The Whiteside Forum hosts Richard Kimball on Thursday, November 16, 2017, from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m., at Odell Public Library, in the City of Morrison Community Room, 307 S. Madison Street, Morrison, IL.
His presentation is titled “Vote Smart, Facts Matter.”
Kimball is an American politician and founder of the nonprofit voter education organization Project Vote Smart.
In 1986, after serving in the Arizona Legislature and the State’s Corporation Commission, Kimball ran as a Democrat against John McCain, for the U. S. Senate seat being vacated by Barry Goldwater. His campaign was subject to negative press from The Arizona Republic and Phoenix Gazette. One Gazette columnist described him as displaying “terminal weirdness.” McCain ultimately won the election by a margin of over 20 percent.
Twenty years later, Kimball commented on the campaign to a reporter from the Arizona Daily Star, “I was enormously depressed–not because I lost . It was because I spent all my time collecting money.” He said that he spent the following months after the election traveling through Mexico and then left politics, to start Project Vote Smart.
He will make a stop in Morrison during his Midwestern Facts Matter tour. Vote Smart’s mission is to provide free, factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials to all Americans. A multi-media presentation will be followed by a question and answer period.
This event is strictly non-partisan, free, and open to the public. Partisan activists on all sides are welcome.
Contact President Marc Adami at 815-772-4949 for more information.