Things We Can't Talk About - Hardcover

by Andrew Alan Ashley (Author)

Sex, drugs, rock n' roll, politics, fast cars, bribery and corruption. Most of you do not know me, by the end of this book you will understand that was by design. So please allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Andrew Ashley. I was, most recently a federally registered independent presidential candidate in the 2024 election. I grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida attending high school during the chaos and electricity of Spring Break. I spent eleven and a half years at private Catholic schools, in the peak of pedophilia and numerous child abuse scandals. Those years helped shape me in ways I would not fully comprehend for decades.

After graduation, I did not run away from the noise, I became it. I was the frontman for two successful hard-driving rock bands, Dream Police and later Smokin' Mother Nature. For nearly six years we lived on the road across the Southeastern United States, playing four or five nights a week in smoky bar rooms and clubs filled with a neon haze. The kind of places packed with people who can spot authenticity a mile away.

I now have a 26-year-old son, whose grandfather is James C. France, the owner of NASCAR. Needless to say, my life became a lot more complicated. What followed was a seventeen-year custody battle against a multi-billion-dollar empire. The world's longest custody case. A fight most people could not even imagine. A fight I was never meant to win, a fight I refused to lose.

Then came January 6th. After the riot at the capital, I felt compelled to run as a presidential candidate. I became the only federally registered independent candidate in history to purchase an ad in USA today.

At a time when my voice was getting louder, the powers that be Google, Facebook, mainstream media, etc. did their best to shut me down. Silence is their weapon of choice. So I wrote. I wrote until my story no longer felt like a weight on my chest. I wrote so I could forget. My first book, years in the making, a lifetime of surviving. I am now looking for the right people to represent me to bring my story to the world. Not to sensationalize it, it is sensational enough -but to finally speak truth where years of silence lived. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.