Archive for March, 2010
Why We’re Fighting
Mar 31, 2010 1 Comment ›› ARDemThis video is awesome! Now that you've had your reminder, contribute to Bill Halter's campaign.
Continue ReadingBen Ponder On Health Care Reform-A Big Disappointment.
Mar 31, 2010 1 Comment ›› ARDemIt really pains me to have to post this video. Now, it's no secret that I've really warmed to Ben Ponder these last few weeks. He impressed me. He still does in many ways. We were beginning, here at Blue Arkansas, to discuss making an endorsement. But this is just too big an issue to just say ...
Continue ReadingHalter Online Donations Picking Up Steam – Over Half a Million
Mar 31, 2010 No Comments ›› jsamuelOver the last week Bill Halter has been on the recieving end of over $500,000 dollars in donations from ActBlue contributions (a good portion directed there from the campaign itself) and from MoveOn.org contributions. Other groups giving include the PCCC and DailyKos.com. Note that these are actually large numbers of individuals donating at the behest ...
Continue ReadingAR-01: Ben Ponder Videos
Mar 31, 2010 1 Comment ›› ARDemThe Ben Ponder campaign has got some videos up. I like both of those videos. The first one is more of Ben's high minded talk, which is great, but I think he needs to narrow it down a bit into specific issues. In the one on agriculture, he lays out a great argument for ...
Continue ReadingBill Halter’s Speech for Arkansan Workers
Mar 31, 2010 1 Comment ›› jsamuelThe Bill Halter campaign released a new video showing a good example of his message for the election. He wants to take the party back to its roots by representing Arkansas families and not special interests. Bill Halter also released a statement about the John Brummett story that we covered here yesterday. Here is the press ...
Continue ReadingBen Ponder’s Statement On The Mountain Home Debate
Mar 31, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemPonder comes clean. His crime? Leadership and accountability to the people of AR-01: MESASGE FROM BEN PONDER Because of the timing of Congressman Berry’s retirement announcement, this is an extremely compressed primary campaign schedule. Everything moves very fast. Unfortunately, there is no independent “Commission on Congressional Debates” to serve as an intermediary between the campaigns. The media organizations, which ...
Continue ReadingObama, Offshore Drilling, and the Death of Cap and Trade
Mar 31, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemYou would think they'd learn after the health care debate, but nooooooo. Here we go out the door on energy and the environment, giving things up to the Republicans and conservative Democrats making what was looking like a mediocre bill into a bad bill. First, Obama has announced an expansion of offshore drilling. In other ...
Continue ReadingUpdate on the Ponder/Mountain Home Debate
Mar 31, 2010 1 Comment ›› jsamuelThanks to commenter hxs01 for pointing this out. Arkansas Blog FROM BEN PONDER We have strong commitments from Causey, Cook, Green, and myself. That's officially a quorum. I'm still working on Wooldridge and Bryles. I will talk with both again sometime this afternoon. The debate ...
Continue ReadingGovernor Beebe, Please Stop Lying About Health Care Reform For Your Political Benefit
Mar 30, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemI mean it. At his appearance at the Arkansas Farm Bureau today Governor Beebe continued lying to the people of Arkansas. Beebe continued his tired and unsupported complaint that an influx of billions in new health spending in poor Arkansas could somehow be damaging to the state when the new state costs (a mere 10 percent ...
Continue ReadingBill Halter On The Issues, part 3
Mar 30, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemIt occurred to me that we haven't updated the Bill Halter issue positions of late and, while I don't have much to add, there are a few new things. So here goes, new stuff in italics. Health care: -supports a government run, medicare like public option that people can buy into -wants to focus heavily on preventive medicine -reduce ...
Continue ReadingMike Beebe And Dustin McDaniel Stand Up For The Constitution
Mar 30, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemThis was nice to read this morning: The Washington Post today draws the parallel -- with help from Gov. Mike Beebe and Attorney General Dustin McDaniel -- between the failed fight to prevent school desegregation in Little Rock and the current uproar over health legislation. "They tried it here in Arkansas in '57 and it didn't work," ...
Continue ReadingOn The Perception Of Bill Halter
Mar 30, 2010 1 Comment ›› ARDemOk, I have to take issue with just one line of Brummett's recent article, but understand, it's more a shot at a general notion than anything directed at Brummett: It takes some doing to make a sympathetic figure of Halter — cold, humorless and imperious opportunist that he be. Okay, since 2006, a lot of folks have ...
Continue ReadingBill Halter Campaign Rally in Fayetteville on Tuesday, April 6th
Mar 30, 2010 No Comments ›› jsamuelBill Halter will be having a campaign rally in Fayetteville on April 6th. Facebook Event Type: Causes - Rally Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm Location: Uncle Gaylord's Mountain Cafe Street: 315 West Mountain Street City/Town: Fayetteville, AR View Map Please join us on Tuesday for a campaign rally in Northwest Arkansas with Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter, candidate for United States ...
Continue ReadingRacial Profiling in Arkansas
Mar 30, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemThis really is something we should talk more about...and something the state of Arkansas should do something about. The lawyer (and former LR cop) who brought the successful racial profiling case against Alexander police told a state panel yesterday that racial profiling is a statewide problem. No doubt. Our Spanish-language newspaper hears repeated complaint from all over the ...
Continue ReadingSpeaking of Bad Campaign Management
Mar 30, 2010 No Comments ›› jsamuelA story over at TPMDC brings up the constantly contradictory behavior of Blanche Lincoln over the past year. This includes both contradictions in her voting record and the effects on her campaign. Brian Beutler ... The streak continues: Lincoln has taken to attacking "Washington, D.C. unions" for supporting Halter in the primary--but only after publicly soliciting their support ...
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