Prior to Mark Martin’s (regrettably) taking office in 2011, Augustine John Kelly–known to most as AJ–worked in part as the city attorney for Fairfield Bay, Arkansas, earning $48, 746.00 from the resort town in 2010 alone. In 2011, he took…
Month: October 2013
Let's Broaden Our Circle – Worst Speech at the Value Voters Summit of 2013
Before you go believing Mark Levin and talking about an Article V convention, there’s something you should know: the math doesn’t work. Like, not even a little bit. That might not matter to the guy selling books, but it might matter to the people who want to know whether he makes any sense. (He doesn’t.)
An Open Letter Regarding Tort Reform In Arkansas
At its most basic, “tort reform” is nothing more than a direct assault on Arkansas Constitution and on the principles behind Bill of Rights. When you remove or limit the right of a citizen to have a trial by jury and have the community of his peers decide what his injuries are worth, you subvert Article 2, section 7, of the Arkansas Constitution and you imply that you think the Framers of the Constitution were off base when they included the Seventh Amendment.
SD-21: Primary Postmortem
Democrats
Baker: $10.88
Rockwell: $37.28
Kidd: $28.00
Roebuck: $31.34
Republicans
Cooper: $15.75
Sullivan: $31.75
Niell: $99.26
Not So Puzzling: A Predictable, Ongoing Failure to Follow the AFOIA
Let’s play a game. It works like this: I’ll share part of an email that I received earlier today from a reader named Brian, but I’ll remove the office that he’s referring to, and we’ll see how many of you…