Congressional Candidate Patrick Murray Knows SKILCRAFT Products From His Army Career

Colonel Patrick Murray (U.S. Army – Retired), Republican candidate for Virginia’s 8th Congressional district and opponent of Rep. Jim Moran, visited NIB headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday, October 29. Murray was briefed by NIB President and CEO Kevin A. Lynch about the AbilityOne Program and NIB’s mission of creating jobs for people who are blind, working through its network of 90 associated nonprofit agencies nationwide. Murray also met with NIB employees at a breakfast meeting.

As a retired U.S. Army Colonel with 24 years of active service, including tours in Iraq, Kosovo, Bosnia, Serbia and Russia, Murray was deployed to Baghdad in 2007 with the Joint Forces Command where he served as part of the Multi National Forces Iraq. His final tour of duty was at the United Nations in New York as a member of the U.S. Military Staff Committee.

Murray said through his years of military service, he had written with “gallons of ink from SKILCRAFT pens” that are produced by people who are blind through the AbilityOne Program. Murray expressed a keen interest NIB’s business, marketplace and competitive environment, as well as in meeting the people at NIB who worked to create jobs and lower the 70% unemployment rate for people who are blind.