FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
21 AUGUST
2008
CONTACT: Wade Munday
615.477.2009
DEMOCRATS DEMAND MCCALL EXPLAIN BEHAVIOR
Republican candidate accused of drunk driving and harrassment
NASHVILLE – Republican State House candidate A.J. McCall should fully disclose the details behind
charges that he harassed a woman and attempted to force her into a van with him in a Wal-Mart parking lot late one night according to Tennessee
Democratic Party Chairman Gray Sasser.
“Charges of very disturbing behavior by McCall have come to light,” Sasser said. “The
voters deserve to know fully what happened on the night in question. McCall was accused of being intoxicated and trying to force a woman into a
van late at night. If these charges are true, they cast into serious doubt McCall’s ability to properly represent the people of
Tennessee.”
The Associated Press reported
yesterday that
McCall was arrested in 1990 in Lebanon after a woman told a Lebanon police officer in a Wal-Mart parking lot late one night that McCall was
harrassing her and “tried to make her get in his van.” McCall was charged with D.U.I. after refusing to take a
breathalyzer.
In 1996, McCall was again arrested after a Lebanon police officer saw him “spinning tires and then slide
to a stop at [an] intersection,” according to the arrest report. McCall again refused to take a breathalyzer and failed three field sobriety
tests.
In both cases, prosecutors dropped the D.U.I. charges against McCall.
“McCall is now attempting to discount these incidents as examples of youthful indiscretions, although he
was a 30-year-old husband and father in 1990 and 36 years old in 1996,” Sasser said. “However, he has said nothing about why he was
harrassing the woman in a Wal-Mart parking lot late at night.
“This charge is very disturbing, to say the least, and voters deserve to know the full details. It is
very difficult to simply explain away this incident as youthful indiscretion.”
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HERE for a copy of McCall’s arrest reports.
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