Arn Menconi, Green Party candidate for US Senate broke four ribs and a campaign assistant was also injured but able to walk away from the incident after his truck rolled several times near Cheyenne, Wyoming. The two were returning to Colorado from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Native Americans and others have been protesting an oil pipeline project near the reservation.
He and the assistant were near Cheyenne when she fell asleep and the vehicle rolled. The two went to a hospital but are OK and were able to rent a car and continue on their trip, he said on Facebook.
However, Menconi doesn’t have health insurance, and a fundraising effort for him has been established at http://www.gofundme.com
Menconi wrote on his Facebook page that “when this happened all I could think was ‘this ain’t nothin compared to what the people I’m fighting for experience.’”
Menconi ran on a campaign that included an anti-war stance, opposition to hydraulic fracturing and nuclear energy and support for solar energy, a crackdown on Wall Street, and election reform.
