Wall Street Journal columnist and Fox News Channel Contributor John Fund to Speak in Albuquerque

(Albuquerque) New Mexico’s free market think tank, the Rio Grand Foundation, the state’s leading journal of public policy, Capitol Report, and the New Mexico Alliance for Legal Reform are hosting Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund for lunch at the Albuquerque Museum and the public is invited.

The event will be held on September 27 at noon, in the auditorium of the Albuquerque Museum which is located at 2000 Mountain Road NW, adjacent to Old Town Albuquerque. Cost per attendee is $25 and reservations may be purchased ahead of time through the Rio Grande Foundation (www.riograndefoundation.org) by check or with a credit card through our secure website. Boxed lunches will be available to all who reserve ahead of time. Pending availability, admission is $30 at the door.

Mr. Fund is one of the most insightful commentators on today’s political scene. In addition to writing for the Journal itself, he is a regular contributor to the Journal’s web site OpinionJournal.com. He has just been hired as a contributor to the Fox News Channel. His articles have appeared in Esquire, Reader’s Digest, Reason, The New Republic, and National Review.

Fund’s recent book, Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy described the U.S. system of elections as “a haphazard, fraud-prone election system befitting an emerging Third World country rather than the world’s leading democracy.” He has written on New Mexico’s experience with voter irregularities.

As Paul Gessing, President of the Rio Grande Foundation, explained, “A big part of the Foundation’s mission is to serve the people of New Mexico by providing them the chance to interact with leaders in the field of public policy and journalism. Hosting Mr. Fund for an event and doing so at a reasonable price is just one way we try to create a more robust public policy debate here in New Mexico.”

Gessing pointed out that, “Mr. Fund is one of the nation’s leading journalists and, along with an in-depth understanding of the intersection of public policy and economics he is perhaps the nation’s leading expert on voter fraud, an issue that has generated significant controversy in New Mexico.”

Questions about the event can be directed to the Rio Grande Foundation at 505-264-6090 or info@riograndefoundation.org.