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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, June 29, 2006
WILBERFORCE PRESIDENT FLOYD FLAKE NAMED BLACKWELL CO-CHAIRMAN |
COLUMBUS - Gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell today named Wilberforce University
President and former Congressman Rev. Dr. Floyd Flake a campaign co-chairman.
“I am honored and humbled by Rev. Flake’s support of my gubernatorial campaign,”
said Blackwell. “Rev. Flake is an educator, a statesman and a national leader. He
is providing our nation’s oldest historically black college with principled, prudent
and inspirational leadership. Rev. Flake will bring those same outstanding leadership
qualities to my campaign.”
“Ken Blackwell is the leader Ohio needs right now,” said Rev. Flake. “He understands
the challenges faced by institutions of higher education, he understands the importance
of home ownership and he understands the power of economic opportunity.”
“Ken Blackwell’s solid, proven leadership will get Ohio’s cities back on track,”
added Rev. Flake.
Rev. Flake is also the senior pastor of the over 20,000-member Greater Allen A.
M. E. Cathedral of New York in Jamaica, Queens. During his 28-year pastorate, Greater
Allen A. M. E. has become one of the nation’s foremost Christian churches and development
corporations. The cathedral’s economic development corporation is the second largest
private sector employer in Queens, New York. In addition, the Greater Allen A. M.
E. business model is taught as a case study at the Harvard Business School.
Rev. Flake represented Queens, New York as a Democrat in Congress from 1987 to 1997,
where he was a leading advocate of urban revitalization and economic empowerment
policies. For more information, contact Carlo LoParo at (614) 221-8552. |
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