For Mayor!
ROLAND BUSH SETS FOREMAN RALLY Foreman, AR – Mayoral candidate Roland Bush today announced that his campaign will host a fish and brisket supper at the Little River County Fairgrounds in Foreman on Tuesday, October 24, 2006. “Everyone is welcome to come by. That means all of Foreman and anybody else curious or hungry in the neighborhood.”, he said.
Mr. Bush, a Winthrop native, has lived inside the city limits of Foreman for less than a decade, but has long ties to this area. After successfully operating lumber businesses in Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Texas, he retired here and plans to spend his energies on improving the town and the surrounding area it serves. “Foreman,” he said, “is in serious need of active leadership with defined purposes. We have inadequate drainage, overgrown lots, an unresolved water tower situation, and the challenging prospect of making room for a few hundred new people in the near future while the Ash Grove Cement plant expands. The inactivity of the city government in the last few years is not adequate for the future.” Mr. Bush is running against Chris Gauldin and the current Mayor, David Wilkerson.
The candidate has been especially critical of the city’s handling of a $150,000 improvement grant primarily devoted to the purchase of park land. “Foreman paid too much for too much land and has very little or nothing left to develop and operate the park,” he said. Mr. Bush said he has filed two requests under the Arkansas Freedom of Information act to learn more about the city’s recent actions and is awaiting a complete response. He said, “The current Mayor has accused me of ‘making trouble’ for my efforts, but all I want is an open city hall with no secrets or special deals.”
The rally will run from 5:30 to 9:00 on Tuesday, October 24, exactly 2 weeks before the November 7 election. Music and children’s activities are planned along with the food. “Very few speeches,” he noted, “my primary concern is that nobody gets cold fish.” All other local candidates are also especially invited.
No cold fish - how's that for a platform to appeal to the masses? While my Dad is in charge of food temperature detail, my aunts, in a perpetual competition for Best Cook in Little River County, are in charge of desserts.
Seriously, he's a fine man and will do a great job as mayor. He's not just spouting a campaign slogan when he talks about an 'open city hall', he means it. Shreveport (any town!) should be so lucky.
And isn't my brother doing a fine job handling his campaign and writing press releases?
