Building off of Jeff’s earlier post, here are the numbers for the AR-Gov race (h/t Blake): Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe has more than $2.7 million cash-on-hand. His campaign reported raising more than half a million dollars in the month of…
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RWC: MO GOP Candidate Offers Stupidity In Jesus' Name
It’s nice to see the state where I spent my formative years offering up some right-wing stupidity. Ed Martin, a Republican candidate for Congress in Missouri is saying that President Obama and Martin’s opponent, Russ Carnahan, want to take away…
AR-04: Razing Arizona
Rep. Mike Ross released an official statement today detailing why he opposes the lawsuit filed by the Justice Department last week challenging Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law. The alleged Democrat’s statement even managed to parrot all of the major talking…
AR-Sen: Lincoln "Welcomes" Obama
Earlier today, Jason Tolbert tweeted: Pres. Obama will be in Missouri today to raise money for Carnahan for Senate http://bit.ly/bqN3Oq Will he come to Arkansas for Sen. Lincoln? Well, while we don’t know if President Obama will, it seems that…
AR-01: Causey Raises Over $400K In Second Quarter
Via a press release from the Chad Causey camp: JONESBORO- Through a competitive six-way primary and hard-fought runoff election, Chad Causey raised over $416,000 dollars for the second quarter of 2010, building on the strong momentum the campaign started in…
HCR: Dumas Spells Out AR Benefits
A funny thing happened on the way to the ultimate destruction of Arkansas that Timmy! Griffin, et al., predicted from the health care reform bill: some people actually took the time to explore just how Arkansas will benefit. Maybe only…
HCR: Reform Bill To Tax Wounded Veterans For Prosthetics? Not Really.
If you follow GOP talking points at all, you might have heard that the healthcare reform bill is imposing a tax on users of prosthetic limbs and that, despite benevolent attempts by Republicans to the contrary, Democrats even voted not…
In The Blogs: FMLA Extended To "Non-Traditional" Families
Move over, Ozzie and Harriet. According to Talk Business (citing Tod Yeslow at MWSGW), the Dept. of Labor has expanded the definition of “son” or “daughter” under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) so as to include “families in the…
SCOTUS: Gun Decision Not As Broad As You've Probably Been Told
I hope to have more on the decision in the near future, especially Clarence Thomas’s surprising Fourteenth Amendment discussion in his concurrence, but I wanted to get a couple thoughts out on last week’s McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561…
AR-01: Karmic Smackdown…ENGAGE!
June didn’t turn out to be too kind to Tim Wooldridge. First, he loses the runoff election to Chad Causey. Now it seems that he’s been canned from his paying gig as well. File this under “Couldn’t Happen To A…