(Video Above: Pat Boone endorses Chip Beeker for PSC)
Legendary entertainer Pat Boone, spokesman for the 60 Plus Association, often described as the conservative alternative to AARP, over the weekend endorsed Republican Chip Beeker in his campaign for a seat on the 3-member Alabama Public Service Commission.
“I’m still singing at concerts, but today on behalf of senior citizens, I’m singing the praises of small businessman Chip Beeker,” Boone says in a robocall urging Alabamians to vote on Tuesday. “We need strong leaders like Chip Beeker serving on Alabama’s Public Service Commission. Chip Beeker will protect senior’s pocket books and stop the ‘War on Coal’ from eliminating 16,000 Alabama jobs. Beeker will always protect Alabama’s consumers… Seniors will have no finer friend on the Alabama Public Service Commission than Chip Beeker, I can promise you that.”
Boone has had 38 top-ten hits since his recording career began in the 1950s, and, according to Billboard magazine, still holds the record for the most consecutive weeks on the charts by any performer with 220. For the last decade he has been the 60 Plus Association’s national spokesman.
Founded in 1992, the 60 Plus Association describes itself as “a non-partisan seniors advocacy group with a free enterprise, less government, less taxes approach to seniors issues.”
Beeker came in first in a crowded Republican primary for PSC – Place 2, but fell short of the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff with second place finisher Terry Dunn. The runoff is set for Tuesday, July 15th.
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