CCM Chairman Ken Blackwell Named Vice Chairman of RNC Platform Committee

For Immediate Release
August 26, 2008

Contact: Shannon Flaherty
Phone: (202) 423-5373

Washington, D.C. - CCM Chairman and former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell today made the following statement as the Republican National Committee named him a Vice Chairman of the Platform Committee.

"This is a great honor and a tremendous opportunity to help further conservative public policy. Through my work with CCM and many other conservative organizations, I have kept my finger on the pulse of conservative grassroots activism, and will bring the spirit of that movement with me to Minneapolis this week.

"Our motto at CCM is as simple as it is repetitive: grassroots, grassroots, and grassroots. The Platform Committee is taking a page from that playbook with their historic, grassroots driven platform development, and I am honored to be a part of it."

For more information about CCM and conservative grassroots activities, please visit www.ccmajority.org.

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MEDIA AVAILABILITY: Ken Blackwell (bio below) will be available to discuss many political issues on behalf of CCM, and CCM activities at both the Democrat and Republican Conventions. To book Chairman Blackwell, please contact Shannon Flaherty at (202) 423-5373.

Ken Blackwell Biography

Ken Blackwell serves as Chairman for Coalition for a Conservative Majority, a results driven grassroots action and advocacy organization. Mr. Blackwell is on the board of directors of the Club for Growth and the National Rifle Association. He is also the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow for Public Policy at the Buckeye Institute in Columbus, Ohio, a Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment at the Family Research Council in Washington and the American Civil Rights Union, and a contributing editor for the New York Sun and Townhall.com.

Mr. Blackwell's public service includes terms as mayor of Cincinnati, an undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. In 1994, he became the first African-American elected to a statewide executive office in Ohio when he was elected treasurer of state. He subsequently was elected to two terms as secretary of state.

Mr. Blackwell is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati. He and his wife of 40 years, Rosa, have three adult children.