Archive for August, 2010
HD-31: Debbie Murphy Gives Her District A Choice
Aug 31, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemDebbie Murphy is giving her district a real choice in November. Consider the two candidates, Debbie and her opponent, David Sanders: Running for the Republicans is David Sanders. What's he done with his career? He worked for Governor Mike Huckabee. He had his gig doing right wing newspaper columns. He ...
Continue ReadingHow The Blue Dogs Hurt Their Own Party
Aug 30, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemWhy are Democrats polling so poorly this year? I have a hunch that it's overplayed (more on that tomorrow) but there's no doubt that things are tough. So what caused it? This: According to the Commerce Department this morning, the country's gross domestic product this spring grew at an anemic 1.6 percent. But ...
Continue ReadingAR-Gov: About That Plane Jim…
Aug 30, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemBoy, Jim Keet's ethical issues keep getting better and better. Keet's bigger problem is the song-and-dance he's run through to justify failure to pay property taxes the last few years (as many as five) on a $135,000 Beechcraft airplane. The plane is owned by a Nevada corporation based in Clark County (Las Vegas). Keet has given ...
Continue ReadingAR-02: The Right Wing Media Protects Tim Griffin
Aug 30, 2010 3 Comments ›› ARDemFor the most part, the traditional media in Arkansas sucks, from the news you can get on tv down to the local papers. That's not to say there aren't a few bright spots. And it's not to say it's a local phenomenon. Nationally, traditional media outlits tend to be so scared of ...
Continue ReadingAR-04: Becoming Palin?
Aug 27, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemOkay, I was reluctant to do this story because female candidates tend to get all kinds of flack for their hairstyles and appearances. But still, this from Beth Anne Rankin is just...well...weird. Take a look- Before: After: Look like a certain Alaskan nit-wit you can think of? It's almost scary. Okay...forget the almost part.
Continue ReadingAR-01: Still Paging Chad Causey
Aug 27, 2010 1 Comment ›› ARDemYeah, I'm still on Causey's case about his stupid comment regarding the President, and I'll stay on it right up to November 2nd if I have to. That's right-I'll do a post on this every single day until he deals with this. Why? Because, I want Causey not only to win but ...
Continue ReadingAR-Gov: Jim Keet, Just Another Corrupt Republican
Aug 27, 2010 1 Comment ›› ARDemBoy, Republicans can sure pick 'em. The Democrat-Gazette today ran through a litany of tax problems for Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Keet — claiming a homestead tax credit to which he wasn't entitled; non-payment of property taxes on a plane kept in Arkansas; late payment of property and restaurant taxes. He's settled up. (The case of ...
Continue ReadingCongratulations To John and Jenny Samuelsen
Aug 26, 2010 1 Comment ›› ARDemI had been meaning to get around to this earlier but it kind of got buried in the news of the week. But there's no time like the present, and on behalf of the entire Blue Arkansas community, I want to congratulate Blue Arkansas writer jsamuel, John, and his lovely wife Jenny, who have just ...
Continue ReadingAR-Gov: Which is it Keet?
Aug 26, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemGovernor Beebe has (finally) made an issue of Keet's time away from the state in Florida before his abrupt move back to Arkansas to keep the Republicans from losing their ballot position. Well, in the process of all this, Keet apparently came up with two explanations on just when he happened to move back to ...
Continue ReadingAR-02: Tim Griffin-Supply Sider (Big Suprise)
Aug 26, 2010 2 Comments ›› ARDemTim Griffin's campaign is forwarding around portions of this article detailing the fears of "small business owners" that the Bush tax cuts will be allowed to expire. The full email: Karen Port of St. Louis fears that President Barack Obama's plan to let tax rates rise for top earners will be a double whammy for ...
Continue ReadingWhat’s it gonna be Chad?
Aug 26, 2010 1 Comment ›› ARDemIt's amazing how one gaffe can wound a candidate, especially one that had already been benefiting from a rather shaky coalition. I wrote yesterday about Chad Causey's dissing of the President. That one little slip of the tongue hurt Causey big with a portion of the base, and I'm curious to see what ...
Continue ReadingAR-Gov: Governor Beebe Tells ‘Em How It’s Done
Aug 26, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemGod bless Governor Beebe. When asked about the chances of Democrats this November, Beebe summed things up nicely. Democrats will win if they make an account of themselves. It will be tougher for some of the fresh faces that people haven't gotten to know yet, but if those Democrats put the work in to introducing themselves ...
Continue ReadingRepeal! Efforts Not Helping Republican AGs
Aug 26, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemRemember when Repeal! was the slogan for the Republicans and there were countless Republican Attorney Generals lining up across the country to sign on to the Repeal! lawsuit? Remember how their own base was supposed to reward them for that? Yeah...didn't work out that way. This March, two attorneys general took the lead in lawsuits challenging ...
Continue ReadingAR-Gov: About Those Jobs…
Aug 25, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemRemember Jason Tolbert's column on how Mike Beebe had the worst jobs record of any Governor since the Great Depression? Well, the Arkansas Economic Development Commission sent him a list of 25,364 jobs created under Governor Beebe. Now I've got to give Jason credit I guess for standing his ground. Most people would be putting ...
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