CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – Ascencion “Big Sarge” Lopez has announced his grassroots campaign for the Republican nomination to the Montgomery County Commission, District 4.
Lopez has been a resident of District 4 since moving to Clarksville in 2015 from South Korea.
He is a 100% disabled combat veteran with two ground combat tours to Iraq and one to Afghanistan. He was medically retired from the Army with 22 years of active duty service in 2017 because of a training accident that reaggravated and worsened his combat-related injury. His last duty station was Fort Campbell, where he served as a Sexual Harassment Assault Response & Prevention adviser. He is now the owner/operator of Big Sarge Custom Gun Works & Repair.
He said he is running for county commissioner to help usher in a new era of Montgomery County politics that puts the citizen needs first.
Lopez states, “In retirement, all I wanted to do was to fish, hunt and work on guns. God had other plans for me. I started to notice the opioid, meth and now the fentanyl drug problems in the city and county. I noticed the loss of family farms to Nashville developers, city/county consolidation efforts, and our students not receiving the proper education or school lunches but the school administrators receiving thousands of dollars in bonuses. After these incidents, I asked my School Board representative and local politicians for assistance on these and several other issues but was ignored. At that moment I realized that if I wanted things to change; I had to be that change.”
District 4 covers the portion of south Montgomery County between Highway 48/13 and the Cumberland River, from the Southern Hills area of Clarksville down to roughly Louise Creek.
Information from Ascencion Lopez campaign.