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Andy Mayberry wants to be your next, and last, lieutenant governor

Okay, I know it's kind of a gimmick, but he's right on the merits! His new commercial...
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The Cape Town Here We Come Edition

I filled in for Lindsey, who's out sick today. The Faulkner County judge cabal, starring Gilbert Baker; new leadership in the Arkansas House; unconstitutional lawmaking to help the frackers; the invalidation of an anti-abortion law and an Indian festival are on the agenda.
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Andy Mayberry's brilliant plan: Elect me and I'll abolish the office

State Rep. Andy Mayberry, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, has released further details on his key campaign plank — to abolish the office.

Tim Griffin big-foots GOP opponent in race for Arkansas lieutenant governor

I wrote Sunday that it was definitive that Republican U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin would enter the lieutenant governor's race.
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Tim Griffin to announce for lieutenant governor Thursday

A caller says Republican U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin said on a radio show this morning that he'd announce Thursday his decision on entering the Republican primary for lieutenant governor — a race he once told Democrat-Gazette reporters multiple times he had no intention of making.

Taking the pulse of the Arkansas legislature on the private option

Over the last several days, I’ve been talking to numerous lawmakers about the private option.
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Tuesday topics: Abortion, Bryant, Mark Darr, God and cops in Searcy

A quick roundup of odds and ends on the computer this morning: * THE FIGHT AGAINST ABORTION: Rep. Andy Mayberry got back to me late yesterday on his reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to take up a lower court ruling invalidating an Arizona law that essentially prohibits abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy, the same as a law 

U.S. Supreme Court refuses to allow Arizona's 20-week abortion ban, which Arkansas law parallels

The United States Supreme Court today declined to review a lower court decision that invalidated Arizona's state law prohibiting most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, far in advance of when a fetus can live outside the womb.
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Arkansas's anti-abortion laws focus of major article; Rapert misses the point

Sen. Jason Rapert's Twitter feed alerts me to an article in The Atlantic about abortion.

The Second District shakeup

Just under four years ago, a Second District congressman facing difficult poll numbers because of his national party's travails suddenly announced his departure from the race, sending the Central Arkansas political world into a frenzy. On Monday morning, Tim Griffin did the same, surprising most everyone just as his predecessor, Democrat Vic Snyder, had done.
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Legislators find way to deliver the pork

The sad history of political reform is that the remedy is usually no better and often worse than the evil it tries to correct, especially when the courts are called upon to fix it.

The legislature's pork barrel scam pays for park for Mayberry family

Great reporting in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette today on how Rep. Andy Mayberry and his wife, Julie, who hopes to succeed him in the legislature, conspired with other Republican legislators from Saline County and nearby to direct spending $120,000 in state money to build a park for handicapped children including the Mayberry's daughter on land currently owned by the Mayberry family.
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