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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.