam.