Green Party Senate Candidate, John Gray & Supporters will also Protest at same event.

PRESS RELEASE
August 10, 2010

For Immediate Release
Contact: Roy Fleshman
(479) 616-1976
Trevor Drown for US Senate

The Association of Arkansas Counties, a taxpayer funded special interest group will hold a debate between Senator Blanche Lincoln and Congressman John Boozman at their taxpayer funded convention Friday morning. Despite emails and phone calls to the executive director and the members of the board, they refuse to allow the other two Senate Candidates participate. Supporters of independent candidate Trevor Drown and Green Party, Mayor John Gray will join in solidarity to protest this action to attempt to quell our 1st Amendment right. If you are able to go, please join us at the front entrance of the convention center on Friday, August 13th, 8:30am.  Bring your signs of support and protest.

Trevor made the following statement in reference to this event and the action of the AAC:

“I served this country in combat and thousands of Arkansans signed the petition to place me on the ballot. Now a tax-payer funded organization, which lobby’s for elected county officials in Arkansas schedules a debate and closes it to two candidates; the Republican and the Democrat. Is this the American way? ”

This event is scheduled to be moderated by Jessica Dean of KATV. You can contact them here:
http://www.katv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12770074&nav=menu1810_10_3

You can also find the phone numbers and email of all of your county government officials at this link: http://www.arcounties.org/counties

Back ground information can be found in ” The Arkansas Conservative” newspaper (not affiliated with ARCN) or at the Trevor Drown for US Senate website.

Additional info as first reported in a guest article published by ARCN yesterday called “A Call to Action”, can be read here.

About Trevor Drown

Trevor:Click to Enlarge

Trevor Drown is a former green beret who served in combat in Afghanistan. In May 2010 he made Arkansas history by becoming the first US Senate Candidate in more than 30 years to be placed on the ballot as an independent. More than 14,000 people signed the petition to certify him as a candidate. This was done by spending less than $7,000. Trevor works for UPS and he and his wife own a small business in Russellville, Arkansas.

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