Advertisement
Advertisement

Posts tagged
'Missy Irvin'

McDaniel throws in with gun nuts

It's not too surprising, but disheartening just the same that the state's top legal officer, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, has thrown in with the demagogues and dishonest Republicans who suggest, without giving any specifics, that any reaction to making guns safer is an assault on the Second Amendment.
IT Arkansas job board

The gun 'debate;' Mr. President, Mt. View must not go hungry

The reaction to President Obama's call for a range of reactions to gun violence has been about as thoughtful from the gun nut side as I figured.
Advertisement

How ALEC slops legislative hogs to push corporate agenda

Common Cause has produced a great report on how the corporate-financed American Legislative Exchange Council spends millions on "scholarships" to take state legislators to posh resorts.

'Education,' AFP-style: Cut-rate gas for the right kind of politics

A friend got a note on Facebook this morning that the Americans for Prosperity anti-Obama bus tour, which conveniently stops at towns where the AFP hopes Republicans will defeat Democratic legislative candidates, was to be in Mountain View today, home of Sen. Missy Irvin, she who will not debate.
Advertisement

Democrat scores Republican Irvin for dodging debate

The real reason is that she carries a title into the race, is a hard worker who won a solid victory her first time out and believes she'll have no trouble winning re-election.

Senate candidate promises ethics reform UPDATE

Democratic state Senate candidate Zac White of Heber Springs has pledged, if elected, to introduce ethics legislation similar to that proposed in a recent ballot initiative.
Advertisement

To the right, march. Secure Arkansas warns of ALEC influence

The Republican Party in Arkansas grows ever more extreme, with unhinged members like Jon Hubbard and Loy Mauch (the anti-Lincoln Southern rights defender) characterized as mainstreamers.

Senate candidate canvasses for ethics signatures

The ethics news just keeps coming. Zac White, a Heber Springs Democrat who's running for state Senate, says he'll be hitting courthouses and civic clubs in his district today to gather signatures on petitions to put the ethics reform initiative on the ballot.
Advertisement

Tea Party leader on racist joke — yes, but ....

Richard Caster, the leader of the Ozark Tea Party, whose June 9 rally in Mountain Home has gone viral on the Internet thanks to a racist joke told by Tea Party leader Inge Marler, has issued a statement to media about the episode.

Black dialect joke a hit with Ozark Tea Party

Michael Cook at Talk Business reports on the warm reception a speaker received at a recent Ozark Tea Party confab in Mountain Home for telling this "icebreaker" joke in her approximation of black dialect: A black kid asks his mom, ‘Mama, what’s a democracy?’ “‘Well, son, that be when white folks work every day so us po’ folks can get all our benefits.’ “‘But mama, don’t the white folk get mad about that?’ “‘They sho do, son.
Advertisement

Tim Griffin joins the ethics reform movement

U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin told the Democrat-Gazette yesterday that he endorsed the ballot initiative to tighten Arkansas ethics law.

Common Cause against ALEC, filibuster rule

Dan Froomkin at Huffington Post reports on an unearthed memo in which ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) handlers brief state legislative stooges on talking points to invoke should someone ask embarrassing questions about the corporate subsidies and dominance of the corporate legislation factory so beloved by Republican legislators.
Advertisement
Advertisement