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AR-03: Aden Knocks It Out Of The Park On Whirlpool

Oct 31, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

This is the kind of Democrat we need running in every district in Arkansas. From Ken Aden's press release on Whirlpool leaving Fort Smith high and dry: "The news yesterday that Whirlpool will be closing it's plant in Fort Smith is horrible, but it's hardly a surprise. Whirlpool has been shifting jobs out of that facility ...

AR-03: Whirlpool Leaves Fort Smith; Job Exporting Womack Is “Disappointed”

Oct 28, 2011 1 Comment ›› ARDem

The Whirlpool Plant in Fort Smith is packing up and heading out of state, taking about 1,000 jobs with it. Womack offers his constituents some crocodile tears. Congressman Steve Womack released the following statement regarding Whirlpool’s decision to shut down its Fort Smith plant: “I am disappointed with Whirlpool’s announcement, and my heart goes out to ...

Tim Griffin Attacks Obama Justice Department For Being Soft On Immigration; Administration Breaks Records On Deportations

Oct 28, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

Pretty sad when the article you're proudly posting on your facebook page shows what a moron you are: U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Little Rock, challenged Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano today over prosecution of illegal immigration laws. Griffin accused the Obama administration of selectively prosecuting immigration cases to achieve policy goals that Congress has rejected. “They are eviscerating ...

New Polls

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

This made my day: -In Arkansas’ 1st Congressional District, only 43% of voters would like to reelect Rick Crawford, while 48% would prefer someone else. Just 38% have a favorable opinion of the Republicans in Congress, with 49% holding a negative one. -In Arkansas’ 2nd Congressional District, only 44% of voters would like to reelect Tim Griffin, while 49% would ...

Drew Pritt’s Running For Office, After Scamming A Charity For Wounded Vets In Alaska

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

I almost decided to ignore the announcement by frequent gadfly candidate Drew Pritt that he was running for Congress, but something rather revolting came to my attention and I decided that I couldn't let it go. You see, Drew has been out of the state for awhile, operating under the name Caleb Pritt in Alaska, among ...

AR-01: Examining Clark Hall’s Voting Record

Oct 24, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

Now that an early campaign season is underway (seriously, get used to it, it's going to get earlier and earlier until Arkansas joins the 24/7 campaign cycle like the majority of the country), it's time we started looking over some voting records. Two of our three announced Democratic candidates for Congress are state legislators, and ...

Stodola Talks Of Moving Occupy Protestors

Oct 24, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

Word's gotten out today that Little Rock's Mayor Stodola is talking of ousting the OWS Protesters from their camp ground at the Clinton Library. The city is walking on eggshells with this but it seems like a backlash is already brewing. AFL-CIO released this today: Over the weekend, Occupy Little Rock began a full-time occupation in ...

Occupy Little Rock Video

Oct 22, 2011 2 Comments ›› ARDem

Arkansas Blog posted a video from Mindful Media Productions earlier today showing video from the Occupy Little Rock scene over at the Clinton Library. It's good stuff, and I was surprised as how young some of these folks taking a stand are. What was even better was that when the cop car pulled up the ...

Why Republicans Scream About “Class Warfare”: Because Populism Is A Winner

Oct 22, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

One more example of why Republicans scream so much about class warfare-to scare timid Democrats away from a winning strategy: American Crossroads, the big money GOP group founded by Karl Rove, is warning Republicans that President Obama’s new campaign to raise taxes on millionaires is a political winner. Under the header “Obama’s New Class Warfare May Resonate,” ...

Little Rock Is Occupied

Oct 21, 2011 1 Comment ›› ARDem

Just got the following text on my phone: "Little Rock is officially Occupied. Clinton Library. Front Lawn" Solidarity.

Mark Pryor Joins Republicans In Voting Against Jobs

Oct 21, 2011 1 Comment ›› ARDem

There is no fucking excuse for this bullshit- Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) also broke ranks to join Nelson and Lieberman in voting against the bill last night. It’s rather difficult to understand Pryor’s position. On his Senate website, the Arkansas senator touts his own “Six point solution to job creation” — a nine-page PDF document which touts ...

The Iraq War Finally Comes To A Close

Oct 21, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

As someone who earned his political education as an Iraq War opponent, I've been waiting a long time to hear this: President Obama announced a full withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of the year, a decision he said fulfills a campaign promise to bring the war to a responsible end. “After ...

House Cleaning

Oct 21, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

If you haven't noticed, and it'd be kind of hard not to, we got taken over by spammers this month. Well, I finally had some time to sit down and clean some of that mess up. There's probably still some work to do, but I think I made some good headway on throwing ...

Blue Dogs Headed For Extinction-There’s A Moral To This Story…

Oct 20, 2011 1 Comment ›› ARDem

The end of the obstructionist, Koch sucking Blue Dog Caucus cannot come soon enough. News that Rep. Jim Costa Dennis Cardoza is retiring is particularly good news for those of us who want to see the end of the pernicious influence of the biggest band of self-defeating Democrats in Congress—the Blue Dogs. In 2008, they ...

Democratic State Senate Candidates Outraise Republicans; Have More Cash On Hand

Oct 20, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

Let's hope this is a sign that our party isn't going quietly into the night: In the race for critical campaign cash, the latest finance reports show that Arkansas Democratic Senate candidates and the Democratic Party of Arkansas have a significant edge when it comes to fundraising. I examined seven reports of potentially competitive Senate ...