- Scott Ritcher
Infobox Senator | name=Scott Ritcher
candidate =Kentucky Senate District 35
election_date =November 4 ,2008
opponent=Denise Harper Angel (D),John Albers (R)
incumbent=Denise Harper Angel
succeeded4=
party=Independent
date of birth=birth date and age|1969|09|27
place of birth=Louisville, Kentucky
dead=alive
date of death=
place of death=
spouse=
alma_mater=
profession=Graphic designer
religion=Scott Ritcher is a magazine publisher and graphic designer from
Louisville, Kentucky , bornSeptember 27 ,1969 .He is best known as the former proprietor of the
Slamdek Record Company which released early recordings by influential punk andindie rock bands including Endpoint, Rodan,Jawbox , and Ritcher's own bandsSunspring and theMetroschifter . The label's first release was a cassette tape by the synthesizer band Pink Aftershock in 1986 and its last was a Sunspring retrospective CD in 1995. Slamdek pressed 44 different records during its nine years in business.In
1998 , Ritcher entered politics as the Reform Party's candidate for Mayor of Louisville. Though he spent only $1000 on the campaign, Ritcher had a respectable showing at the polls and finished third of four candidates.Scott Ritcher is the publisher of K Composite Magazine and runs a small publishing house also called K Composite. In 2008, the Louisville
Courier-Journal reported that his company "has completed the sale of itssocial networking site EggFly.com to a startup company, Ikimbo 2.0 ofRadnor, Pennsylvania ." According to the bio on his campaign website, he has been a contributor to LEO, Velocity Weekly,College Music Journal , public radio'sThis American Life , and he appeared as a newspaper photographer in the 1999 film The Insider.He announced his candidacy in early
2008 as an independent candidate forKentucky Senate from District 35.External links
* [http://www.ballotrevolution.org/biography.php Biography on the Ritcher for Senate website]
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