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Beth Anne Rankin: 'I might be packing!'

Republican congressional Beth Anne Rankin proudly announced today that she's obtained a concealed handgun carry permit. I say she and opponent Tom Cotton, military vet, should have a shoot-off.
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When Tom Cotton wanted journalists jailed

Tom Cotton, who left Arkansas years ago but decided to favor the state with a return this year so 4th District voters could elect him as a Tea Party Republican to Congress, gets some critical attention in Mother Jones this week.
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Rankin campaign cash

I mentioned yesterday the quarterly campaign finance report by Tom Cotton, a Republican seeking the 4th District congressional nomination.

4th District's Cotton lines up wealthy backers

Quarterly congressional fund-raising reports are now appearing on-line and, as expected, 4th District Republican candidate Tom Cotton raked in a lot of his $343,000 from Beltway and eastern associates from his school and work time spent far away from Arkansas.
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I hear seven, who'll go eight on their Arkie roots?

Gotta love candidate Arkie root nurturing. A political observer notes from various news releases: 2nd District Republican: The youngest son of a minister and teacher, Tim Griffin is a fifth generation Arkansan, veteran, attorney and former small business owner who lives in Little Rock with his wife Elizabeth and their two children.

The prospects for 2012 in Congress

You'd think there'd be ample running room for Democratic congressional candidates in 2012. Republicans would deny disaster victims aids if other worthy programs, including jobs-friendly programs, don't suffer first.
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Maybe Tom Cotton was right 13 years ago

Remember the little mini-flap the other day in which the Arkansas Democratic Party used the Internet to dig up a Harvard op-ed written 13 years ago by Republican congressional candidate Tom Cotton in which he blasted the educational benefits of the Internet.

Tom Cotton learns value of Internet

I'm not ready to jump on the Democratic Party of Arkansas's bandwagon on this one, though it is kind of amusing.
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In Ross's wake

Fourth District Rep. Mike Ross told reporters Monday morning that he would not seek re-election for Congress in 2012. When asked who might succeed Ross, he said he knew of 10 or 12 likely candidates although he refused to name names. In that candidate vacuum, others stepped in to put forward their best guesses.
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