MAGNOLIA, AR — Congressional candidate Beth Anne Rankin of Magnolia has announced she will host a town hall meeting in Arkadelphia.
The Arkadelphia town hall meeting will start at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 5, in McLellan Hall, Room 100, on the Ouachita Baptist University campus.
“My opponent, Mike Ross, has access to almost unlimited funds from special interest groups and lobbyists in Washington. I am trying to get my message out by meeting as many people as I can,” Rankin said. “When the message gets out there that Mike Ross has voted with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 94.6 percent of the time, I gain support. When the message gets out that that Mike Ross could have stopped health care in the House Energy and Commerce Committee but voted for it, I gain support. When the message gets out that a vote for Mike Ross is a vote for Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker again and push her pro-gun control, pro-abortion, pro-big government and anti-business agenda, I gain support.”
This is part of a series of town hall meetings Rankin has been holding in the 29 counties that make up the Fourth District of Arkansas.
Rankin will speak on her positions of the issues facing the state and the country and take questions from the audience.
“We once had a problem with voter apathy in this county, but we don’t any more. Everywhere I go there are people telling me this country is moving in the wrong direction,” Rankin said. “Please join me at the town hall meeting because I value your opinion on the important issues facing our country.”
Rankin is a small business owner and seventh-generation south Arkansan who spent seven years working in the Governor’s Office for Gov. Mike Huckabee.
As Huckabee’s Policy Adviser for State-Federal Affairs, Rankin served as the liaison to the National Governors Association, the Southern Governors Association, Capitol Hill and the White House. Rankin coordinated the Governor’s Summit on Economic Development, Play it Again Arkansas and chaired the state-wide initiative for the design of the Arkansas State Quarter, leading the nation in citizen participation.
While serving in the Governor’s Office she also served as a Board Member on the Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission. Born in El Dorado and raised on the Rankin Farm in Magnolia, she was an Honor Graduate of Magnolia High School, attended Southern Arkansas University and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Ouachita Baptist University with a double major in history and music. Beth Anne is a Nationally-Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM) and launched Beth Anne Productions in Magnolia, an independent music teaching studio.
By: Jim Harris
