Ray Mabus and Brad Carson to Make Campaign Stops for Obama
**News conference to held at 12:30.**
ROCK HILL, S.C. – Former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus and former Oklahoma Congressman Brad Carson will hold a news conference tomorrow in Rock Hill to make their cases for U.S. Senator Barack Obama’s candidacy.
During his tenure as governor, Mabus passed one of the most comprehensive education reform programs in America, gave teachers the largest pay raise in the nation, and was named one of the top 10 education governors in the country by Fortune magazine. In a 1999 poll commissioned by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Mississippians selected Mabus as the best governor of the millennium.
A Rhodes Scholar and two-term congressman, Carson won re-election to his House seat in 2002 with 75 percent of the vote. Since leaving Congress in 2005, Carson has taught at Harvard and written for The New Republic and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, among other publications.
Mabus-Carson Rock Hill News Conference
When: 12:30, Mon, Dec. 17, 2007
Where: York County Democratic Headquarters
339 East Main Street
Rock Hill, SC 29730
Reporters interested in attending should RSVP to Sam Wilson at swilson@barackobama.com or 803-255-8008 x 262.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kevin Griffis Amaya Smith
803-255-8008, ext. 234 or ext. 272 or
803-727-0825 803-393-8738
